Synopses & Reviews
(originally titled ) is the exciting and definitive narrative of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963. Releasing this fall, the movie--starring Paul Giamatti, Zac Efron, Jacki Weaver, and Billy Bob Thornton--follows a group of individuals making split-second decisions after this incomprehensible event: the doctors and nurses at Parkland Hospital, the chief of the Dallas Secret Service, the cameraman who captured what has become the most examined film in history, the FBI agents who had gunman Lee Harvey Oswald within their grasp, and Vice President Lyndon Johnson who had to take control of the country at a moment's notice. Based on Vincent Bugliosi's -- is the story of that day--the movie is produced by Tom Hanks, Gary Goetzman (, ), Nigel Sinclair (, ), Matt Jackson (, ), and Bill Paxton, and written and directed by Peter Landesman.
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"[A] riveting, 'Rashomon'-like dissection of the assassination." Betsy Sharkey
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"...the inclusion of a detailed timeline and extensive interviews make a valuable resource." Los Angeles Times
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"Bugliosi has definitively explained the murder that recalibrated modern America." --Jim Newton,
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Parkland (originally titled Four Days in November) is the exciting and definitive narrative of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963. Releasing this fall, the movie starring Paul Giamatti, Zac Efron, Jacki Weaver, and Billy Bob Thornton follows a group of individuals making split-second decisions after this incomprehensible event: the doctors and nurses at Parkland Hospital, the chief of the Dallas Secret Service, the cameraman who captured what has become the most examined film in history, the FBI agents who had gunman Lee Harvey Oswald within their grasp, and Vice President Lyndon Johnson who had to take control of the country at a moment s notice. Based on Vincent Bugliosi s Reclaiming History Parkland is the story of that day the movie is produced by Tom Hanks, Gary Goetzman (Game Change, Charlie Wilson s War), Nigel Sinclair (End of Watch, Snitch), Matt Jackson (End of Watch, Snitch), and Bill Paxton, and written and directed by Peter Landesman. "
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"As good a second-by-second reconstruction of the assassination and its aftermath as I've read." Bryan Burrough,
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is an extraordinarily exciting, precise and definitive narrative of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on 22 November 1963, by Lee Harvey Oswald. It is drawn from , a huge and historic account of the event and all the conspiracy theories it spawned. For general readers, the carefully documented account presented in is utterly persuasive: Oswald did it and he acted alone. The Norton title has been made into a film called so the title of the movie tie-in is to match. The movie stars Zac Efron, Jacki Weaver, Brett Stimely, Paul Giamatti, Billy Bob Thornton and is directed by Peter Landesman.
About the Author
Vincent Bugliosi (1934--2015), was the prosecutor of Charles Manson and author of Helter Skelter, Outrage, and other #1 best-selling books.