Kennedys director stunned by decision not to air series

PASADENA, CALIF.—The Canadian director of The Kennedys says he made changes to the miniseries whenever the History Channel asked him to and was stunned by its recent decision not to air the shot-in-Toronto project.

“We were very surprised,” Jon Cassar said Tuesday night at a Fox network press event for TV critics. “The actual product takes no political stance one way or the other.”

Cassar, who was raised near Ottawa, was an executive producer on the Fox series 24....