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Apr 19, 2017 · Oliver Stone’s JFK: A Masterful Blend of Fact and Fiction. Kevin Costner headlined an all-star cast in Oliver Stone's JFK. It was a film that led to an act of Congress being...
- Oliver Stone’s Controversial Film
- How Oliver Stone Dealt with The Main Issues
- Where Was Oswald During The Assassination?
- Shots from The Front and Behind
- The Lone Gunman’S Achievement
- JFK and The Magic Bullet Theory
- JFK and Oswald’s Intelligence Connections
- JFK and The Impersonation of Lee Harvey Oswald
- Establishing The Warren Commission
Oliver Stone’s movie, JFK, was released in north America in December 1991, and on the other side of the Atlantic over the next few months. The film is perhaps best known by the general public for three things: 1. Its inclusion of the Zapruder film, which depicts with great clarity a large part of the shooting sequence, and in particular the fatal h...
The next article, Are There Factual Errors in Oliver Stone’s JFK?, will examine a representative sample of these criticisms. The important question, which will be dealt with first, is: how does the film deal with the central issues in the assassination of President Kennedy? Few critics suggested that there were any serious problems with Stone’s tre...
JFK deals briefly but effectively with the fundamental question of Oswald’s location during the assassination. If Oswald had played any part in the shooting, he must have been on the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository, where the rifle and bullet shells were found. Because Oswald would have needed to put his rifle together and construct...
The evidence for shots from in front as well as behind President Kennedy falls into three parts: 1. the eye–witnesses who testified that shots originated from the grassy knoll; 2. the nature of President Kennedy’s throat wound; 3. and the location of his head wound.
One of the most difficult problems for the Warren Commission and its later supporters was to provide a plausible explanation of exactly how the hypothetical lone gunman could have committed the crime in the limited amount of time available, while firing from an awkward position and using a rifle that was in such a bad condition that it could not be...
JFK summarises the facts of the case that forced the single–bullet theoryto be devised: There is little that is controversial in the film’s explanation of the magic bullet theory: The time of 1.6 seconds refers to the incompatibility between: 1. the Warren Report’s admission that the hypothetical single bullet could have been fired no earlier than ...
JFK includes a scene in which one or other of the investigators describes several aspects of Lee Harvey Oswald’s careerthat suggest very strongly that he had been employed as an intelligence agent: 1. “I put together a list of all the CIA files on Oswald that were part of the Warren Report and asked for them. … Oswald in the USSR, in Mexico City, O...
Silvia Odio and León Oswald
The film describes and dramatises Silvia Odio’s encounter with ‘León Oswald’in Dallas at the end of September 1963, along with two other instances in which credible witnesses claimed that Oswald, or someone impersonating him, drew attention to himself before the assassination: taking a car for a test drive, and making a nuisance of himself at a firing range (pp.73f). The film dramatises the most important element of the Odio incident: the phone call to Silvia Odio in which Oswald is specifica...
The Oswald Impostor in Mexico City
The impersonation of Oswald in Mexico City, however, is treated inadequately, largely because the most important evidence was withheld from the public until after JFKwas released. The film shows the photograph of the man whom the CIA’s Mexico City office claimed to have been Oswald, but gives the photograph no significance other than Garrison’s statement that “they [the Warren Commission] got almost 150 pages and 130 exhibits of the report on this Mexico trip and the picture doesn’t even matc...
The film depicts the beginning of the cover–up in a telephone conversation between President Johnson (played in voice–over by John William Galt) and Captain Will Fritz (played by William Larsen) of the Dallas police: There is no strong evidence that Johnson ever contacted the Dallas police directly, but the episode in the film is surely not meant t...
Aug 8, 2022 · By Sylvia-Marah Boune / Aug. 8, 2022 2:28 pm EST. Oliver Stone's 1991 Oscar-winning film "JFK" was controversial because it challenged the Warren Commission Report, which concluded in 1964 that ...
Although Stone’s 1991 film was hailed as a cinematic tour de force, it ignited a firestorm of controversy for the way it mixed fact with conjecture, truth with fiction.
- Bill Rockwood
Dec 22, 2021 · “We have a whole fact-versus-fiction practice now because of it,” says Washington communications consultant Michael Feldman, who was a co-founder of the Glover Park Group (now Finsbury,...
Jan 4, 2016 · The film earned eight Oscar nominations, and lots of controversy, with some criticizing Stone for misleading moviegoers with false information. Here are some facts about the movie that can be...
Jul 12, 2021 · In Oliver Stone’s three-hours-plus thriller, JFK, this scene is the towering dramatic centrepiece: a blistering 15-minute monologue that blows apart the conspiracy that killed Kennedy – tensions...
