Rarely seen footage of JFK assassination on Discovery Channel

MANILA, Philippines - Discovery Channel will commemorate the 50th anniversary of the assassination of US President John F. Kennedy on November 22 with the back-to-back premieres of two compelling documentaries on the historic tragedy.

Showing at 9 p.m. on Friday, JFK: The Lost Tapes chronicles the events of the president's assassination through the lens of rarely seen, real-time news footage and reports of the murder that have been preserved in a museum.

The documentary will feature hundreds of hours of unvarnished images, footages and reports from local radio stations, television and home movie cameras that captured the JFK assassination, shedding more light on the exhaustively researched tragedy and raising fresh questions on the heinous crime.

Meanwhile, Capturing Oswald is a hard-boiled, minute-by-minute look at the events that transpired within two days after JFK's death. The documentary, showing at 10 p.m. on Friday, explores the assassination through the officers of the Dallas Police Department who caught the president's killer, Lee Harvey Oswald.

The documentary details the brilliant police work that was done within just 90 minutes that lead to the arrest of the suspect. Police officials closest to the killings will break their silence and take viewers inside the events as they evolved on the ground during the gripping 48 hours of one of the greatest manhunts in American history.

JFK: The Lost Tapes and Capturing Oswald will also encore back-to-back on Saturday, November 23 from 2 p.m.; Sunday, November 24 from 9 p.m.; and Monday, November 25 from 2 p.m.