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Included in this radio production are two BBC programsthe first broadcast in 2003; the second broadcast in 1963. In Something Is Terribly Wrong, Alan Thompson charts the confusion and shock after the assassination. He returns to Dallas to uncover exactly what happened hour-by-hour by interviewing the people who saw and heard what happened and knew those involved at the time. In Letter from America: Assassination of J. F. Kennedy, 1963, the renowned broadcaster Alistair Cooke uses his weekly radio missive to reflect upon the legacy of John F. Kennedy and observes that the American nation feels it has been robbed of a brother.