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JFK: Sifting Fact from Fiction - How Accurate is Oliver Stone's Controversial Thriller?

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Conspiracies still swirl around the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963. Many of those were depicted in Oliver Stone's 1991 film JFK, and today we'll dig deep into the true story with historian Marty Morgan.

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20 Comments

@tonym994 2 years ago (edited)

I love the line where Garrison casts grave doubt on Ferrey's ridiculous story about what he was doing on 11/22/63. "I find your story very hard to beleive, David" .to which Pesci replies, (w/ his terrible, phony Southern accent), "what part?" JP did more w/ his time on screen than a lot of actors could.

@Haynatt173 3 months ago

Great video and very informative. I’ve watched a ton of JFk videos and movies and this guy is the first one that has ever used the word “good” in the same sentence as that rifle

@tonym994 2 years ago

after watching right thru, I can't help but notice that Marty sounds exactly like Steve Carel. I recently started watching re-runs of 'the Office'. it's uncanny. he often sits, looking at the camera, talking.

@jnatch81 4 weeks ago

This is a well done podcast with reasonable explanations of what happen to JFk and how the events of that day was horribly distorted by O. Stone

@BrianRoselle 1 year ago

Mentioning the overall shooting timing is important because the 5.6 seconds estimate for the shooting duration has been quoted for decades, but is incorrect, as that value originated around the time of the Warren Commission based on an incomplete analysis of the Zapruder film at that time. The most recent estimate based on the film indicates the shooting duration (three trigger pulls with two intermediate reload cocks and aiming) was just over 10 seconds.

@tedhead70 2 years ago

fantastic interview it reminds me of good ole art bell interviews (sans conspiracies)

@Paul-b9m 2 years ago

The fact that it also talked about how the guys with scrambled egg on their chest. Couldn't stand the fact that Kennedy did not want to go into Vietnam. So the powers that be had him taken out

@ristomattikolsi5711 2 years ago

The issue, bigger than weather L.H. Oswald was serious rifleman or not, is how he was allowed to be in that sixth floor window in first place? The presidential protection measures should have sealed all the windows, doors and manhole covers on that route where the motorcade drove through. Specially in the city where the inviroment was openly and violently hostile to president.

@randyharris3175 2 years ago

The doctors said he could have possibly survived the throat wound.

@xDBSxArchAngel 1 year ago

I wonder why governor connelly said himself that he was not struck by that same bullet?? Why would he say that?

@caseymckenzie4760 2 years ago (edited)

The one thing I agree with green shirt guy on is Oswald being depicted as a bad/good shot. I never liked that argument. Even bad shots hit targets. Not saying he was a bad shot. it is just irrelevant.

@DinoMader 1 year ago

Bonnie Ray Williams was never on the
the 6th Floor of that warehouse! He was next to James Jarman on the 5 Floor of the TSBD and that is a known Fact! Because they were looking out the window!

@platypus17whiskey18 2 years ago

Does marty have footage on his yt channel of his shooting "prowess" on a moving target?

@billkeon880 3 weeks ago

The reason that news outlets had info on Oswald so quickly (like X said in the movie that Australia news had background on Oswald so quickly) …it was because most news outlets already had that background from when Oswald defected to the USSR a few years earlier. Listening to Stone’s movie, you’d think there was no prior history.

@rickbucciarelli2778 2 years ago

Guy Bannister the office connection with Bannister & Oswald. The stamp on the FPFC pamphlets. And Delphine Roberts (Bannister’s) Secretary said Oswald was in Bannister’s office all the time.

@Chinners2 1 year ago

It's a film based on a true story with additions to make it a watchable film. Bohemian Rhapsody is also a film based on a true story but has many time related inaccuracies but in both cases, I enjoyed both films as movies without the need to pick them apart . . .

@stevendickson4264 2 years ago

Couldn’t watch more than 3 minutes of this pre school teacher

@tonym994 2 years ago

any lack of excitement(explosions & such) is sort of made up for, by the overkill w/ ..."back, and to the left".. .the Z film not only is shown repeatedly, but the kill shot is enlarged, and (besides being on a large movie screen) Stone isn't shy about that historic, tough to watch, scene.

@caseymckenzie4760 2 years ago

Why did Jacky climb on the trunk of the car after the head shot? To grab a piece of JFK's head THAT WAS BLOWN OUT THE BACK!!! mic drop.

@jenniferferguson1517 2 years ago

“You can’t say Dallas doesn’t love you” was said by MRS Conmaly, not the governor. How do you explain that the governor always said he and Kennedy were NOT shot by the same shot?