JFK: 3 Shots That Changed America

This is right up my alley. It's that Dallas morning that changed the soul of America and the days and months leading away from it in confusion and growing dissonance.

This is by far the most meticulously and thorough documentary I have ever seen.It even shows the TV program that was on at the time and the cutting in newsflash of the shooting.

"JFK: 3 Shots That Changed America" I was 22 when President Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas and remember where I was when I learned what had happened, and remember watching Lee Harvey Oswald being assassinated live on television. Those events and the subsequent events shown in this remarkable documentary hold a vivid place in my memory.

A nice, neat, little piece of propaganda conforming with the history book interpretation of the events in Dallas on that dreadful day.

Fred Friendly and Ed Murrow were up against the wall with the Joe McCarthy mess about a decade before JFK was killed. The fire around the demagogic McCarthy was so hot even Bill Paley was scared of getting burned.

Perhaps if this documentary could be viewed without so many commercial interruptions, I would be willing to give it another try. The first part of the documentary, screened on Sunday night, had more substance, new footage, and a train of thought that was obvious.

...or did this magnificent History Channel documentary about the Kennedy assassination actually unfold without showing the assassination once?

When any historical documentary can transport you to another time and place, and feel the emotions from what you're seeing, it has succeeded in its purpose. The JFK assassination has been related many times, but this History Channel production is the best time capsule of the horrific news of November 22, 1963 ever.

The History Channel finally broadcasts some HISTORY -- as opposed to crypto-biological monsters, UFOs, loggers, arctic truck drivers, prophecies of impending doom and the existence of Atlantis."3 shots" is divided into two 2-hour broadcasts.