Air-Force One by Christopher Lee

Fifty years ago, on November 22nd, 1963, President John F Kennedy was assassinated by a sniper while riding in an open-topped limousine in a motorcade in Dallas, Texas.

 

What happened immediately after the assassination?

 

Theories explored in Lee's riveting drama are based on Federal, classified and academic research, diaries and recollections, and statements by Mrs Kennedy - a mix of substantiated and contested documentation. He focuses, first, on the hospital mortuary, and then aboard Air Force One where former Vice President Lyndon B Johnson insists that Judge Sarah Hughes conducts the 'swearing-in' before take-off. Also present in the overcrowded aircraft is Kennedy's widow, Jackie, in a state of shock, still covered in blood. The play becomes a tense thriller as surprising events occur on board.

 

Cast:

 

Narrator.........Josh Stamberg

Lyndon B Johnson.........Stacy Keach

Jackie Kennedy.........Glenne Headly

Lady Bird Johnson.........Susan Sullivan

Rufus Oldman.........Steven Weber

Art Thorn.........Nicholas Hormann

Roy Kellerman.........JD Cullum

Marie Fehmer.........Janine Barris

Rose Kennedy.........Jennifer Bassey

Rankin/Doctor Rose.........Gordon Clapp

Judge Hughes.........Anna Mathias

White House radio/Jack Valenti.........Matthew Wolf

AF1 operator/Dean Rusk.........Andre Sogliuzzo

86972.........John Sloan

Other parts: Tracy Pattin, Darren Richardson


Sound design: Wesley Dewberry, Mark Holden


Producer: Rosalind Ayres


Director: Martin Jarvis

A Jarvis and Ayres production

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