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The Men Who Killed Kennedy is a
9-part video documentary series about the John F.
Kennedy assassination by Nigel Turner that began with
two 50 minutes segments originally aired on 25 October
1988 in the United Kingdom. The United States
corporation, Arts & Entertainment Company, purchased the
rights to the original two segments. In 1989, the series
was nominated for a Flaherty Documentary Award.
The series was re-edited with
additional material into three 50 minute programmes in
1991, which were again shown by ITV. A sixth episode
appeared in 1995. The series typically aired in November
every year, but also from time to time during the year
as repeats. The ninth documentary in the series (see
below), titled "The Guilty Men", directly implicating
former U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson, created an
outcry among Johnson's surviving associates, Johnson's
widow, Lady Bird Johnson, journalist Bill Moyers,
ex-President Jimmy Carter, Jack Valenti (longtime
president of the Motion Picture Association of America),
and the last-living (at the time of the outcry) Warren
Commission commissioner and ex-President Gerald R. Ford,
who lodged complaints of libel with the History Channel.
They subsequently threatened legal action against Arts &
Entertainment Company, owner of the History Channel.
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