Peter Jennings Reporting: The Kennedy Assassination - Beyond Conspiracy (TV 2003)

Director:

Mark Obenhaus

Writers:

Edward Gray, Mark Obenhaus

Stars:

Robert Goldberg, John F. Kennedy, Robert Dallek

2 wins.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Robert Goldberg	...	Himself - Author, 'Enemies Within'
John F. Kennedy	...	Himself (archive footage)
Robert Dallek	...	Himself - Author 'An Unfinished Life'
Lee Harvey Oswald	...	Himself (archive footage)
Theodore Sorensen	...	Himself - Special Counsel to President Kennedy 1961-1963 (as Theodore C. Sorensen)
Evan Thomas	...	Himself - Author 'Robert Kennedy'
Nicholas Katzenbach	...	Himself - Deputy Attorney General, 1962-1965
Hugh Aynesworth	...	Himself - Reporter, The Dallas Morning News 1960-1966
Abraham Zapruder	...	Himself (archive footage)
Gerald Posner	...	Himself - Author 'Case Closed'
Dale K. Myers	...	Himself - Computer Animator (as Dale Myers)
John Connally	...	Himself (archive footage)
James P. Hosty	...	Himself - FBI, 1952-1979
Lyndon Johnson	...	Himself (archive footage)
Jack Valenti	...	Himself - Aide to President Johnson 1963-1966

Storyline

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Plot Keywords:

long title | kennedy assassination | magic bullet | kennedy family | character name in title

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Genres:

Documentary | History

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Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

20 November 2003 (USA)

Also Known As:

The Kennedy Assassination

Filming Locations:

Austin, Texas, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Springs Media Inc.

Technical Specs

Runtime:

86 min

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Connections

Features JFK (1991)

User Reviews

Another facile whitewash

This film uses Stone's film as a punching bag, trying to fit a complex subject into an hour. It's a whitewash - not necessarily of the fact that a conspiracy existed, but that we don't know. Anyone who has examined the evidence knows that there are too many unanswered questions to land definitively on either side of the fence. But when a film shows one witness claiming that Kennedy's head wound was "clearly" suffered from the rear, it tells you all you need to know: look elsewhere for honest questions, honest answers. Stone's movie was flawed - most especially by its gratuitous addition of fictional elements which have never appeared in any of the serious challenges to the Warren Commission findings. (Donald Southerland's character, for instance) But Stone has always been the master of "bulldozer" cinema; that he would play with history for his own purposes does not diminish the very real likelihood that JFK was killed by a conspiracy.