Four Days in November [VHS]

Four Days in November [VHS]
by Mel Stuart

Four Days in November [VHS]

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Actor: Charles de Gaulle, Edwin Walker, Lee Harvey Oswald, Marina Oswald, Richard Basehart
Director: Mel Stuart
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Original Language), Analog
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
Release Date: 1998-09-01
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)

VHS Movie Reviews of Four Days in November [VHS]

Movie Review: a real important movie
Summary: 5 Stars

this is a truly good account of one of the worst days in history
i think it is a important movie to add to anyone wishing to get a feeling of how the events on november 22 played out and, all the aftermath.
i hope one day to see this on dvd i have the video copy but, its gotton old and worn out and a dvd would be just fine

Movie Review: Wonderfull documentary
Summary: 4 Stars

A very interesting documentary on the events of november 63... On the same level as one of the greatest documentary film: "The Rise and the Fall of the Third Reich"...

I consider myself very lucky to own this video...

Movie Review: Conspiracist or apologist, this film is a must see!
Summary: 5 Stars

Whether you believe Oswald acted alone, was part of a conspiracy, or was nowhere around, this film is worth the price. As a native Dallasite, I found the film footage of my hometown when it was still a great place to live to be priceless. Golly, remember when people still shopped downtown?! The film offers a very realistic flavor of both Dallas and America in pre-assassination times, it's almost unnerving to see an America that still trusted its elected representatives and institutions of authority. Richard Basehart's narration is excellent, and Kennedy's presidency as well as his trip to the south is well explained to even a complete Kennedy novice. The "man on the street" interviews that give us the reaction of both famous heads of state and average Americans immediately upon hearing the news of the assassination are interesting and sad, and the entire film will serve to transport you back in time as no present-day piece on this subject can do. Much of the second half of the film deals with the planning and execution of Kennedy's funeral, and this comes as close as anything I've yet seen to recreating what those days were like. If you're too young to remember this event, this film is a must see. Even us conspiracy theorists can overlook the assumption of Oswald's guilt (an assumption that, unlike post-Warren Commission material, is not shoved down your throat). I have been researching Kennedy assassination materials for years, and I find these contemporary efforts such as "Four Days in November" and Mark Lane's film "Rush to Judgement" to be far more valuable tools than latter day efforts, as the waters have now been so muddied by disinformation that we lose the real feel of these tragic events. Highly recommended.

Movie Review: Great vintage footage of 11/18-11/22/63!
Summary: 5 Stars

As the leading civilian authority on the Secret Service, I highly recommend this video for the outstanding vintage footage of JFK's trips to Florida and Texas 11/18-11/22/63. Of particular note is the Tampa trip depicting the start of the motorcade with agents on/ near the rear of the limo and the Love Field footage ('discovered' by myself in 1991 and shown on The Men Who Killed Kennedy, again by myself, in 2003) showing agent Henry J. Rybka being recalled by ATSAIC Emory P. Roberts.
Vince Palamara-JFK/ Secret Service expert (History Channel, author of two books, in over 30 other author's books, etc.)
Pittsburgh, PA

Movie Review: the witnessses tell all
Summary: 4 Stars

Inspite the fact that this video is based soley on the Warren Commission report the witnesses in this film undisdutedly are
discribing a conspiracy as almost ALL point to the "Grassy Knoll" as the site where they believed the shots that killed the president came from. But then again, the government has had plenty of time to convince all those morons out there that Oswald was the lone assassin.

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Summary of Four Days in November [VHS]

In 1964, superstar producer David Wolper entrusted a then-fledgling director named Mel Stuart with the first documentary about the year-old assassination of John F.?Kennedy. Stuart went on to a successful, diverse career, interspersing such popular feature films as If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium and Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory with an array of interesting nonfiction work, including The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, Wattstax, and the moving The Unfinished Journey of Robert F. Kennedy. But with Four Days in November, he and Wolper paved the way for a certain modernity in the look and feel of a thoroughly researched documentary about a painful subject. Much of the film is compiled from television kinescopes of live TV coverage in Dallas on that fateful day, ordered in such a way as to offer viewers who lived through the events a sense of perspective, clarification, and perhaps closure. The myriad conspiracy theories that immediately appeared in the wake of Kennedy's death (not to mention Jack Ruby's murder of Lee Harvey Oswald, footage of which is included here) are examined and dismissed, though in fairness much, much else has been discovered since then to keep suspicions alive. The most fascinating and unexpected sequence, perhaps, is a clip from David Frost's old comedy show on British television, That Was the Week That Was, in which Frost, actor Roy Kinnear (Willy Wonka, interestingly enough), and others talk about their personal feelings regarding Kennedy. --Tom Keogh

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