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Executive Action (1973) - (Movie Clip) Our Presidents Are Killed By Madmen

Burt Lancaster is Farrington, presumably ex-CIA, taking the lead now in convincing Will Geer, as tycoon Ferguson, to support the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Robert Ryan, Walter Brooke and John Anderson backing him up, in the speculative thriller Executive Action, 1973.

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