The assassination and the subsequent conspiracy theories surrounding his death have been the topic for many films, including:
the 1966 Emile de Antonio documentary Rush to Judgment, based on Mark Lane's book;
David Miller's 1973 Executive Action;
Nigel Turner's 1988, 1991, 1995 and 2003 continuing documentary The Men Who Killed Kennedy.
Oliver
Stone's 1991 JFK,[1] based in part upon the book On the Trail of the
Assassins by former Orleans Parish (Louisiana) District Attorney Jim
Garrison.
The Rat Pack, a 1998 HBO TV film about the group of
entertainers giving their contribution to Kennedy's election in 1960. He
was portrayed by William Petersen.
Other filmmakers have drawn inspiration from the assassination, rather than portraying it directly:[citation needed]
The
1974 film The Parallax View is about a senator who is assassinated,
with the assassin himself dying violently quickly thereafter. The
protagonist, an investigative reporter played by Warren Beatty, is on
the verge of solving the mystery when another senator is murdered. This
time, he gets blamed for the murder, also posthumously.[vague]
The
1979 French film I comme Icare takes place in a fictional Western
country, and tells the story of a presidential assassination from the
viewpoint of one of the dissenting members of a Presidential committee
similar to the real-world Warren Commission. He then starts his own
investigation. The title is from the Greek myth about Icarus, who flies
too close to the sun. The investigator himself is killed when he comes
too close to the truth.
In the 1979 film Winter Kills, U.S. President
Timothy Kegan is shot at Hunt Plaza in Philadelphia. The ensuing
Presidential commission condemns a lone gunman as the killer. The film
starts years later, when Kegan's half-brother, Nick, witnesses the
death-bed confession of a man claiming to have been part of the "hit
squad".
In 1975, a San Francisco-based group of artists called Ant
Farm reenacted the Kennedy assassination in Dealey Plaza, and documented
it in a video called The Eternal Frame. Two years later, the
assassination was re-enacted again as part of the ABC television movie
The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald, looking at what might have happened had
Jack Ruby not prevented Oswald from going to court. The 1983 NBC TV mini
series Kennedy showed the assassination from Jackie Kennedy's
perspective.
Andy Warhol's 1966 film Since recreated the
assassination from multiple perspectives with participants from The
Factory.[2] Since is heavily improvised and explores the media portrayal
of the assassination.
JFK assassination have also been treated humorously:
In
the TV series Seinfeld, episode "The Boyfriend, Part 1" (1992), a
ballpark spitting incident is revisited, and a "second spitter" theory, à
la the second gunman theory, is discussed, in a parody of the final
courtroom scene in JFK. In another episode, Elaine said that a relative
worked in the book depository building with Lee Harvey Oswald. Elaine
said that when her relative told Oswald that Kennedy had been shot,
Oswald "winked at him and said 'I'm gonna catch a movie'".
The 2002
film Interview With the Assassin presents the assassination and
resultant conspiracy theories in mock documentary fashion, with a
terminally ill former Marine named Walter Ohlinger who claims that he
was the second gunman behind the fence on the grassy knoll. In the same
year, in Bubba Ho-tep, Ossie Davis played an assassination-obsessed
character with a scale model of Dealey Plaza, and photos of the various
players on his wall.
The award-winning (titanic)[clarification
needed] short film My Dinner With Oswald, directed by Paul Duane and
written by Donald Clarke, focuses on a re-creation of the assassination
at a Dublin dinner party.
In the Comedy Central series Strangers with
Candy, Stephen Colbert's character asserts that "Fidel Castro
impersonated Marilyn Monroe and gave President Kennedy a case of
syphilis so severe that eventually it blew the back of his head off."
The
"Sibling Rivalry" episode of Family Guy showed a cutaway gag after a
character had been called a bad marksman "nearly as bad as Lee Harvey
Oswald."
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