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Oswald's Ghost (2007)
The Movie is psy-op propaganda
Oswald's Ghost is far from a critical expose on the assassination, as Oliver Stone's JFK was. The very fact that Oswald's Ghost's director has the same last name as Oliver to direct the film, says volumes about the intelligence community's ( and the mainstream media's ) agenda to confuse future generations.
The fact that classic dissemblers, like Priscilla Johnson McMillan, Dan Rather and J. Edward Epstein are given leading roles in the film, is the strongest indictment against the film. That Norman Mailer is given so much time in the film as well( and the last word ), makes me want to catalog the in the "Propaganda/Fiction Department Section, along with The Warren Report, and other books. The PBS and American Experience staff should all be ashamed of themselves for perpetuating the lies about the assassination.
The only honest criticism given in the film are given by Tom Hayden, Josiah Thompson and Todd Getlin, but neither three give any real facts from the critical literature to educate the viewer.
Hugh Aynesworth, a Dallas/Fortworth journalist who covered the assassination at the time and who comments on the Warren Report, spouts the official version, that Oswald acted alone. Aynesworth tells us a white lie when he says that he interviewed one witness who watched Oswald shoot from the sixth floor window of the Texas school depository Building. He may have interviewed witnesses that day, or sometime later, but no witnesses positively identified Lee Harvey Oswald in that window that day. Aynesworth's words, simply, can't be taken for granted.
Robert Dallek, who also given prime time in the film, was one of the historian researchers who worked for The Assassination records and Review Bord ( ARRB )in the nineties. That board was created and pushed through Congress by President Herbert Walker Bush in 1991 as a last ditch effort to foist, literally, tons of heavily redacted ( and forged ) declassified Secret CIA, FBI, ONI ( Naval Intelligence) documents into the American public's lap. So much for Dallek's hidden agenda, as well.
J. Edward Epstein, another spokesman in the film for the "we'll never know the truth about the assassination "theory, wrote some good books on the assassination, but he was Army Intelligence, so we can't trust him, either.
Mark Lane, who wrote one of the very first critiques on the Warren commission Report's findings, Rush to Judgment, the film's only honest critic of the warren Commission Report, but he is overrided by the film's general dishonesty.
Dan Rather, another journalist who speaks in the film is also dissembling. He was in Dallas that fateful day, as a cub reporter for CBS. Rather was one of the very first to see the Zapruder film, and he caved-in, changed his story, and sold his soul to the devil. Rather originally said that the President's head "fell backwards and to the left", which coincides with a shot from the front. Then he changed his tune to: "the President's head fell forwards and to the left", to go along with the warren Commission's magic bullet single lone nut theory. I have the two copies of Life magazine from January 1964, both printed on the same day. The first one, with Dan Rather's first line was pulled off of the press, and the second censored edition that was officially released, with Rather's changed tune is the one that the American Public got.
That Priscilla Johnson shamelessly shows her face again on the assassination subject doesn't surprise me at all. She was one of the very first intelligence assets to disseminate mis and disinformation, with lies to the Warren Commission and to the American public( with her book, Marina and Lee ).
I attended the ARRB's venued event when it came to Boston in the early nineties and convened at the State House on Beacon Hill. Priscilla Johnson McMillan, who is also given prime time in Oswald's Ghost was invited by the Review Board to testify. The first question that the Board asked Priscilla was whether she had ever been approached by the CIA. Priscilla never did answer that question, but instead,dissembled for a good twenty minutes or half hour and in so many words or less, basically told the panel and the audience that if anyone wanted to know who really killed John F. Kennedy, they should go to Russia and dig-up frozen KGB colonels, and ask the. In the film, Priscilla tells us that if Kennedy were alive today, that he'd be as puzzled as all of us are ( not me! ) as to who killed him and why. I have seen McMillan's CIA 201 file that has her checked-ff as a "witting asset". So much for her testimonial in the film.
Norman Mailer is given way too much time ( and the last word ) in the film. He says that he spent twenty-five years studying the assassination, and then he admits that he as an amateur. From what he tells us in the film, it is obvious that he didn't read enough of the critical literature. Of course, he was a friend of Priscilla Johnson McMillan's, which says a lot. In his book, Oswald's Tale, Mailer leads his readers by the nose and after eight hundred and something pages, tells them that Oswald killed Kennedy because Marina didn't give him ( Oswald, not Kennedy ) enough sex. Mailer should have titled his book, Oswald's Tail ( two puns intended ). puns intended ). Mailer can be thus dismissed as either an unwitting fool, or a witting stooge.
Basicaly, Oswald's Ghost is a total waste of time.
Bruno Hrvat
Bobby (2006)
What's Wrong With This Picture?
What's Wrong With This Picture? Yes, Emilio Estevan did a great job of directing and there were many great acting performances in the movie, Bobby. However, what the American people do not need is another sentimental movie about one of the assassinations of the sixties that railroaded my generation's future. What we needed was a movie about Bobby Kennedy's assassination in the vein of Oliver Stone's movie, JFK, an expose that would point the finger at who killed Bobby and why, a movie that would inform and educate people as the movie, JFK did. Bobby was assassinated by the same bastards who killed his brother: the CIA and the military industrial complex ( with the help of the FBI, Army Intelligence, and ONI ( Office of Naval Intelligence ). Bobby pledged on the campaign trail ( in Tucson ) that he was going to end the war in Vietnam and reopen the investigation of his brother's murder. When Bobby made this promise to the American People, he wrote his death warrant, so to speak. Who on Estevan's research staff removed the two details and clues that were omitted from the movie that were in the photographic evidence? One: the Wakenhut Security (read: Military Industrial Security Command) guard's tie in Bobby's right fist as the senator lay bleeding to death on the hotel kitchen floor? Two: Why didn't Estevan put the guard directly behind Bobby as he went through the hotel kitchen ? Answer: Someone in Hollywood either planted in Estevan's ear to stay clear of any details that would remind the politically literate and inform the next generation of Americans on who really killed Bobby, or someone on his research staff was planted there to do the same. The forensic reports and L.A. County Coroner, Noguchi's report all concluded without a doubt that none of Sirhan Sirhan's bullets hit the Senator, but wounded other people near him and some went into the hotel kitchen's ceiling and door frame and that Bobby was shot at point-blank range from the rear ( into the occipital lobe and through the right armpit ). Evidence pointed to the Wakenhut guard directly behind Bobby who could have killed the Senator with a .22 caliber hand gun he owned at the time of the assassination. Eugene Thane Caesar, the Wakenhut guard, denied under oath that he owned the twenty two caliber hand gun registered to him at the time of the senator's death and it was later proved that he did indeed own the gun at the time, and had perjured himself under oath when he said that he didn't own the gun at the time of the assassination of Bobby. So, why was Bobby, the movie, sanitized? Obviously, to perpetuate the four decades-long-plus cover-up of Bobby's murder and to mis and disinform yet another generation. Director Estevan may have been an unwitting stooge, but he is still part of the problem. I give Director Emilio Estevan an F for American History 101. He flunked in my book. Hollywood's also part of the problem ( along with the mainstream media ). Americans on the whole, are politically illiterate, willfully ignorant, grossly mis and disinformed, deluded, in denial, complacent, apathetic, cynical, and worse. They're basically cowards, unless they have a gun to pick up. They're afraid to confront the lies of those in power whom they vote for and they refuse to make the mainstream media accountable for their decades-long cover-up of the assassinations of the sixties ( and every crime of those in the White House since ). Too bad Estevan missed his chance to make a really great movie that could have woken Americans up for the umpteenth time. What's the use if we all don't demand the truth? It is never too late. It's Farewell America if Americans refuse to do their homework and make the bastards accountable while my generation is still alive. When my generation is gone, it's Farewell Americaca.( See comment by hartfineart, page 3 ).. alsso, Bruno Hrvat at www.Iraq for Sale
Yours truly,
Bruno Hrvat