Two documentaries are being released from the history channel today, and I was lucky enough to take a look at them.

First up: JFK 3 Shots That Changed America

I’ve been interested in this subject ever since I watched JFK a few years ago. Getting  so passionate about the subject as to get into some arguments about the conspiracy over 40 years after the actual event. It’s incredible that something that happened before I was born can still inspire such strong opinions. But I think that’s why there’s still a market for documentary’s on the subject.

This documentary is almost three hours long, covering just about everything that happened around this event. A minute by minute recount of events,  from John F. Kennedy’s final speech, going long after his death. The thing I liked the best about this documentary was the stock footage they had. Street interviews with Americans right after the shooting, watching them pointing fingers at the right wing, communists, and all the while smoking plenty of cigarettes.

I thought this one was really interesting, but I wish it was a little shorter. It was a little hard to get through in a single viewing, but certainly worth checking out. The interviews and stock footage of America they use in this documentary are great. It felt like I was doing research while sitting on the couch!

You can buy this one on Amazon here!

The next documentary The Kennedy Assassination 24 Hours After

I found this one to be a bit more gripping, although it was a bit more graphic as well. In fact they show the assassination footage multiple times in the first five minutes. It was ruthless, and I was constantly turning away. Even If you find it hard to sit through documentary’s, I still think you would be pleasantly entertained by this one.

As stated, this one is more gripping, although I think it was more gripping in the standard history channel way. Which pretty much means they say boring things in a very exciting manner. Sometimes this is a bad thing, Mysteries of the Freemasons and Universe for example, are fine documentaries, but they dramatize some pretty lame things. This style actually fit into this documentary fine though, I mean the president was assassinated for god sakes.

They have a lot of coverage about what Lyndon Johnson was thinking and doing throughout the assassination that was really interesting. Not only about the assassination, but the politics of the times etc. I was surprised how much I didn’t know that was in these documentaries. Basically it’s amazing how much information was recorded around this event.

You can buy this one on Amazon here!

I would like to recommend these documentaries to everyone, but sadly it isn’t for absolutely everyone. It’s only for people that aren’t idiots! People that want to know something about Americas recent past and have attention spans, I urge you to pick these documentaries up!