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Release year: 1990

Storyline

History professor David Rhodes has never gotten over the death of his older brother, 1966 in Vietnam. When he hears the rumor that a famous professor is working on a time machine, he immediately contacts him and persuades him to allow him to travel back in time and correct history. If he could save President Kennedy's life, the Vietnam war might never have happened.

Top credits

Directors

Bruce Seth Green

Writers

Cast

Robert Hays — David Rhodes
Catherine Hicks — Laura Whittaker
Sam Wanamaker — Hendryk Koopman, Ph.D.
Wayne Tippit — FBI Agent Landry

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Did you know

• One of two films that revolves around the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and in which Wayne Tippit plays an FBI agent, the other film being JFK (1991).

• Walter Tippit appeared in this production. Similarly named J. D. Tippit was an American police officer in Dallas who was killed by Lee Harvey Oswald about 45 minutes after the assassination of JFK on 23 Nov 1963. Tippit was shot dead in the Oak Cliff section of Dallas, Texas. Lee Harvey Oswald was initially arrested for this crime prior to being charged with killing President Kennedy. Oswald was charged with both crimes shortly after his arrest but was killed by Jack Ruby two days later.

• Catherine Hicks also traveled in time in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986).