Death of a President

Gabriel Range

IndieLisboa 2007 •

United Kingdom, Fiction, 2006, 90′

October 19, 2007. President George W. Bush is in Chicago to address local business leaders. Angry crowds greet him: a massive anti-war demonstration. The mood is volatile, ugly. Security forces struggle to contain outbreaks of violence; undercover officers take preemptive action against potential threats to the President’s safety. His speech made, the President insists on meeting and greeting his supporters in the lobby of downtown Chicago’s Sheraton Hotel. It is 7.11 pm. Sudden gunfire. The President is hit. Pandemonium ERUPTS. President George W. Bush is rushed to hospital where he dies, 5 hours later.