TV & VIDEO - Nov. 21, 1988

In the normally permissive TV world of Sweden, a controversial British film that presents an alternative view of the assassination of American President John F. Kennedy was canceled at the last moment by Swedish Television officials, news reports said. “The Men Who Killed President Kennedy,” based on a book by Steve Rivele, alleges that the assassination was part of a major conspiracy and names three Frenchmen as hired killers. The three Frenchmen from Corsica have denied the charges. The film was scheduled for broadcast Saturday, but Ewonne Winblad, head of Sweden’s public television Channel 2 news department, told the Stockholm newspaper Expressen that she “wanted to be more sure of the information put forward in the film before airing it.”