JFK policital film / show

JFK
(1991, United States)

Language: English

Locations: the story takes place in Dallas Texas United States
the story takes place in New Orleans Louisiana United States

In November 1963, the United States president John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. Former Marine Lee Harvey Oswald is caught soon after and charged with the political murder. While being prepared to be transported to another location, Oswald is shot dead by a nightclub owner, Jack Ruby. Three years later, the Louisiana district attorney, Jim Garrison, is astonished by how sloppy the official investigation was when the Warren Report is published. Even though the US president was the victim, the Warren Commission seemed to just slide on the surface of the case without trying to dig deeper and following some of the leads. Even though the assassination took place in Texas, there were New Orleans figures linked to the case, so Garrison decides to commence his own investigation, at least within his authority. From the beginning, he finds the evidence surrounding Lee Harvey Oswald to be questionable, and the single shooter theory promoted by the Warren Report impossible to defend.

A masterpiece from Oliver Stone. No matter if you share his views on the case or not, this film will make you question your own beliefs. Even though it is basically a chamber drama, as the plot unfolds, the atmosphere becomes darker and more tense. The overtones of the film are what many people felt for a long time, but no one was saying out loud - that the whole investigation after the JFK assassination was just a sham to cover the underlying political intrigues. Some evidence was misrepresented, some leads were ignored, just like someone was trying to make all the details fit the official single shooter version of events. This film is worth knowing, even if you do not share the theory it represents.