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Sheehan reviews 13 Days the new film about the Cuban Missle Crisis starring Kevin Costner.

Robert talks to Adam Eidinger, an organizer with the Justice Action Movement, which will be taking part in protests against the inauguration of George W. Bush. Justice Action Network has been a part of large protests around the country against the World Trade Organization and World Bank and International Monetary Fund. Eidinger supported Ralph Nader in the November presidential election, and believes Bush's presidency is illegitimate.

NPR's Jason Beaubien reports from Boston on a series of allegations that prison guards in Massachusetts have systematically brutalized inmates. Generally, it's hard for prison inmates to substantiate their complaints of physical abuse by guards. And watchdog groups and journalists usually can't get access to prisons or documents.

Bob Edwards talks with Andy Kohut, director of the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, about a new survey on American attitudes as a new president takes office.

Commentator Kelly Beatty says we all should look to the skies for one last glimpse of the Russian Space Station, Mir which is being retired after over a decade in space.

Former Soviet Ambassador to the United States Anatoly Dobrynin. He was a key diplomat in many US/Soviet conflicts including The Cuban Missile Crisis.

Khrushchev is the son of the former Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev. He remembers the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Historian Clayborne Carson is director of Stanford Universitys King Papers Project, dedicated to editing and publishing all the papers of Martin Luther King, Jr. Carson is the co-editor of the new book A Call to Conscience: The Landmark Speeches of Dr Martin Luther King, Jr (Warner Books) a collection of eleven speeches delivered at turning points in the civil rights movement.

Rhythm and blues singer, songwriter, and Guitarist Barbara Lynn. The left-handed guitarist was one of the first female practioners of the instrument. Her signature song is the 1962 hit Youll Lose a Good Thing. The Rolling Stones recorded her song Oh Baby (We Got a Good Thing Going) in 1964. After a lengthy hiatus to raise a family, Lynn made a come back in 1986. Her new album is Hot Night Tonight (Antone Records).

NPR's Shirley Jahad reports on the hopeful reaction of the religious right to the latest cabinet nominations of President-elect George W. Bush.

Blanton helped research information for The Cuban Missile Crisis. In the book, released documents and top-secret files reveal how close the US came to a nuclear entanglement. In 1987, the National Security Archive filed suit against the US government for failing to produce the documents they requested. Since then there has been more compliance with the archive, especially since the Russian government told the US to go ahead and release the Kennedy-Krushchev letters.

More than two months after the election, TV news networks are still trying to figure out why they made so many mistakes in reporting the results. NPR's Lynn Neary looks at how the networks are trying to improve their coverage.