Silver figurines on Oval Office mantel in “Seven Days in May” (1964), which told of military coup d’etat and insurrection against United States, and more recently:
The great John Frankenheimer directed both “The Manchurian Candidate” (1962) and “Seven Days in May” (1964).
Robert Kennedy spent day of June 4, 1968, at Malibu home of his friend John Frankenheimer (born February 19, 1930), who then drove RFK to Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. RFK’s death helped to drive Frankenheimer into years of what he called “deep depression” and drinking.
JFK gave John Frankenheimer White House help when he made “Seven Days in May” because Kennedy was worried that the United States was vulnerable to military coup and insurrection.
Probably merciful for the brilliant, sensitive and progressive John Frankenheimer (who died 2002) that he did not experience the last five years.
“Seven Days in May” was based in part on General Edwin Walker, right-wing agitator who was punished under JFK for his political activism. Someone fired a shot at Walker at his Dallas home in April 1963. Warren Commission later found it was Lee Harvey Oswald.
In scene almost from Frankenheimer, Trump at White House bizarrely and without explanation on final night of 2020 Republican convention staged live performance of alarming Puccini aria “Nessun Dorma” (“Let No One Sleep”):
This is what TV viewers saw on final night of 2020 Republican while, without explanation, Puccini aria “Nessun Dorma” (“Let No One Sleep”) was performed. If this strange juxtaposition was not like a scene from a John Frankenheimer film, then it would be hard to know what is:

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“Clod Squad."
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