JFK: One Day in America • 2023 • 3 episodes • 2h:11m
This new mini-series shares information about what happened on the 22nd of November 1963, the date when President of the United States of America, John F. Kennedy, was assassinated. The Emmy Award-winning franchise "One Day in America" returns with its second installment with "JFK: One Day in America" to mark the 60th anniversary of former President John F. Kennedy's assassination. The three-part series produces a comprehensive account of that tragic moment in American history. Made in official collaboration with The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza in Dallas, the docuseries weaves archival footage, some colorized for the first time, with key testimony from the last surviving witnesses to create an immersive, minute-by-minute examination of that pivotal day that forever changed history. For the 60th anniversary, this series takes us into the day almost in real-time. Across three episodes, what unfolds is a presidential assassination, a full-scale manhunt, the murder of a policeman, and the killing of the assassin. Giving insight into the multiple perspectives of a day in a brand-new way that will cut through the clutter and appeal to audiences around the world. The three-part series produces a comprehensive account of that tragic moment in American history and the ripples that followed.
In the first episode "Assassination," former President John F. Kennedy and his wife Jackie traveled to Texas with an eye on the 1964 elections and a team of secret service agents. During a motorcade through downtown Dallas, JFK was brutally shot in broad daylight and, later, tragically pronounced dead at Parkland Hospital with his grieving wife in the next room. America was changed forever.
S1E1 • 2023 • People
In the second episode "Manhunt," the race is on to track down JFK's killer. But before he is arrested, the assassin kills again. Meanwhile, Jackie Kennedy boards Air Force One to return JFK's body to Washington. Still wearing her bloodstained dress, she witnesses LBJ being sworn in as president. As the net closes in around suspected killer Lee Harvey Oswald, his friends and family face interrogation.
S1E2 • 2023 • People
In the third episode "Revenge," President Kennedy's body arrives back in Washington, and a grieving Jackie Kennedy leads the funeral march to honor him. In Dallas, Lee Harvey Oswald is charged with JFK's murder. But the world is shocked again when Oswald himself is shot dead while still in police custody by nightclub owner Jack Ruby. With Oswald dead, there is no reckoning and America will never be the same.
S1E3 • 2023 • People