Virtual JFK: Vietnam if Kennedy Had Lived
Verzio FF Virtual JFK investigates one of the most debated "what if" scenarios in the history of US 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 resulting film employs what Harvard...
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| Institution: | Open Society Archives at Central European University |
| Language: | English |
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Global Media Project
2008
United States |
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10891/osa:12b8807c-0a82-4041-8724-ed176e7fc716 |
| Summary: | Verzio FF
Virtual JFK investigates one of the most debated "what if" scenarios in the history of US 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 resulting 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 film makes use of an array of resources including recently declassified and never-before-seen archival footage, documents, and audio tapes, and testimony from a critical oral history conference including Kennedy and Johnson administration officials. 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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| Published: | 2008 |