The Murder of JFK: A Revisionist History

The Murder of JFK: A Revisionist History
by Matthew White

The Murder of JFK: A Revisionist History
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Director: Matthew White
Brand: MPI
Producer: Matthew White
Producer: Marty Callaghan
Producer: Waleed B. Ali
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 180 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-02-28
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Mpi Home Video

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Movie Review: Good for Archival Footage, Not Much Else
Summary: 3 Stars

I've read about 30 books on the Kennedy years and Kennedy assassination, as well as the Warren Report, and countless programs about it. I feel I have a pretty solid base for a description - and if you're looking for anything new regarding the assassination, you won't find it here.

The first half of this film is top-notch, discussing some key events of Kennedy's presidency and providing excellent archival footage and interesting analysis. The assassination itself was described very quickly and without much detail, which is fine - I mean, what are we going to hear that we haven't heard before? So by that point in the film, I was thinking it was going to continue to be terrific.

I was wrong. At that point it devolves into incredibly broad generalities that are all directed toward one thing - suggesting that there was definitely a conspiracy in the assassination, that the Warren Commission were little more than lackeys to the FBI and set out with a deliberate agenda to arrive at the conclusions in the Report, and to give a great deal of air-time to several nicely-dressed conspiracy nuts.

My problem with that is that there was no balance. They showed Gerald Posner for about 10 seconds and mentioned his book, then allow it (with no evidence presented) to be trashed as a book of lies. And while there were plenty of problems with Posner's book, it was more responsible to fact than most books on the subject, but would leave the casual viewer with the impression that to arrive at the same conclusion as the Warren Commission, you must be full of it.

Basically it became just another conspiracy program. It offers all kinds of speculation and no proof of anything, which was an incredible disappointment. This was one half of a terrific program, and was worth the $15 just for that first hour or so. The last half is pretty irresponsible and could not be taken seriously by anyone who knows more than a little about the case.

It's okay. Worth a look for that first half. Watch the second half to see if you concur with me - and if you do forget that last half and watch the first half again. That half is definitely worth having.
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Summary of The Murder of JFK: A Revisionist History

More than 40 years have passed since the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963. The Murder of JFK: A Revisionist History takes a comprehensive examination into the theories behind the assassination itself. It also explains the tragedy within the context of the existing U.S. political and cultural climate, and the global context of the Cold War.

The Murder of JFK: A Revisionist History includes:

  • The first digital rendering of the Zapruder film, mastered from the original.
  • The only known color footage of Lee Harvey Oswald.
  • Cuban source material on the Bay of Pigs and the Cuban Missile Crisis.
  • First-time use of audio material from Robert F. Kennedy?s oral history.
  • Interviews with Arthur Schlesinger, John Frankenheimer, Jack Anderson and Sam Halpern.
  • A link between the film Psycho and the FBI's report on Oswald.
  • Newly discovered footage from local television archives and foreign news sources, including Lyndon B. Johnson's thoughts concerning a conspiracy.

    • Winner of the 1999 IDA/ABCNews VideoSource Award for the Best Use of News Footage in a Documentary.

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