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Release year: 2013

Storyline

A recounting of the chaotic events that occurred at Dallas' Parkland Memorial Hospital on the day President John F. Kennedy was assassinated.

Top credits

Directors

Peter Landesman

Writers

Cast

Zac Efron — Dr. Charles 'Jim' Carrico
Tom Welling — Roy Kellerman
Billy Bob Thornton — Forrest Sorrels
Paul Giamatti — Abraham Zapruder

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Did you know

• The family of Abraham Zapruder, the garment-industry executive who shot the 26 seconds of 8mm film that recorded the instant of the shooting, had never publicly shared their story before. "This is the first time the family has cooperated with anyone," says Landesman. "I think they agreed to help because this script treats him with objectivity, clarity and fairness, perhaps for the first time. They realize this might be their last chance to tell their story themselves."

• Dr. Earl Rose was actually on solid legal ground when he attempted to have Kennedy's body autopsied in Dallas, instead of the Secret Service removing the body. At the time of Kennedy's death, there was no federal jurisdiction over the assassination of a president. If Rose had prevailed, the chain of evidence would have been preserved. Since the Secret Service forcibly removed the casket, what happened to Kennedy's body between the time it left Parkland and arrived at Bethesda Naval Hospital has been the source of great speculation, and led to numerous conspiracy theories.

• Dr. Robert McClelland, who operated on President Kennedy and Lee Harvey Oswald at Parkland Hospital on the respective days of their deaths, was not portrayed in the movie.