Which JFK Should I Watch?

The American Experience: JFK http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/jfk/

There are three new outstanding television experiences about John F. Kennedy (among many) that have different focuses about the man, his legacy, and his controversy.

American Experience: JFK  

 Want thorough, detailed history? This is for you. A tremendous work of research and profundity--

Scheduled for broadcast around the 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy's assassination, this biography provides a fresh look at an enigmatic man who has become one of the nation's most beloved and most mourned leaders. The newest addition to The Presidents collection, the documentary explores Kennedy's childhood years as the overlooked second son of a multimillionaire exploding with ambition, his early political career as a lackluster congressman, his subsequent successful run for senate, and the election victory that turned him into the youngest elected president in U.S. history.

With the benefit of newly opened archives and recently released documents, the film re-evaluates JFK's strengths and weaknesses in the Oval Office and looks at how he navigated some of the most explosive events of the mid-20th century: the Cuban missile crisis, the escalating conflict in Southeast Asia, and the urgent demands of an increasingly impatient civil rights movement. It also provides new insights into his private life -- his relationship with his beautiful, accomplished wife, his obsessive womanizing, his inappropriate friendships, his reliance on his younger brothers, and his deference to the all-powerful father who had helped make him who he was.

Extended preview: American Experience: JFK
 http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/trailer/jfk-extended/

CNN: The Assassination of John F. Kennedy
Fascinated with  the sixties? The Assassination of John F. Kennedy (part of a series entitled 'The Sixities) uses authentic footage--which seems staged and stylistic-- telling the virtually Shakespearean story of  John Kennedy and Lee Oswald.

This two-hour special explores the impact of the assassination of JFK ahead of the 50th anniversary on November 22 using news footage from the time period.

Here is the first 40 minutes.

The Assassination of President Kennedy CNN Special

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x17a5qz_the-assassination-of-president-kennedy-cnn-special-part-i_shortfilms 

Killing Kennedy 
 
This a drama uses iconic photos from the Kennedy era to set the scenes, with well-known quotes and rumors of the times to bring Camelot to viewers well-familiar or new to the subject.

Based on the best-selling book by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard, Killing Kennedy begins in 1959, at major turning points for both the future president and his assassin. John F. Kennedy (played by Emmy-award winner Rob Lowe) is in Washington, D.C., preparing to announce his presidential candidacy, while Lee Harvey Oswald finds himself in the U.S. embassy in Moscow, renouncing his U.S. citizenship. These two events start both men—one a member of one of the United States’ most wealthy and powerful families, the other a disillusioned former Marine and Marxist—on a cataclysmic track that would alter the course of history. Throughout the film, we see their highs and lows, culminating in not one but two shocking deaths that stunned the nation.

Killing Kennedy, Trailer 2

http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/killing-kennedy/videos/killing-kennedy-trailer-2/