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Lee Harvey Oswald was murdered two days after he was arrested for assassinating US President John F. Kennedy. But before Oswald died, he claimed that a damning piece of evidence against him — a photo showing Oswald holding the rifle that killed the president — was fake. In fact, he said his face …
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There’s a shot! Oswald has been shot! Oswald has been shot! A shot rang out . . . mass confusion here. . . . The dark stocky man with the hat on . . . put the gun right in his belly. One of the wildest scenes I have ever seen. . . . The man rushed up and jammed the gun right into Oswald’s stomach …
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When you think reliable narrator, Oliver Stone doesn’t exactly come to mind. Since his start as a director in the 1970s, the lightning-rod filmmaker, now 74, has leaned into fiction narratives with political points of view, from “Salvador,” “Wall Street,” and “W.” to Best Director Oscar-winners …
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Oliver Stone’s Cannes Film Festival title, JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass, comes decades after the the American president John Fitzgerald Kennedy was shot dead in Dallas, Texas, while he and wife Jacqueline were riding in an open motorcar. The president was a darling of the masses, and …
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Thirty years after his dramatic feature JFK, innumerable interviews and an untold number of related texts, you might have thought Oliver Stone had had his say on the Kennedy assassination. However, with his latest treatment of the subject in the riveting documentary JFK Revisited: Through the …
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Oliver Stone, the Vietnam War veteran who’s most recognized as the man who made “Platoon” and “Born on the Fourth of July,” is at the Cannes Film Festival celebrating the 30th anniversary of his conspiracy-loaded 1991 feature “JFK.” Stone’s got a new sequel of sorts, a documentary called “JFK …
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CANNES, France (AP) — Thirty years after “JFK,” Oliver Stone has returned to the assassination of John F. Kennedy, this time in a documentary. “JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass” is a kind of non-fiction addendum to one of Stone’s most sensational and controversial films. The documentary, …
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Artists have their obsessions. Paul Cézanne painted the same mountain again and again. Edgar Degas had his fetish for young female ballet dancers. And Oliver Stone can’t help making films about the assassination of President John F Kennedy on 22 November 1963 in Dallas, Texas. It’s 30 years now …
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By Thurston Clarke, Kennedy’s Avenger Assassination, Conspiracy, and the Forgotten Trial of Jack Ruby By Dan Abrams and David Fisher Hanover Square. 400 pp. $27.99 Jack Ruby poses with women who worked in one of his nightclubs in Dallas. Two days after President John F. Kennedy’s assassination, …
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Reader Richard Myers (June 15) takes exception with my June 9 commentary stating “commissions” is a dressed-up word for “committee” and both, when set up by the government, are usually, if not always, useless. While Myers disagrees that “everyone” knows that, he was unable to name a successful one. …
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