Film Preview: Parkland

The assassination of John F. Kennedy is one of the most renowned events in world history which has sparked numerous biographies and movies as well as countless conspiracy theories about the events of that day in 1963. The belief over a second gunman on the grassy knoll and that Lee Harvey Oswald wasn't working alone or was entirely innocent. These are questions that we may never know the answer to now but the events have been choreographed here by Director Peter Landesman and the film is based on the book Four Days in November by Vincent Bugliosi.

Parkland weaves together the perspectives of a handful of ordinary individuals suddenly thrust into extraordinary circumstances: the young doctors and nurses at Parkland Hospital; Dallas’ chief of the Secret Service; an unwitting cameraman who captured what became the most famous home movie in history; the FBI agents who were visited by Lee Harvey Oswald before the shooting; 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 is released in the UK on 8th November 2013.