JFK: One day in America

This was good. Like most documentaries (especially multi-part docs) I felt it was a little slow moving and drawn out, but that pacing also matched the somber tone throughout so perhaps it was intentional.

I learned some things while watching it. I'm sure others were aware that Oswald also shot and killed Dallas cop that day who was trying to apprehend him. If I knew that once, surely I'd forgotten it. I also didn't know that Kennedy was buried on JFK Jrs third birthday That fact makes his iconic salute of the casket all the more painful.

The deceased policemen aside, the Dallas cops don't come off too well in this story. How they ever let Jack Ruby hang around that basement and get so close to Oswald is beyond me. I understand why some people are convinced there was a conspiracy (I don't know nearly enough about it to even venture an opinion) because the only other explanation is complete and utter incompetency).

Whether you lived through that day or not, if you have interest in US history, especially told through eye witnesses, I'd recommend this documentary production by Nat Geo.

This is just run-of-the-mill story of the day leading up to the event, the event and the manhunt. Nothing new.

No mention of the umbrella man even though he's in the clips or the man with the walkie talkie next to him merely metres from JFK. No mention of how everyone turns to the grassy nole, or that behind the grassy nole there's a train station carpark that was never secured. No mention that the carcano rifle is different to the one lee holds in the photos. Nothing...

my recommendation is to take your time on youtube. There are some amazing documentaries that dive deep in the story.. unlike this dribble.

Jfk one day in america brings nothing to the table. You might as well watch a more comprehensive show that looks at all facets of that tragic day.

Secret Service Agent Paul Landis appears in this documentary yet there is no retelling by him of what he recently revealed in his book about finding a bullet in the Presidential Limousine at Parkland Hospital and what he placed it on President Kennedy's hospital bed, a secret which he kept for 60 years??

This is just another BS example of the dying Legacy Media perpetuated upon the public that the Patsy LHO was a lunatic and mobster Ruby killed him out of grief...

Prayer Man by Bart Kamp is a new book out recently that's also available on YouTube for comparison along with 60 years of Beyond A Reasonable Doubt of unanswered questions, cover ups and lies. The Lone Gunman is a great podcast as well.

I'm not sure what RFK Jr would be like as a President but at least he would reveal whatever he could about this and his father's assassination.

I was impressed with how this documentary was put together. The interviews with secret service men, journalists and actual hours of footage gave an in depth look at the events of the day that changed America and the political landscape. I appreciate that the feature did not try to push Lee Harvey Oswald as the only shooter as this version is simply not true. Facts and commonsense show he was not a lone gunman who acted alone. But putting that aside, this feature moves away from this and shows the footage, events and reactions of the event. It lives up to its title and description which is to capture the day and events unfolded. I feel we should not get too hung up or fixated on the conspiracy because it was covered up and they want to keep it that way because they got away it. I am skeptical a little with how Jack Ruby was portrayed as someone who loved the Kennedy's and conveniently was able to access the police station which held Oswald. But again it could have been sloppy police work, the day was full of sloppy protection and police work. Too many questions that did not get answered. Overall a well put together feature that captured the shocking events of the day.

The best part of this series is the interviews with actual participants and witnesses of that fateful day in Dallas, though by this time, so distant from those events, most seem somewhat dispassionate, and their stories, retold probably hundreds of times, sometimes take on the suggestion of a melodramatic script. Completely understandable, of course. How many docs have they been in? The constant, slow, morbid funeral home dirge in the background is laughably heavy handed.

You'd think there's nothing left to say about this subject; no new information to offer, and no new footage to be seen. But what this series has done is reprehensible. They've taken lots of the now-exhausted familiar footage of that day and falsified it with colorization. Yes, even videotape material has been infected with this falsification that has been used to attack any number of black and white films and still photographs that can be seen on the internet and other cable TV offerings.

So if every frame of a scene has been tampered with, how much trust is deserved? They also did an extremely cowardly act; the pivot point of the whole real-life incident; the Zapruder film is shown, everybody's seen it a thousand times, so we know what the fatal shot looks like. BUT HERE, IT'S BEEN REMOVED. I guess with CGI or something, so it runs smooth, but terrible or not, it's vital to show it. The audience is being protected. It's being infantalized. There are many, better documentaries on this event all ready made.