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Movie Reviews of Executive Action
Movie Review: FINALLY FOUND IT !!
Summary: 5 Stars
I have been looking for this for years before going to Amazon.com---now I know to look here first !!!!Movie Review: Gift to a family member
Summary: 5 Stars
I got this movie for a gift for a family member and they really enjoy the movie.Movie Review: Plausible but watch The Men who killed Kennedy Too
Summary: 4 Stars
It's certainly plausible, it was no accident that this took place in Texas, LBJ, a Texan, was one of the worst criminals in American history who happened to grow up and be good friends with another great criminal, J. Edgar Hoover and the mayor of Dallas was the brother of one of the top CIA officers fired after the Bay of Pigs. So Kennedy had very powerful enemies.
I would direct anyone to "The Men Who Killed Kennedy" which was forced to pull the last 3 episodes after very powerful forces objected, the one you see for sale here does not include the last 3 episodes. The last 3 episodes detail the workings of LBJ and J. Edgar Hoover before the event and after it. It also details, with eyewitnesses the meeting between LBJ and Hoover the night before the assassination as well as LBJ's mistresses recollections of LBJ's comments that the Kennedy's would not bother him anymore before the assassination. It has footage of a secret service agent who started to run alongside the limousine, being called back by a superior officer in a car behind the limousine. As well as Crossfire by Jim Marrs to get a good overall view of what's out there and of course the latest books with the benefit of the 90's committee and the FOIA.
I certainly agree that Oswald was completely set up and was an American CIA agent. And I agree that it was a known thing in the underworld that the President was going to be hit, there is just too much independent corroboration to deny it. Not to mention the mess the conspirators made of the autopsy, the Oswald hit and doctored photos and many other things. There's even evidence that the Presidents body was sneaked away and altered before the military supervised autopsy in Washington.
So Texas oilmen were probably in on it too, but it would have taken CIA/FBI/Executive level involvement to get so many bases covered and clean it up afterwords with the many many suspicious deaths and the clumsy Warren Commission as well as cutting the telephones in Washington while the event was happening. No Texas oilmen could do all that. Theres just too much independent physical, eyewitness and other evidence to seriously think that there was not a conspiracy and that it did not include the Federal Government.
It was LBJ, J. Edgar Hoover, compromised and disgruntled CIA Bay of Pigs veterans that did the work, it precipitated an unholy war, Vietnam and marks a time when the American government was run by criminals starting with LBJ, Nixon and Ford. Watergate was linked to the assassination, I've heard they were looking for a particular document relating to the assassination there.
But also the military was in on it as well as someone who could order the Secret Service to stand down and have no runners near the Presidents car as was operating procedure. Evidence of the military being involved was the presence of unknown military personnel at the autopsy that countermanded the doctors authority. This was all in an atmosphere that was paranoid of Communism and many in high places were willing to do anything to combat the Communists both in the USSR, Cuba and Asia.
It would have been no problem to retask the CIA teams, that did so much in South America, Europe and other places, to hit a President. Especially one that was so dangerous and hated by the establishment. It's no surprise that the previous President, Eisenhower, warned against the power of the Military-Industrial Complex in his farewell speech. And it's no coincidence that Vietnam was ramped up within 2 years of the event. Vietnam is the first war where helicopters were heavily used, Bell Helicopters.
Time-Warner locked the Zapruder film away for years and it was in the possession of federal authorities before it was forcefully released in the 70's due to a FOIA request, you won't see the limousine stop in the Zapruder film as described by several eye-witnesses of the event. The sign that was in Dealy Plaza that had a bullet hole in it was taken down as well as the limousine was stripped and cleaned almost immediately afterwards. Anyone who researches the event, including the scores of eyewitness accounts and physically verifiable evidence, in an honest manner could not think that one man shooting with a 20 year old Italian made rifle could do it alone.
It would just be fascinating for someone who knows to come forward just to know how it was done, but I suppose many of us would be robbed of a hobby if that happened. There's probably no one alive or dead who knew all the facets of it anyways and there's not been a President successfully assassinated since so it's academic at this point anyways.
There would be no toppling of the government at this point if it came out, just a toppling of the many politicians careers who were either part of the conspiracy or who went along with the coverup afterwards for their own good health, including Arlen Spector, Chris Dodd, Bill Moyers and others. But there was a conspiracy and it did involve the federal government period.
Movie Review: How it could have happened... but probably didn't
Summary: 4 Stars
Released in the wake of the Watergate break-ins, 1973's Executive Action is one of the better Kennedy conspiracy movies, not because it makes an especially convincing case for its tale of Kennedy being killed by a group of shadowy neo-cons within the system but because rather than uncover the plot through either a fearless investigator or the patsy being set up to take the fall it takes the surprisingly novel approach of seeing it entirely through the eyes of the conspirators as they put their plan together. All the favorites are there - the second and third gunman, the grassy knoll, the Cuban connection, the second Lee Harvey Oswald - although the film's much vaunted research does suffer a rather bad knock when Will Geer's suggestion that they try to discredit Kennedy based on his `personal history' is knocked back by Burt Lancaster's company man telling him that there's no dirt to discredit him with!
In many ways David Miller's film is a prototype drama-doc with name actors like Lancaster and Robert Ryan and familiar faces like Ed Lauter and Dick Miller and without the ludicrously epileptic shakeycam that's made the genre look increasingly unrealistic in recent years (real documentary footage rarely shakes THAT much). Instead, it's a solidly crafted and surprisingly involving movie that manages to build up a surprising amount of tension in its last half hour, fitting in rather neatly with Lancaster's other political thrillers like Seven Days in May and Twilight's Last Gleaming. It's not without its flaws - the new footage isn't always seamlessly integrated into newsreel footage of the actual events and the limitations of casting look-alikes are very apparent in Oscar Orcini's terrible performance as Jack Ruby - but it's unexpectedly satisfying.
Warners' DVD has a good widescreen transfer with a promo featurette and trailer for the film as well as trailers for Seven Days in May, The Gypsy Moths and Local Hero.
Movie Review: A bit hard to swallow but it's just one of a million theories....
Summary: 4 Stars
You have to use your imagination on this one, with every conceivable assassination theory known to man thought up about what actually happened on November 22, 1963, we may never know what did happen that day and that is a shame but I can tell you this much, this movie does make you think, opens your mind a bit and does leave you wondering whether Oswald really did pull the trigger that day or not. I for one, do not believe he did but that is not the point of this review. If you want another view of the JFK Assassination that mixes fiction with Archival footage of that weekend's events, then you owe it to yourself to get this DVD, which took it's sweet time getting here in this format I might add. I had it for the longest time on Video. It is definitely worth adding to your library if you are a JFK Assassination theorist at all and for pete sake STOP BEING SO CLOSE MINDED and watch the darn thing....Sheesh!