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Based on Oliver Stone's documentary, JFK Revisited, read the
transcripts and interviews that will change the way you think about
the John F. Kennedy assassination. JFK Revisited: Through the
Looking Glass contains the two working original screenplays
for Oliver Stone’s JFK Revisited; both the two-hour version,
Through the Looking Glass, and the four-hour version, Destiny
Betrayed. These films are the first documentaries to feature the
work of the Assassination Records Review Board. The Assassination
Records Review Board worked from 1994–98 releasing records that
the government has classified in whole or in part on the
assassination of President John F. Kennedy. They ended up releasing
about two million pages or approximately sixty thousand documents.
They also pursued an investigation into the autopsy and medical
evidence in the JFK case. Although their releases and discoveries
were quite important to the evidentiary record, they received very
little exposure in the mainstream media. They also released
documents relating to Kennedy’s foreign policy in both Cuba and
Vietnam. In the former case, these were plans by the Pentagon to
create a pretext to invade Cuba. In the latter, documents proved
Kennedy was implementing a withdrawal plan from Vietnam. This book
is unprecedented. It contains a compendium of information
originating from the widest range of authorities on the JFK case
ever assembled. This includes luminaries from several fields:
pathology, surgery, ballistics, criminal investigation, neurology,
history, and journalism. Never before have people like forensic
pathologist Cyril Wecht, criminalist Henry Lee, Professor James
Galbraith, author David Talbot, journalist Jefferson Morley,
intelligence analyst John Newman, Professor Robert Rakove, and more
appeared in one book; never have this many illustrious authorities
been interviewed about their views on the policies and the
assassination of President John F. Kennedy. The book also includes
important witness interviews with Dr. Donald Miller about his
colleague Malcolm Perry, Jim Gochenaur of the Church Committee, and
Edwin McGehee of both the House Select Committee on Assassinations
and the Jim Garrison investigation. The combination of this newly
released information plus expert interviews changed the database
and calculus of the JFK case. The scripts are included in this
book, which were the backbone for Oliver Stone's films. It also
includes important excerpts from the many interviews which did not
make it into the final cuts of the films. JFK
Revisited will challenge everything you thought you know
about the JFK assassination.
New foreword by J.F.K. director Oliver Stone Reclaiming Parkland
details the failed attempt of Academy Award-winning actor Tom Hanks
and producer Gary Goetzman to make Vincent Bugliosi's mammoth book
about the Kennedy assassination, Reclaiming History, into a
miniseries. It exposes the questionable origins of Reclaiming
History in a dubious mock trial for cable television, in which
Bugliosi played the role of an attorney prosecuting Lee Harvey
Oswald for murder, and how this formed the basis for the epic tome.
Author James DiEugenio details the myriad problems with Bugliosi's
book, and explores the cooperation of the mainstream press in
concealing many facts during the publicity campaign for the book
and how this lack of scrutiny led Hanks and Goetzman cofounders of
the production company Playtone to purchase the film rights.
DiEugenio then shows how the film adapted from that book, entitled
Parkland, does not resemble Bugliosi's book and examines why. This
book reveals the connections between Washington and Hollywood, as
well as the CIA influence in the film colony today. It includes an
extended look at the little-known aspects of the lives and careers
of Bugliosi, Hanks, and Goetzman. Reclaiming Parkland sheds light
on the Kennedy assassination, New Hollywood, and the political
influence on media in America.
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