New Film Series Examines Populist Anti-War Policies That Triggered Assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Jr, Malcolm X, and Robert F. Kennedy. Patreon Campaign Launched on Presidents' Day to Counter Censorship
NEW YORK, Feb. 19, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Season 1 of FOUR DIED TRYING, the first film series to jointly examine the lives and assassinations of JFK, MLK, Malcolm X, and RFK, will be released by Journeyman Pictures in four chapters in 2024, focusing on President Kennedy during this pivotal election year.
Chapter 1, the first film in the series, will be available exclusively to Patreon supporters on Presidents' Day, February 19, 2024, with major streaming platforms to follow soon after. Chapter 1 ("The World as It Was") reexamines America's original cancel culture: McCarthyism, the Red Scare, and the Blacklist, revealing the entrenched prejudices and extreme tensions of the Cold War that JFK had to overcome to become President of the United States. The Prologue, the powerful preview film for the series that stands on its own, is currently streaming on Amazon Prime, Apple TV, Google Play, and other platforms.
Chapters 1-4 of the series will shed new light on the little-remembered record of the populist, progressive JFK to show that he was firmly on the side of anti-colonial, national liberation movements in Africa and the rest of the Third World. He threw ticker-tape parades and state dinners for the leaders of newly independent nations. His "Alliance for Progress" attempted to create an extensive middle class in Latin America. Would our southern border be overrun with refugees had Kennedy lived to fulfill his plans? What would the world look like had his view that "those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable" prevailed as U.S. policy? Would America have become the empire it is today had Kennedy lived to "shatter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it to the winds?" These are just some of the questions FOUR DIED TRYING aims to answer.
This Presidents' Day, the film's producers are launching a Patreon campaign, appealing to the public to help counter what are, in effect, censorship attempts against independent filmmakers by the major networks. The major networks were licensed to use the public airwaves, yet they now charge exorbitant rates for using footage depicting the public record of events. Director John Kirby says, "The filmed record of our history is in effect being held hostage by giant corporations, preventing independent filmmakers from sharing that history with the public."
For example, one network asked $19,000 to use a portion of President Dwight Eisenhower's famous farewell address warning of the "military-industrial complex." "Presidential speeches should belong to the public," says FOUR DIED TRYING Producer Libby Handros. "They should only be charging copying fees."
In addition, the filmmakers must get the networks' approval for how the footage will be used. This is a brand-new phenomenon. For a film series exploding conventional wisdom on the four major assassinations of the 1960s, it has been a nearly insurmountable hurdle to get permission from the very media establishment that has willfully ignored inaccuracies and inconsistencies in the official stories of these murders for decades.
Following the four chapters on JFK, FOUR DIED TRYING will examine the lives and murders of Senator Robert F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, and Malcolm X. Based on more than 120 original interviews, the series will break new ground on all four men while shedding new light on the motives for their killings.
To learn more about the Patreon campaign, visit: https://www.patreon.com/FourDiedTryingFilm
To learn more about FOUR DIED TRYING, visit: http://www.fourdiedtrying.com
To receive a press screener of The Prologue and Chapter 1, please contact Julia Drake ([email protected]) and Bradley Jones ([email protected])
Media Contact
Julia Drake, Wildbound PR, 1 3103596487 1, julia@wildboundpr.com, Wildbound PR
Libby Handros, The Press & The Public Project, Inc., 1 718 246-2744, lhandros@aol.com, https://www.thepressandthepublic.com
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