Episode 141: Executive Action (1973)

Special Guests: Donald Freed, Alex Cox,
& Joseph McBride

In honor of the 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy's assassination, we're looking at Executive Action, one of the first films to tackle the events of 11/22/1963.

We also talk about related films such as JFK, Flashpoint, The Price of Power and more.

Our special guests include Donald Freed, co-author of the book on which the film was based, filmmaker/writer Alex Cox, author of The President and the Provocateur: The Parallel Lives of JFK and Lee Harvey Oswald, and Joseph McBride, author of Into the Nightmare: My Search for the Killers of President John F. Kennedy and Officer J. D. Tippit.

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Links:
Buy Executive Action on DVD
Buy Oliver Stone's JFK on DVD
Buy Flashpoint on DVD
Buy The Price of Power on DVD
Watch Mark Lane's Rush to Judgment
Hear more of Donald Freed on our "Secret Honor" episode
Visit the Donald Freed website
Buy Alex Cox's The President and the Provocateur
Visit the Alex Cox website
Read more about Errol Morris vs. Alex Cox
Buy Joseph McBride's Into the Nightmare: My Search for the Killers of President John F. Kennedy and Officer J. D. Tippit
Visit the Joseph McBride website
Read more about the 1973 Chilean Coup
Buy the various Trials of Lee Harvey Oswald
Watch Frank Sinatra in Suddenly
Watch the trailer for TimeQuest
Watch the trailer for Virtual JFK

Music:
November 22nd, 1963 - Destroy All Monsters

Watch:

Case Not Closed: The Zapruder Film from Alex Cox on Vimeo.

Episode 86: Secret Honor (1984)

Special Guests: Donald Freed, Mark Feeney, Frank Beaver

Celebrate your freedom with this episode on Robert Altman's Secret Honor -- a film made in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Secret Honor is a one-man film starring Philip Baker Hall as Richard Nixon.

Sometime after his impeachment, Nixon is in his library telling his story - the rise, the fall and, maybe, how he created Watergate to save the country... his "Secret Honor."

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Links:
Buy Secret Honor on DVD
Buy Mark Feeney's Nixon in the Movies
Visit Donald Freed's official website
Visit Mark Feeney's page at The Boston Globe
Read more about Frank Beaver
Read what Frank Beaver said about Robert Altman's time at the University of Michigan
Visit the Criterion Collection page for Secret Honor

Music use in this episode:
"Politicians in My Eyes" - Death

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