Executive Action (film)

Executive Action is a 1973 film about the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, written by Dalton Trumbo, Mark Lane, and Donald Freed, and directed by David Miller. Miller had previously worked with Trumbo on his film Lonely Are the Brave 1962. It stars Burt Lancaster and, in his final film, Robert Ryan.

A narrator states that when President Lyndon Johnson was asked about the Kennedy Assassination and the Warren Commission report, he said he doubted the findings of the Commission. The narration ends with the mention that the segment did not run on television and was cut from a program about Johnson. The narration does not actually include the quote Kennedy was trying to get Castro, but Castro got to him first.At a gathering in June 1963, shadowy industrial, political and former US intelligence figures discuss their growing dissatisfaction with the Kennedy administration. In the plush surroundings of lead conspirator Robert Foster Robert Ryan, he and the others try to persuade Harold Ferguson Will Geer, a powerful oil magnate, to back their plans for an assassination of Kennedy. He remains unconvinced, saying, I dont like such schemes. Theyre only tolerable when necessary, and only permissible when they work. James Farrington Burt Lancaster, a black ops specialist, is also among the group He shows Ferguson and others that a careful assassination of a U.S. President can be done under certain conditions, and refers to the murders of Abraham Lincoln, James Garfield, and William McKinley as examples. He calls this executive action. ........

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