JFK: What the Doctors Saw

Play trailer

1:40

2023

1h 32m

Documentary

History

Play Trailer

Watchlist

Tomatometer

Popcornmeter

Tomatometer

4 Reviews

86%

Popcornmeter

Fewer than 50 Ratings

Directed by Barbara Shearer (Loving Elvis), the film reveals startling medical observations about JFK's wounds when seven doctors who were in the Parkland Hospital ER reunite to discuss a day none of them can forget. In never-before-seen footage from this reunion, the doctors share in vivid detail their indelible memories of what they did and saw in Trauma Room 1. Several of those doctors there that day remain certain that what they saw looked like an entry wound -- a bullet hole in JFK's throat -- an observation that contradicts what Americans have been told by numerous official investigations. This revelation would indicate that someone shot the President from the front, challenging the decades-old government narrative that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. JFK: WHAT THE DOCTORS SAW also examines the inconsistencies and gaps that plagued the official autopsy, raising even more questions about how many bullets hit the President and what damage they caused, leaving viewers with the looming question: Was there more than one shooter?

Watch on Paramount+

Stream Now

Natalia Winkelman

New York Times

11/16/2023

I’m willing to bet that viewers drawn to this documentary will have a basic knowledge of the history. It is smart, then, that this film so clearly defines its scope.

Go to Full Review

Mick LaSalle

San Francisco Chronicle

11/14/2023

3/4

These are men in their 70s and 80s, with serious medical careers behind them, who seem neither deluded nor mendacious.

Go to Full Review

Danielle Solzman

Solzy at the Movies

11/22/2023

3.5/5

We might never know what really happened but JFK: What the Doctors Saw examines all the evidence with first-hand testimony.

Go to Full Review

Robin Holabird

11/17/2023

What the Doctors Saw offers no new answers, instead standing as yet another chapter in a case that refuses to close.

Go to Full Review

Read all reviews

Davey M

05/13/2024

Too bad those Doctors were silenced! If there is any interest in the story of JFK, a MUST SEE! Well thought out with terrific collaboration from all that were involved in this documentary.

Goran M

11/15/2023

If you look closely at The Zapruder Film, you will clearly see that there were at least 3 shooters. Anyone with any experience in ballistics will tell you this. So, the JFK was an inside job, just like 9/11, and just like Gulf of Tonkin incident, and just like "Moon landing"... ReCreating History one more time

Read all reviews

Read Less

POST RATING

WRITE A REVIEW

EDIT REVIEW

Barbara Shearer

Director

Jacque Lueth

Executive Producer

Bill Garnet

Executive Producer

Barbara Shearer

Executive Producer

Guy Davies

Executive Producer

Adam Somer

Executive Producer

JFK: What the Doctors Saw: Trailer 1

1:40

View more videos

View more photos

Synopsis

Director: Barbara Shearer
Distributor: Paramount+
Production Co: See It Now Studios, Lucky Elephant Media
Genre: Documentary, History
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Nov 14, 2023
Runtime: 1h 32m

Let's keep in touch!

Sign up for the Rotten Tomatoes newsletter to get weekly updates on:

Let's keep in touch!

Sign up for the Rotten Tomatoes newsletter to get weekly updates on:

JFK: What the Doctors Saw

Where to Watch