JFK: Breaking the News

2003•57m

Documentary

Looking back over 40 years television and print journalists recall their stories and memories of reporting the murder of President Kennedy and how it changed the country and changed the way the public gets it's news.

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KERA, Sixth Floor Museum

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Status

Released

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Region US · Lang EN

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Cast

Jane Pauley

Self - Narrator (voice)

Hugh Aynesworth

Self

John Connally

Self (archive footage)

Walter Cronkite

Self (archive footage)

Lyndon B. Johnson

Self (archive footage)

Peter Jennings

Self (archive footage)

John F. Kennedy

Self (archive footage)

Jacqueline Kennedy

Self (archive footage)

Jim Lehrer

Self

Lee Harvey Oswald

Self (archive footage)

Jack Ruby

Self (archive footage)

Bob Schieffer

Self

Dan Rather

Self (archive footage)

Don Carleton

Self

Mary Ann Watson

Self

Bert Shipp

Self

Darwin Payne

Self

Adlai Stevenson

Self (archive footage)

Wes Wise

Self

Lady Bird Johnson

Self (archive footage)

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