and we'll introduce yu to ordinary people doing extraordinary things to help sae the environment. we begin with an inside look into john f. kennedy's presidency. tedouthernson was a key advisor and at the prident's side when this nation came to closest its ever been to a nuear war. our chel jennings spoke with him about his reflections from camelot to cuba. >> it is seered in my brain to this day. >> repoer: ted sorenso speech writer who walked side by side with president kennedy, vividly remembers the frightening time during the cuban missile crisis in 1962. >> no one knew what the right answer was. we ha tried to go through the united nations secretary general. we had tried direct messages between kennedy and khrushchev through a back channel. nothing worke up to that day >> reporter: he says the movie, 13 days, got st of it right. as president kennedy tried to fi a peaceful solution to stop a potential nuclear war. >> the generals thought that the only real way to get rid of the missiles poted at the united states s to bomb them and follow that up with an invasion. if we had done that, you and i wouldn't be sitting