VIRTUAL JFK investigates one of the most debated "what if" scenarios in the history of U.S. foreign policy: What would President John F. Kennedy have done in Vietnam if he had not been assassinated in 1963, and had he been re-elected in 1964? The film employs what Harvard historian Niall Ferguson calls "virtual history," assessing the plausibility of counterfactuals - "what ifs" - and the outcomes they might have produced. The heart of the film deals with the question: Does i... (Full plot summary below)
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VIRTUAL JFK investigates one of the most debated "what if" scenarios in the history of U.S. foreign policy: What would President John F. Kennedy have done in Vietnam if he had not been assassinated in 1963, and had he been re-elected in 1964? The film employs what Harvard historian Niall Ferguson calls "virtual history," assessing the plausibility of counterfactuals - "what ifs" - and the outcomes they might have produced. The heart of the film deals with the question: Does it matter who is president on issues of war and peace?
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| Los Angeles TimesGary GoldsteinDirector Koji Masutani has masterfully assembled a wealth of archival footage, photos and audiotapes, some of which has been recently declassified. |
| TV Guide MagazineKen FoxThe film does, however, assemble an amazing array of recorded conversations and vintage newsreel, and offers up enough press conference footage to make one nostalgic for the days when an uncowed, penetrating press really did serve the public interest, and the president was a smart, inspirational and often very funny figure who could think on his feet and fearlessly take on all comers. |
| Seattle Post-IntelligencerBill WhiteContrary to its title, Virtual JFK is less a counter-history of the Vietnam years than a tribute to John F. Kennedy's stubborn resistance to a military that pressured him to go to war on six occasions during his short presidency. |
| New York PostV.A. MusettoIt examines other crises faced by JFK - Cuba, the Berlin Wall, civil war in Laos, the insurgency in Vietnam - and finds that in each case Kennedy chose talk over tanks. (Often, he went against advice of aides and generals.) |
| Village VoiceJ. HobermanAn elegantly constructed if misleadingly titled class lecture. |
| VarietyRonnie ScheibFilmmakers underline the immediate relevance of their conclusion: In matters of war and peace, who we elect president is crucial. |
| The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckMany of the film's most entertaining moments are, ironically, its most peripheral: Namely, the extensive archival clips of news conferences in which an alternately relaxed and tense Kennedy jostled with journalists |
| Boston GlobeTy BurrMost useful and enlightening as a historical tour through the major crises of the Kennedy administration. |
| The New York TimesManohla DargisDirected by Koji Masutani, this speculative, provocative, frustrating and finally unpersuasive historical gloss races quickly and all too lightly over the major political crises that John F. Kennedy faced during his aborted presidency. |
