JFK (film)

JFK is a 1991 American historical legalconspiracy thriller film directed by Oliver Stone. It examines the events leading to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and alleged coverup through the eyes of former New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison Kevin Costner.

The film opens with newsreel footage, including the farewell address in 1961 of outgoing President Dwight D. Eisenhower, warning about the buildup of the militaryindustrial complex. This is followed by a summary of John F. Kennedys years as president, emphasizing the events that, in Stones thesis, would lead to his assassination. This builds to a reconstruction of the assassination on November 22, 1963. New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison subsequently learns about potential links to the assassination in New Orleans. Garrison and his team investigate several possible conspirators, including private pilot David Ferrie Joe Pesci, but are forced to let them go after their investigation is publicly rebuked by the federal government. Kennedys suspected assassin Lee Harvey Oswald is killed by Jack Ruby, and Garrison closes the investigation.The investigation is reopened in 1966 after Garrison reads the Warren Report and notices what he believes to be multiple inaccuracies. Garrison and his staff interrogate several witnesses to the Kennedy assassination, and others involved with Oswald, Ruby, and Ferrie. One such witness is Willie OKeefe Kevin Bacon, a male prostitute serving five years in prison for soliciting, who reveals he witnessed Ferrie discussing a coup dtat. As well as briefly meeting Oswald, OKeefe was romantically involved with a man called Clay Bertrand. Jean Hill Ellen McElduff, a teacher who says she witnessed shots fired from the grassy knoll, tells the investigators that Secret Service threatened her into saying three shots came from the book depository, revealing changes that were made to her testimony by the Warren Commission. Garrisons staff also test the single bullet theory by aiming an empty rifle from the window through which Oswald was alleged to have shot Kennedy. They conclude that Oswald was too poor a marksman to make the shots, indicating someone else, or multiple marksmen, were involved. ........

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