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Download Press PRESS KIT PRESS KIT TABLE OF CONTENTS Contacts page 3 Synopsis page 4 Astonishing Kennedy Details Revealed pages 5-6 Featured Interviews page 7 Director’s Statement page 8 Production Notes/Timeline pages 9-10 SUPPLEMEntaL INFORMatiON Why This Film is Relevant page 11 To Those Who Still Remember page 12 To A New Generation Biographies pages 13-15 Agora Productions pages 16 Credits pages 17-18 page 3 PRESS KIT CONTACTS DISTRIBUTION US & Canada International Brainstorm Media Solid Entertainment 280 S. Beverly Drive, Suite 208 15840 Ventura Blvd., Suite #306 Beverly Hills CA, 90212 Encino, CA. 91436 USA Tel: (310) 285-0812 Fax (310) 285-0772 Tel: (818)990-4300 Fax (818) 990-4320 E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] Web: www.brainmedia.net Web: www.SolidEntertainment.com PUBLIC RELatiONS Roth PR Susan Roth Tel: (301) 530-3539 Cell: (202) 997-5672 E-mail: [email protected] Web: www.rothpr.com LEGAL Justine Jacob Lee, Lawless & Blyth 11 Embarcadero West, Suite 140 Oakland, CA 94607 Tel: (510) 272-0200 x316 E-mail: [email protected] Web: www.leelawlessblyth.com FILMMAKERS/AGORA PRODUCTIONS Tel (310) 694-8119 Fax (310) 694-8119 P.O. Box 452688 Los Angeles, CA 90045 E-mail: [email protected] Web: www.agoraproductions.org Film Web: www.jfkapresidentbetrayed.org page 4 PRESS KIT SYNOPSIS The Kennedy Administration, the golden days 50 WORDS of our American “Camelot”, is one of the most JFK: A President Betrayed uncovers written about and popular periods of American new evidence revealing how President history. But there is one profound and moving Kennedy was determined to get out story still waiting to be told. of Vietnam, open negotiations with Fidel Castro and forge peaceful relations with the Soviets. Demonstrating how JFK: A President Betrayed uncovers new evidence government officials subverted Kennedy’s that reveals how President John F. Kennedy boldly efforts, the film considers how the world reversed deeply entrenched pro-war government might be different had he lived. policy to embark on secret back-channel peace efforts with Russian President Nikita Khrushchev, Cuban dictator Fidel Castro and other “enemies” of the United States. The film raises many 125 WORDS questions as to whom his real enemies were. To this day, the assassination of President John F. Kennedy remains among the JFK: A President Betrayed offers a poignant look most controversial mysteries of the 20th at the 35th president’s desperate, solitary struggle century. But even more compelling, are to mitigate armed conflict and makes clear the the bold actions he took that provoked extent to which he risked political capital – and, extreme resentment from his own top ultimately, his life – to pull the world back from military advisors. Narrated by Academy the brink of war and possible nuclear annihilation. Award winner Morgan Freeman, JFK: uncovers new Featuring new, probing interviews with advisors to A President Betrayed evidence that reveals how John F. Kennedy and Khrushchev, JFK: A President Kennedy reversed years of entrenched Betrayed is a meticulously well-researched portrait United States government policy to of a president who refused the counsel of embark on secret back-channel peace powerful, hawkish government officials advocating efforts with Nikita Khrushchev, Fidel for, among other things, a U.S. nuclear strike Castro and other sworn American against the Soviet Union. Instead, Kennedy enemies. The film brings to light how learned to trust his gut - instincts forged by the President Kennedy was subverted by top considerable suffering he experienced during the US officials and considers how the world Second World War, and tested by the early crises might be different had he lived. of his administration. page 5 PRESS KIT ASTONISHING KENNEDY DETAILS REVEALED JFK sought a dialogue with Fidel Castro - In November of 1963, President Kennedy asked French journalist Jean Daniel to communicate a personal message to Fidel Castro: Kennedy was open to pursuing talks with the Cuban dictator. Daniel presented that message to Fidel Castro on November 22. It was the latest in a series of secret efforts to open a dialogue between the two leaders. When an aide entered the room and told Castro of Kennedy’s assassination, he turned to Jean Daniel and said, “There goes your mission of peace.” Jean Daniel (featured), who lives in France, has given a few interviews over the years about his meeting with Castro. (He is currently unavailable due to health considerations) Peter Kornbluh, Senior Analyst at the National Security Archives in Washington, DC (featured) unearthed secret documents at the Kennedy library in the late 1990s, which prove JFK was pursuing a dialogue with the Cuban dictator and is well-versed in the Daniel story. JFK wanted to pursue a negotiated settlement in South Vietnam - In 1961, U.S. Ambassador to India, John Kenneth Galbraith sent a letter to President Kennedy informing him that the North Vietnamese were interested in negotiating a settlement in South Vietnam and suggesting that the United States pursue a mutual de-escalation of forces (His letter is featured in the book Letters to Kennedy). Receiving Galbraith’s letter, President Kennedy instructed Averell Harriman at the State Department to tell Galbraith to begin these efforts. However, as revealed in the book Perils of Dominance, by author Gareth Porter (featured), Harriman changed the meaning of President’s instructions and later squashed the communication altogether. Galbraith never received Kennedy’s instructions. In JFK: A President Betrayed, we join Porter in the Library of Congress to see Harriman’s paper-trail. Additionally, James Galbraith, (featured), son of John Kenneth Galbraith, and William Vanden Heuvel, (featured), a former Assistant Counsel to Attorney General Robert Kennedy who had worked in the U.S. embassy in Bangkok in the 1950s, attest to JFK’s determination to avoid sending combat troops to South Vietnam. JFK was presented with a plan for a nuclear attack - In 1961, President Kennedy attended a top-secret meeting in which a plan for a surprise nuclear attack against the Soviet Union was presented. Though various government officials vaguely alluded to the meeting in subsequent memoirs, no official record of its content was found until 1991, when James Gal- braith (featured), Chair of the LBJ School of Public Affairs unearthed the “Burris Memorandum” at the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library with his students. Burris, a military aide to the page 6 PRESS KIT ASTONISHING KENNEDY DETAILS REVEALED Vice President, had attended the meeting on Johnson’s behalf. Halfway through the presentation, Kennedy walked out saying, “And we call ourselves the human race!” Commenting on what might have happened had the plan been implemented, Galbraith said, “It’s very hard to imagine that any significant organized human society would have survived.” JFK sent secret communications to Nikita Khrushchev through journalist, Norman Cousins - In 1962 and 1963, journalist Norman Cousins met with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev in the Soviet Union. On both occasions, he carried messages from Kennedy saying that no one in the United States was more serious than he in resolving differences be- tween the two superpowers. On his second visit, Cousins brought two of his daughters, Andrea and Candis. On this occasion, Khrushchev and Cousins (acting as Kennedy’s citizen representa- tive) laid the ground work for what would become the limited nuclear test ban treaty between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. These episodes were related in Cousins’ book The Improbable Triumvirate, and related on film by Candis Cousins Kerns (featured), Andrea Cousins (featured), and Robert Schlesinger (featured), who is the son of Kennedy Special Assistant Arthur Schlesing- er Jr. The photographs from that trip, which are presented in the film, have never been pub- lished or seen on film. The documentary also reveals Norman Cousins’ role in prompting what was arguably JFK’s most important speech - the American University Address. Adviser to Kennedy mocked the President behind his back - Following WWII, one of the most powerful men in the U.S. government was Secretary of State Dean Acheson, who played a significant role shaping the U.S. containment policy towards the Soviet Union. When John F. Kennedy came to office in 1961, he asked the elder statesman to come back into service and advise him on the brewing crisis in Berlin. Acheson believed the Soviets only understood strength and advocated for taking a hard line. As related by Evan Thomas (featured) and Frederick Kempe (featured), he submitted a plan to Kennedy that suggested the United States prepare itself right up to the edge of war. Kempe describes Acheson and these details in great length in his book Berlin: 1961 as does Thomas in his book The Wise Men. When Kennedy opted for a different policy and allowed the East Germans to build the Berlin Wall, Acheson was furious. Instead of supporting the president’s decision, this elder statesman of the Democratic party mocked Kennedy behind his back and said to colleagues, “Gentlemen, you might as well face it – this nation is without leadership.” page 7 PRESS KIT JFK: A PRESIDENT BETRAYED FEATURED INTERVIEWS(In order as first seen in 91 min. version of film) James Galbraith, Lloyd M. Bentsen Jr. Chair in Government & Viktor Sukhodrev, Interpreter for Nikita Khrushchev and first Business Relations and Professor of Government, Univ. of Texas at laureate of the national “Interpreter of the Year”
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