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  JFK assassination film hoax - A simple introduction
But the U.S. Government insisted that JFK was shot by just one man hiding in a building far behind the limousine.
Zapruder’s film might also be a part of the lies and cover-up that agencies of the U.S. Government had weaved around the JFK assassination!
The fake film was made by cutting and pasting real photos and film frames together to make new frames.
www.assassinationscience.com /johncostella/jfk/intro   (643 words)

  
  JFK (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
JFK is an American film, first released on December 20, 1991, which purports to tell the history surrounding the President of the United States John F. Kennedy's assassination.
Among the many advisors for the film were Gerald Hemming, a former Marine who has claimed involvement in various CIA activities, Robert Groden, a photographic expert and longtime JFK assassination researcher and author, and actual assassination witness Jean Hill.
The film suggests that President Kennedy was killed by a group opposed to Kennedy's policies, especially his reluctance to invade Cuba (the CIA had planned to overthrow Cuba's communist president Fidel Castro since 1959) and his plan to withdraw American armed forces from Vietnam.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/JFK_(movie)   (1530 words)

  
 JFK (1991)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
But that may actually be part of the film's point: that we live in a society that typically subverts the truth, a world in which facts are hard to come by and in which speculation runs wild.
JFK is presented on different film stocks with various grains and color qualities, and these scenes--some of them lasting only seconds--are combined like pieces of an jigsaw puzzle to create a slowly emerging picture of American politics at its worst.
The film is available on VHS and in several DVD packages, including a "director's cut" special edition that includes a number of extras, including an often interesting director's commentary, an interview with famous conspiracy theorist Prouty, and a documentary on certain intriguing records recently declassified by Congress as a direct result of this film's impact.
www.imdb.com /title/tt0102138   (875 words)

  
 Filmtracks: JFK (John Williams)
JFK: (John Williams) Ultimately, this is a classic example of a score that works extremely well in the film, but poorly on CD.
JFK: (John Williams) When JFK first came out in theatres, I saw it and I carried away from that viewing the snare drum roll-off, followed by Tim Morrison's wonderful trumpet solo as the card "Music by John Williams" came onto the screen.
JFK really is not a rare item, since a large number of copies were pressed in the initial release, but it is now hard to find.
www.filmtracks.com /titles/jfk.html   (1298 words)

  
 JFK - Movie Tome
JFK is everything the cinema was meant to be - entertaining, educational, visually stunning, wonderfully acted, craftily directed, brilliantly written and edited, and most important of all, moving.
In JFK, Stone solidified a brand new style of filmmaking - one of mixing differing film stocks, color and fl and white film, and camera angles to paint a confusing portrait of one of the most confusing events of the recent 20th century - the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963.
The assassination of JFK was one of the most mysterious and tragic events in our country's history, and the explanation given to us by the Warren Commission of a single lone assassin is one of the most ridiculous theories ever presented.
www.movietome.com /movietome/servlet/MovieMain/movieid-2347/JFK   (392 words)

  
 America Stoned: JFK
Whether JFK was killed by a lone assassin or by a conspiracy has about as much to do with the subsequent contours of US politics as if he had tripped over one of Caroline’s dolls and broken his neck in the White House nursery.
The film re-plays the most memorable images of the news coverage: Walter Cronkite rubbing tears from his eyes after announcing the President's death; the funeral; the murder of Oswald; and later, the final speech of Martin Luther King and the assassination of Robert Kennedy.
JFK assumes its audience to be Americans who lived through the experience or are familiar with it second hand through television images.
www.talkingpix.co.uk /Article_JFK.html   (1750 words)

  
 Using Film to Explore Historical Interpretations - The Education Forum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Always, JFK is seen as one who would have been at home with the radicals of the late 1960s who marched against the war in Vietnam and demanded an end to the Cold War, and who argued for more action on social justice issues of civil rights and poverty.
JFK’s close friend and political adviser claims “Kennedy had told me in the spring of 1963 that he could not pull out of Vietnam until he was reelected, "So we had better make damned sure I am reelected."...
Film, documentary or otherwise, is too often treated uncritically as a stimulus source of content knowledge; often to lighten the load before teachers return to serious ‘academic’ study.
www.educationforum.ipbhost.com /index.php?showtopic=1115   (8838 words)

  
 The Education Forum > JFK Assassination Film Hoax
Therefore I suggest that what, to John Costella is an anomaly in the film, is a movement by Connally to turn from his right to the forward position while, and at the same time switching his hat from his left hand to his right hand.
He believes the entire Zapruder film is a special effects project, with pasted figures of JFK, Jackie and the Connallys placed over a limousine filmed empty, etc. It hinges on some less than convincing problems with the exact angle of the Stemmons Freeway sign and the lamp post.
I was not convinced that the film was one big special effect.  I do believe the wounds may have been retouched, and that frames were removed to downplay the 1963 Secret Service braking to a near stop in the middle of the ambush.
educationforum.ipbhost.com /lofiversion/index.php/t2356.html   (6277 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: JFK [1992]: DVD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
JFK doesn't reveal exactly what happened in Dallas on 22 November 1963--those who knew generally took their secrets to the grave--but marshals a vast wealth of facts and plausible theories, trusting the audience to draw its own conclusions.
JFK is undoubtedly one of the great films of the 1990s, - from a cinematic point of view.
Watch this film by all means, but before you make the pilgrimage to Dallas and burn the books of Warren Commission, try doing a little reading first, and see the JFK assassination through some other means than the distorted view of Oliver Stone.
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004CZ6Q   (1284 words)

  
 Laramie Movie Scope: JFK
January 14, 1992 -- ``JFK,'' another film directed by that man mired in the 60's, Oliver Stone, is an excellent film indeed, but one that should not be taken too seriously.
Perhaps Garrison is a surrogate for Stone in the film, because Stone himself seems obsessed by the Kennedy murder.
He says in the film that the bullet pauses in mid-air, changes direction, shatters bone without any visible damage to the bullet itself.
www.lariat.org /AtTheMovies/old/jfk.html   (608 words)

  
 The Zapruder Film of the Kennedy Assassination
Although the film is silent, jiggles made by Zapruder attest to distractions; some have sought to interpret these as gunfire indications.
This was the film the family would allow duplication for commercial use and may be the most-seen version ever.
The Zapruder film remains the primary historical documentation of the assassination.
mcadams.posc.mu.edu /organ2.htm   (2671 words)

  
 JFK - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
JFK is a three-letter abbreviation with multiple meanings, as described below:
JFK (film), a 1991 film directed by Oliver Stone revolving around the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
JFK (Clone High), a character on the animated television show Clone High.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/JFK   (178 words)

  
 CNN - Newfound film shows JFK before assassination - Nov. 21, 1996
The film of events during Kennedy's trip to Dallas on November 21 and 22, 1963, was made by his aide, Dave Powers.
The film was released by the Assassination Records Review Board, which is mandated by federal law to identify, secure and make available all records related to Kennedy's assassination.
Powers said he lost the film, but interest in it was renewed recently when the review board saw an article Powers had written in an old Life magazine.
www.cnn.com /US/9611/21/kennedy.lost.film   (388 words)

  
 Compare Prices and Read Reviews on JFK at Epinions.com
This is an important film to see because it brings to light a major event in our history that will never have closure until properly investigated.
The film is based upon Jim Garrison's ON THE TRAIL OF THE ASSASSINS and Jim Marrs's CROSSFIRE: THE PLOT THAT KILLED KENNEDY.
The film fully transcends from murder mystery to the most massive conspiracy theory in history when Garrison goes to Washington to meet Mr.
www.epinions.com /content_157104967300   (1112 words)

  
 channel4.com/film - JFK   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Watching any Oliver Stone film is like being trapped in a darkened room with the director and shouted at for a couple of hours.
Rarely is the experience so satisfying as here, when Stone, a man very clearly formed by, scarred by and trapped in the 1960s, presents his own twisted version of the truth surrounding the key event in modern US history.
The film has such an intense and crazed conviction that it gets away with some wholly unconvincing elements, not least of which is Costner's mannered performance as DA Jim Garrison, the only man to bring any legal action against anyone in relation to the Kennedy assassination.
www.channel4.com /film/reviews/film.jsp?id=104717   (231 words)

  
 JFK Lancer Research Forum - Viewing topic #55759 - New JFK film surfaces in Dallas
On KDFW (Channel 4 Dallas) news tonight, they showed a new JFK film that was shot about 90 seconds before the assassination.
The Sixth Floor museum has possesion of the film, and Gary Mack said that other than museum personel, this was the first time the film was shown publically.
Jefferies was a fan of the president's, he said, and wanted to capture the parade on film.
www.jfklancerforum.com /dc/dcboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=3&topic_id=55759&mesg_id=55759&listing_type=search   (1028 words)

  
 Oliver Stone: A Bibliography of Materials in the UC Berkeley Libraries
Taking these films as its points of departure, this paper examines the role of images in the construction of history, the form of the docudrama, the reenactment of historical images, fantasies of history, and ways in which paranoia is part of the practice of citizenship." COPYRIGHT 1997 Wesleyan University.
The merit of this film certainly does not lie in its rather affected directing style, which is also evident in Stone's other films JFK and Natural Born Killers; it is to be found in the incredible performance of Anthony Hopkins, playing a nerve-ridden, perspiring Nixon.
A modern-day film noir set in the American Southwest, the movie is a thriller that relates the story of loner-on-the-run Bobby Cooper (Sean Penn), a quintessential drifter who becomes stranded in a defunct mining town when his car breaks down, only to become a pawn in a double-crossing scheme involving the locals.
www.lib.berkeley.edu /MRC/stone.html   (14321 words)

  
 CNN - Long-lost JFK film fills gaps - May 28, 1996
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Long-lost footage of President Kennedy, filmed less than an hour before his assassination, was released Tuesday by the National Archives, more than 30 years after a Dallas photographer fished it out of the trash at the Dallas television station where he worked.
The salvaged footage, 45 minutes of silent, fl-and-white 16-mm film, does not include the infamous pictures of the motorcade as it came under rifle fire in downtown Dallas on November 22, 1963.
The film also provides the only known pictures of Vice President Lyndon Johnson as he left Parkland Memorial Hospital after Kennedy was officially pronounced dead.
www.cnn.com /US/9605/28/kennedy.film   (431 words)

  
 JFK Lancer: Zapruder Film Resources
The Zapruder Film was taken by Abraham Zapruder.
He traces the film's forty-year history from its creation on the 'grassy knoll' by Dallas dressmaker Zapruder through its initial sale to Life magazine, analysis by the Warren Commission and countless assassination researchers, licensing by the Zapruder family, legal battles over bootleg copies, and sale to the federal government for sixteen million dollars.
The film, he notes, provides a scientifically precise timeline of events, as well as crucial clues regarding the timing, number, origins, and impact of the shots fired that day.
www.jfklancer.com /Zapruder.html   (732 words)

  
 CNN - Newfound film shows JFK before assassination - Nov. 21, 1996
The film of events during Kennedy's trip to Dallas on November 21 and 22, 1963, was made by his aide, Dave Powers.
The film was released by the Assassination Records Review Board, which is mandated by federal law to identify, secure and make available all records related to Kennedy's assassination.
Powers said he lost the film, but interest in it was renewed recently when the review board saw an article Powers had written in an old Life magazine.
cnn.com /US/9611/21/kennedy.lost.film   (388 words)

  
 Amazon.com: JFK: The Book of the Film (Applause Screenplay Series): Books: Oliver Stone,Zachary Sklar   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
JFK: The Cia, Vietnam, and the Plot to Assassinate John F. Kennedy by L.
More than any of his other films, JFK proves that Oliver Stone is neither the cinematic genius that his most ardent supporters would have you believe nor the egotistical hack his harshest critics claim.
What Stone did in the film JFK (and develops in this book) was to take nearly thirty years of theories about the assassination and try to turn them into a coherent narrative and an engrossing film.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1557831270?v=glance   (2411 words)

  
 Salon Newsreal | New JFK death film
hen "JFK" was released in 1991, Oliver Stone talked excitedly about the great speed of the film -- the enormous number of cuts, yanking the viewer back and forth between Technicolor and grainy fl-and-white, between clips of actual news footage and purely imaginary scenes (with only the most fragile roots in reality).
For if you assume that film reaches down into primitive and concealed layers of the psyche, you can't find a better subject than the most archetypal of rituals, the killing of the king.
And the transfer incorporates a strip of film (now filling the left quarter of the screen) never visible during previous showings of the footage.
www.salon.com /news/1998/08/04news.html   (664 words)

  
 The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza Home Page
This newly-discovered home movie of the fateful Kennedy motorcade was recently donated to The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza.
The photographer, George Jefferies, filmed President and Mrs.
The film’s donor, Wayne Graham, is George Jefferies’ son-in-law.
www.jfk.org   (97 words)

  
 Amazon.com: JFK (Director's Cut Two-Disc Special Edition): DVD: Kevin Costner,Tommy Lee Jones,Kevin Bacon,Michael ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The film wasn't made to merely exploit the death of Kennedy, but what it does exploit is the fact that we're willing to believe anything they tell us in the media.
Of paramount importance is understanding that JFK had thousands of ardent enemies, some with formidable power and the means to carry out the murder.
It is unlikely that Lyndon Johnson and/or J. Edgar Hoover were instruments for decision on the murder of JFK, but the fact that security for the president on that day in Dallas had been significantly reduced, and in some areas eliminated, points to the notion of high-level government involvement.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000CDL93?v=glance   (5433 words)

  
 Oliver Stone's JFK: The JFK 100: JFK assassination investigation: Jim Garrison New Orleans investigation of the John F. ...
JFK, Oliver Stone's controversial movie on the murder of President John F. Kennedy, championed the assassination probe of New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison, and accused elements of the federal government of conspiracy in JFK's death.
But whether one believes that a conspiracy took the President's life or not, how trustworthy and accurate is the information presented in Stone's film?
The JFK 100 details one hundred of the most egregious errors in Stone's film, presented roughly in order of appearance.
www.jfk-online.com /jfk100menu.html   (183 words)

  
 The JFK Page
New research has shown that the report that dismissed the audio recording of the gunshots was itself deeply flawed, and ignored evidence that confirmed both the locatrion and time of the recording as being in Dealey Plaza at the time of the JFK assassination.
As this recording of that broadcast shows, Rather lied to all of America in claiming that the head shot pushed John F. Kennedy's head forward.
When the Zapruder film was finally shown publicly, during Jim Garrison's trial of CIA agent Clay Shaw, Rather's lie was revealed for all to see.
www.whatreallyhappened.com /RANCHO/POLITICS/JFK/jfk.html   (665 words)

  
 JFK -- The Assassination Movie
Film is perfectly consistent with three shots in eight to nine seconds
JFK was damned or praised depending on whether one agreed with Stone's reading of history.
The film is hardly unprecedented, but rather is one of a line of artistically and commercially potent paranoid films.
mcadams.posc.mu.edu /jfkmovie.htm   (3209 words)

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