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Seven Days in May
''Seven Days in May'' is an American political thriller motion picture about a military-political cabal's planned takeover of the United States government in reaction to the president's negotiation of a disarmament treaty with the Soviet Union. Directed by John Frankenheimer, it stars Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Fredric March, and Ava Gardner, and was released in February 1964. The screenplay was written by Rod Serling based on the novel of the same name by Fletcher Knebel and Charles W. Bailey II, published in September 1962.〔("Seven Days in May" (''Kirkus Reviews'', September 10, 1962) )〕
==Background==
The book was written in late 1961 and into early 1962, during the first year of the Kennedy administration, reflecting some of the events of that era. In November 1961, President John F. Kennedy accepted the resignation of vociferously anti-Communist General Edwin Walker who was indoctrinating the troops under his command with personal political opinions and had described former President Harry S. Truman, former United States Secretary of State Dean Acheson, former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and other recent still-active public figures as Communist sympathizers.〔("Armed Forces: I Must Be Free..." (''Time Magazine'', November 10, 1961) )〕 Although no longer in uniform, Walker continued to be in the news as he attempted to run for Governor of Texas and made speeches promoting strongly right-wing views. In the film version of ''Seven Days in May'', Fredric March, portraying the narrative's fictional President Jordan Lyman, mentions General Walker as one of the "false prophets" who were offering themselves to the public as leaders. (Accused John F. Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald purportedly fired rifle shots into the home of General Walker in April 1963.)
As they collaborated on the novel, Knebel and Bailey, who were primarily political journalists and columnists, also conducted interviews with another controversial military commander, the newly appointed Air Force Chief of Staff, Curtis LeMay, an advocate of preventive first-strike nuclear option.〔(Stoddard, Brooke C. "Seven Days in May: Remembrance of Books Past" (''Washington Independent Review of Books'', November 27, 2012) )〕〔(Steed, Mark S. "Seven Days in May by Knebel and Bailey - Book Review" (''An Independent Head'', October 26, 2013) )〕
President Kennedy had read ''Seven Days in May'' shortly after its publication and believed the scenario as described could actually occur in the United States. According to Frankenheimer in his director's commentary, production of the film received encouragement and assistance from Kennedy through White House Press Secretary Pierre Salinger, who conveyed to Frankenheimer Kennedy's wish that the film be produced and that, although the Pentagon did not want the film made, the President would conveniently arrange to visit Hyannis Port for a weekend when the film needed to shoot outside the White House.〔(Kakutani, Michiko. ''Kennedy, and What Might Have Been: 'JFK's Last Hundred Days' by Thurston Clarke'', page 95 (''The New York Times'', August 12, 2013) )〕
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