The most accurate portrait ever made of the events surrounding the Kennedy assassination and the subsequent assassination of Lee Harvey Oswald.
Acting
Michael Lerner's sweaty, desperate Jack Ruby is uncomfortably human.
Production
Shot on actual Dallas locations with eerie documentary energy.
Director
Mel Stuart
Michael Lerner
Jack Ruby
Frederic Forrest
Lee Harvey Oswald
Doris Roberts
Eva
Lou Frizzell
Captain J. Will Fritz
Bruce French
Robert Oswald
Sandy McPeak
District Attorney Wade
Lanna Saunders
Marina Oswald
Sandy Ward
Chief Curry
Brian Dennehy
George Paulsen
Gwynne Gilford
Little Lynn
Gordon Jump
Clyde Gaydosh
Erik Kilpatrick
Andy Armstrong
Michael Pataki
"Ike" Pappas
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Mel Stuart directed this between Willy Wonka and documentaries about the Holocaust, which explains the tonal whiplash.
Released during the post-Watergate conspiracy boom when Americans suddenly realized their government might lie about literally everything.
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