Kenedi je pročitao bestseler Sedam dana u maju, u kome je opisan puč koji izvodi Združeni generalštab jer je besan na liberalnog predsednika zbog nuklearnog saveza sa Sovjetima.
Kennedy had read the best selling 1962 novel Seven Days in May, which portrays a coup d'etat by a Joint Chiefs of Staff furious over a liberal president's new nuclear treaty with the Soviets.