Kennedy assassination: Just the facts this time

THE assassination of president John F Kennedy exactly 50 years ago, on Friday, Nov 22, 1963, remains a dark day - possibly the darkest - in American history. The youth, glamour, hope and power that Kennedy represented were all extinguished over the space of a few horrifying seconds that even now - thanks in part to a home movie of the actual murder - remain painfully embedded in the national psyche.

Parkland is a docudrama that recreates in authentic detail the moments leading up to the death of the president and the hours and days that followed, when a wave of shock, grief and guilt swept through Dallas, the scene of the crime. Written and directed by Peter Landesman in a journalistic, matter-of-fact m…