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JFK: IN HIS OWN WORDS
November 22, 2013  | By David Bianculli

HBO, 9:00 p.m. ET

 

For a TV critic with decades of viewing behind him, the JFK assassination coverage brings with it additional memories of previous specials keyed to previous JFK anniversaries. This documentary, for example, premiered in 1988, on the 25th anniversary of President Kennedy’s assassination. It remains, in my estimation, one of the best, because it captures the public (and sometimes private) speaker unfiltered, quoting him as a candidate, and as President, to let his words speak for themselves. Here’s one that fits well here, even though JFK said it to commemorate poet Robert Frost: “A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces, but also by the men it honors, the men it remembers.” Exactly.

 
 
 
 
 
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