‘Virtual JFK’: You Are JFK Making Decisions About Vietnam
You are there when history is made
Trailer (2:14).
VirtualJFK.com: Vietnam if Kennedy Had Lived, explores this question: “Would the U.S. have escalated the war in Vietnam if Kennedy was not assassinated in 1963? With insight and erudition, the film traces JFK’s presidency a 1,000-day term plagued with tense political stand-offs through rare and previously unseen archival footage, offering nuanced accounts of the former president’s political decisions and, by extension, his probable response to the escalating conflict in Vietnam. Featuring unprecedented access into the leadership style of one of the nation’s most important leaders, Virtual JFK sheds new light on the man who helped avoid war in six crises and did not live to save America from the devastating war in Vietnam.” First two minutes of the film are below:
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