Week in Review: Compiling the Medical Evidence in the JFK Assassination
And how Oliver Stone's 'JFK' revived public consciousness and popular culture in the 1990s
JFK Facts is traveling to summer destinations but still keeping eyes on upcoming releases of previously classified documents from the archives and agencies.
Evidence Mounts on Multiple Gunmen
Testimony from living witnesses at a May 20th hearing of the House Task Force on Declassification of Federal Secrets and newly declassified documents released since President Trump’s Jan. 23rd Executive Order 14176 revealed a catalog of new evidence pointing to multiple gunmen in the assassination of President Kennedy. Jefferson Morley shows how the testimony of the Dallas doctors who tried to save JFK’s life; the testimony of crime scene eyewitnesses; the testimony of personnel involved in JFK’s autopsy; and other newly declassified material all strengthen the notion that JFK was struck by gunfire from more than one direction.
Roundup of JFK Facts’ Coverage of Middle East and Peace
JFK Facts republished a collection of our previous stories on documents describing President Kennedy’s concerns about world peace and the activities of the CIA back in the 1960s regarding Israel’s nascent nuclear energy program and its potential “development of a nuclear weapon capability.”
JFK in the 1990s
The fourth in Chad Nagle’s series on how Hollywood moviemakers have portrayed and distilled the JFK assassination reached the 1990s, when the nation’s response to Oliver Stone’s landmark feature “JFK” led to Congress’ unanimous passage of the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (JFK Records Act) after a public outcry resulted from a message on screen at the end if the film cited files of the House Select Committee on Assassinations (1976-79) “locked away until the year 2029.”
After “JFK,” the 1990s featured five major motion pictures — three Oscar-nominated — that dealt in some way with the assassination. Of the two that challenged the Warren Commission’s “lone gunman” conclusion, only one received significant attention. That one, directed by Oliver Stone, implicated the CIA in the assassination — and the CIA reacted. By the end of the decade, Hollywood had snapped back in line on JFK’s death.