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mahatmakanejeeves

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Wed Nov 11, 2020, 10:11 AM Nov 2020

Trailer for "Seven Days in May" (1964), the film JFK wanted made (and whose filming he had ... [View all]

Trailer for “Seven Days in May” (1964), the film JFK wanted made (and whose filming he had the US government aid) to warn Americans of the danger that our democratic system could be overthrown from within:

https://youtube.com/embed/OcEW9LuE0VI?autoplay=0



President Kennedy read the novel “Seven Days in May,” believed it could happen in the United States and gave official cooperation to John Frankenheimer, who made it into this 1964 film:


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