Before his death, Ferrie tells Garrison that he believes people are after him, and reveals there was a conspiracy to kill Kennedy. Some key witnesses become scared and refuse to testify while others, such as Ruby and Ferrie, are killed in suspicious circumstances. When Shaw is interrogated, the businessman denies any knowledge of meeting Ferrie, O'Keefe or Oswald.
Garrison comes to believe New Orleans-based international businessman Clay Shaw is the same man as Bertrand. Garrison's staff also test fire an empty rifle from the Texas School Book Depository from which Oswald was alleged to have shot Kennedy and conclude that Oswald was too poor a marksman to make the shots, indicating more than one shooter were involved.
In 1967, Garrison and his team talk to several witnesses to the Kennedy assassination, including Jean Hill, a teacher who says she witnessed a gunman shooting from the grassy knoll, that Secret Service threatened her into saying three shots came from the book depository, and her testimony was altered by the Warren Commission. Garrison and his team theorize Oswald was an agent of the Intelligence Agency and was framed for the assassination. One such witness is Willie O'Keefe, a male prostitute serving five years in prison for soliciting, who says he witnessed Ferrie discussing about assassinating the President, as well as briefly meeting Oswald, and romantically involved with a man called " Clay Bertrand". Garrison and his staff interrogate people involved with Oswald and Ferrie. The investigation is reopened in 1966 after Garrison reads the Warren Report and notices what he believes to be multiple inaccuracies. New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison and his team investigate potential New Orleans links to the JFK assassination, including private pilot David Ferrie, but their investigation is publicly rebuked by the federal government and Garrison closes the investigation. Kennedy's suspected assassin Lee Harvey Oswald is arrested for the murder of police officer J. Kennedy as president, whose time in office is marked by the Bay of Pigs Invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis until his assassination in Dealey Plaza on November 22, 1963. Eisenhower warns about the build-up of the " military-industrial complex". Bush.ĭuring his farewell address in 1961, outgoing President Dwight D. It was the first of three films Stone made about American presidents, followed by Nixon with Anthony Hopkins in the title role and W. JFK was nominated for eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Supporting Actor for Tommy Lee Jones, and won two for Best Cinematography and Best Film Editing. The film gradually picked up momentum at the box office after a slow start, earning over $205 million in worldwide gross, making it the sixth highest-grossing film of 1991 worldwide. Despite the controversy surrounding its historical depiction, JFK received critical praise for the performances of its cast, Stone's directing, score, editing, and cinematography. Johnson was part of a coup d'état to kill Kennedy. Upon its theatrical release, many major American newspapers ran editorials accusing Stone of taking liberties with historical facts, including the film's implication that Kennedy's own vice president (and eventual successor) Lyndon B. The film became embroiled in controversy at the time of its release. Stone described this account as a "counter-myth" to the Warren Commission's "fictional myth." The film was directed by Oliver Stone, adapted by Stone and Zachary Sklar from the books On the Trail of the Assassins (1988) by Jim Garrison and Crossfire: The Plot That Killed Kennedy (1989) by Jim Marrs. Garrison filed charges against New Orleans businessman Clay Shaw for his alleged participation in a conspiracy to assassinate Kennedy, for which Lee Harvey Oswald was found responsible by the Warren Commission. Kennedy in 1963 and alleged cover-up through the eyes of former New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison. JFK is a 1991 American epic political thriller film that examines the events leading to the assassination of John F.