November 22 - Parkland

Today’s movie is a historical drama film with scenes that happen on November 22. Watch and appreciate this film tonight.  

PARKLAND    

On November 22, 1963 [1:17 – 1:03:05] President John F. Kennedy arrives in Dallas, Texas. While traveling in a motorcade through the city he is shot. This is filmed by Abraham Zapruder, a local businessman. Kennedy is rushed to Parkland Memorial Hospital where Doctors Carrico and Perry try unsuccessfully to keep him alive, but ultimately the President is declared dead. The Zapruder film is  developed. Robert Oswald learns his brother Lee Harvey has been arrested for killing the President. The Secret Service violates Texas law by stealing President Kennedy’s body and taking it back to Washington. At Dallas police headquarters, Robert Oswald talks to his brother and his mother. FBI agent James Hosty takes heat because Lee Harvey Oswald had delivered a letter threating to blow up the FBI office two weeks ago to him. The next day the Zapruder film is screened and he sells the rights to Life magazine.   Then Lee Harvey Owsawld is shot and the same doctors try to save in him the same room where they worked on the President. Agent Hosty is asked by his boss to destroy the letter Oswald delivered. JFK and Lee Harvey Oswald are buried. 

                       

The date is given in the film at 1:00

Producers - Gary Goetzman, Tom Hanks, Bill Paxton, Nigel Sinclair and Matt Sinclair

Director - Peter Landesman

Screenwriter - Peter Landesman

Runtime -  1 hour 33 minutes

Released – September 1, 2013

Starring –James Badge Dale as Robert Edward Lee Oswald, Jr., Zac Efron as Dr. Charles James "Jim" Carrico, Jackie Earle Haley as Father Oscar Huber, Colin Hanks as Dr. Malcolm Perry, David Harbour as James Gordon Shanklin, Marcia Gay Harden as Head Nurse Doris Nelson, Ron Livingston as James P. Hosty, Jeremy Strong as Lee Harvey Oswald, Billy Bob Thornton as Secret Service Agent Forrest Sorrels, Jacki Weaver as Marguerite Oswald, Tom Welling as Secret Service Agent Roy Kellerman, Paul Giamatti as Abraham Zapruder, Dana Wheeler-Nicholson as Lillian Zapruder, Bitsie Tulloch as Marilyn Sitzman, Brett Stimely as President John F. Kennedy, Kat Steffens as First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, Gil Bellows as David Powers, Sean McGraw as Lyndon B. Johnson, Rory Cochrane as Earl Rose, Mark Duplass as Kenneth O'Donnell, Jimmie Dale Gilmore as Reverend Saunders, Matt Barr as Paul Mikkelson, Jonathan Breck as Winston Lawson, Gary Grubbs as Dr. Kemp Clark, Bryan Batt as Malcolm Kilduff, Glenn Morshower as Mike Howard, Armando Gutierrez as Officer Glen McBride, Austin Nichols as Secret Service Agent Emory Roberts, Gary Clarke as Admiral George Burkley

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