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...tells the story of New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison, played by Kevin Costner, and his suspicions that President John F. Kennedy '40 was assassinated, not just by Lee Harvey Oswald but by a conspiracy involving leaders of the U.S. military-industrial complex...
Some years ago, during a telephone interview, I finally succeeded in badgering Jim Garrison into naming the Name. For years Garrison had been telling people he had the whole case cold: he knew who gave the orders, who fired the shots and from where. Still, though he had talked a lot about the Big Guys behind the plot -- intelligence agencies, the military-industrial complex and the like -- he had never publicly named the name of the man he believed fired the fatal head shot from the grassy knoll...
...Nobody is claiming that the movie is the truth," says Sklar, the editor of Garrison's book, On the Trail of the Assassins. "But Oliver wanted to find out as much as he could about the assassination and get close to the full truth, which he, like many people, thinks has never been told...
...character. "We all became assassination buffs. Marina ((Oswald's Russian-born widow)) had a tape that she let me see. It had a section leading up to the line, 'I'm just a patsy.' Oliver saw it, and he said, 'Let's restage that scene.' " Spacek spent time with Garrison's ex-wife Liz. "The sense I got from her," the actress says, "is of a woman living the life she wanted to live until her husband's obsession came through. She was proud of Jim, but his obsession went...
...crucial historical footage was the Zapruder film, for a copy of which Stone paid $40,000. "It's the most important visual record we have of the assassination," says Sklar. "To make a movie without it is to miss a lot." Over and over, at the climax of JFK, Garrison plays the fatal shot -- tragedy as therapy -- to help solve the mystery and restore the fearful impact of the day that yanked a nation out of its cocoon of innocence. For all its cynicism, or even paranoia, about official venality, the film is a call for a kind of informed...