Apologies for this later reminder of yet another documentary on the
JFK assassination, but this one should be both worthy and worth
your time: CNN's "The Assassination of President Kennedy," Thursday at
9, and produced by Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman (and Mark Herzog). It'll
repeat at 11, and again Sunday at 9 and 11. (And there will be other
airdates. Hard to miss this one.)
I've only sampled this two-hour film (and will
watch more) but what I've seen makes this particular entry stand out
because it's one of the rare films to actually build the entire tragic
day -- Nov. 22, 1963 -- almost entirely through archival material, some
of which I had not yet seen before. There are also many interviews,
including of Dan Rather.
Again, I'm impressed with what I've seen, and no
re-creations or docu-dramaturgy here, which has tended to distract or
distort some of the other films.
