DKosty123 When you have to document one of the emotional events in the history of the 20th Century, you come here to this one film. United Press International got together with several other sources to cement what has now become the Case Closed legend of the shooting of JFK.The footage here of JFK's last appearances and of the funeral with Jackie and Bobby are really very well put together. Richard Basehart, (Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea on television) is a solid person for narrating this one. There are a lot of facts presented here in a logical fashion which document an event that is finally starting to fade from America's scene this many years later.There is some surprising footage in this account but nothing that would be controversial at all. A lot of footage of the fateful landing at Love Field and the procession to JFK's fate has those of us who remember this day still emotional.More people cried and more people were saddened by this event because of the fact that there we 3 TV Networks who basically for all the days through the funeral broadcast nothing else really dominated television like no other event in history. The live murder of Oswald on TV is here, Osswald's Funeral, even some trace outline of Ruby's Kit Kat Club in Dallas make the cut. Without a doubt, this films proves this is perhaps the most documented event in US History, it even out did Lincoln's shooting which has a huge amount of history documented in the 19th Century. As this event fades into History, and the last sealed records are opened, it is far too late to ever get a better version of this event than this film presents.

Scarecrow-88 Powerful document of the four days in November of 1963 that haunt our nation to this day. Telling in how it shows a grief stricken nation mourning a fallen hero that led America out of the brink of war and tried to be a force in civil rights, Richard Basehart's matter of fact narration seemed fitting to take us through the opening highs of that charismatic personality and charming smile that JFK exuded while on tour through Texas (Houston and Ft Worth before Dallas) to the tragic, horrible lows of his assassination and funeral ceremony as family, diplomats, friends, politicians, and the citizens of a country trying to make sense of it all achingly pray and sorrow. Details knitted together from real footage and some recreated occurrences involving Lee Harvey Oswald, from witness accounts, take us into four days that shocked and traumatized a nation and world. The funereal festivities involving JFK as his coffin eventually made its way to Arlington cemetery is heartbreaking...it just shouldn't have happened. It feels like you are reliving it all as Basehart accounts for what he symbolized and left behind. Gone far too soon...and he would not be the last national tragedy in the 60s to be taken before he should have.

kai ringler very powerful documentary made in 1964, so it was fresh in everyone's mind. movie centers on nov 22-25, 1963. elm st.. the day before the assassination,, the day of,, and the 2 days after,,, chronicles the action of the VP. the process of the swearing in,, what happened to the body,, the brain all of the stat movie focuses on Lee Harvey Oswald and his life. I watched this entirely for the archival footage and not so much to learn anything new,, I did learn a few things,, but not being born when all of this took place it was nice to get a look at all the archival footage that their was,, this movie was a companion piece to the JFK marathon on the history channel for the 50th anniversary of the assassination. didn't really change my mind about things.. just makes you wonder that much more,, to be honest we probably won't ever have a definitive answer one way or the other of who shot Kennedy,, but I know one thing,, he didn't act alone,,,, that duck don't hunt...

sbibb1 This 1964 documentary was released the year following JFK's assassination. The producers worked in cooperation with United Press International (with which they published a companion book) to produce this account of the days leading up to President Kennedy's assassination.For those that want a well rounded documentary that supports the findings of the Warren Commission (meaning that Lee Harvey Oswald was the assassin) this is the documentary for you.In the 40 years since this documentary was released there is footage used in this film that has still not been used in other and more recent documentaries, making this film, in my opinion well worth it.This film was originally released on VHS in the late 1980s, and was re-released again on VHS in 2000. Not on DVD as of yet, but still worth seeing.