Hugely controversial upon its release because of its depiction of the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the film was unceremoniously yanked from many theaters in its first and second weeks of showing because of the bad press. Many television stations also refused to run trailers for the film.
The first film to openly question the veracity of the Warren Commission's report into the death of John F. Kennedy.
Interspersed throughout the assassination scenes are cut-ins of the primary organizers watching the shooting live on TV. However, the actual assassination was not covered by national television networks or local Dallas TV. The event was without live coverage, until news of the shooting reached the assorted media outlets, who then rushed to cover the President's condition and all of the information that came flowing in afterward.
Once the film was pulled from release in December 1973, it didn't show up again until the late 1980s when it finally started surfacing on TV.
Not true. The film had a second run in the fall of 1975.