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Summary Australian police detective Colin McLaren spent four years investigating the theory first offered by ballistics expert Howard Donahue and was the basis of and the 1992 book by Bonar Menninger, "Mortal Error: The Shot that Killed JFK," that a Secret Service agent accidentally shot the president.
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- ReelzChannel
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- ReelzChannel
JFK: The Smoking Gun
Season 1 Premiere: 2013
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Summary Australian police detective Colin McLaren spent four years investigating the theory first offered by ballistics expert Howard Donahue and was the basis of and the 1992 book by Bonar Menninger, "Mortal Error: The Shot that Killed JFK," that a Secret Service agent accidentally shot the president.
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Based on 4 Critic Reviews
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McLaren doesn’t come off as a conspiracy theorist or an agenda-crazed obsessive. He comes off as a detective building a case. But then, so do others. And only one can be right.
A docudrama, the REELZ film finds its focus in ballistics talk, much of it intriguing, and ballistics tests. Better yet, it manages to maintain a certain suspense--that having to do with the wait for the inevitable other shoe to fall. The time that invariably arrives in films of this kind, when documentary moves on to derangement.
Stuffed with stilted actor re-enactments--and repeated shots of a mock John F. Kennedy corpse with its skull blown open--Smoking Gun basically regurgitates the 1992 book Mortal Error and its conclusion that a Secret Service agent accidentally fired the third and fatal shot.
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Production Company:
- Muse Entertainment Enterprises
- Cordell Jigsaw Productions
- Bell Broadcast and New Media Fund
Initial Release Date: 2013
Number of seasons: 0 Seasons
Rating: Not Rated
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Awards
Canadian Screen Awards, CA
• 1 Nomination
