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=== Effects of the Kennedy assassination on the film === A first test screening of the film was scheduled for November 22, 1963, the day of the [[assassination of John F. Kennedy]]. The film was just weeks from its scheduled premiere, but because of the assassination, the release was delayed until late January 1964, as it was felt that the public was in no mood for such a film any sooner.<ref name="George C. Scott bio">{{Cite book |last=Sheward |first=David |title=Rage and Glory: The Volatile Life and Career of George C. Scott |date=2008 |publisher=[[Hal Leonard Publishing]] |isbn=9781557836700 |pages=105β06 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VIwi8nGRuhIC&pg=PA105 |access-date=October 19, 2015 |archive-date=August 1, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200801034132/https://books.google.com/books?id=VIwi8nGRuhIC&pg=PA105 |url-status=live }}</ref> During post-production, one line by Slim Pickens, "a fella could have a pretty good weekend in Dallas with all that stuff", was dubbed to change "Dallas" to "[[Vegas]]", since Dallas was where Kennedy was killed.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.dallasnews.com/arts/arts/2014/01/19/dr.-strangeloves-deleted-dallas-reference-and-other-texas-ties|title='Dr. Strangelove's' deleted Dallas reference and other Texas ties|work=Dallas News |date=January 19, 2014|access-date=November 17, 2018|archive-date=November 17, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181117233808/https://www.dallasnews.com/arts/arts/2014/01/19/dr.-strangeloves-deleted-dallas-reference-and-other-texas-ties|url-status=live}}</ref> The original reference to Dallas survives in the English audio of the French-subtitled version of the film. The assassination also serves as another possible reason that the pie-fight scene was cut. In the scene, after Muffley takes a pie in the face, General Turgidson exclaims: "Gentlemen! Our gallant young president has been struck down in his prime!" Editor Anthony Harvey stated that the scene "would have stayed, except that Columbia Pictures were horrified, and thought it would offend the president's family."<ref name=NoFighting>"No Fighting in the War Room Or: Dr. Strangelove and the Nuclear Threat", a documentary included with the 40th Anniversary Special Edition DVD of the film</ref> Kubrick and others have said that the scene had already been cut before preview night because it was inconsistent with the rest of the film.<ref name=Snider>Eric D. Snider, "[http://www.seattlepi.com/ae/movies/article/What-s-the-big-deal-Dr-Strangelove-1964-734814.php What's the big deal?: Dr. Strangelove (1964)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402130512/http://www.seattlepi.com/ae/movies/article/What-s-the-big-deal-Dr-Strangelove-1964-734814.php |date=April 2, 2015 }}"; ''Seattle Post-Intelligencer'', October 25, 2010.</ref>
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