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JFK: The Smoking Gun

2013 · 81 min

A meticulous cold-case procedural that walks you through forensic evidence and archival footage, building quiet tension as it questions an official story.

Directed by
Malcolm McDonald
Genres
Documentary
Starring
Alex Ivanovici, Larry Day, Peter Michael Dillon
Overview
Seventy-five percent of the American people still refuse to believe the official story of President John F. Kennedy's death. They do not think he was killed by a lone gunman but by a mysterious cabal that somehow conspired to have him killed. How can this be? How can a crime this famous, witnessed and investigated by so many, remain a mystery? This is what veteran Australian police detective Colin McLaren is determined to find out. JFK: The Smoking Gun follows the forensic cold-case investigation McLaren conducted over four painstaking years, taking us back to that tragic day in Dallas at Dealey Plaza where the shooting took place, to Parkland Hospital where the president was pronounced dead, to the Bethesda Naval Hospital where the autopsy was conducted and to the conclusions of the Warren Commission that have remained controversial to this day.

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Directed by
Malcolm McDonald
Genres
Documentary
Starring
Alex Ivanovici, Larry Day, Peter Michael Dillon
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Tone
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • darkstrength 1 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • conspiracy
  • justice
  • death
  • power
  • deception
Places
  • big city
  • hospital
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
  • procedural
  • true story
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
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Action2
Horror1
Humour1
Realism9
Romance0
Tension6
Darkness6
Complexity7
Emotional weight6

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Details

Genres
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Directed by
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Written by
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Starring
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Runtime
81 min
Country
Canada
Languages
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