Good for Archival Footage, Not Much Else

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	• The Murder of JFK: A Revisionist History Mpi Home Video, 2006 average customer review:based on 10 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

pretty good, but

this was well done and very informative, but "the men who killed kennedy" is the best, most comprehensive DVD out there

Good for Archival Footage, Not Much Else

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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Should Be Mandatory Watching

If you are at all interested in JFK conspiracy lore, watch this documentary. There is so much evidence and footage that you most likely haven't seen before that you will be amazed. It's really shocking that this footage isn't more widely used in other JFK docs.

Cornerstone of a Conspiracy Theory

Excellent DVD! The historical footage as well as enigmatic soundtrack added to the documentary without being overly dramatic or campy. The historical background material adds perspective to the whole issue. When watching "JFK" (Oliver Stone, starring Kevin Kostner), the movie very poorly touches on the issue of the mafia...although I knew the history of the Cuban revolution, I never connected why they might want to shoot Kennedy. Or the Mafia for that matter! "JFK" leaned heavily on the Coup-de-tat end of the conspiracy theory, while this documentary evened things out more and made more sense of the history that would have contributed to Kennedy's assassination.

I believe there was a conspiracy...but watching the real Zapruder film of the shooting, unedited, in this documentary, leaves me with only more questions. The shot would have seemed to come from the back (a head bobbing back when shot from behind isn't uncommon...its not the force of the bullet as much as the muscles relaxing). An exit wound is far larger and messier than an entrance wound. In the Zapruder film, its obvious that the messy wound is in the front, indicating he was shot from behind. The angle of the shot seems wrong, however and the autopsy footage clearly shows and exit wound at his neck. There seemed to be some evidence, watching the Zapruder film that the exit wound was up near the temple, not the neck. It is hard to see on such a small film.

Anyways, fascinating. Watch this, watch JFK. Compare the two. Both great movies.

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A little intense, but worthwhile.

JFK: A Revisionist History helps the viewer to understand that the [...] of John F. Kennedy was far more complex than having been committed by a lone, crazed gunman named Lee Harvey Oswald. In fact it makes a good case for the whole thing not having been committed by Oswald at all. This even goes into all the political events and those who may (or may not) have played a part in doing this horrific act. It also goes into a lot about the autopsy and whether the shot to the President's head did damage that looked like this or that. It also explains something about who may have controlled things and why, so that the Warren Commission was so resolute in it's final assertion that Lee Harvey Oswald was the sole shooter, inspite of the overwhelming amount of information to the contrary. A very good DVD to see to add further information to the knowledge on this event in history.

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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. Kennedy¹s 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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