President John F. Kennedy

 On this date in 1963. President John F. Kennedy was assassinated.

For the recreation of the assassination at Dealey Plaza in "JFK" (1991, below), the producers had to pay the Dallas City Council a large amount of money to hire police to reroute traffic and close down streets for three weeks. Stone only had ten days to shoot the entire sequence. Director of photography Robert Richardson employed two 35mm cameras, five 16mm cameras and fourteen different film stocks for the sequence.

Getting permission to film in the Texas School Book Depository proved to be very difficult. The Depository demanded $50,000 to put someone in the window where Lee Harvey Oswald had stood. They were only allowed to film at certain times of the day, with only five people allowed on the floor at any one time. Co-producer Clayton Townsend said that the hardest part of the whole process was getting permission to transform the building back to the way it looked in 1963. That took five months of negotiation. Scenes of interior action on the sixth floor were actually filmed on the fifth floor, as the sixth floor is a museum exhibit. But all point of view shots of the motorcade were filmed from the actual sixth floor window, as well as all shots of the shooter behind the window, as seen from the outside.

The final report of the Assassination Records Review Board (ARRB) partially credited concern over the conclusions in "JFK" with the passage of the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992, also known as the JFK Act. The ARRB stated that the film "popularized a version of President Kennedy's assassination that featured U.S. government agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and the military as conspirators." While describing the film as "largely fictional", the ARRB acknowledged the film's director Oliver Stone's point that official records were to be sealed from the public until 2029, and his suggestion that "Americans could not trust official public conclusions when those conclusions had been made in secret." By ARRB law, all existing assassination-related documents were to be made public by 2017, and most are now released.