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Film Forum: JFK vs. the
Joint Chiefs in Thirteen Days

By Joseph McBride, Contributor
April / May 2001

April 1, 2001 by Leave a Comment

On the morning of Saturday, October 20, 1962, I was in a station wagon with my family en route to Milwaukee's Billy Mitchell Field to hear President John F. Kennedy make a campaign speech for Democratic congressional candidates. As we moved slowly in a long line of cars to the airport, the radio reported that JFK had come down with a "slight cold" in Chicago and was returning … [Read more...] about Film Forum: JFK vs. the
Joint Chiefs in Thirteen Days

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