JFK: The Smoking Gun
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| ReelzChannel | Release Date: November 3, 2013 |
Summary:
Australian police detective Colin McLaren spent four years investigating the theory first offered by ballistics expert Howard Donahue and was the basis of and the 1992 book by Bonar Menninger, "Mortal Error: The Shot that Killed JFK," that a Secret Service agent accidentally shot the president.
Genre(s):
Drama, Movie/Mini-Series, Documentary
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S1:E1. JFK: The Smoking Gun
Air Date: November 3, 2013
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Nov 4, 2013
Nov 1, 2013
Season 1 Review:
A docudrama, the REELZ film finds its focus in ballistics talk, much of it intriguing, and ballistics tests. Better yet, it manages to maintain a certain suspense--that having to do with the wait for the inevitable other shoe to fall. The time that invariably arrives in films of this kind, when documentary moves on to derangement.
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Nov 1, 2013
Uncle Barky
Nov 1, 2013
Season 1 Review:
Stuffed with stilted actor re-enactments--and repeated shots of a mock John F. Kennedy corpse with its skull blown open--Smoking Gun basically regurgitates the 1992 book Mortal Error and its conclusion that a Secret Service agent accidentally fired the third and fatal shot.
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Season 1 Overview
Air Date: November 3, 2013
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S1:E1. JFK: The Smoking Gun
Air Date: November 3, 2013
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