As Bobby Kennedys memoir was called back in 1959 and is hollywood version with kevin costner. What made you decide to focus on the aftermath . Guest there are two things i want to talk about what this book, two different tracks that end up dovetailing. First of almost of the books on the cuban missile crisis and on october 28 when khrushchev decided he was going to back down and he had agreed to withdraw the missiles from cuba. So the first question i had was not what . What happened . Interestingly and this goes back to what usually happens, we xing out what happened in the weeks and months after that from cuban sources than we do from the american side because it simply hasnt been a lot of study on american side about what happened. I happen to be lucky enough to be working with the kennedy tapes during that period when kennedy was taping during nap period so i had this remarkable window. I wanted to sort of extend the story of the missile crisis to find out what happened then becaus