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   JE Corbett to JE Corbett   
   Re: NatGeo...One Day in America   
   18 Nov 23 21:05:43   
   
   From: jecorbett4@gmail.com   
      
   On Sunday, November 19, 2023 at 12:02:30 AM UTC-5, JE Corbett wrote:   
   > I just watched the first two installments of the three part documentary    
   > produced by NatGeo. The third part is recording as I write this. Overall it   
   was    
   > very well done. It tells the story through the eyes of surviving witnesses,   
   such    
   > as Clint Hill, Buell Frazier, Ruth Paine, the Newmans and Johnny Brewer to4    
   > name a few. Obviously they are all quite old now.    
   >    
   > Most of the footage appears to have been digitally remastered and enhanced.    
   > Some of it has even been colorized. It is a much better quality than what I   
   have    
   > seen in the past. I heard a few tidbits that I was not aware of before.    
   >    
   > The one thing that pissed me off was their use of the phony radio broadcast    
   > that begins "Something has happened in the motorcade route...". That was    
   > created the next day by a local radio personality who was fired for the   
   hoax.    
   > Using phony material is a serious breech of journalistic ethics yet that has    
   > been played so many times it has become accepted as being authentic.    
   > There was no live radio broadcast at the time the shots were fired. Why   
   would    
   > there be? I'll never understand why otherwise serious documentaries continue    
   > to use such fraudulent material.   
      
   I should have mentioned this series is going to play again later this week,   
   maybe several times.    
   Tonight they played all three episodes one right after the other.   
      
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