It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

When you have to document one of the emotional events in the history of the 20th Century, you come here to this one film. United Press International got together with several other sources to cement what has now become the Case Closed legend of the shooting of JFK.The footage here of JFK's last appearances and of the funeral with Jackie and Bobby are really very well put together. Richard Basehart, (Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea on television) is a solid person for narrating this one. There are a lot of facts presented here in a logical fashion which document an event that is finally starting to fade from America's scene this many years later.There is some surprising footage in this account but nothing that would be controversial at all. A lot of footage of the fateful landing at Love Field and the procession to JFK's fate has those of us who remember this day still emotional.More people cried and more people were saddened by this event because of the fact that there we 3 TV Networks who basically for all the days through the funeral broadcast nothing else really dominated television like no other event in history. The live murder of Oswald on TV is here, Osswald's Funeral, even some trace outline of Ruby's Kit Kat Club in Dallas make the cut. Without a doubt, this films proves this is perhaps the most documented event in US History, it even out did Lincoln's shooting which has a huge amount of history documented in the 19th Century. As this event fades into History, and the last sealed records are opened, it is far too late to ever get a better version of this event than this film presents.

very powerful documentary made in 1964, so it was fresh in everyone's mind. movie centers on nov 22-25, 1963. elm st.. the day before the assassination,, the day of,, and the 2 days after,,, chronicles the action of the VP. the process of the swearing in,, what happened to the body,, the brain all of the stat movie focuses on Lee Harvey Oswald and his life. I watched this entirely for the archival footage and not so much to learn anything new,, I did learn a few things,, but not being born when all of this took place it was nice to get a look at all the archival footage that their was,, this movie was a companion piece to the JFK marathon on the history channel for the 50th anniversary of the assassination. didn't really change my mind about things.. just makes you wonder that much more,, to be honest we probably won't ever have a definitive answer one way or the other of who shot Kennedy,, but I know one thing,, he didn't act alone,,,, that duck don't hunt...

Four Days in November (1964) *** (out of 4) Oscar-nominated documentary taking a look at the four days in November where the country changed forever. I've watch dozens of documentaries on Kennedy and several just this past week on the 50th Anniversary of the president's assassination. I was rather late coming to see this popular film and even though I've seen quite a few there was still countless bits of footage that I had never seen before. I think what really makes this documentary stand apart is that it was made less than a year after the assassination so needless to say there's all sorts of footage that just typically doesn't get shown today. I think some of the most interesting moments deal with the moments right after the assassination when people were just hanging on to see whether or not the president was going to survive his wounds. The aftermath of course is another thing and it's interesting to note that hints of a conspiracy theory on displayed here and a couple of them would later be used in Oliver Stone's JFK. There's no doubt that history buffs will want to check this thing out because there's simply so much news footage that you really get a great idea of what it was like, television wise, when this happened. I will say that the film feels a tad bit long when watched today and it's also a bit too dry and at times lingers on. Still, there's no question that all the news footage makes this one worth checking out.

This is a well done documentary that came out in 1964, when the JFK assassination was still fresh in everyone's mind. In any case the atmosphere of mourning is captured well and it's just like you are actually there in Dallas and DC. The whole world was grieving and LBJ rode the wave to pass unheard of civil rights legislation, but also get us into Vietnam at the behest of JFK's advisors.We know know the Oswald acted alone and this film is about capturing the moment when the nation and world mourned a great leader at a crucial point in history.