Tuesday 26 November 2013

The JFK Conspiracy - The Case of Jim Garrison




I wouldn't recommend watching The JFK Conspiracy - The Case of Jim Garrisson unless you're into the details and characters of Jim Garrison and Oliver Stone's film JFK. Many of the scenes are so close to the movie that it's a credit to the film-maker that he captured the characters and setting so accurately.

It is however made for TV so much of the framing is skewed towards lies. 

For example:

We now know that Clay Shaw was a CIA asset as testified by CIA director Richard Helms so there's no question why the CIA and Warren Commission had to conceal that the first time round. Lee Harvey Oswald was a CIA asset too, but also working for New Orleans FBI and U.S. Customs.

You Think You Know Someone & Then He Get's Up On Stage & Blows Your Mind




A modern take on the Banality of Evil, delivered unusually by a Hollywood Star. This talk is all about people doing as they are told and 'keeping their head below the parapet' or clinging to 'discretion is the better part of honour'.

It isn't. These are the coward's credo

Speak up or fade away. Choice is yours.

Beyond JFK : The Question of Conspiracy




This documentary has very good quality early 90's interviews with JFK researchers Oliver Stone, Jim Marrs and Jim Garrison.

There's also some guy from the New York Times who does the usual blah blah that journalists and editors do when confronted by their professional obligations to suck up to the establishment.