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...RUBY AND OSWALD...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Truths and Consequences | 2/13/1978 | See Source »

...with its twelve-hour Watergate roman à clef, Washington: Behind Closed Doors, last fall, half the critics and columnists in the country attacked the mini-series for playing fast and loose with recent political fact. Then the same network aired a so-called docudrama, The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald, to even harsher criticism. Now NBC and CBS are getting ready to take their lumps. King, a six-hour miniseries consecrated to the life and times of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., has already been assailed by King's second in command, the Rev. Ralph Abernathy, for overstating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Truths and Consequences | 2/13/1978 | See Source »

...every line of dialogue taken exactly from the public record can still be a subjective work: each time a director casts an actor as a historical figure or chooses a camera angle, he is shaping the facts to serve a personal point of view. The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald, for example, was scrupulously researched but managed to transform history into nonsense. Washington: Behind Closed Doors, for all its fictionalizations, presented a symbolically credible portrait of moral chaos in Nixon's White House. Both King and Ruby and Oswald claim to be based on fact -and contain obvious inaccuracies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Truths and Consequences | 2/13/1978 | See Source »

...Mafia. The files make clear that the Warren Commission failed abysmally to pursue FBI leads linking Oswald's own assassin, Jack Ruby, to the Mob. Ruby had ties to mobsters in Chicago, New York, Los Angeles and Dallas, and even, as a boy, to the infamous Al Capone. Nor did the commission seem impressed that Ruby, twelve days before he shot Oswald, asked a notorious Teamster racketeer from Chicago, Barney Baker, to "straighten out" a troublesome union dispute at Ruby's Dallas night club. (The commision might have been more interested, of course, had the FBI disclosed that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The FBI Story on J.F.K.'s Death | 12/19/1977 | See Source »

...Cuban Connection. When CIA attempts to kill Castro became known in 1975, the news touched off speculation that Cubans had engineered Kennedy's murder in retaliation. The files reveal that this possibility had occurred to Hoover and caused him to anguish in private over his public declarations that Oswald had acted alone. But the Director seemed reassured when two letters linking Oswald to a Cuban agent turned out to have been hoaxes. Both letters - one addressed to Oswald but mailed after the assassination, the other sent to the Attorney General - indicated that a Pedro or Peter Charles of Havana...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The FBI Story on J.F.K.'s Death | 12/19/1977 | See Source »

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