The Still Unsolved Mystery of the Assassination of JFK

Director Oliver Stone asks controversial questions & makes profound statements: JFK's assassination case is still unresolved. How come that's okay enough with us? This was the 35th President we voted into office & probably would have done so for a 2nd term. How come we have never truly demanded to know the truth?

The assassination of the youngest & probably most beloved US President in the 20th century is examined by the district attorney of New Orleans, Jim Garrison (Kevin Costner). His wife (sissy Spacek) is frustrated keeping their home fires burning while the DA becomes more invested in solving JFK's murder.

Oliver Stone directs this politically well researched film with 'teeth'. It's loaded with historical film of the Kennedy's before, during & immediately after November 22nd, 1963, at around 2:38PM EST; the moment most of us 50yo or older remember exactly where we were when we heard the words, "President Kennedy is dead," from a usually composed Walter Cronkite who could hardly swallow, let alone speak, after relaying that breaking news.

The film's theory is that some of the policies JFK held out to the American public as his key objectives had such potent social justice, financial & government change at heart that he was killed for them. Beliefs that President Kennedy felt would empower our nation considerably. Beliefs that were contradictory to right-wing, anti-government factions based in Dallas, Texas.

What finally persuaded the DA's wife that Garrison wasn't obsessed with President Kennedy was the murder of Martin Luther King, Jr., followed too soon by the murder of RFK (Bobby Kennedy, while campaigning for the US Presidency).

Costner as Garrison delivers the courtroom monologue that went on for a good 15 minutes, in his closing argument, detailing the big picture of the US government's deep involvement in the cover-up of the true events surrounding JFK's assassination.

The disclosure of the US government's well hidden evidence of its own involvement in the cover-up of JFK's murder has not been put together so well in a film for the mass public to consider. Some of the evidence has still not been made available to the US public. Surely, after coming away from this film & the director's cuts & analyses in the 2nd DVD in this set, I wonder why our government doesn't trust "we the people" to know what's still hidden. "What are they so afraid of us knowing?" is the question I am left with~

1991 Oliver Stone Directs with 'Teeth' & Keen Insights

The assassination case of the 35th President of the United States is still unresolved, or is it? If it is unresolved, how come that's okay enough with us? This was a President voted into office & probably would've been re-elected for a 2nd term, he was so popular & beloved. How come the public has never truly demanded to know the truth?

These are some of the implied questions director Oliver Stone raises in this rivetting film. The assassination of the youngest & most beloved US President is examined by the district attorney of New Orleans (Kevin Costner). His wife (sissy Spacek) is frustrated keeping the home fires burning while the DA becomes evermore invested in resolving the questions that linger about the murder of John F. Kennedy, on November 22nd, 1963.

Politically well researched, this film's loaded with historical film footage of the Kennedy's before, during & immediately after the day most of us 50yo or older will always remember exactly where we were the moment we heard the news from Dallas. Our President was dead.

The film's theory is that the policies JFK held out to the American public as his key objectives, had such social justice, financial change-packed & creation of a better government values at heart that he was likely killed for them. Beliefs that Presidential Kennedy felt would empower our nation considerably. JFK enjoyed a majority of the public's support. But, there were factions that didn't want US culture to change. Especially supremacists.

What finally persuaded the DA's wife that he wasn't obsessed with President Kennedy was the murder of Martin Luther King, Jr., followed too soon by the murder of RFK (the President's brother, Attorney General & candidate for US President, Bobby Kennedy).

Costner is articulate in the courtroom monologue that went on for a good 15 minutes, as he details, in his closing argument, the big picture of the US government being deeply involved with the cover-up of the true events surrounding JFK's assassination.

The disclosure of the US government's well hidden evidence of its own involvement in the cover-up of JFK's murder had not been put together so well in a film for the mass public to consider. Some of the evidence has still not been made available to the US public. A viewer comes away from this film wondering why our government doesn't trust "we the people" to know the still hidden truths. "What are they so afraid of us knowing?" is the question I am left with~

JFK (VHS, 1992)

A great film with a lot of informtion. So much information that it is great to go back and watch after I study the JFK assination.

JFK-(1992, VHS)

It's my mother in law's favorite movie to watch before bed and she watches it every night. Her other copy is worn out. She won't use a DVD because the menu comes on and repeats. She's having trouble getting to sleep without this movie so we had to have it!