JFK: Un destin trahi

Viewers of Oliver Stone's 1991 polemical blockbuster all those years ago were left, like me, with a sense of something being a bit off but with no facts to get our teeth into. This miniseries blows the whole conspiracy theory wide open, for even the most conspiracy-jaded folk.

JFK- Destiny Betrayed: elegantly argued, historically contextualised, clinically put together. No other director is as persuasive as Oliver Stone and this docu-series sees him at the top of his game. Miss it at your very real peril. Freedom and democracy are at stake......

For those who don't know, this is the 4 hour expanded edition of JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass. Much of the same aspects of the assassination are discussed here, just in more detail. There are also some that weren't mentioned in Revisited. Such as the Harper Fragment and Kennedy's foreign policy with Africa. However, while Revisited was a more appropriate length, and flowed better, this version has more issues. Mostly the structure and editing. Because it cuts back and forth between topics that don't connect and aren't relevant to the assassination. Mostly Kennedy's foreign policy. As someone who's studied the assassination for 8 years, I was let down by this. To be clear, I don't think this version is awful. Far from it. But it has more issues than JFK Revisited. Though that version is much easier for the average viewer to understand. This is version goes into far more detail.

Always appreciated the original movie and the TRUTH it has always revealed. Even more evidence and factual reporting in these.four episodes cramed with real detail! Looking at the reviews on the internet I see. There are still the usual hacks that would attempt to undermine this series with the lone gunman rubbish held onto and crammed down our throats by those whose wish to hide the real truth that this was a well organised and planned act by people with evil and sinister motives who were never brought to so-called justice. This is a pattern that has been used to assasinate those that would bring about REAL change throughout history! A little known example is the assasination of Michael Collins in 1922 by the british secret service and its cohorts within Irish politics.(for those who want to know more read Commodore John Turis Englands Greatest spy and the Assasination of Michael Collins by S. M. Sigerson - contains lots of Factual evidence) The truth was clouded and obscured back then by hidden men in power and the Truth is still resisted to this day in much the same way as JFK. Don't forget his son was murdered under a cloud of false information in a plane that "mysteriously" crashed into the sea Watch Dark Legacy II. Remember the REAL TRUTH will always come out!!

I was optimistic about this miniseries but unfortunately its mostly a let down. Episode one starts out interestingly enough with the untold story of Dag Hammerskold's plane crash and various other nefarious activities of the CIA. It then goes into minutiae of released documents that for the most part don't go anywhere. The dots aren't connected. Too much time is spent on Kennedy's foreign policy by Hollywood lefties. I wanted focus on the Deep State and how a president isn't really in charge of the executive branch to this day. The Assassination and Mrs Paine is much better option on the subject, also available on Amazon.

This is a methodical analysis of both the physical circumstances and political environment before and after the assassination.

The tentative conclusions reached by Stone are compelling. When combined with the details surrounding Robert Kennedy's assassination they are overwhelmingly so.

Some right wing ideologues appear to criticise Stone, not for being inaccurate, but for being 'un-American'. For example, there is a review here which exemplifies this attitude by claiming that Kennedy was a 'traitor'.

So much for democracy.

With this backdrop it is easy to see why Trump stopped the release of the final tranche of documents relating to the assassination. Who would want to be the person to reveal to the world that American institutions, with the complicity of powerful economic and political ideologues, murdered their own President.