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'Four Days In November' -- The Best JFK Assassination Film Ever


"FOUR DAYS IN NOVEMBER" REVIEW:

www.Four-Days-In-November.blogspot.com

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It doesn't make use of the Zapruder movie (which was not avaliable, having been bought by Time/Life Corp. and more talked about than actually shown in those years). The film doesn't pose any questions about why Kennedy was killed - and you don't have to be a conspiracy buff to feel that is a fault. Plainly the Warren Commission and the official media of that time didn't wish to ask for a political background of the JFK murder, though it would have seemed an obvious question to put, he was a deeply controversial man - but it gives a good idea of how the assassination appeared in the media and to the general public. The days of the 1963 Kennedy assassination was in many ways the first time television really became a unifying bond in a national moment of crisis, the first "24-hour live television event".

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i need to see this film!

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It's on TCM (if you have that) tomorrow night if you're still interested http://www.imdb.com/tvgrid/2013-11-21/TCM



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I still like Oliver's Stone's JFK.
are you going to bark all day little doggie,, or are you going to bite

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Oh, sure, Stone's "JFK" film does a much better job of providing context.

But, clearly, FOUR DAYS IN NOVEMBER is a period documentary. And while it isn't about to imply anyone (other than Oswald) was the killer -- and RUSH TO JUDGMENT, also great, certainly does -- FDIN is wonderful in the tragic mood it conveys from '63/'64.

Although the pompous narration is lacking in any genuine insight, FDIN captures the flavor, the air, of its time.

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The most profound of sin is tragedy unremembered.

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