Things have been rather quiet on the JFK assassination conspiracy front in recent years - but it isn't hard to remember when Oliver Stone stirred things up a full two decades ago with his seminal film JFK. Though many have cried foul on Stone's tendency to play fast and loose with the facts, no one can deny the way it propelled the subject of the government conspiracy into the American psyche.
Famed documentarian Errol Morris (TheThin Blue Line, The Fog of War) is raising the issue once again with a six and a half minute short focusing on one mysterious character who was in Dallas that day. The fascinating short may soon become part of a documentary feature or series - but for now it lives here in all its succinct glory as part of a piece Morris wrote for The New York Times:
For years, I've wanted to make a movie about the John F. Kennedy assassination. Not because I thought I could prove that it was a conspiracy, or that I could prove it was a lone gunman, but because I believe that by looking at the assassination, we can learn a lot about the nature of investigation and evidence. Why, after 48 years, are people still quarreling and quibbling about this case? What is it about this case that has led not to a solution, but to the endless proliferation of possible solutions?
Here's the short embedded from NYT: