JFK
Assassination Conspiracy Theories with Upcoming Documentary
Director
Oliver Stone Reopens JFK Assassination Conspiracy Theories with Upcoming
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"If you want to know what's in the JFK files, ask Bill Kelly." - Oliver Stone at 2019 CAPA Conference
It is
perhaps the greatest murder mystery in the history of our country: On November
22, 1963, while riding in a motorcade through Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas,
President John F. Kennedy was gunned down by a lone assassin from atop the
Texas School Book Depository. At least that’s the way the government
spear-headed Warren Report and American history books have sold it to the world
over the last fifty six years.
Legendary
director Oliver Stone (Platoon, Born on the Fourth of July, Nixon)
laid out a far more sinister and insidious theory as to what exactly happened
to the president on that long ago autumn day in his Oscar winning 1991
film, JFK. Through the eyes of New Orleans D.A. Jim Garrison (Kevin
Costner, rarely better), Stone methodically and dramatically presented evidence
of a conspiracy by a shadowy group with potential ties to the U.S. government
and military complex who were intent on taking out one of the most revered and
controversial political figures of modern times.
Almost
thirty years after the premiere of JFK, Stone is returning to this sad and
fertile ground for a follow-up to his original opus in the form of a
docu-series for AGC Television which they describe as not only probing, but
also explosive. AGC acquired worldwide rights to Stone’s reexamination of the
tragedy late last year.
Going by the title Oliver Stone’s “JFK: Destiny
Betrayed” and based off of the riveting book Destiny Betrayed: JFK,
Cuba, and the Garrison Case by author James DiEugenio, it promises to be a
searing and illuminating indictment against the possible shadowy conspiracy
that forever altered the shape of our future from ’63 onward.
“Stone
will put Kennedy’s assassination in context politically, and present
interviews, documents, and forensics reports that will change forever how
Kennedy’s life, political career, and assassination will be considered,” an
AGC press release stated.
“Those
interviewed in the series include John Tuneim, chairman of the Assassination
Records Review Board, criminologist Henry Lee, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., James
Galbraith, and Salon founder David Talbot.
“It’s not an exaggeration to state that this series features the most
distinguished collection of talent and knowledge on the JFK case ever
assembled,” concluded the AGC statement.
A lot
has happened in the JFK assassination investigations (mostly funded and
undertaken by private citizens) since Stone took a turn at the wheel back in
1991 and much of that new material will serve as the foundation for the launch
of the director’s new investigation into Kennedy’s demise in this new
docu-series. Recently declassified files related to the president’s killing
will be one of the damning bits of evidence put center-stage as the series
follows Stone and author James DiEugenio as they put the new evidence in a much
larger context.
AGC
president Lourdes Diaz adds that AGC “have long admired Oliver Stone and
his work, and the revelatory information his new documentary brings forward not
only sheds a new light on JFK’s presidency and his assassination, it informs us
about our contemporary world.”
JFK:
Destiny Betrayed will also feature a number of reunions between Oliver
Stone and a lot of his original collaborators from JFK: Jeff Beal, who is
a renowned composer and cut his teeth on the original film will return to
assist on the score. “I’m thrilled to have the opportunity to collaborate
with Oliver Stone once again,” enthused Beal. Another JFK alumni
returning is cinematographer par excellence Robert Richardson who shot Stone’s
first foray into smoky, conspiracy-laden back rooms and who won the first of
three Oscars in doing so.
“This
documentary film represents an important bookend to my 1991 film” Stone
said in a statement. “It ties up many loose threads, and hopefully
repudiates much of the ignorance around the case and the movie.”
JFK:
Destiny Betrayed is being produced by Rob Wilson (late of Showtime’s
excellent Stone series The Untold History of the United States) along with
Ingenious Media.
Stuart
Ford and Diaz, Ingenious Media’s Andrea Scarso, Peter Touche, Amit Pandya and
Angela Ceccio and Fernando Sulichin act as executive producers.
An
official air date for JFK: Destiny Betrayed has not yet been
announced, but keep an eye on Vents for any updates as we get closer to the
anniversary of President Kennedy’s death.
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