The World on the Brink (1960 – 1963)

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The Sixties
5th June 2014 1 hour Season 1 Episode 2

The heady days of Camelot were clouded by the political and military tensions between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. Marvin Kalb, Richard Reeves, Robert Dallek, Sergei Khrushchev and more explain how close the Bay of Pigs and Cuban Missile Crisis brought us all to World War III – and how two nuclear superpowers moved from near confrontation to the Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.

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Season 1 · Episode 3

The Assassination of Kennedy (1963 - 1969)

A documentary examining the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on Nov. 22, 1963. Included: a look at the conclusions drawn from the Warren Report; and eyewitness testimony. Remarks by: historians Robert Dallek and Robert Caro; journalists Robert MacNeil and Dan Rather; and Alexandra Zapruder, whose grandfather captured the assassination on film.
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01 Tom Hanks profile Tom Hanksas Self 02 Walter Cronkite profile Walter Cronkiteas Self (archive footage) 03 David Brinkley profile David Brinkleyas Self (archive footage) 04 Dan Rather profile Dan Ratheras Self (archive footage) 05 Shirley Chisholm profile Shirley Chisholmas Self (archive footage)
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