Oliver Stone's JFK

Dan Krishman
English 1304
Paper Ass# 2
JFK: A Study of the Truth
I don’t believe that Oliver Stone nor any other individual associated with the research and execution of this film has the slightest idea about who killed President John F. Kennedy. The screenwriters blatantly admit this fact in mentioning that, “even the shooters don’t know who killed JFK.” This film is not concerned with the facts of the assassination, but with feelings. The film, JFK, accurately reflects the society’s national state of mind following the gloomy afternoon of November 22, 1963. We feel the whole truth has not been told, that somehow maybe the CIA, the FBI, Castro, the anti-Castro Cubans, the Mafia, Russians, or all of the above were involved. Oliver Stone focuses on this horrible event in order to form an argument about the government of the United States. The government is not the ho...