The idea for the film began in a conversation between actor, director and producer Tom Hanks, producer Gary Goetzman, and actor Bill Paxton. Goetzman said: "We were at a baseball game and the Kennedy [John F. Kennedy] assassination came up. Bill is fascinated by all of the theories about it. He is from Fort Worth and remembers seeing Kennedy speak there on the day of the assassination." Sometime later, Paxton visited the Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas, USA which is dedicated to the assassination and legacy of President John F. Kennedy. Watching a film loop of the president's visit to Texas, he was shocked to recognize himself in the background, perched on his father's shoulders. When he stopped in an airport bookstore later the same day and found a copy of Vincent Bugliosi's book, "Four Days in November" (2008), he became determined to find a way to tell the familiar story from a particularly personal point of view. He shared the book with Hanks and Goetzman, who began to see it as a perfect project for Playtone, which had produced a number of award-winning mini-series for HBO based on pivotal moments in American history, including John Adams (2008), The Pacific (2010), and Band of Brothers - Fratelli al fronte (2001).

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