JFK films
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Executive Action
The Fog of War
JFK: A President Betrayed
The Searchers
Seven Days in May
The Assassination and Mrs. Paine
The Missiles of October
Thirteen Days
Virtual JFK
Executive Action
1973 movie that views like a low budget version of Oliver Stone's JFK. It may (or may not) still be posted to YouTube. Mark Lane, one of the early JFK researchers, was a co-author for the script.
A dramatized account of the conspiracy to remove President Kennedy from office, made two decades before Oliver Stone's JFK. Executive Action was a much lower budget version than JFK and also has far fewer details, but it holds up well despite the passage of time. Jim Garrison's efforts to investigate and prosecute the perpetrators is not part of the story but there's a character loosely based on Allen Dulles.
The Fog of War
The Fog of War is a profile of Robert McNamara, the Secretary of "Defense" for JFK and LBJ. McNamara admits they did not know the Cuban military had been given short range nuclear weapons by the Soviets. If the US had invaded in October, 1962, the Cubans would have nuked the invading soldiers, which would have triggered a full scale nuclear war.
www.errolmorris.com/film/fow_transcript.html
from the film "The Fog of War"
Robert McNamara:
October 2nd. I had returned from Vietnam. At that time, we had 16,000 military advisors. I recommended to President Kennedy and the Security Council that we establish a plan and an objective of removing all of them within two years.
October 2nd, 1963
Kennedy: The advantage to taking them out is?
McNamara: We can say to the Congress and people that we do have a plan for reducing the exposure of U.S. combat personnel.
Kennedy: My only reservation about it is if the war doesn't continue to go well, it will look like we were overly optimistic.
McNamara: We need a way to get out of Vietnam, and this is a way of doing it.
Kennedy announced we were going to pull out all of our military advisors by the end of '65 and we were going to take 1000 out by the end of '63 and we did. But, there was a coup in South Vietnam. Diem was overthrown and he and his brother were killed.
I was present with the President when together we received information of that coup. I've never seen him more upset. He totally blanched. President Kenndy and I had tremendous problems with Diem, but my God, he was the authority, he was the head of state. And he was overthrown by a military coup. And Kennedy knew and I knew, that to some degree, the U.S. government was responsible for that. ....
I am inclined to believe that if Kennedy had lived, he would have made a difference. I don't think we would have had 500,000 men there.
JFK: A President Betrayed
JFK: A President Betrayed Synopsis
The Kennedy Administration, the golden days of our American "Camelot", is one of the most written about and popular periods of American history. But there is one profound and moving story still waiting to be told.
JFK: A President Betrayed uncovers new evidence that reveals how President John F. Kennedy boldly reversed deeply entrenched pro-war government policy to embark on secret back-channel peace efforts with Russian President Nikita Khrushchev, Cuban dictator Fidel Castro and other "enemies" of the United States. The film raises many questions as to whom his real enemies were.
JFK: A President Betrayed offers a poignant look at the 35th president’s desperate, solitary struggle to mitigate armed conflict and makes clear the extent to which he risked political capital - and, ultimately, his life - to pull the world back from the brink of war and possible nuclear annihilation. Featuring new, probing interviews with advisors to Kennedy and Khrushchev, JFK: A President Betrayed is a meticulously well-researched portrait of a president who refused the counsel of powerful, hawkish government officials advocating for, among other things, a U.S. nuclear strike against the Soviet Union. Instead, Kennedy learned to trust his gut - instincts forged by the considerable suffering he experienced during the Second World War, and tested by the early crises of his administration.
"the best screen depiction of Kennedy's foreign policy that I know of"
https://kennedysandking.com/john-f-kennedy-reviews/jfk-a-president-betrayed
JFK: A President Betrayed
Reviewed by James DiEugenio
Posted November 4, 2014.Black Op Radio
Show #774
Original airdate: March 17, 2016
Guests: Cory Taylor / Jim DiEugenio
Topics: JFK: A President Betrayed / Assassination researchPlay Cory Taylor (1:14:41) MP3 download
JFK: A President Betrayed, Agora Productions
Cory's dad was an RFK campaign chairman in California
Oliver Stone and James Douglass had deep impacts on Cory
What could we establish in the record for there to be a motive?
Len is very impressed with the story telling of the film
Two years research prior to production, over 60 books read
The challenge, what to leave out, so much material
A synopsis, not a script, but a blueprint
Include leading questions in your interviews
Kennedy staff, eye witnesses, historians, academics, authors
The film is narrated by Morgan Freeman
Len appreciates the scope and accuracy of the film
The generation that won the Second World War
Kennedy's style was so contradictory
LeMay's war hawk mentality was born out of real experience
Surprising, how much credit that Nikita Khrushchev deserves
Some of the other Joint Chiefs were just as bad if not worse
Dean Acheson personifies a looking down on Kennedy
Kennedy's commitment to peace using back channels
Senator Kennedy understood Vietnam was not going to be successful
Averell Harriman, John Galbraith, a Vietnam cable not sent
Norman Cousins was to meet with Khrushchev
Kennedy message, no more serious partner in pursuit of peace
The Improbable Triumvirate: (Cousins 1972)
Cousins daughters are in the film, and original photos
Vienna Summit translators Viktor Sukhodrev and Alexander Akalovsky
A majority of interviewees do not indulge a conspiracy
Each American has to decide for themselves
LBJ choices, Cuba, Intelligence/Military conspiracy, or whitewash
Astounding the amount of information researchers have uncovered
1953 footage of Senator Kennedy talking about Vietnam
Kennedy was pursuing a dialogue with Fidel Castro, Jean Daniel
A lot of DVD extras, more details on Vietnam
The film affirms that John Kennedy had certain qualities of leadership
A peaceful world, really inspiring, what he was trying to do
People working for the greater good develop enemies
Cory is working on the early period of the Nazi party
www.jfkapresidentbetrayed.org, info@agoraproductions.org
JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass (2021)
the original title was JFK: Destiny Betrayed, after the book by scriptwriter Jim DiEugenio
OCTOBER 12, 2019 11:00PM PT AGC Television Picks up Worldwide on Oliver Stone's 'JFK: Destiny Betrayed' By JOHN HOPEWELL
John HopewellCANNES — AGC Television, the TV production-distribution division of Stuart Ford's still fast expanding independent content studio AGC Studios, has landed worldwide rights to another high-profile doc-series which it describes as "probing" and "explosive": Oliver Stone's "JFK: Destiny Betrayed."
The acquisition was announced early Monday by AGC Television president Lourdes Diaz.
The acquisition continues AGC Television substantial investment in non-fiction which is in high-demand in the streaming and premium cable space, allowing operators to reach diverse audience segments with high-profile original content at relatively modest cost.
Few filmmakers are as high-profile as Oliver Stone and"JFK" has proved the most controversial of his films. In the new doc-series, Stone and writer James DiEugenio, author of "Destiny Betrayed: JFK, Cuba, and the Garrison Case," place now declassified files related to President Kennedy's assassination in a far larger context, aiming to shine more light on what really happened in 1963.
Coming in on the assassination from the angle of Kennedy's far-reaching policy speeches that threatened the status-quo, Stone will "reveal that Kennedy's foreign policy actions were revolutionary in many ways and were a conscious decision he had been contemplating for a decade before taking office," said an AGC Television statement.
It went on: "Stone will put Kennedy's assassination in context politically, and present interviews, documents, and forensics reports that will change forever how Kennedy's life, political career, and assassination will be considered."
Those interviewed in the series include John Tunheim, chairman of the Assassination Records Review Board, criminologist Henry Lee, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., James Galbraith, and Salon founder David Talbot.
"It's not an exaggeration to state that this series features the most distinguished collection of talent and knowledge on the JFK case ever assembled," said the AGC Television press release.
Diaz added: "We have long admired Oliver Stone and his work, and the revelatory information his new documentary brings forward not only sheds a new light on JFK's presidency and his assassination, it informs us about our contemporary world,"
"This documentary film represents an important bookend to my 1991 film. It ties up many loose threads, and hopefully repudiates much of the ignorance around the case and the movie," Stone wrote.
"JFK: Destiny Betrayed" reunites Stone with ace cinematographer Robert Richardson ("Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood," "Nixon," "The Aviator"), who won the first of his three Academy Awards for "JFK."
Rob Wilson behind Showtime's "The Untold History of the United States," produces with Ingenious Media.
AGC's Stuart Ford and Diaz, Ingenious Media's Andrea Scarso, Amit Pandya, and Peter Touche, and Angela Ceccio and Fernando Sulichin serve as executive producers.
"JFK: Destiny Betrayed" joins an AGC non-fiction slate which already features Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 11/9," "Ask Dr. Ruth," a big hit at Sundance, and the upcoming "Scandalous," on the rise of the National Enquirer; "Good Trouble: John Lewis," described as an inspiring look at the firebrand legislator, and "Lady Boss: the Jackie Collins story."
Rush to Judgment II
Martin Sheen To Narrate Documentary On JFK Death Probe From Original Oswald Investigator
By Amanda N'Duka June 17, 2019
EXCLUSIVE: Martin Sheen to is on board to narrate Rush to Judgment II, an update to the 1967 version, Rush to Judgment, which is being executive produced by Stephen S. Jaffe. He is a former staff investigator and last surviving member of the legal team run by New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison who led a probe into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
The original Emile de Antonio-directed documentary was based on the New York Times best-selling novel Rush to Judgment by attorney Mark Lane, in which he takes issue with the Kennedy investigation and exposes serious flaws in the conclusions made by the Warren Commission. Lane, died in 2016, will be credited posthumously as an executive producer.
The contemporary documentary, which will be produced by Dylan Howard via his Topixly label, aims to uncover the conspiracy of powerful men that resulted in the assassination of President Kennedy and a carefully planned incriminating trail leading to frame the self-described "patsy," Lee Harvey Oswald.
It will feature interviews from associates of John and Robert Kennedy, as well as comments from recorded phone conversations by President Lyndon Johnson, in addition to former FBI, Secret Service, military intelligence and congressional personnel, who provided firsthand information. Oliver Stone, who directed the 1991 political thriller JFK about Garrison´s probe, also is set to appear.
Jaffe served an associate producer and technical consultant for the 1973 film Executive Action, starring Burt Lancaster and Robert Ryan, and was an associate producer/technical consultant on John Barbour´s documentaries, including, The JFK Assassination: The Jim Garrison Tapes. Howard also created An American Murder Mystery on Investigation Discovery.
Sheen has lent his voice as a narrator to a number of documentaries and films including Stone´s JFK pic that starred Kevin Costner as Garrison..
Show #945
blackopradio........19.htmlOriginal airdate: Jun 27, 2019
Guests: Steve Jaffe, Lee Shepherd
Topics: JFK Assassination Research
Play Steve Jaffe (40:50) MP3 download
www.blackopradio.....45a.mp3
Stephen Jaffe is a former staff investigator for New Orleans DA Jim Garrison
A forensics analyst exclusively assigned to JFK case, 1967-1968
Technical consultant to the movie Executive Action (1973) starring Burt Lancester; watch full movie
Mark Lane's friend and last surviving member of Jim Garrison's team
Previous appearances on BOR; episodes 783, 853, 855, 860
Episode 783 (2016) dedicated to Mark Lane (5 hours and 40 minutes)
Steve is currently working on a book
Documentary on Mark Lane by Pauley Perrette; watch online for free
ALL books by Mark Lane
New documentary on the JFK assassination to be narrated by Martin Sheen
Video: Oswald stunned to learn that he's charged with killing JFK (press conference)
The Washington Post Article: Who killed Bobby Kennedy? RFK Jr. doesn´t believe it was Sirhan
Trump postponed the release of the last batch of JFK documents to 2021
CE 399: The bullet doesn't match the rifle
DCI John McCone's memo to James Rowley, Chief of the Secret Service
"Oswald subject was trained by this agency, under cover of the Office of Naval Intelligence"
The Warrent Report is laughable
Video: Warren Report was ruled to be inadmissible in preliminary hearing
Vincent Bugliosi's Reclaiming History
Jim DiEugenio takes apart Bugliosi's Reclaiming History; 25 shows for just $10
John Barbour's two great documentaries: The JFK Assassination: The Jim Garrison Tapes
And The American Media & The 2nd Assassination Of President John F. Kennedy: Amazon Prime, Vimeo
Steve met with the then President of France Charles de Gaulle in Paris
Steve also possesses a copy of the unaltered Zapruder film
The new documentary talks about the kinds of people that hated Kennedy and wanted him out of the way
Kennedy's political foreign policy decisions are also explored
JFK created enemies out of those who specialized in regime change
Also in the upcoming film, a conversation between Mark Lane, Oliver Stone and Robert Tanenbaum
Article: The Intra-Administration War in Vietnam by Arthur Krock, Oct 3, 1963 in the NYT
The cover-up was far more sophisticated than the plot to kill Kennedy
The documentary is expected to be released in 2020
The Searchers
Seven Days in May
The novel was about a military plot to topple a young President negotiating an unpopular peace treaty with the Soviet Union. President Kennedy read the book and urged his allies in Hollywood to rush this into a film production, since he realized the threat to his presidency -- and to democracy in America. Unfortunately, the film was finished after the coup against JFK.
13 Days
Thirteen Days is Kevin Costner's "pre-quel" to JFK (he plays the lead role in both films although neither film explicitly mentions the other). Thirteen Days is a reenactment of the Cuban Missile Crisis that shows some of the motivation for the removal of President Kennedy -- he refused to attack Cuba and worked out a back channel deal with the Soviet Union to defuse the crisis. His behavior was partly reckless but he refused to let the generals wage full scale war, and they got their revenge in Dallas.
A lower budget film The Missiles of October aired on television in the 1970s. Martin Sheen played Robert Kennedy.
Virtual JFK
Virtual JFK is an examination of the evidence that President Kennedy had ordered the withdrawal of US troops from Viet Nam. Unfortunately, it does not connect the dots to November 22, 1963.
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February 25, 2024