Recounts the somber but healing football game - postponed after Kennedy’s assassination - that helped coax a nation back to normalcy. News junkies will dig this “Secrets of the Dead” episode, narrated by George Clooney, about how the news from Dealey Plaza and Parkland Hospital was broken and confirmed by reporters in Dallas and New York - up to and including CBS anchor Walter Cronkite’s live announcement that Kennedy had died. Interviews, recollections and the whole tick-tock account.įather-son ballistics experts run experiments in the desert to see whether the Warren Commission’s findings pass their plausibility tests. Looks at the fast scramble by Dallas police officers and feds to find the Kennedy assassin (and cop-killer). A good start for those born after 1980 or so a reverent review for those who remember it all vividly. Lots of footage you’ve seen before some you haven’t. The big kahuna of this year’s Kennedy documentaries - a full biography and examination of his presidency. Saved by Will Rothhaar’s nervy performance as Lee Harvey Oswald - a poor man’s Ryan Gosling!
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