Oliver Stone - JFK

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Oliver Stone is an Academy Award -winning American film director. Stone attended Yale & the New York University. He has won two Academy Awards for Directing for Platoon & Born on the Fourth of July. A distinct feature in Oliver Stones movies is the use of a multitude of different cameras & film formats, from VHS to 8mm film to 70mm film. Stone has written or taken part in the writing of every film he has directed, except for U Turn. He also had a hand in the screenplays for Midnight Express, Conan the Barbarian, Scarface, Year of the Dragon, 8 Million Ways to Die & Evita. Critics contend that Stone is a conspiracy theorist & that his films manipulate the viewers & distort history; in spite of that, many consider Stone one of the best directors in Hollywood & the most controversial as well.

JFK is a 1991 film which purports to tell the history of the President of the United States John F Kennedys assassination. The film follows the 1967 to 1969 investigation led by New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison & interweaves flashbacks of the theories behind the assassination with actual assassination movie films footage, such as the Zapruder film. In JFK, as in what actually occurred, Garrison indicted for trial a New Orleans international businessman Clay Shaw for being involved in the conspiracy to murder President John F Kennedy. In March 1969, a jury acquitted Shaw of the charges after less than an hour of deliberation. Although the film portrays members of that jury stating publicly that they believed there was a conspiracy involved behind the assassination, but that there was not enough evidence presented at trial to link Shaw to the conspiracy, this is mostly based on pro-Garrison books. Other sources have the juries giving different views on the idea of a conspiracy. Posters Of Jfk

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