Rendezvous with Death

Rendezvous with Death
German	Rendezvous mit dem Tod: Warum John F. Kennedy sterben musste
Written by	Wilfried Huismann, Gus Russo
Directed by	Wilfried Huismann
Music by	Claudius Bruese
Country of origin	Germany
Original languages	Spanish, German, English
Production
Producers	Heribert Blondiau Wilfried Huismann Gus Russo
Cinematography	Tobias Baader Reinhard Gossmann
Editors	Olaf Strecker Nicole Kortlüke
Running time	88 minutes
Production company	WDR
Original release
Network	Das Erste
Release	6 January 2006 (2006-01-06)

Rendezvous with Death (German: Rendezvous mit dem Tod: Warum John F. Kennedy sterben musste) is a 2006 German documentary film that claims that G2, a secret service organization of the Cuban government, organized the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy. The film first aired on January 6, 2006 on German television station Das Erste. It was directed by Wilfried Huismann.

Synopsis

Rendezvous with Death features interviews with four Cuban former secret service agents and an American FBI agent, and also cites documents from KGB and Mexican government archives.

A possible Cuban connection was investigated by the US immediately after Kennedy's death. But an FBI officer sent to follow the Oswald's trail during a visit to Mexico was recalled after only three days and the investigation called off. Laurence Keenan, now 81, said it was "perhaps the worst investigation the FBI was ever involved in". "I realised that I was used. I felt ashamed. We missed a moment in history," Mr Keenan said.

Veteran US official Alexander Haig told the filmmaker that Kennedy's successor, Lyndon B. Johnson, believed Cuba was to blame and feared a pronounced swing to the right if the truth were known that would keep the Democrats out of power for a long time. Mr Haig - a US military adviser at the time and later a secretary of state - told the filmmakers Johnson said: "We must simply not allow the American people to believe Fidel Castro could have killed our president. [...] He [Johnson] was convinced Castro killed Kennedy and he took it to his grave."

External links

• Rendezvous with Death at IMDb
• $6,500 to kill a president: did Oswald sell his soul to Cuba? in The Times
• Film: Cuban secret service organized JFK's murder in The Miami Herald