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Old 03-31-04, 03:53 PM
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JFK Assassination in Movies

Besides the obvious...JFK, Executive Action, Ruby, Love Field and In The Line of Fire I'm looking for other movies that have a JFK Assassination tie-in to the movie plotline or story.

I know there were a few made for TV movies like Ruby & Oswald and The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald and in a few tv shows like Quantum Leap and The New Twilight Zone so if possible I would like to know how many other TV shows also had a similar JFK tie-in.

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An X-Files Season 4 episode called Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man has a new angle on the JFK assassination.
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There was a movie that came out last year. I think it was 'Interview with the Assassin' that was supposed to be about an interview with the 2nd gunman of the assassination of JFK.
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Re: JFK Assassination in Movies

Originally posted by StrTrkker
Besides the obvious...JFK, Executive Action, Ruby, Love Field and In The Line of Fire I'm looking for other movies that have a JFK Assassination tie-in to the movie plotline or story.

I know there were a few made for TV movies like Ruby & Oswald and The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald and in a few tv shows like Quantum Leap and The New Twilight Zone so if possible I would like to know how many other TV shows also had a similar JFK tie-in.

Thanks
Red Dwarf did an episode where they go back in time and accidently prevent the jfk assasination. To set things right they take a future JFK back in time so he can assasinate himself.

http://www.sadgeezer.com/RedDwarf/epis7-01.htm
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Also the movie Flashpoint has a JFK assasination tie-in.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087268/plotsummary
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Oliver Stone's "Nixon".
And Seinfeld had a great parody scene about the Assassination.
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Zoolander.

Matilda: Lee Harvey Oswald was not a male model.

J.P. Prewitt: You're god-damned right he wasn't. But those two lookers who capped Kennedy from the grassy knoll sure as shit were.

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Salton Sea had a JFK assassination re-enactment using model cars and live pigeons as the passengers.
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red dwarf season 7, Tikka To Ride, I don't want to spoil it but its good
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There was the mini-series KENNEDY starring Martin Sheen.

There's reference to the Kennedy Assassination in Clint Eastwood's IN THE LINE OF FIRE (A PERFECT WORLD incidently takes place a few weeks before the assassination)

And a really cool one is TIME QUEST (see my review!) in which a time traveller goes back in time to stop the assassination:

http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=7687
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