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Killing Kennedy - National Geographic

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  • #2
    The Black Oil
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    On at 9pm tonight.

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  • #3
    Lapin
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    Feckin missed it. :(

    Do you know if they repeat it ?


  • #4
    The Black Oil
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    Midnight, I think, but presumably it may pop up again closer to Nov 22nd.

    ETA, also Friday at 9 by the looks of it.

    Not bad. Could perhaps have worked better as a mini series to explore more of the weight of the political decisions Kennedy had to make as it fairly blitzed through the significant moments in history, though it was not really in its scope to explore these in depth. Still pretty effective and the second part had more momentum and emotional impact, e.g., Mrs. Kennedy (solid role). The Oswald and Kennedy stories run parallel and I think we got reasonable insight into the former's mental state - certainly some ego going on there. Questionable personal conduct of both men, too.

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  • #5
    FloatingVoter
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    It made me want to find out more about Oswald...lots of stuff regarding him that I hadn't seen before. As for JFK, he played around...big shock, the Cuban Missile Crisis is done to perfection in Thirteen Days (the 2000 Costner pic). RFK and the Mob connection have been done to death.
    It makes for interesting viewing to see the actual Warren Commission angle played out. Not the multiple conspiracy theories.


  • #6
    The Black Oil
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    Definitely keen to know more about Oswald, I thought he was older.

    I thought it lacked visual sophistication and that aspect didn't really evoke the era as well as it could have. Probably a small budget, though.

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  • #7
    Balaclava1991
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    The Black Oil wrote: »
    Definitely keen to know more about Oswald, I thought he was older.

    I thought it lacked visual sophistication and that aspect didn't really evoke the era as well as it could have. Probably a small budget, though.

    Norman Mailer's biography Oswald's Tale is excellent. The authors traveled to Russia after the fall of the Soviet Union and met KGB men who monitored Oswald and people who became friends or work mates of Oswald when he worked in the radio factory in Minsk.

    Marina Oswald is still alive and was interviewed many times over the years.

    The Warren Commission is the best source on the assassination.

    http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/russ../jfkinfo/wcrtoc.htm

    William Manchester's Death Of A President is probably the best single volume account of the events of 50 years ago.


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