Tom Hanks and HBO to Produce JFK Assassination Mini-Series

LOS ANGELES, September 19:
Tom Hanks’ production company Playtone and HBO will team up to produce a
10-part mini-series based on Vincent Bugliosi's bestseller Reclaiming
History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

Bugliosi's book refutes
many of the conspiracy theories connected to Kennedy’s assassination and
supports the findings that Lee Harvey Oswald acted on his own when he shot
President Kennedy on November 22, 1963.

Playtone’s Tom
Hanks and Gary Goetzman will executive produce the 10-part mini-series with
Bill Paxton, the star of the HBO series Big Love.

“We are
delighted that Tom, Gary and Bill brought this amazing project to HBO,” said
Colin Callender, the president of HBO Films. “The successful creative partnership we have enjoyed with
them over the years imbues us with a confidence, an excitement and the
knowledge that Bugliosi’s riveting book will make a very powerful transition to
the screen.”

“I’m really
excited to be working with people of the immense stature of Tom Hanks, Gary
Goetzman and Bill Paxton,” said Bugliosi. “Seventy-five percent of the American
public believes in the falsehood that there was a conspiracy in the
assassination of President Kennedy, and only 19 percent accept the findings of
the Warren Commission that Oswald acted alone. Working with Playtone and HBO,
I’m confident that we can reverse those numbers and finally bring the truth to
the American public.”

Paxton brought
the project to Playtone and HBO. A native Texan, Paxton was a child when he
accompanied his 11-year-old brother and father to an appearance that President
Kennedy made in Paxton’s hometown of Fort Worth on November 22, 1963, just
before he went to Dallas.