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[janice shell]

Once again:

The film was released in the United States on October 24, 1962, at the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis. It was well-received and was nominated for two Academy Awards.

...According to rumor, Sinatra removed the film from distribution after the John F. Kennedy assassination on November 22, 1963. Michael Schlesinger, who was responsible for the film's 1988 reissue by MGM/UA, denies the rumor. According to him, the film's disappearance, or what was claimed to be its disappearance, was not due to the assassination but a result of the movie's initial distribution running its course by November 1963. In those days it could take a film months to play across the country[7]. After all the initial screenings were over, it could resurface more than a year later in drive-ins and other cinemas that booked films that many would-be customers had seen already. Movie listings in The New York Times from January 1964 indicate The Manchurian Candidate was revived at a Brooklyn cinema at the time, which was two months after the assassination.

The film became the premiere offering of The CBS Thursday Night Movie on the evening of September 16, 1965, and was rerun in April 1974 on NBC Saturday Night at the Movies.[8] Sinatra's representatives reacquired the rights in 1972 after the initial ten-year contract with United Artists expired. After two successful showings at the New York Film Festival in 1987 renewed public interest in the film, the studio reacquired the rights and it became again available for theater and video releases.[7][9]

As you know, I don't do conspiracy theories:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Manchurian_Candidate_(1962_film)