FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contacts: Kathie Gordon/212-210-1320
Kathie.gordon@aetn.com
Vicky Kahn / 212-210-9743
Vicky.kahn@aetn.com
™
NEW YORK, SEPT. XX, 2009 – Just hours before his death, President John F. Kennedy appeared before a crowd in Fort Worth, Texas in what would be his final speech, an homage to
American freedom. That poignant event, and the sights and sounds of the catastrophic days ahead, were captured on camera by innumerable professionals and amateurs.
Now, a treasure trove of these archival materials, many rarely seen, has been meticulously pieced together to present a gripping, new chronological account of the Kennedy assassination and its aftermath. The cameras do the talking in the narrator-less documentary JFK: 3 Shots that
Changed America, premiering on Sunday, October 11 at 9 p.m. ET/PT (Part 1) and
Monday, October 12 at 8 p.m. ET/PT (Part 2) on HISTORY™ .
Comprised exclusively of eyewitness source material, the four-hour film takes cinéma vérité
to the next level, immersing viewers in the story of the assassination and its aftermath as though for the first time. The archives were amassed from a variety of sources including personal home movies, Dallas police dispatches, televised interviews, and raw news footage. Producers Nicole
Rittenmeyer and Seth Skundrick– whose HISTORY presentation 102 Minutes That Changed
America recently earned three Emmy
®
Awards including Outstanding Nonfiction Special – culled through hundreds of hours of audio and visual footage acquired from a range of different sources in order to create a clear and invaluable historic record of this chapter in history.
Part 1 traces the hours before JFK’s assassination on November 22, 1963 through the murder of
Lee Harvey Oswald less than 48 hours later. Part 2 chronicles the enduring controversies that emerged as succeeding generations of Americans struggled to make sense of the sudden murder of an unforgettable leader.

JFK: 3 Shots that Changed America anchors HISTORY’s “Kennedy Declassified Week,”
October 11 - 18. Kennedy: 24 Hours Later , premiering on HISTORY on Sunday, October 18 at 9pm, is an insider’s look at the chaotic first hours after the assassination, with focus on the transfer of power including a 40-minute time lapse between the death of the president and when
Vice President Lyndon Johnson was informed.
Produced for HISTORY by New Animal Productions. Executive Producers: Nicole Rittenmeyer and Seth Skundrick. Executive Producers for HISTORY are David McKillop and Michael
Stiller.
HISTORY™
and
HISTORY HD™
are the leading destinations for revealing, award-winning original non-fiction series and event-driven specials that connect history with viewers in an informative, immersive and entertaining manner across multiple platforms. Programming covers a diverse variety of historical genres ranging from military history to contemporary history, technology to natural history, as well as science, archaeology and pop culture. Among the network's program offerings are hit series such as Ax Men , Battle 360 , How The Earth Was
Made , Ice Road Truckers , Pawn Stars and The Universe , as well as acclaimed specials including
102 Minutes That Changed America , 1968 with Tom Brokaw, King , Life After People ,
Nostradamus: 2012 and Star Wars: The Legacy Revealed . HISTORY has earned four Peabody
Awards, seven Primetime Emmy® Awards, 12 News & Documentary Emmy® Awards and received the prestigious Governor's Award from the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences for the network's Save Our History® campaign dedicated to historic preservation and history education . Take a Veteran to School Day is the network's latest initiative connecting America's schools and communities with veterans from all wars. The HISTORY web site, located at www.history.com
, is the definitive historical online source that delivers entertaining and informative content featuring broadband video, interactive timelines, maps, games, podcasts and more. Press Only: For more information and photography please visit us on the web at www.historychannelpress.com
.
###