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Days That Shook the World

Series 1 (30 minutes)

Episode 1: JFK

Duration: 29 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Two HDLatest broadcast: on BBC Four

Available for 12 months

Series recalling history's defining moments. The assassination of John F Kennedy in 1963 stunned America and shook the world. This forensic reconstruction is a minute-by-minute dramatisation of the day of the shooting, featuring the family who were the closest eyewitnesses to the president's death; the surgeon who worked to save JFK's life ten minutes after the attack; and the president's assistant press secretary - part of JFK's final motorcade and the man entrusted with informing the nation that their leader had been slain on 22nd November 1963 in Dallas, Texas. Show less

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