Killing Kennedy (2013)

Based on the best selling book by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard, this is a television movie made for the National Geographic Channel, yes apparently they do air the occasional TV movie. Anyway the format is a dual biography, covering roughly the five year period ending with the first Kennedy assassination. The Kennedy part of the film we've all seen many times before, a largely hagiographic greatest hits real of Jake (Rob Lowe) and Jackie (Gennifer Goodwin, now the second Big Love wife to play this particular first lady) , who really do love each other in spite of everything. The really interesting part the film is the lesser know story of  Oswald (Will Rothhaar, who nails the grandiose self obsessiveness of his character) and his Soviet born wife Marina (Michelle Trachtenberg, who is a better actress then you might expect her to be). I now feel even more sorry for Marina then I did before watching this film. I also think that its important we remember that Lee Harvey Oswald was a communist, a haunting fact when seen in the stories cold war milieu, and one that is often overlooked in the wider conspiracy mania now associated with this turning point event in American history. Better and more informative then expected. ***