Word: oswald
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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...
Whatever questions surround the assassination of John F. Kennedy, there has never been any doubt about who killed Lee Harvey Oswald. On Nov. 24, 1963, two days after he was arrested for Kennedy's killing, Oswald was shot to death in the basement of Dallas' municipal building by strip-joint operator Jack Ruby as a stunned nation watched on live television. Last week the gun used in the killing went on the auction block in New York City. The .38-cal. Colt Cobra revolver, which Ruby had bought for $62.50 at a Dallas gun shop, sold...
...seller was Earl Ruby, who insists that his brother Jack was not part of any conspiracy and did not even intend to kill Oswald. "He just wanted to hurt him and make him suffer," said Earl, who got possession of the gun in August after winning a court battle for control of Jack's estate. Earl will use the money to cover debts, including an $86,000 tax bill, that his brother left after he died in jail in 1967 while awaiting a retrial. Like so much else in the story of the Kennedy assassination, the identity of the purchaser...
...actors became detectives too. "It's like being a journalist," Oldman said of his research into Oswald's 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...
...from which shots were fired on Nov. 22. The sixth floor had become a museum, so the moviemakers used the seventh floor there and, for appropriate perspective of the motorcade, the sixth floor of an adjacent building. Stone also filmed at the Dallas police headquarters, where Jack Ruby killed Oswald. "The police were very cooperative," says production designer Victor Kempster. "They let us strip out computers in the offices and put in 1960s furniture. That included changing doorways to fit the film footage...