As part of my OWE I will be flying LHR - SFO on BA connecting to an SFO - JFK AA flight. I want to avoid catching the red eye AA flight but that leaves me slightly less than two hours connection time. I've heard that passengers arriving on international flights and connecting onto domestic flights have to claim their baggage and recheck it.
Is that the case and if it is...is less than two hours enough connection time??

I guess if I miss the connection I can always take the redeye...but somehow that doesn't seem very appealing to me...