John Fitzgerald Kennedy: Presidents Of The United States Of America

John Fitzgerald Kennedy is one of the most popular former presidents of the United States of America. He served as the 35th president and is referred by his initials JFK. He became remarkable despite his short stay in the position because of his assassination. It was the time of Cold War when he was still serving as president and because of that, many people conclude that the reason behind his assassination was the political conflict between countries. But until now, the assassination is still unsolved. There are various books that aims to solve the question behind that event but none of it ca be considered truth.
In 1991, Oliver Stone directed a movie that is all about JFK. The movie revolves around the assassination of JFK, the reasons, the suspects and other events that happened before and after JFK’s death. The movie was a good one but there are scenarios that do not fit the real happenings. Some scenes happened in real life but the details are not similar to the real experiences of the real people behind the real story.
The first scene that showed discrepancy between movie and real life is the opening scene. The beginning of the movie showed a montage of events that lead to JFK assassination. We will notice that Jim Garrison is presented there as somewhat, a hero, who wants to know who is the suspect in JFK assassination.
It is presented in the movie that Garrison interviewed a couple of individuals to give their statement in the assassination and it lead to him knowing that Oswald is the murderer.
It was in 1989 when Garrison was interviewed and he stated that a movie will be filmed based on is investigation. In the interview he said that there is only one witness who told him that only one person told him that Oswald is assumedly the suspect. In the interview he did not mention his wife or any of his family members. Garrison also admitted that he has no proof that Oswald has something to do with the assassination (Mellen, 2013)
The lone witness Raymond Russo also stated that his self-confessed conspiracy is not accurate and that he was just drug induced. Three of Garrison’s staffs left him after knowing this because of the disappointment that his witness could not differentiate reality from fantasy. This also became the reason why Garrison was called a prosecutor who disregards the truth especially when it’s for his selfish purpose ( Epstein, 1993).
The next false scene is when Garrison accused other people after Oswald’s death. It is showed in the movie that a group of activists including David Ferrie, Guy Banister and Clay Shaw has some internal connection with the CIA.
The film also showed in one scene that one of the high ranking officials in CIA confessed to Garrison about their plotted assassination. Their reason for killing the president is to cover up the Vietnam War that was going on that time.
The lawyer of Clay Shaw insisted that the accusations that Garrison made are just lies to generate the media. After a lot of investigation the Shaw’s lawyer and the CIA proved that Garrison’s accusation are wholly false because no evidence supported his statements. The CIA also did not comply to provide a sworn statement that Garrison is telling the truth and they did still d...