I'M OLD ENOUGH TO REMEMBER JFK'S ELECTION. PLEASE DON'T GET ME WRONG...I THINK THE MINISERIES IS QUITE SIMPLY MAGNIFICENT. GREG KINNEAR'S PERFORMANCE WOULD HAVE EARNED HIM AN OSCAR WERE IT A THEATRICAL RELEASE. CERTAINLY HE MUST GET AN EMMY! BUT EITHER THE WRITERS OR THE EDITORS MANAGED TO LEAVE OUT A TREMENDOUS, PIVITAL MOMENT THAT PUT KENNEDY AHEAD IN THE POLES DRAMATICALLY!SOMETHING THAT, IN FACT, MADE HIM WIN! THAT BEING THE NIXON-KENNEDY DEBATES. FIRST OF ALL, IT WAS THEE FIRST TIME ANY PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE WAS AIRED ON TV. NIXON CAME OFF NERVOUS, HE STAMMERED, AND SWEATED PROFUSELY ON CAMERA WHICH WENT VERY BADLY FOR HIM; WHILE KENNEDY WAS COOL, CALM, WELL SPOKEN AND QUITE SIMPLY VERY HANDSOME ON CAMERA. THE NEXT DAY, EVEN REPUBLICANS MENTIONED THAT KENNEDY HAD WON THE DAY IN THE DEBATES. AFTER THAT NIGHT KENNEDY SOARED IN THE POLES! NOTHING COULD STOP HIM! THE FILM MAKERS DIDN'T EVEN NECESSARILY HAVE TO SHOOT THE DEBATES; BUT PERHAPS SHOWING KENNEDY LEAVING THAT NIGHT BACKSTAGE WITH HIS FATHER OR BROTHER, HAVING THEM COMMENTING ON HOW WELL IT WENT FOR HIM AND HOW HIS OPPONENT WAS SO TERRIBLE. IF NOT THAT, THEN AT LEAST, A NEWS COMMENT FROM SOMEONE, ON CAMERA, AFTER THE EVENT! I REMEMBER, AFTER KENNEDY WON THE ELECTION, THE NEWS MEDIA SAID THAT HE WAS THE FIRST PRESIDENT TO BE ELECTED BY TELEVISION! ALL IN ALL A TREMENDOUS OMISSION IN THE FILM. ALSO REELZ IS MAKING ONE BIG MISTAKE IN THE FIRST AIRING OF THE SHOW. THEY ARE SHOWING PREVIOUSLY UNSEEN PORTIONS OF THE FILM JUST BEFORE EACH COMMERCIAL BREAK, WITH THE ANNOUNCER SAYING RIDICULOUS VOICE OVERS. FOR EXAMPLE WE SEE THE PREISTS COMING TO TELL JFK'S MOM 7 DAD THAT THEIR SON, JOE, HAS BEEN KILLED IN THE WAR; WHILE THE BOOTH ANNOUNCER DRAMATICALLY SAYS, " COMING NEXT; THE NEWS EVERY PARENT DREADS!" WHY DO THIS TO AN AUDIENCE? DO THEY THINK WE'RE TOO STUPID TO SEE A FILM WITHOUT PRIOR COMMENTARY? FURTHERMORE, IT SOFTENS AND RUINS THE DRAMATIC EDGE OF ANY SCENE, WHEN SHORTLY THERAFTER THAT SAME SCENE APPEARS, YET AGAIN! REELZ SHOULD QUICKLY CALL POST BACK IN TO EDIT OUT THE RIDICULOUS PRIOR SCENE ANNOUNCMENTS AND REPLACE THEM WITH SIMPLER PROMOS...SUCH AS, "STAY TUNED FOR MORE OF THE KENNEDY'S COMING UP NEXT ON REELZCHANNEL!"...NOW HOW HARD IS THAT? SO TO RECAP... OF COURSE, NOTHING CAN BE DONE ABOUT THE DEBATE OMMISION. BUT PLEASE GET RID OF THOSE STUPID PROMOS SHOWING THE FILM BEFORE THE FILM! AND THANK YOU FOR AIRING SUCH A WONDERFUL MINI-SERIES WITH SO MANY POTENTIALLY AWARD WINNING PERFORMANCES! SURELY PEOPLE WILL BE TALKING ABOUT THIS SHOW FOR YEARS TO COME! SINCERELY, "LORRIEVIEW"
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I thought this was not going to be shown in the US? I would like very much to see it, but I have since read that Caroline Kennedy made a deal to release her mother's tapes in return for Reelz not showing the mini-series? Is it true that we can no longer access the above-mentioned?
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