Oliver Stone's '91 film JFK was by no means a blockbuster. The media criticized the director's blurring of historical facts. I think to a new generation it made them start looking at the way things happen in history. Hopefully in 'free' nations people of a all generations have started to watch the actions of their government a little more closely as there are many great men warning them about
actions they perceive as a threat to the safety of their nation.
Eisenhower's outgoing presidential speech did that for a generation before, the famous military industrial complex speech. Stone has this as his opening scene. Followed by quite possibly the speech JFK was killed for making. So here it is The Sequel to a great movie.
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Great video Toddy!
The speeches are probably two of the most influential speeches of our time. I wonder how many people have even heard them, let alone thought about their implications.
JKFII is an awesome documentary. I watched it back in Hamilton, but had forgotten a lot of the details. The links to Bush Sr. are quite tenable, and worth looking into - especially with Hoover writing that memo.
I think the most telling part of the video for me is the actual video footage of the assassination. The cars' inexorably slow speed after the first shot was fired, the bodyguards who were pulled back from the car, and his head moving TOWARDS the 'official single bullet' which hit it...
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