TV’s Missile Crisis

I enjoyed your article on the making of “Thirteen Days” about the Cuban missile crisis, and am glad a film studio is tackling the difficult subject (“A Test of Wills, Take 2,” by Patrick Goldstein, Jan. 30).

It should be noted, as well, that this isn’t the first time Hollywood has dealt with the event: That would be “The Missiles of October,” an acclaimed 1974 TV production that starred William Devane, Martin Sheen, Ralph Bellamy and Howard DaSilva--based in part on the book “Thirteen Days” by Robert Kennedy.

ROBERT ELISBERG

Los Angeles