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JFK: Breaking the News

JFK: Breaking the News

NOV 19, 2003 · 57 MIN · DIR. ALASTAIR LAYZELL

Documentary

Looking back over 40 years television and print journalists recall their stories and memories of reporting the murder of President Kennedy and how it changed the country and changed the way the public gets it's news.

Cast

  • Jane Pauley

    Jane Pauley

    Self - Narrator (voice)

  • Hugh Aynesworth

    Self

  • John Connally

    John Connally

    Self (archive footage)

  • Walter Cronkite

    Walter Cronkite

    Self (archive footage)

  • Lyndon B. Johnson

    Lyndon B. Johnson

    Self (archive footage)

  • Peter Jennings

    Peter Jennings

    Self (archive footage)

  • John F. Kennedy

    John F. Kennedy

    Self (archive footage)

  • Jacqueline Kennedy

    Jacqueline Kennedy

    Self (archive footage)

  • Jim Lehrer

    Jim Lehrer

    Self

  • Lee Harvey Oswald

    Lee Harvey Oswald

    Self (archive footage)

  • Jack Ruby

    Jack Ruby

    Self (archive footage)

  • Bob Schieffer

    Bob Schieffer

    Self

Crew

Writer

Alastair Layzell

Writer

Krys Boyd Villaseñor

Writer

Peter Freundlich

Director of Photography

Richard Hall

Director of Photography

Ginny Martin

Editor

Richard Hall

Editor

Laura Cargile

Original Music Composer

Frank Hames

Original Music Composer

John Bryant