ABC broadcast Joel Siegel's preview of holiday films, which included familiar shots of Bruce as JFK and the following transcript:

On Sunday morning, one of our U2's took these pictures. The Soviets are putting medium range ballistic missiles into Cuba." KO: Do you realize what you're getting yourself into? JFK: Kenny, look, we need to fly[?] because the minute that first missile becomes operational, we got to go in there and destroy- KO: Fair enough. Castro's on alert and we're flying attack planes over their sites on the deck. There's no way for them to know were carrying cameras, not bombs. We're going to be shot at, plain and simple.

JFK: Oh, damn it!

KO: I'm your political adviser. I'm giving you a political analysis here. This - this is a set-up!

Nearly 40 years ago, it was the country held hostage as the Cuban missile crisis unfolded. In Thirteen Days, Kevin Costner lays Kenny O'Donnell, a Kennedy White House aide depicted as a key player during the national crisis.

KC: We didn't sensationalize anything. We combined some events. We did not sensationalize because that's one thing that we wanted to avoid.

Interviewer: I don't think the audiences as a whole are going to realize how close and how horrendous those 13 days were til they see the movie.

KC: For all the negativity pushed towards the Kennedys in terms of tabloidism, I think the reality is, people are gonna understand why that name endures, and they're gonna understand that we do owe them a tip of the hat. What I hope gets heightened in this country, not just in the movie, is a sense of our past. The freedoms that we enjoy have been earned. And in this instance, against all odds, these two guys stood up against the powers that be when it would have been so easy to go to war. These guys were truly golden.