Dark Legacy

I quite enjoyed this documentary and I'm a big fan of JFK and curious about how he was really assassinated. This gives a well put together argument as to why George H Bush and certain other parties were involved. It's possibly the best case I could expect to see with a lot of information hidden and kept from the public. Quite plausible that he got a lot of things right. R. I. P JFK you were taken too soon.

For many, if not most, Americans the material John Hankey presents challenges some of our most deeply held cultural beliefs. That can make the video very hard to watch for many. But that in and of itself does not render Mr. Hankey's hypotheses as false. Can our deeply held, culturally instilled, predispositions prevent us from accepting information, facts, when this information is uncomfortable and threatening to what may be our preexisting world view? Having experienced the national trauma that accompanied the JFK assassination and, along with many others, having the lingering, inescapable impression that the official explanations were blatantly evasive and incomplete, I am glad there are scholars such as Mr. Hankey still working on the matter.

This documentary answers many of the unexplained parts of the presidential assassination but also opens many questions that cannot be fully explained nor have they been proven as fact enough reach the legal standard of beyond reasonable doubt. This film explodes several controversial theories and conspiracies but really does not answer many of the important questions.

* Who really killed President Kennedy?

* If there was a government cover-up link the parts together in a coherent way that establishes a who, what, how, and why of the assassination plot? And more importantly, was it important enough to kill a sitting president. Were they really afraid that President Kennedy would dismantle our national defense structure with the luming threats of international terrorism, communism, and world peace ever before us knowing that it is not likely that we would ever be able to trust world peace to them permanent care.

I started watching this with an open mind, but quickly the one-sided bias became evident. I love documentaries but this is not a documentary. The makers have hand-picked facts and tried to fit them into what they want the story to be. The fact they digitally added a swastika armband on Nixon is an inflammatory image that shows the whole piece can't be taken seriously. I'm open to legitimate facts of a conspiracy and have watched many documentaries that provide facts and leave it to the viewer to form an opinion. This piece is far from legitimate, and it's scary that others have given it a higher rating.

'Dark Legacy' is a film that everyone interested in the Kennedy assassination and its circumstances should watch. It's on Netflix instant streaming, which greatly increases its accessibility.

First of all, the film presented tons of pieces of evidence that prove JFK was probably murdered as the result of a conspiracy. It proves why the single-bullet theory is absolutely ridiculous. It uses government memos to prove the points it makes. Basically, it has more detail and convincing arguments than other works that try to do the same thing. The person who made the film claims that it proves the conspiracy's existence beyond a reasonable doubt. Maybe so.

Unfortunately though, even the most casual of viewers could tell that this is a low-budget film. There's nothing wrong with low-budget films, but this one had a couple of spelling mistakes (i.e. "Napoleon" being spelled "Napolean," and lack of punctuation in a crucial sentence (i.e. at one point it says, "Hoover knew that the Bushs were Nazis"). This is not good for a documentary, because it lowers the credibility.

Also, I couldn't help but notice that some of the facts presented were biased after doing some research. #1: Allen Dulles actually was not a Nazi sympathizer. #2: Saying that Bay of Pigs was done without any of JFK's approval or foreknowledge is kind of misleading. #3: JFK's head moves forward a little before going back and to the left.

Parts of this film are eye-opening, and much of it is good film-making. However, it's obviously low-budget and some of it is kind of biased. I guess I'd say the good kind of outweighs the bad.