JFK Encouraged the Making of a Movie About a Military Coup

'Seven Days in May' reflected his fears about power-mad generals.

The movie, "Seven Days in May," was a prescient best-selling political thriller in 1962 about power-mad generals who defied civilian control

President Kennedy, who worried about the power of the right-wing, encouraged producer John Frankenheimer to the make a movie of the book. JFK was struck down in Dallas before the movie was released in 1964.