JFK (movie)

The movie was adapted by Oliver Stone and Zachary Sklar from the books On the Trail of the Assassins by Jim Garrison and Crossfire: The Plot That Killed Kennedy by Jim Marrs. It was directed by Stone.

One of the characters in the movie was based on L. Fletcher Prouty, a former Colonel in the Air Force who wrote The Secret Team: The CIA and Its Allies in Control of the United States and the World , also used as a source for the movie.

It won Academy Awards for Best Cinematography and Best Film Editing, and was nominated for Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Tommy Lee Jones), Best Director, Best Music, Original Score, Best Picture, Best Sound and Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium.

The real Jim Garrison, who was District Attorney for New Orleans, Louisiana, plays Earl Warren in the film.

Historical inaccuracies

Historians dismiss the claims in the film as fiction, with fundamental inaccuracies and complete fiction added in to fact. Among the major errors in the film are:

• claims about the location of Governor Connolly in relation to President John F. Kennedy in the car;
• myths about the trajectory of the so-called magic bullet theory (based on wrongly locating Governor Connolly in relation to Kennedy at the time of the assassination);
• misleading claims as to the impact the shot to the head had on Kennedy, to suggest that Kennedy had been shot from the front, when the movements and nature of the wound suggest it could only have come from behind;
• a suggestion that Garrison's theories were demonstrated in court, when in reality Garrison's case collapsed well before that point.

The scale of the inaccuracies, and what some critics have called the deceptions, in the movie have made JFK Stone's most controversial work. However the storyline and interpretations placed on facts fueled further conspiracies about what really happened on 22 November 1963.

See also

• John F. Kennedy assassination

External links

• JFK (motion picture): A Selective Bibliography of Materials in the UC Berkeley Library
• THE HISTORY CHANNEL - 100 errors of fact and judgment in Oliver Stone's JFK
• Jim Garrison: A Road To The Truth

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