This looks really interesting

[Jim DiEugenio]

http://apresidentbetrayed.stta.us/

Therefore no one knows about it.

Some really good info and some credible commentators.

[James Norwood]

Jim,

Thank you for this tip on the new documentary. Finally, it looks like a thoughtful television program on the JFK presidency/assassination.

While the film will be screened in select theaters nationally, it will also be broadcast on Directv. I checked on the listings, and the program's premiere will be on the evening of November 7 (8pm Eastern). Apparently, the show is free to Directv subscribers (i.e., not pay-per-view).



James

[Tracy Riddle]

Looks great. It will be on the channel called Audience Network if you get Direct TV.

[Tracy Riddle]

I just watched this on Direct TV. It was pretty good. They started out mentioning the 1961 Pentagon plan for a preemptive strike on the USSR in late 1963. They describe how Averell Harriman changed his views on Vietnam to become an interventionist and actively worked to subvert Kennedy's policies there.

There was no mention of Operation Northwoods, unfortunately. They did talk about the JFK-Khrushchev letters and Norman Cousins, Jean Daniel and Castro. They don't mention the CIA as much as they should have. They show a film clip of Kennedy as a Senator in 1953 visiting Vietnam warning about US involvement there.

Overall they paint a picture of Kennedy trying to avoid nuclear war and develop peaceful coexistence with the Communist world. The assassination is referred to without supporting or opposing the official story.

[Jim DiEugenio]

I would really like to see this.

But I will be in Texas when its in LA.

I guess I will have to get it it on DVD.

[James Norwood]

Without doubt, this film includes the finest group of scholars on JFK's foreign policy ever assembled for a documentary. The film itself should be the flagship show on network or PBS programming, as opposed to the obscure Directv "Audience Channel" (101).

I wrote some more detailed thoughts on the film that appear on p. 2 of "The Ultimate TV Guide to this year's coverage of the 50th" page on this website, as started by Marlene Zenker on 11/2/13. All of the television shows are being discussed on the following thread:


https://deeppoliticsforum.com/forums/sho...n5C_yQYJz8




James

[Alan Dale]

I saw.

Worth seeking out. Plenty of interesting and insightful recollections and analysis by about a dozen historians. There may be some revelations for those who are not deeply immersed. Superb documentary film making; undoubtedly a labor of love for director Cory Taylor whose previous works include 2009's The Power of The Powerless and 1998's Avalanche: The White Death for which he won a Prime Time Emmy for Sound Editing.

This film focuses on the familiar Cold War crises of a young president increasingly at odds with his military/intelligence professionals. Some of the most compelling parts of the film are contemporary interviews with the men who served as translators for Nikita Khrushchev and President Kennedy during the Vienna summit of June 4, 1961, Viktor Sukhodrev (Khrushchev) and Alexander Akalovsky (JFK). Candid recollections from the daughters of Norman Cousins who accompanied their father to meet Khrushchev, and commentary from Khrushchev's son are also new.

The filmmakers have chosen to make no stated inference about the circumstances of President Kennedy's assassination. I believe JFK: A President Betrayed will be a valuable resource to anyone, especially those whose lives began after his death, for assessing the context and meaning of his presidency and his life.

I'm hopeful it will soon be available on DVD.

[Anthony DeFiore]

Very true. Extremely valuable. And another piece of evidence for Jim D. to augment his already exhaustive evidence on JFK's Foreign Policy.

[Tracy Riddle]

Dean Acheson is quoted as saying about JFK, "Gentlemen, you might as well face it -- this nation is without leadership."

While reading I.F. Stone's Hidden History of the Korean War - written in 1952 - I found this about Acheson: "Who remembered in these days of McCarthyism that Acheson, on making his Washington debut at the Treasury before the war, had been denounced by New Dealers as a 'Morgan man,' a Wall Street Trojan Horse, a borer-from-within on behalf of the big bankers?"