- Network: National Geographic
- Series Premiere Date: Nov 5, 2023
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This is the rare production that enables us to psychologically travel into that memory and feel something that isn’t unduly manipulated, to feel genuinely present for once in this history instead of taking it in as a spectacle.
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"One Day in America," by using relatively unknown shots and unfamiliar angles—of Jack Ruby, for instance, skulking around the press-police scrum in a Dallas police station on the night before he killed Oswald; or of Jackie Kennedy in a crowd, waiting to join her husband's casket on the plane back to Washington—generates a sense of intimacy, and a consequent mournfulness.