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John F. Kennedy: Years of Lightning, Day of Drums ()

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John F. Kennedy's years as president.
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Directed by

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Bruce Herschensohn

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Bruce Herschensohn ... ()

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George Stevens Jr. ... producer

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Bruce Herschensohn

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Gordon L. Day ... sound recordist (as Gordon Day)

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Jack Cookerly ... orchestrator
William Loose ... orchestrator (as Bill Loose)

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Gene Evans ... film research

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Taglines A Special Act of Congress Makes It Possible For You to See This Special Motion Picture! See more »
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Also Known As
  • Years of Lightning, Day of Drums (World-wide, English title)
  • John F. Kennedy (World-wide, English title)
  • Anni di luce giorno di lutto (Italy)
  • I zoi enos gennaiou (Greece)
  • Anos de Relâmpagos, Dias de Tambores (Portugal)
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Trivia The film, produced by the United States Information Agency, was not intended for general public viewing, but it received such good advance notices that the agency eventually let Embassy Pictures release it to theaters. A soundtrack album, featuring both music and narration, was made in both mono and stereo by Capitol Records. See more »
Goofs The narrator says, "President Lincoln had signed a proclamation granting freedom to all Negroes in the United States." Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation did not declare free all slaves in the U.S., but only those in territory then held by the Confederacy. Some slaves were not freed until the ratification of the 13th Amendment, which Lincoln had endorsed but which completed ratification only after his death. See more »
Movie Connections Featured in Nowhere to Run (1978). See more »
Quotes Offscreen Narrator: But the word that very few spoke, and the word with perhaps the greatest truth, was the word "prejudice". And most of the United States knew there was prejudice and wanted it to end. But even as the signs came down, the prejudice did not end.
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