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Synopsis: Recounting the chaotic events that occurred in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963, 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 watched and examined film in history; the FBI agents who nearly had the gunman within their grasp; 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.
Director(s): Peter Landesman
Production: Exclusive Releasing
  3 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.4
Metacritic:
51
Rotten Tomatoes:
50%
PG-13
Year:
2013
93 min
$652,355
Website
527 Views


standing at the time?

I was on the concrete block

over there.

This first one, right here. Yes.

Now were you filming before

the President was shot?

Sir, where you filming before

the President was shot? Yeah.

So you were standing on top

of this, sir. Is that right?

You couldn't have been

more than 30 yards away.

Sir, would you allow me to take

that film into my possession?

Right now, there are people out

there who are ready to start a war.

The film is that camera is

the only way we have to know

what happened out here today.

You understand that?

It's a matter

of national security.

I need to think.

Sir, I'm no longer asking.

The Dallas News

can develop it.

Let's go.

Clear the way.

Nurse.

Can we get

some tape here?

Admiral George Burkley, the

President's personal physician.

The President has Addison's Disease.

He'll need these.

I have him

on the leg.

Injection is fine.

What's the story

on the priest?

He's on the way.

This is it.

No can do.

What do you mean?

That's eight mil. We process 35 stills.

That's it.

You got to be kidding me.

Harry? I didn't know.

Try WFA next door.

There's a Kodak lab out

by Love Field.

A lot more gauze.

Yeah, here.

Let me listen.

I don't hear anything.

You feel anything down there?

Nothing, resume.

Still have no pulse.

Mrs. Kennedy.

Mrs. Kennedy.

Uh, basin?

That's a piece of his skull,

and some brain matter.

Let me listen,

let me listen.

No pulse here.

Come on.

Jim...

Jim, you got nothing

to work with.

Jim.

It's time to stop.

I'm calling it.

It's one p.m.

Jackie...

Jackie...

Jackie... it's time

to say good-bye.

Someone please tell me

what's next.

We, uh...

We need a coffin.

Excuse me.

Parkland just called.

He's dead.

Mr. President.

He's gone.

We need to get

in the air.

Hey, we belong

to Johnson now.

The whole federal

government belongs to him.

When Johnson goes, everyone

has to go with him.

Who stays with Jackie? Jackie

isn't chief executive.

Nor is she related

to one... anymore.

I'm not going

anywhere without her.

Let us recall for you

now what has transpired.

KRLD is reporting that they

have been told by somebody

in the hospital

that the President is dead.

Well, that is a repeat

of something

that you heard reported to you directly

a moment ago from KRLD in Dallas.

Ana' that is the rumor

that has reached them

at the hotel

that the President is dead.

I need to go

call my wife.

Look, if you want to

stay, you can stay.

If you want to go home

and be with your family...

Go be with your family.

We do not know

what his condition is,

but the report is

that the President is dead.

This is not confirmed.

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Peter Landesman

Peter Landesman is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, journalist, novelist and painter. He wrote a number of cover stories for the New York Times Magazine, New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly and others, including investigations into global arms trafficking, sex trafficking, refugee trafficking, the Rwandan genocide, and the creation and smuggling of forged and stolen art and antiquities. He also reported from the conflicts in Kosovo, Rwanda, and Pakistan and Afghanistan post-9/11. more…

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