JFK

Oliver Stone · 1991 CE · Film · Modern / American · Contemporary

A New Orleans district attorney reopens the Kennedy assassination after reading the Warren Report, works his way through a pilot, a businessman and a source in Washington who will meet him only on a park bench, and mounts the only prosecution ever brought over the killing. Stone cuts newsreel, reconstruction and invention together at speed. Historians attacked it as soon as it opened.

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