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JFK Film Question

  • 12-05-2010 2:08pm
    #1
    Wompa1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,193 ✭✭✭


    Hi Guys,

    In the film re the trial of Clay Shaw. Jim Garrison meets with an informant X. Obviously Olivier Stone is a bit of a BS artist anyway but I thought something this informant has 'said' would be easy enough to check. He had said that the papers in New Zealand had reported that Lee Harvey Oswald was killer hours before he was even charged. I was trying to google archives but couldn't find any. What's the delayo?

    Thanks


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  • #2
    TalkieWalkie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,122 ✭✭✭TalkieWalkie


    Hmm not sure about it, I never thought Oswald was the killer.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uutQrNUoH54


  • #3
    Di0genes
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,005 ✭✭✭Di0genes


    Wompa1 wrote: »
    Hi Guys,

    In the film re the trial of Clay Shaw. Jim Garrison meets with an informant X. Obviously Olivier Stone is a bit of a BS artist anyway but I thought something this informant has 'said' would be easy enough to check. He had said that the papers in New Zealand had reported that Lee Harvey Oswald was killer hours before he was even charged. I was trying to google archives but couldn't find any. What's the delayo?

    Thanks
    Bob Cotton, Chief Reporter of the Christchurch Star, says that following the release of JFK, the Star received numerous requests from investigative writers, journalists and authors in the US for copies of the pages of the November 1963 issue. Some conspiracy theorists have made special trips to Christchurch to interview him and there have even been suggestions that the Star company was involved. These theories, however, are based on inaccurate assumptions about the Star newspaper's production.


    Bob Cotton was a reporter at the paper at the time and can recall clearly the events of November 1963. He says that even in 1963 global communication was fast and effective everywhere and an assassination of a US President meant that everything and everyone on the Star worked doubly quick. News then came by AAP and various wire services which would have been competing to get the news out to their subscribers. Photographs were usually wired to Australia, then to Auckland and thence to Christchurch. This time, to get the photographs early, some of the geographical links were by-passed through technical ingenuity at the Star. Even so the paper would not have been published until 1.30 pm or 2.15 - 2.30 pm depending on the edition. Bob Cotton says that the Star was never published in the morning during his time on the newspaper (from 1958). The JFK character Mr X is not even shown with a genuine Star newspaper. He buys a thin-width broadsheet whereas the Star was always produced as a full-width broadsheet.


    Bob Cotton also explains that every newspaper has a large store of biographical material and says that Lee Harvey Oswald was not a stranger to the media. Information on him would have been readily available in US newspapers and media offices and would have been sent out quickly. In 1959 there had been much coverage in newspapers about young men defecting to the Soviet Union and Oswald's defection had been covered in detail in The Washington Post, The Washington Evening Star and The New York Times. Again it was widely reported when Oswald, now with a Russian wife and child, returned to the United States in 1962. The portrait of him in the Star had appeared in The Fort Worth Press on 16 November 1963.

    http://christchurchcitylibraries.com/Heritage/Newspapers/Star23Nov1963/
    TalkieWalkie wrote:
    I never thought Oswald was the killer.


    Imagine my surprise.


  • #4
    Wompa1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,193 ✭✭✭Wompa1


    Di0genes wrote: »
    http://christchurchcitylibraries.com/Heritage/Newspapers/Star23Nov1963/




    Imagine my surprise.

    Cool. Thanks for that. How in the hell I couldn't find that! Damn Kiwis are always up to shennanigans!


  • #5
    Di0genes
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,005 ✭✭✭Di0genes


    Wompa1 wrote: »
    Cool. Thanks for that. How in the hell I couldn't find that! Damn Kiwis are always up to shennanigans!

    The http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/sites.htm site is a comprehensive place to start with JFK conspiracy theories.

    It even has a section dedicated to correcting the litany of falsehoods in Stone's film.

    http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/jfkmovie.htm

    Read through the site, it thoroughly refutes most of the JFK CTers. JFK was murdered by Oswald who was acting alone.



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