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David Talbot: I think there's a direct thread between the events of 1963 and the kind of horror show that America is having to endure right now. And I think that once you kill a president in broad daylight on the streets of an American city, and everyone knows that powerful forces did it, that sends a signal not only to the American people but to the American media, to the American future leaders. And if America really wants a democratic society, then we should get to the bottom of the traumatic crime that continues to reverberate throughout American history
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that maybe there was a plot
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We just didn't find any traces of it
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What really happened with Allen Dulles was
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the CIA lobbied to have him put on the Commission
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'cause they needed to have one of their own on the Commission
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to make sure that certain doors remained closed
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I think there's a direct thread between the events of 1963
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and the kind of horror show
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that America is having to endure right now
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And I think once you kill a President
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in broad daylight on the streets of an American city
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and everyone knows that powerful forces did it
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that sends a signal not only to the American people
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but to the American media to the American future leaders
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And if America really wants a democratic society
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then we should get to the bottom of this traumatic crime
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that continues to reverberate throughout American history
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Movie Summary
Declassified files related to President Kennedy's assassination in a far larger context, aiming to shine more light on what really happened in 1963.