On November 22, 2013, the 50th anniversary of JFK assassination, we will drive in a chauffeured limousine around the streets of Vienna to commemorate the death of John F. Kennedy.

We follow the timeline of Kennedy’s assassination in Dallas (which took place at 12.30) seven hours ahead, Vienna time. We will take the same route Kennedy took when he visited Vienna in June, 1961. The visit became known as the Vienna Summit. It was essentially a Cold War meeting between Nikita Khrushchev, the leader of the then Soviet Union, and JFK in his self-appointed role as the leader of the free world. Kennedy later said of Khrushchev “He beat the hell out of me” and that the Vienna visit was the “worst thing in my life. He savaged me.”

Little did he know. Kennedy, obviously, didn’t anticipate November 22, 1963.

‚Driving Mr Kennedy’ is essentially a coda to our project ‘The Big Event’. While driving around the city, we will discuss the project, talk about the relevance of JFK’s assassination to today’s world, and how the life and death of Kennedy remains all but impossible to pin down. During our drive we will pick up experts and guests at different meeting points around the city. They will join us for a joy ride to talk about the Kennedy era (memories, opinions, observations…) and its reverberations.

The drive is documented on video and presented as a four part web series in a format called ‘Home Theatre’. With this format we add on the discussion we started on stage before live audience, now set on an (auto-)mobile stage. (YW/PS)

Between January 10 and 31, 2014, we release one episode of our docu web series!

Check out parts 1 – 4 also on the vimeo channel: http://vimeo.com/channels/656264

Concept and Interviews: Yosi Wanunu and Peter Stamer; Camera: TimTom; Editing: Michael Strohmann

Jackie: Magda Loitzenbauer

Guests: Oliver Rathkolb, Stefan Zahlmann, Jonas Ferdinand Kilga, Stini Subal, Harold Otto