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  • JFK: ONE DAY IN AMERICA

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On the 22nd of November 1963, the President of the United States of America, John F. Kennedy, was assassinated. 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, a 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.

EPISODE GUIDE

  • JFK: One Day in America: Assassination
    President John F. Kennedy and his wife, Jackie, travel to Texas on the campaign trail, along with a team of secret service agents. During a motorcade in downtown Dallas, President Kennedy is brutally shot in broad daylight. A secret service agent narrowly misses the fatal bullet, and JFK tragically dies at Parkland Hospital beside a grieving Jackie Kennedy. America changes forever.
  • JFK: One Day in America: 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.
  • JFK: One Day in America: 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.
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