JFK

On November 22nd, 1963 President John F. Kennedy arrives in Dallas to an ecstatic welcome. In his three years as president, Kennedy has become a global superstar. Credited with facing down the Cold War Soviet enemy in Cuba and saving the world from nuclear war. With his glamorous style icon wife Jackie, Kennedy has also become the darling of the world’s media, the first tv president. But not everyone welcomes the president that morning in Dallas. In Dallas today, the spot Kennedy was targeted 50 years ago continues to draw visitors from around the world a tragedy from long before cell phones and the internet has a powerful hold for successive generations. This film tells the story of that day in Dallas through the memories of people who played a part in those extraordinary events and whose lives were touched forever by what happened some have not spoken on camera before. The doctor who tried to save Kennedy, the secret service agent who agonized that he was too late, the man wrongly accused of JFK’s murder, the woman who discovered she had sheltered the President’s assassin. This is the minute by minute story of the death of a president told through rarely seen film and photographs to give a definitive eye witness account of the day Kennedy died.