| Movie Review | The Journal of American History, 95.1

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Oswald's Ghost. Dir. and prod. by Robert Stone. British Broadcasting Corporation and American Experience, 2007. 83 mins. (PBS Home Video, http://www.shoppbs.org/)

There are two notes that end Robert Stone's Oswald's Ghost. The first states that over two thousand books have been published on the assassination of John F. Kennedy. The second reports that 70 percent of Americans still believe that Lee Harvey Oswald did not act alone. Taken together those two facts suggest what any attempt to come to a final conclusion about the Kennedy assassination is up against. And Robert Stone's effort is no different.

For this documentary, shown as part of PBS's American Experience, Stone interviewed a roster of familiar faces, some associated with the assassination, others with the 1960s generally—Dan Rather, Mark Lane, Tom Hayden, Todd Gitlin, Gary Hart, Norman Mailer. He has gathered and restored enormous amounts of archival footage—of Oswald, Jack Ruby, JFK in Dallas, the famous Zapruder film of the assassination, as well as audiotapes of phone conversations of Lyndon B. Johnson—and he has assembled it in a compelling visual narrative that follows the events and sorts through the conspiracy theories. He is sympathetic to the critics of the Warren Commission and extremely harsh on the investigations of New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison, which sat at the center of Oliver Stone's JFK (1991). And he has decided, along with Mailer and several of his other talking heads, that Oswald acted alone.

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