Killing Kennedy…..

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by Brendan Kownacki | on October 29th, 2013 |

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It’s been nearly 50 years since the world seemed to stop when news broke that President John F. Kennedy had been assassinated.

World Premiere of Killing Kennedy at The Newseum

Kennedy himself was young and dynamic; a member of a budding political dynasty who along with his beautiful wife Jacqueline was ushering in an age of Camelot only to be shot down on that fateful November day – the 22nd, 1963 to be exact.

But what really lead to that moment is the crux of the new film Killing Kennedy airing on the National Geographic Channel on Sunday, November the 10th at 8 PM/7 PM Central.

Rob Lowe as JFK

Starring Rob Lowe as JFK, the film charts the course of both the ill-fated president and the would-be assassin as their lives set on a tragic collision course.

Lowe’s tranformation into Kennedy is both striking and chilling as he adapts the look, manerisms and voice of President Kennedy. The film transports you back in time and you melt into the human relationships of JFK with his wife and his brother Bobby (played by Ginnifer Goodwin and Jack Noseworthy respectively) and get a sense of what the story is behind the history we all know. That same track applies for Lee Harvey Oswald (Will Rothhaar) and his wife Marina (Michelle Trachtenberg).

Will Rothhaar as Lee Harvey Oswald

Oswald was broken and disenchanted with America; he was a former marine and a marxist who renounced his own citizenship. What was it that drove him to do what he did?

The story comes from history of course but was based on the best-selling book of the same name by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard. O’Reilly seems to have spawned a new genre with his books; first visiting the death of Abraham Lincoln as well as the death of Jesus. In some ways he has taken the behind-the-scenes look at textbooks across the world to give an insider perspective, and that frameword lead screenwriter Kelly Masterson down a path of showing us the Kennedy story in a fresh way that we have never seen.

The cast and crew gathered at the Newseum in Washington DC to premiere the movie and discuss what it took to go back in time to the golden years that ended up shattered with those fateful shots.

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