An unprecedented account of how the JFK assassination reverberated through American society, triggering a culture of conspiracy that resonates to this very day.An unprecedented account of how the JFK assassination reverberated through American society, triggering a culture of conspiracy that resonates to this very day.An unprecedented account of how the JFK assassination reverberated through American society, triggering a culture of conspiracy that resonates to this very day.
- Nominated for 1 Primetime Emmy
- 2 nominations total
Photos
David Bellin
- Self
- (archive footage)
Hale Boggs
- Self - Warren Commission
- (archive footage)
Judith Campbell Exner
- Self - Alleged JFK Mistress
- (archive footage)
Fidel Castro
- Self - Cuban President
- (archive footage)
Ramsey Clark
- Self - Attorney General
- (archive footage)
John Sherman Cooper
- Self - Warren Commission
- (archive footage)
Walter Cronkite
- Self
- (archive footage)
J.E. Curry
- Self - Dallas Police Chief
- (archive footage)
Ngo Dinh Diem
- Self
- (archive footage)
Allen Dulles
- Self - Warren Commission
- (archive footage)
Edward Jay Epstein
- Self
- (as Edward J. Epstein)
Edmond Fatter
- Self
- (archive footage)
David Ferrie
- Self
- (archive footage)
Gerald Ford
- Self - Warren Commission
- (archive footage)
Jim Garrison
- Self
- (archive footage)
Sam Giacono
- Self
- (archive footage)
- Director
- Writer
- All cast & crew
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Did you know
- ConnectionsReferences War Is Hell (1961)
- SoundtracksLacrimosa
Composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (as Mozart)
Conducted by Riccardo Muti
Performed by Patrizia Pace, Waltraud Meier, Frank Lopardo, James Morris, Swedish Radio Chorus, Stockholm Chamber Choir, Berliner Philharmoniker
Courtesy of EMI Records Ltd.
Under license from EMI Film & Television Music
Featured review
IF you are curious about what a group of left-wing Jews think of the JFK controversy, don't miss this.
That is about the extent of this film's contribution. If you think Todd Gitlin, or Tom Hayden know beans about any of this, their participation will disabuse you of that notion. And if you have forgotten how Mark Lane got rich off his speculations on the assassination, here is a reminder.
If you think polling a subset of less than 2% of the US population is key to understanding an issue in which Stone tells us more than 70% of the US population is united in having no faith in the Warren Report, you will love the wacky logic of OSWALD'S GHOST.
A LOT of opinion and very few facts. I find the musings of an Mailer on his last legs interesting because I find Mailer's thought processes interesting, but he adds nothing to the issues here either. One might as well hear yet another actor tells you what he/she "thinks" about politics. They do better when someone writes their lines.
The objective of this documentary is to show how "dark revanchist forces" (AKA Republicans, generals, intelligence folks, corporate types etc), as opposed to the good old-time lefty Marxist doctrine, resorted to assassination in the cases of JFK, Martin Luther King, Robert Kennedy, and the like to hold back "the future." If you have somehow missed out of on the many "documentary" efforts of film makers like Stone to get this point across, here is another chance.
Case in point, it is useful to have Edward Jay Epstein's send up of Garrison's numerological idiocies, but whatever viewers think about "who dun it," and we have a lot of evidence here on IMDb that there are a lot of opinions about that, Stone intentionally ignores the hardest evidence of what really counts right under his nose.
The key point is that there is no evidence as yet that ANY single assassin can have pulled off the JFK assassination... Oswald or anyone else. Trying to aim and fire all those shots and make two hits with a piece of crap like a Carcano bolt action with that scope... just hasn't worked.
Any fair minded analyst must concede THAT makes a lot of difference to evaluating a film like OSWALD'S GHOST which is more agitprop than Doc.
EVERY attempt to duplicate the marksmanship required of the "one assassin in six seconds" theory over the past 40 years has failed. One of the most detailed attempts to duplicate it was put together by CBS News a few years after the assassination. Stone carries a few feet of film showing the test underway. But Stone never tells us that CBS couldn't duplicate it either.
It does matter. Stone is just another tourist, putting together his idea of pretty faces that the PBS PC will find acceptable and same-old same-old commentary with no context and no understanding of what he is dealing with. Hey, they paid him and ran it.
Too bad that was enough for him
If you think polling a subset of less than 2% of the US population is key to understanding an issue in which Stone tells us more than 70% of the US population is united in having no faith in the Warren Report, you will love the wacky logic of OSWALD'S GHOST.
A LOT of opinion and very few facts. I find the musings of an Mailer on his last legs interesting because I find Mailer's thought processes interesting, but he adds nothing to the issues here either. One might as well hear yet another actor tells you what he/she "thinks" about politics. They do better when someone writes their lines.
The objective of this documentary is to show how "dark revanchist forces" (AKA Republicans, generals, intelligence folks, corporate types etc), as opposed to the good old-time lefty Marxist doctrine, resorted to assassination in the cases of JFK, Martin Luther King, Robert Kennedy, and the like to hold back "the future." If you have somehow missed out of on the many "documentary" efforts of film makers like Stone to get this point across, here is another chance.
Case in point, it is useful to have Edward Jay Epstein's send up of Garrison's numerological idiocies, but whatever viewers think about "who dun it," and we have a lot of evidence here on IMDb that there are a lot of opinions about that, Stone intentionally ignores the hardest evidence of what really counts right under his nose.
The key point is that there is no evidence as yet that ANY single assassin can have pulled off the JFK assassination... Oswald or anyone else. Trying to aim and fire all those shots and make two hits with a piece of crap like a Carcano bolt action with that scope... just hasn't worked.
Any fair minded analyst must concede THAT makes a lot of difference to evaluating a film like OSWALD'S GHOST which is more agitprop than Doc.
EVERY attempt to duplicate the marksmanship required of the "one assassin in six seconds" theory over the past 40 years has failed. One of the most detailed attempts to duplicate it was put together by CBS News a few years after the assassination. Stone carries a few feet of film showing the test underway. But Stone never tells us that CBS couldn't duplicate it either.
It does matter. Stone is just another tourist, putting together his idea of pretty faces that the PBS PC will find acceptable and same-old same-old commentary with no context and no understanding of what he is dealing with. Hey, they paid him and ran it.
Too bad that was enough for him
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- wulfstan
- Nov 17, 2008
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- Also known as
- Drei Schüsse auf JFK
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $1,796
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $1,796
- Dec 2, 2007
- Gross worldwide
- $1,796
- Runtime1 hour 23 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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