John F. Kennedy’s presidency has long proven a rich source for dramatists and filmmakers to mine. How could it not be from a dashing and charismatic young president with a beautiful wife? Or the dramatic events of his thousand days in office from Cold War tensions in Cuba and Europe to the struggle for civil rights at home, not to mention tensions between the White House and the powerful longtime FBI director J. Edgar Hoover? Rarely has all that been as well captured as it was in the 1983 minise...