Men Who Killed Kennedy:40th Anniversa

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Summary: I saw this on TV
Review: I saw this on TV and would like to own it. If you own it and would be interested in making a copy of it let me know how much it would cost and email me. [e-mail].

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Summary: Politics put this out of circulation, but an important doc..
Review: In 1988, British ITV did a 5-part documentary called the "Men Who Killed Kennedy". It was a scattershot effort (of course, the subject is as rococo as rococo gets!) and it wasn't perfect, but it had many, many worthwhile pieces of material and interviews, all mixed in together, to be dismissed.

In 1995, the History Channel commissioned the same producer to do a chapter 6, "The Truth Shall Make You Free". Also some good data, though this time it made the Kennedys look a bit slimier that I appreciate, but that seems to be the media-view today: (Insisting that Bobby maintained "Operation Mongoose" against Castro singlehandedly, even after the Cuban Missile Crisis, the poor CIA a hapless pawn in Bobby's evil plans.... yeah, right).

But the real interesting thing is what happened in 2003 when the History Channel, on the 40th anniversary of JFK's assassination, aired 3 additional, new chapters: 7, 8 and 9...
I've seen them. These new chapters present mostly old but not-unsubstantially backed-up material about Oswald, as well as "rumor" about a certain ex-president's alleged complicity in the assassination.

In some circles, it caused an uproar, with Lady Bird, President Carter and Bill Moyers (whom I like very much) reportedly leading the charge to eradicate the Final Chapters from the airwaves and from the market [which is why it's "out of stock" now]. The MWKK version still available only includes chapters 1 thru 6.

But I wonder: what's the big deal? Students of this subject aren't going to be shocked by the content... But others (at the most benign end of the spectrum) are still in denial about certain issues -- and certain figures in our collective past.