Saw 'Killing Kennedy'....

[FAST FRED]

.....last night on NatGeo.

I was twenty back in 1963 and Dallas was my hometown.

Being very familiar with the scene of that crime, I've kept up with all that's been wondered about, intimated, learned, forgotten and speculated upon over the ensuing 50 years.

So, I got no new information from "Killing Kennedy" nor did I really need to, but I thought it was a well-balanced, properly nuanced and accurately rendered book and movie.

The casting/acting was excellent to very good and everything was properly portrayed from what I saw at the time, later learned or still remember about the people and places involved.

Along with WWII, the Civil Rights Movement, the Wars in Korea and Vietnam, the Sexual Revolution and the evolution of popular music, the Kennedy Assassination was an important experience and a life changer for me.

I thought both the book and the movie were enjoyable and well done.

 

[LongJohn]

Is this the "Killing Kennedy" by Bill O'Reilly? I read that book and thought it was good but he follows the party line about Oswald acting alone. I'm not a conspiracy theorist but it seems there's too much smoke for there not to be something beyond Oswald.

 

[accuratehorn]

Depends what you're smoking longjohn.
If you mean could someone have influenced, paid, encouraged, whatever...Oswald, it is possible.
If you mean he did not act alone, that is just false. Not one shred of credible evidence in 50 years says otherwise.

 

[FridayNiteLites]

Contract on America by David E. Scheim is a pretty interesting book. It puts a lot of doubt into your mind as far as Oswald acting alone. Good read if you have time.