A Thread about the film JFK

the book doesn't even mention Clay Shaw afaict, and only mentions Garrison to demean the investigation as a disgrace and a farce.

The guy by the knoll flashing a Secret Service ID to the patrolman, but later it's discovered no secret service guys were in that area.

afterward, it didn't ring true

He looked like a mechanic.
He had on a sports shirt and pants,
but he had dirty fingernails.

^^i love that this is actually true!

Summer treats the evidence as if he were William Wyler attempting a solid craftsman's interpretation of the material, but the conclusions are not dissimilar.

he's also very hard on the Posner book, which i did find convincing at the time, and iirc it did seem to explain Oswald's behavior as being perfectly in line with someone who was mentally unbalanced, which is something i think oft overlooked by conspiracy-minded types trying to find cold logic in events that are the result of unpredictable and illogical human behavior. this book is intriguing thus far, though.

XA-XA-XA!

I never did believe it.

i can't believe you're saying this in the courtroom!

I saw a girl the other day, she was pregnant -- you could see her whole belly, and you know what she painted on it? "Love Child."

You're out of order, Jim Boy! Now sit down!

well, i wanted to make sure that she was the same girl i sent away!

― difficult listening hour, Sunday, January 27, 2019 12:55 AM bookmarkflaglink

assuming this is direct from a transcript too now. always reminds me of gravity's rainbow

dlh, you're pickin' gnat shit outta peppa!

That polecat Lyndon

https://film-grab.com/wp-content/uploads/photo-gallery/19%20(541).jpg?bwg=1547224275

been digging into that Summers book a bit more. That Silvia Odio story, which gets a mere passing mention in the film, practically has an entire chapter devoted to it in the book and actually seems a bit more sinister than Stone made it out to be. Alfred, you've got to track down your source aka your buddy from years ago.

shit, omar, I can't remember what I did last night, let alone three years ago!

yeah, putting aside my buddy's anecdote about the Odio incident, that's one of the tributaries with the ring of truth, and Summers doesn't disbelieve her.

the thing that rings true is the notion that Oswald was perhaps a government asset or agent, and if that was the case: while his behavior seems really unusual and odd and obvious, it only seems that way now once we're looking at it under a microscope and putting it into context and i don't doubt there were hundreds of other assets or agents who acted with similar oddness and inconsistency because they were working for a larger U.S. agenda. like it's the type of behavior that if Oswald had never become mixed up in the Kennedy assassination (either by actually perpetrating it or being part of a plot or simply in the orbit of those who did kill him) no one would have ever noticed these inconsistencies. much of it rose to the surface after the fact.

I don't get it, though. The guy defects to the USSR and then comes back and hands out pro-Cuba leaflets but is in fact anti-Castro on the down low.

This is a weird little scene- Oswald goes into a store of an anti-Castro guy and says he can help him and then gets into a fight with him and is arrested. At the police station Oswald requests an interview with the FBI.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Bringuier

he next day, Oswald again visited the store and left his Guidebook for Marines f

"Oh! What have we here?!"

that’s precisely the point of both brothers, there’s more to this than you could dream

Another year he's dead.

They should've given him a medal for starting this thread!

Camelot in smithereens! *drip drip drip* I'll drink to that.

We've all become Hamlets in our country, children of a slain father-leader...whose killers still possess the throne.

Today 's a Friday too. We can relive it in real time.

whaddya mean you're gonna put it in a book

and all of this came under the control of General Y!

Dulles, by the way, was General Y's benefactor...

Very, very few people know about this, ok

November 22, a day that shall live in rapidly fading infamy.

X would do just tweet it today and everyone would ignore it after a week

@xCIA1964

Thread: Everything I'll say is classified top secret.
I was a soldier. Two wars. A secret Pentagon guy, supplying the hardware: Planes, bullets, rifles for what we call "Black Operations. " Black Ops. Assassinations. Coups d'etat, rigging elections, propaganda, psych warfare.

And I knew Allen Dulles very well. I briefed him many a time in his house. He was also General Y's benefactor. But for the life of me I still can't figure out why Dulles was appointed to investigate Kennedy's death. The man who had fired him.

just visited my folks in dallas and yesterday we went to the book depository museum and argued about the whole thing and before i knew it i was cribbing from this movie: “it was a turkey shoot” “they heard ECHOES!” “you would’ve felt an army presence on the streets that day!!” and finally “i won't have any more ultimatums put to me, mother”

Must've been a helluva weekend to visit the Sixth Floor.

Some cranberry sauce and stuffing spilling out and a torn-up turkey....perfect time for a jfk conversation.

you know i don't like these tribal rituals

having finished the Summers book awhile back, what i appreciated about it was how he simply lays out all the information he believes to be truthful or believable, and doesn't really buy into any one theory specifically. he leans hard on the mob/disgruntled Cuban exiles aspect, hinting at both possibilities linked to those groups: that Oswald was directly involved, or wound up trapped in a vise by others.

I love how much Scorsese is just straight up trollling in this scene. https://t.co/TApD2d822C

— Peter Labuza (@labuzamovies) November 27, 2019

FUCK YEAH

- testify

- me

- testify

- lol no chance in hell

If they can kill the president of the United States, do you think they're gonna think twice about a two-bit showgirl like me?

I just rewatched last weekend. Everything everyone said is correct.

fuck yeah!

Ain't got no reason to LAH to ya, I'm already IN jail!

Pretty flowery for Dave Ferrie.

We're way overdue another crack at hitting this level of dreamy mania with a similarly stacked cast. My body is ready for QAnon.

i dreamt last night that the cause of jfk's assassination was bob-a-job week

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, October 15, 2003 5:52 PM (fifteen years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

still the only good theory imo

― mark s, Friday, 17 May 2019 15:02 (eight months ago) bookmarkflaglink

don't make me tap the sign

Maybe Shaw is an agent. I don't know. But as a covert operator, he is wide open for blackmail because of his ho-mo-sex-u-ality.

been playing a lot of quarantine playstation and the other day both my controllers died and i was genuinely upset and whispered: "both of them, both brothers?"