In 1967, Impact Pictures released Rush to Judgment, a documentary about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. The film, by lawyer Mark Lane and filmmaker Emile de Antonio, is based on Lane’s book of the same name. Lane had been one of the earliest critics of the Warren Commission and its report, and had for a time represented Lee Harvey Oswald at the behest of Oswald’s mother. Both the book and the film were Lane’s attempt to provide a defense of Oswald, who was arrested within an hour of the shooting and murdered in police custody two days later.
Although there have been many non-fiction and fiction features, series, and TV shows about the tragic events in Dallas on November 22, 1963, Rush to Judgment has never been widely available in its complete form until now. A 4K digital restoration by the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theatre Research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Sphinx Productions is being released by Films We Like, and it is a rewarding, if sometimes difficult, watch.
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