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...that Jack Ruby, All-American Boy is anything like an indictment of Dallas. Or that John Logan's play deals with conspiracy theories or even with Lee Harvey Oswald. The assassin appears only as a menacing rifleman waiting behind a scrim, and then as a sweating prisoner led down the garage ramp to be shot himself. The focus of this elaborate and populous production is Jack Ruby, the bloody little Sunday morning angel of vengeance...
...weekly's 72-page premiere issue is crammed with names, some famous (Queen Elizabeth, Sam Ervin), some unsung (Air Force Major Thomas T. Hart, one of the 1,300 Americans still missing in Viet Nam), and some neglected (Marina Oswald is the major biographical subject). An interview section presents a conversation with The Exorcist Author William Peter Blatty. "Out of the Pages" features an eerily prophetic excerpt from Alexander Solzhenitsyn's novel The First Circle describing the arrest of a man in Moscow. Black-and-white or monochrome pictures illustrate nearly every story; some items run at around...
Some time in the first year of his second term--no one is sure exactly when--Garrison became convinced that Lee Harvey Oswald had not assassinated President Kennedy on his own. Garrison decided that Oswald was just the pawn of an elaborate conspiracy run by the Pentagon and the CIA, based largely in New Orleans...
...clear from the beginning that Shaw was innocent. Garrison's star witnesses were a heroin addict who claimed he saw Shaw and Oswald together once when he was shooting up at the lakefront; a businessman who remembered the details of conversations with Shaw after Garrison's staff hypnotized him; and an accountant who fingerprinted his children every morning to make sure the CIA hadn't stolen them during the night and substituted lookalikes to spy on him. The national and local press gave the trial heavy coverage. Garrison lost and came out looking like a fool...
...Instead, the movie is kept going by the baleful novelty of being about Kennedy. Whatever factual points the movie might have made are inextricably mixed up in trappings that would have seemed awkward even in a creaky TV series like Foreign Intrigue. The existence of a double for Oswald is not made even dramatically credible; yet the movie and the assassination theory it implies depend crucially on that...