At heart of mystery of who killed John F. Kennedy lies puzzle of Lee Harvey Oswald.At heart of mystery of who killed John F. Kennedy lies puzzle of Lee Harvey Oswald.At heart of mystery of who killed John F. Kennedy lies puzzle of Lee Harvey Oswald.
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Gary Oldman
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A really outstanding episode on Oswald's life and Kennedy's assassination
This episode of Frontline goes into exquisite detail about Lee Harvey Oswald's life from infancy forward. People who knew him as a teen in the Bronx said that he seemed to be a total loner, like someone who had never made a real connection to another human in his entire life. His father died before he was born, and his mother seeing Lee and his siblings as burdens, put them in an orphanage. But by age 12 he was once again living with his mother.
As an adult he would veer from one extreme viewpoint to the other, always looking for greatness - he was for Castro, he was against Castro, he wanted to be in the military, he wanted out, he wanted to live in the USSR, then he wanted out, and so on. There are new computer models of the path of the bullet that shot Kennedy and there is a complete analysis of Kennedy's assassination and Oswald's known activity before and afterwards. The research and detail are outstanding with interviews of people who knew Oswald or were involved in the investigation or were just passive witnesses to history. The documentary doesn't try to lead the viewer to any opinion about whether there was a conspiracy or not. And even though the evidence presented points to Oswald being guilty of the shooting and probably acting alone, there are enough questions about his past associations and documents that are still classified that you have to wonder - "What if?"
I guess the takeaway from this episode that I got was that Oswald was such a goofy unreliable person with delusions of grandeur - I just can't see any of Kennedy's enemies using him to assassinate the president. There is a good chance that, had he been included in any such plot, he would have just walked up to the secret service and told them all about those awful people who want to kill the president and how only he could stop it. Because, in the end, he wanted fame devoid of any principles and he probably didn't care whether he killed a president or saved one in order to get it.
As an adult he would veer from one extreme viewpoint to the other, always looking for greatness - he was for Castro, he was against Castro, he wanted to be in the military, he wanted out, he wanted to live in the USSR, then he wanted out, and so on. There are new computer models of the path of the bullet that shot Kennedy and there is a complete analysis of Kennedy's assassination and Oswald's known activity before and afterwards. The research and detail are outstanding with interviews of people who knew Oswald or were involved in the investigation or were just passive witnesses to history. The documentary doesn't try to lead the viewer to any opinion about whether there was a conspiracy or not. And even though the evidence presented points to Oswald being guilty of the shooting and probably acting alone, there are enough questions about his past associations and documents that are still classified that you have to wonder - "What if?"
I guess the takeaway from this episode that I got was that Oswald was such a goofy unreliable person with delusions of grandeur - I just can't see any of Kennedy's enemies using him to assassinate the president. There is a good chance that, had he been included in any such plot, he would have just walked up to the secret service and told them all about those awful people who want to kill the president and how only he could stop it. Because, in the end, he wanted fame devoid of any principles and he probably didn't care whether he killed a president or saved one in order to get it.
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- Dec 8, 2021
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