Kennedy in Dallas 60 years on
Listing all the books, documentaries etc. about the Kennedy assassination would be impossible, as the pile continues to mount. Expect more to come: 22 November is the sixtieth anniversary of the events in Dallas. One film absolutely stands out, whatever its faults: Oliver Stone’s JFK , released in 1991, with Kevin Costner as New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison and Gary Oldman as the “not-so-lone” gunman Lee Harvey Oswald. Criticism of the film has ranged far and wide but, I suspect, for many people JFK is the version of events which still carries most resonance. The film focuses on the...