Parkland

Where were you when Kennedy was shot? Dallas, Texas, November 22, 1963: John F. Kennedy has been in office for two years when he drives through rows of cheering people – then shots are fired. Not only did the global political situation change from one second to the next, but so did the lives of many people caught up in the assassination: The doctors and nurses on duty, FBI agents, the president’s bodyguards, the cameraman, whose photographic material later became one of the most meticulously analysed films of all time, the brother of Lee Harvey Oswald, left to deal with his shattered family, and JFK’s security team, witnesses to both the president’s death and Vice President Lyndon Johnson’s rise to power over a nation whose innocence was forever altered. PARKLAND elegantly weaves together the stories of several of those involved and casts new light on one of the most illuminated events of American history.