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Conspiracy theorists beware! Priscilla Johnson McMillan has come forward with the first plausible explanation for Lee Harvey Oswald's assassination of John...
Kennedy. Plots will doubtless continue to be spun out of the coincidences, contradictions and inconsistencies that surround the crime. But McMillan amply demonstrates that Oswald had no need of any of the world's intelligence services to steady his hand, eye and malevolent will as the Kennedy motorcade rolled into his line of fire in Dallas. He had long before been possessed of the essential preconditions for his crime: abundantly sufficient interior motives and a proven predisposition for homicidal violence...
...feel I owe the American people an explanation of what happened," said the frail, blue-eyed woman. After a decade of obscurity in Texas, Marina Oswald Porter, 36, was in New York City to face a press conference and stir up publicity for Marina and Lee, an account of her life with Kennedy Assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, written by Priscilla Johnson McMillan. "My regret through the years has been immense," said Marina, who now lives on a 17-acre farm outside Dallas with her three children (two by Oswald) and Kenneth Porter, a sewing-machine salesman. Marina, who will share...
...movie is basically a speculation about what might have happened if Oswald had lived to stand trial. The first half dwells prosaically on the accused assassin's marital problems, his sojourn in Russia and his activities just prior to Nov. 22, 1963. Though Star John Pleshette creates an intriguingly neurotic Oswald, the man remains a cryptic figure. The trial itself, which dominates Part Two, is-well -trying, with fictional lawyers (played bombastically by Lome Greene and Ben Gazzara) wrangling endlessly over their case's voluminous ballistics evidence, Perry Mason-style...
Writer Robert E. Thompson has studded his script with references to most of the conventional Kennedy assassination theories. While he eventually arrives at a verdict on Oswald's guilt (which ABC is keeping secret until air time), so confusing and arbitrary are his data that the verdict might as well be drawn out of a hat. All this Trial really proves is just how effectively television can trivialize even one of the most surefire historical dramas of our time.-Frank Rich