Composer Geoff Zanelli to Score National Geographic's KILLING KENNEDY

Emmy-award winning actor Rob Lowe will star in the iconic role of President John F. Kennedy in National Geographic Channel's upcoming two-hour original factual drama KILLING KENNEDY by Scott Free Productions. Now, The Hollywood Reporter writes that Emmy-winning composer Geoff Zanelli has signed on to score the TV movie for NatGeo.

Zanelli won an Emmy for his score for TNT's Into the West in 2006 and was nominated for HBO's The Pacific in 2010. His other credits include The Odd Life of Timothy Green and Disturbia.

Also in the cast for KILLING KENNEDY are Ginnifer Goodwin as Jackie Kennedy, Will Rothhaar as Lee Harvey Oswald and Michelle Trachtenberg as Marina Oswald.

Based on the best-selling book by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard, the film chronicles one of the most shocking events in American history, following two men from very different backgrounds on a collision course with fate. Killing Kennedy will premiere on the National Geographic Channel this November in the United States and globally in 171 countries and 38 languages, timed to the 50th anniversary of the assassination.

Killing Kennedy begins in 1959, at major turning points for both the future president and his assassin. John F. Kennedy is in Washington, D.C., announcing his presidential candidacy, while Lee Harvey Oswald finds himself in the U.S. embassy in Moscow, renouncing his U.S. citizenship. These two events start both men - one a member of one of the United States' most wealthy and powerful families, the other a disillusioned former Marine and Marxist - on a cataclysmic track that would alter the course of history. Throughout we see their highs and lows, culminating in not one but two shocking deaths that stunned the nation.

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