New film reflects on JFK assassination 60 years later

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Jacqueline Kennedy, Edward Kennedy and Robert Kennedy stand as the coffin of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy passes them. Photo credit https://omny.fm/shows/chicago-newsbrief-from-wbbm-newsradio-780-and-105/man-sentenced-to-99-years-for-shooting-two-men-out

(WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- A new film remembers the moment and the music of the the 60th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, which is today.

Alan Govenar is the director of "Down in Dallas Town: From JFK to K2", which explores the impact of the assassination on lingering conspiracy theories, the proliferation of gun violence, homelessness and the scourge of drugs.

The movie features a photo taken by a woman named Mary Ann Moormon, which is the only picture that exists of the bullets actually striking the president's head.

"I brought her to Dallas and she stood on the spot where she made her photograph and that's about a ten minute segment in my movie," Govenar.

In a clip from the movie, Moorman said, "I saw a man killed right in front of my eyes."

"Down in Dallas Town: From JFK to K2" also turns up the volume and all the music that was created in the aftermath of that notorious day.

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