{"id":3094,"date":"2019-02-25T06:00:18","date_gmt":"2019-02-25T11:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.basedonatruestorypodcast.com\/?p=3094"},"modified":"2024-02-06T15:55:02","modified_gmt":"2024-02-06T21:55:02","slug":"126-jfk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.basedonatruestorypodcast.com\/126-jfk\/","title":{"rendered":"126: JFK"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"3094\" class=\"elementor elementor-3094\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-61d4cb2 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"61d4cb2\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-27c9a87\" data-id=\"27c9a87\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-416c73a elementor-widget elementor-widget-html\" data-id=\"416c73a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"html.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<iframe frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/playlist.megaphone.fm?e=LEFE1260566039\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-118a43c elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"118a43c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Resources<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7689ce4 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"7689ce4\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<ul>\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0102138\/\">JFK (1991) &#8211; IMDb<\/a><\/li>\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0102138\/plotsummary?ref_=tt_ql_stry_3#synopsis\">JFK (1991) &#8211; Plot Summary &#8211; IMDb<\/a><\/li>\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/JFK_(film)\">JFK (film) &#8211; Wikipedia<\/a><\/li>\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.archives.gov\/research\/jfk\/release\">JFK Assassination Records &#8211; 2018 Additional Documents Release | National Archives<\/a><\/li>\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cia.gov\/library\/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence\/csi-publications\/csi-studies\/studies\/fall_winter_2001\/article02.html\">The Lie That Linked CIA to the Kennedy Assassination \u2014 Central Intelligence Agency<\/a><\/li>\n \t<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mcadams.posc.mu.edu\/jfkmovie.htm\">JFK &#8212; The Assassination Movie<\/a><\/li>\n \t<li><a href=\"http:\/\/22november1963.org.uk\/how-accurate-is-oliver-stone-film-jfk\">How Accurate is Oliver Stone&#8217;s Film JFK? : 22 November 1963<\/a><\/li>\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/themoviesnobs.net\/tag\/is-the-movie-jfk-true\/\">Is the movie JFK true? | The Movie Snobs<\/a><\/li>\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/2014\/11\/28\/truth-behind-jfks-assassination-285653.html\">The Truth Behind JFK&#8217;s Assassination<\/a><\/li>\n \t<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jonathanvankin.net\/news-and-thoughts\/jfk-excerpt-from-based-on-a-true-story-but-with-more-car-crashes\">JFK &#8211; Jonathan Vankin Online<\/a><\/li>\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/movies\/movie-news\/oliver-stone-looks-back-at-jfk-171783\/\">Oliver Stone Looks Back at \u2018JFK\u2019 \u2013 Rolling Stone<\/a><\/li>\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2011\/apr\/28\/jfk-oliver-stone-john-f-kennedy\">Oliver Stone&#8217;s JFK: a basket case for conspiracy | Film | The Guardian<\/a><\/li>\n \t<li><a href=\"http:\/\/22november1963.org.uk\/factual-errors-oliver-stone-movie-jfk\">Are There Factual Errors in Oliver Stone&#8217;s Movie JFK? : 22 November 1963<\/a><\/li>\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/JFK-Book-Film-Applause-Screenplay-ebook\/dp\/B00INAHHQY\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1548611615&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=JFK%3A+The+Documented+Screenplay\">JFK: The Book of the Film (Applause Screenplay) &#8211; Kindle edition by Oliver Stone, Zachary Sklar. Humor &amp; Entertainment Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.<\/a><\/li>\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/frontline\/article\/hollywood-history-the-debate-over-jfk\/\">Hollywood &amp; History: The Debate Over &#8220;JFK&#8221; | Who Was Lee Harvey Oswald? | FRONTLINE | PBS | Official Site<\/a><\/li>\n \t<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mcadams.posc.mu.edu\/garrison.htm\">New Orleans\/Garrison JFK Assassination Investigation<\/a><\/li>\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1992\/10\/22\/obituaries\/jim-garrison-70-theorist-on-kennedy-death-dies.html\">Jim Garrison, 70, Theorist on Kennedy Death, Dies &#8211; The New York Times<\/a><\/li>\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.archives.gov\/research\/jfk\/finding-aids\/garrison-papers.html\">Papers of Jim Garrison | National Archives<\/a><\/li>\n \t<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jfk-online.com\/jfk100whoshaw.html\">Who Was Clay Shaw? Oliver Stone&#8217;s JFK: The JFK 100: JFK assassination investigation: Jim Garrison New Orleans investigation of the John F. Kennedy assassination<\/a><\/li>\n \t<li><a href=\"http:\/\/joanmellen.com\/wordpress\/2013\/10\/21\/clay-shaw-unmasked-the-garrison-case-corroborated\/\">Clay Shaw Unmasked: The Garrison Case Corroborated | JOAN MELLEN<\/a><\/li>\n \t<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mcadams.posc.mu.edu\/death9.htm\">Supposedly Mysterious JFK Assassination-Related Death of Clay Shaw<\/a><\/li>\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Trial_of_Clay_Shaw\">Trial of Clay Shaw &#8211; Wikipedia<\/a><\/li>\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/trump-to-release-some-jfk-records\/\">2,800 JFK assassination files released &#8211; CBS News<\/a><\/li>\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/apps.dtic.mil\/dtic\/tr\/fulltext\/u2\/a148873.pdf\">a148873.pdf<\/a><\/li>\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikisource.org\/wiki\/Eisenhower%27s_farewell_address_(audio_transcript)\">Eisenhower&#8217;s farewell address (audio transcript) &#8211; Wikisource, the free online library<\/a><\/li>\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jfklibrary.org\/archives\/other-resources\/john-f-kennedy-speeches\/american-university-19630610\">Commencement Address at American University, Washington, D.C., June 10, 1963 | JFK Library<\/a><\/li>\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/history\/what-does-the-zapruder-film-really-tell-us-14194\/\">What Does the Zapruder Film Really Tell Us? | History | Smithsonian<\/a><\/li>\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/David_Ferrie\">David Ferrie &#8211; Wikipedia<\/a><\/li>\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/544+Camp+St,+New+Orleans,+LA+70130\/@29.9480995,-90.0697205,3a,75y,72.48h,90t\/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1seaYhEJsnQbXcgR34y666kQ!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo3.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3DeaYhEJsnQbXcgR34y666kQ%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dsearch.TACTILE.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D360%26h%3D120%26yaw%3D72.481155%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656!4m5!3m4!1s0x8620a6737acec6ef:0xbbeb3fe11c22fcd6!8m2!3d29.9481016!4d-90.0697165\">Camp and Lafayette St &#8211; Google Maps<\/a><\/li>\n \t<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mcadams.posc.mu.edu\/camp.htm\">Lee Oswald and 544 Camp Street<\/a><\/li>\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nola.com\/politics\/index.ssf\/2013\/11\/jfk_assassination_conspiracy_d.html\">JFK assassination conspiracy: Dean Andrews&#8217; lies got Jim Garrison&#8217;s attention | NOLA.com<\/a><\/li>\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/allthatsinteresting.com\/clay-shaw\">Clay Shaw: The Only Man Ever Tried For JFK&#8217;s Assassination<\/a><\/li>\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1992\/10\/22\/obituaries\/jim-garrison-70-theorist-on-kennedy-death-dies.html\">Jim Garrison, 70, Theorist on Kennedy Death, Dies &#8211; The New York Times<\/a><\/li>\n \t<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mcadams.posc.mu.edu\/prouty.htm\">L. Fletcher Prouty &#8212; All Purpose Kennedy Assassination Expert?<\/a><\/li>\n \t<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mcadams.posc.mu.edu\/shawcia.htm\">Was Jim Garrison&#8217;s JFK Assassination Suspect Clay Shaw a CIA Operative?<\/a><\/li>\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/Dealey+Plaza\/@32.7792759,-96.8085066,3a,75y,55.43h,110.54t\/data=!3m10!1e1!3m8!1sj_IUf10gopYMddeqru286Q!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo1.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3Dj_IUf10gopYMddeqru286Q%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D295.17682%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656!9m2!1b1!2i45!4m5!3m4!1s0x864e9915d508f639:0xcfa47bf25b709fe0!8m2!3d32.7788184!4d-96.8082993\">498 Elm St &#8211; Google Maps<\/a><\/li>\n \t<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mcadams.posc.mu.edu\/death9.htm\">Supposedly Mysterious JFK Assassination-Related Death of Clay Shaw<\/a><\/li>\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.archives.gov\/research\/jfk\/select-committee-report\/summary.html\">Summary of Findings | National Archives<\/a><\/li>\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.archives.gov\/research\/jfk\/release\">JFK Assassination Records &#8211; 2018 Additional Documents Release | National Archives<\/a><\/li>\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/trump-expected-to-release-remaining-jfk-assassination-documents-thursday\/2017\/10\/25\/52c8f71a-b9b7-11e7-a908-a3470754bbb9_story.html?noredirect=on&amp;utm_term=.b3c891afb2d5\">Trump delays release of some JFK assassination documents, bowing to national security concerns &#8211; The Washington Post<\/a><\/li>\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.archives.gov\/files\/research\/jfk\/review-board\/report\/arrb-final-report.pdf\">arrb-final-report.pdf<\/a><\/li>\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.history.com\/news\/jfk-assassination-documents-declassified-release\">What Are the Biggest Revelations in the Declassified JFK Assassination Files? &#8211; HISTORY<\/a><\/li>\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/smile.amazon.com\/Assassins-Garrison-Published-Printing-Paperback\/dp\/B00HQM7I14\/ref=smi_www_rco2_go_smi_5171374337?_encoding=UTF8&amp;SubscriptionId=AKIAILSHYYTFIVPWUY6Q&amp;camp=2025&amp;creative=165953&amp;creativeASIN=B00HQM7I14&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;tag=duckduckgo-vivaldi-20\">On the Trail of the Assassins by Garrison, Jim Published by Warner Books 1st (first) Warner Books Printing edition (1991) Mass Market Paperback: AmazonSmile: Books<\/a><\/li>\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Crossfire-Plot-That-Killed-Kennedy\/dp\/0465031803\">Crossfire: The Plot That Killed Kennedy: Jim Marrs: 8601300280479: Amazon.com: Books<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1e5b22f elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"1e5b22f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Disclaimer: Dan LeFebvre and\/or Based on a True Story may earn commissions from qualifying purchases through our links on this page.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-67c7421 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"67c7421\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Did you enjoy this episode? 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There will be mistakes, so please don&#8217;t use them for quotes. It is provided for reference use to find things better in the audio.<\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f686675 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"f686675\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Okay, so I know I just said we were going to begin our dive into the true story\u2026but, I also think this is worth saying up front: As I mentioned in the introduction, the assassination of President John F. Kennedy has a ton of conspiracy theories circling around it. And while we\u2019ll be looking at one of those threads in this episode, it\u2019s also worth pointing out that\u2026to be completely honest, there\u2019s absolutely nothing I can say in this episode that\u2019ll make everyone happy.<\/p><p>Every episode of this podcast covers a different topic. Each of those topics are things that people dedicate their entire lives to\u2026whether it\u2019s researching those topics, studying them, or even living through those true events in history. And perhaps that is never truer than the story today. Some people are convinced one version of the story is true while others are convinced a completely different version of the story is true.<\/p><p>And, for the most part, those different versions all have some really great points. But, the truth is that there are always going to be things we can\u2019t say is 100% truth with absolute certainty that will get everyone to believe it.<\/p><p>People spend\u00a0<em>years and years<\/em>\u00a0on this subject, and I know I\u2019ve said this before but I feel it bears repeating again: There\u2019s no way I can get into the level of detail in a single podcast episode that\u2019ll answer every single question surrounding the story of JFK\u2019s death.<\/p><p>I just wanted to clarify that up front before I start getting emails about how I didn\u2019t cover their favorite theory about JFK\u2019s assassination.<\/p><p>Although, I would love to hear your favorite theories! So, please, send them on! I just hope you realize that our purpose here isn\u2019t to cover topics that people have spent decades unraveling and piecing together in a single podcast episode. We\u2019re here to compare the movie to history, and even then, there\u2019s plenty in the theory laid forth by the film that could be an entire series of podcasts by itself.<\/p><p>Okay, with all of that said, our movie today begins by setting things up with a range of historical footage from figures like President Eisenhower, Senator John F. Kennedy just before his election, and Martin Luther King, Jr. to others like Fidel Castro.<\/p><p>Behind this footage, we hear an uncredited Martin Sheen as the narrator explains that the now-President Kennedy has inherited a secret war against Castro\u2019s dictatorship in Cuba. That war is run by the CIA and Cuban exiles and culminates with the Bay of Pigs invasion in April of 1961 \u2014 which was a massive failure.<\/p><p>The narrator continues saying that after the failed operation, President Kennedy took public responsibility for it, but privately claimed the CIA lied to him about it. Then, to make matters worse, the voiceover explains the tension grew even higher when President Kennedy announced there were Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba \u2014 just 90 miles away from the United States.<\/p><p>For today\u2019s movie, though, the narrator continues to explain there are more wars in Laos and Vietnam going on, too. Then, it cuts to historical footage of a speech that Kennedy gave where he\u2019s talking about how we, as Americans, mustn\u2019t enforce peace on the world through weapons of war\u2026but rather that we must re-examine our own attitudes toward the Soviet Union with our most basic common link \u2014 we all inhabit this same planet.<\/p><p>All of that tension between the U.S. and Cuba really happened. I won\u2019t really go into too much depth on that here, though, because we already covered that on episode 115 of Based on a True Story when we learned about the movie\u00a0<em>Che!<\/em><\/p><p>And it is true that Kennedy gave that speech the movie is referring to at American University in Washington, D.C. on June 10<span style=\"font-size: 13.5px; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;\">th<\/span>, 1963.<\/p><p>The movie actually cuts together different parts of the speech to make it seem like he said things back-to-back, but even so, I think it does a decent job gathering the essence of the speech.<\/p><p>It\u2019s too long to include here, but I\u2019ll make sure to have a link to it in the show notes for this episode. Basically, President Kennedy\u2019s speech eluded to the Second World War. He talked about how a new war wouldn\u2019t be the same as World War II \u2014 it\u2019d be a new kind of war. A kind of war filled with nuclear powers that would stretch to the corners of the globe. It\u2019d be the kind of war that would be pointless as an attempt to bring about peace.<\/p><p>So, instead, his speech suggested re-evaluating the idea of peace. First, believe it is attainable. Second, believe that the path to peace doesn\u2019t come through nuclear wars but through an understanding that we\u2019re all just people inhabiting the same planet.<\/p><p>After this, back in the movie, the historical footage blends from the days leading up to and during Kennedy\u2019s presidency to the day of the assassination. We see clips edited into a sequence that blends a mixture of real, historical footage, and fictional shots made for to look like they\u2019re historical for the film.<\/p><p>As the music gets more intense, we can see one of the clips the sequence is cutting to is a clock. It\u2019s 12:28. The President\u2019s motorcade is driving down the road to crowds on both sides. 12:29. More shots of the motorcade. 12:30.<\/p><p>The motorcade continues, turning down a street. Just then, the screen goes black. We hear one shot. Then another, and another!<\/p><p>The movie is showing the correct timing here. It was on Friday, November 22<span style=\"font-size: 13.5px; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;\">nd<\/span>, 1963, at 12:30 PM when three shots rang out over Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas. Even though not all of the footage we see in the movie is historical, the footage we see of JFK getting shot is.<\/p><p>Not to get too far ahead of our story because the movie mentions it later, but some of that footage comes from the Zapruder film. That\u2019s the name for footage that clothes manufacturer Abraham Zapruder was filming as President Kennedy drove by. He was just capturing the event of the President\u2019s motorcade passing by for personal use. Little did he know the frames he\u2019d capture would turn into one of the most famous pieces of footage in American history as they depict the gruesome assassination of JFK.<\/p><p>The movie doesn\u2019t show it all, and for good reason. I\u2019ve got a link to the footage over at basedonatruestorypodcast.com if you want to see the whole thing \u2014 but I will warn you, it\u2019s tough to watch.<\/p><p>Going back to the movie\u2019s timeline, after President Kennedy is shot, the story cuts to Jim Garrison. He\u2019s played by Kevin Costner and is the District Attorney in New Orleans, Louisiana. That\u2019s about 450 miles, or just over 700 kilometers, away from where President Kennedy was shot in Dallas, Texas. Despite the distance, Jim Garrison stumbles upon a possible connection to the shooting in his hometown of New Orleans.<\/p><p>That connection is Joe Pesci\u2019s character, David Ferrie. When Jim sits down to chat with David, it\u2019s clear there\u2019s something a bit off with his story. He\u2019s changing details from what his colleagues apparently said, forgetting other details, and seems to be bit on edge as he\u2019s chain smoking in Jim\u2019s office.<\/p><p>Jim continues his investigation, but then something unexpected happens \u2014 Lee Harvey Oswald is murdered. The man who was in custody for the assassination of the President was shot and killed by a Dallas nightclub owner named Jack Ruby while being transported by the police.<\/p><p>Oswald is played by Gary Oldman in the film while Jack Ruby is played by Brian Doyle-Murray.<\/p><p>For the most part, that\u2019s all true. By that, I mean, of course the specifics of scenes and conversations are dramatized but no one expects a movie to be 100% accurate. So, as much as you can expect a movie to be true, it is here.<\/p><p>Jim Garrison was really the District Attorney in New Orleans at the time. David Ferrie was a real person, too, and was someone that Jim Garrison started looking into soon after the JFK assassination. Probably the most inaccurate part of this whole scene with Jim Garrison talking to David Ferrie was how guilty the movie made him look from the onset through him fidgeting, telling lies and the nervous chain smoking.<\/p><p>In truth, when David found out that Jim was looking for him, he voluntarily came into Jim Garrison\u2019s office with his attorney. Although, on the other side of that, if you recall in the movie one of the most suspicious pieces to David Ferrie\u2019s story is his claim that he drove from New Orleans to Houston just to go ice skating with some friends.<\/p><p>And that bit is true. According to the Warren Commission report \u2014 that\u2019s the official report from the U.S. government on the assassination of President Kennedy \u2014 David Ferrie told the FBI that he and two of his friends drove the 350 miles or some 560 kilometers to Winterland Skating Rink in Houston, Texas on the night of the assassination. His reason for the trip was that he was thinking about opening a skating rink of his own in New Orleans and he wanted to see how they were run.<\/p><p>I\u2019m not sure why he felt the need to drive all the way to Houston to do that, but that was his story, so you can see why it\u2019d seem a bit odd.<\/p><p>As for the movie\u2019s mention of Dallas nightclub owner Jack Ruby killing Lee Harvey Oswald while he was in police custody, I\u2019m sure you already know that\u2019s true. In fact, if you\u2019re familiar with the JFK assassination at all, you\u2019ve probably already seen the Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph by Bob Jackson who happened to snap a photo at the exact moment Jack Ruby pulled the trigger, killing Oswald.<\/p><p>That happened on November 24<span style=\"font-size: 13.5px; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;\">th<\/span>, 1963, just two days after Kennedy was assassinated. And it\u2019s also worth pointing out the movie is correct in showing that at the time, Oswald wasn\u2019t officially charged with JFK\u2019s death \u2014 he was in custody for the murder of a police officer while he was trying to evade capture after JFK\u2019s assassination. But that doesn\u2019t mean people didn\u2019t already suspect it was him.<\/p><p>In fact, there\u2019s some reports that the reason why Jack Ruby killed Oswald was not only in retaliation of JFK\u2019s death but also to save Jackie Kennedy from having to return to Dallas to go through the inevitable trial. Of course, as the movie implies, there are others who believe Jack was involved in the overall conspiracy and killing Oswald was one way of typing up a loose end.<\/p><p>Back in the movie, we see some text on screen to let us know that three years have passed. With Oswald\u2019s death, everyone presumes the assassination is, well, solved.<\/p><p>But then, there\u2019s a scene where we see Kevin Costner\u2019s version of Jim Garrison up until the wee hours of the morning pouring over the Warren Commission report. As he does, he starts to disbelieve what he\u2019s reading \u2014 there\u2019s no way this could be true!<\/p><p>In the next scene, Jim and the two guys working with him, Lou Ivon and Bill Broussard, together, head to a building at 531 Lafayette Street in New Orleans where, in 1963, an ex-FBI agent by the name of Guy Banister had his office. He had since retired, but worked during his retirement as a private investigator out of the building.<\/p><p>Then, heading around the corner of the building to the other side of it, Jim points out that this same building on the other side has a different street address. This side is 544 Camp Street. Jim continues to explain to the two other men that 544 Camp Street is the address Lee Harvey Oswald had stamped on pro-Castro leaflets he handed out three years before JFK\u2019s assassination.<\/p><p>That\u2019s\u2026well, I can\u2019t really say that it\u2019s true or untrue. The reason for that is because this is a great example of some conflicting stories. What you believe to be the truth really depends on what version of the story you believe. So, let\u2019s just focus on the facts we do know.<\/p><p>It is true that Jim Garrison pushed this theory of Banister being connected through the Camp Street and Lafayette Street addresses. He wrote about it in his book that the movie is partially based on.<\/p><p>And it is true those two streets connect with a building on the corner \u2014 you can look it up on Google maps.<\/p><p>When they were investigating into Oswald\u2019s background, the FBI found out that he might have rented an office on Camp Street. They got this because, just like the movie shows, Oswald stamped his leaflets with the address of 544 Camp Street.<\/p><p>But \u2014 that\u2019s not the only address he used. He also stamped some with his home address or a post office box. So, the FBI thought perhaps he had rented an office. That was supported by a letter they had of Oswald\u2019s where he wrote to the head of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee that while he was trying to start a Cuba Committee in New Orleans, he\u2019d rented an office, \u201cas planned.\u201d<\/p><p>But then the letter went on to say the office was closed three days later.<\/p><p>It\u2019s also worth pointing out that even though Jim Garrison was correct in pointing out that 531 Layafette and 544 Camp Street lead to the same building \u2014 he was incorrect on one assessment: That they go to the same office inside the building.<\/p><p>According to a statement given by Sam Newman, the guy who owned that building, the 544 Camp Street entrance stamped on Oswald\u2019s leaflets opened to a stairway that led up to the second floor. On the other hand, Banister\u2019s office at 531 Layafette was ground-level. There was no way to get from one to the other without going on the street and around the corner.<\/p><p>Which, sure, you could do, but that\u2019s not the narrative either the movie or Jim Garrison was trying to tell.<\/p><p>It\u2019s probably also worth pointing out that Guy Banister was anti-Communist and was pretty far right-wing, politically. Not really the kind of person you\u2019d expect Oswald and his pro-Castro views to hang out with. If you recall, Fidel Castro\u2019s revolution was all about bringing Communism to Cuba \u2014 at least that\u2019s how he publicly positioned it in the beginning. Again, we cover that more in the\u00a0<em>Che!\u00a0<\/em>episode.<\/p><p>On top of all of that, there\u2019s another odd thing to consider before deciding which version of the story you believe. You see, another man who used to have an office at 544 Camp Street was someone the movie never mentions: Carlos Bringuier. Carlos headed up the Cuban Revolutionary Council out of that address for a few years before Oswald handed out the leaflets with that address on them.<\/p><p>While Oswald was pro-Castro, the Cuban Revolutionary Council was vehemently anti-Castro. So, some people think perhaps Oswald put that address on his leaflets as a bit of a jab at the anti-Castro committee who used to be at 544 Camp Street. I say \u201cused to be\u201d, because they didn\u2019t have an office there by the time Oswald was handing out his leaflets.<\/p><p>Oh, and when he was deposed for the Warren Commission, Carlos Bringuier mentioned something very interesting about the leaflets. In the movie, we can clearly see Oswald\u2019s name alongside the address of 544 Camp Street. But according to Carlos\u2019s testimony, he said none of the leaflets he saw that Oswald handed out had Oswald\u2019s name on them. They had the 544 Camp Street address, but instead had a completely different name on them: A. J. Hidell.<\/p><p>A few days later, Oswald was handing out more pamphlets in the street, and this time they had his own name on them\u2026but they had an address of 4907 Magazine Street instead.<\/p><p>So, in the end, the FBI determined that even though Oswald might\u2019ve had an office on Camp Street, he probably didn\u2019t have it for very long \u2014 and so, it was rather unimportant if he did.<\/p><p>Let\u2019s head back into the movie\u2019s timeline now because the next major plot point happens when Jim Garrison has a chat with a lawyer named Dean Andrews, Jr. In the movie, Dean has a rather eccentric look as he\u2019s portrayed by John Candy.<\/p><p>According to the film, Dean says he got a phone call from a man named Clay Bertrand. Clay asked Dean to be the legal representation for Lee Harvey Oswald in the assassination of the president.<\/p><p>And that\u2019s true.<\/p><p>Well, at least it\u2019s true that the real Dean Andrews told both the FBI and the Warren Commission that\u2019s what happened. According to Dean, the same day that President Kennedy was assassinated, on November 22<span style=\"font-size: 13.5px; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;\">nd<\/span>, 1963, he got a phone call from someone named Clay Bertrand. And just like the movie shows, Clay requested that Dean represent who was then the suspected gunman in the Kennedy shooting, Lee Harvey Oswald.<\/p><p>However, what the movie doesn\u2019t show is that there\u2019s a very good possibility Dean Andrews made all of that up. People around Dean described him as someone that was known to stretch the truth at times if he thought it was amusing to do so.<\/p><p>And because of this revelation of the mysterious phone call from a Clay Bertrand, Dean was investigated by many different people. That included Jim Garrison, but as I mentioned just a moment ago, it also included the FBI and the Warren Commission. It soon became apparent that Dean\u2019s testimonies to different people weren\u2019t quite the same. Things just didn\u2019t line up.<\/p><p>In 1967, because of these conflicting statements, some of them made before the Orleans Parish grand jury, Dean was convicted of perjury. He appealed the sentence of 18 months in prison, and before long the case was dropped.<\/p><p>But, of course, you don\u2019t see any of that in the movie.<\/p><p>Speaking of which, going back to the film, after finding out that someone was wanting to hire a lawyer for Oswald, Kevin Costner\u2019s version of Jim Garrison decides to dig deeper. Things spiral even further as he finds out that Clay Bertrand is a name used by a man named Clay Shaw. He\u2019s played by Tommy Lee Jones in the movie.<\/p><p>Clay Shaw is a well-off businessman in New Orleans, so his was a name Jim Garrison knew. Through another thread, Jim finds out about a relationship between Clay Shaw and Kevin Bacon\u2019s version of Willie O\u2019Keefe. According to Willie, who is in prison for prostitution when Jim goes to talk, he was hired by Clay for his professional services.<\/p><p>While he was hanging around, Clay, though Willie mentions to Jim that he saw Lee Harvey Oswald there, too. From here, Jim\u2019s investigation turns toward finding out what Clay Shaw is up to.<\/p><p>Clay Shaw was a real person. And it is true that Jim Garrison made the leap from Clay Bertrand to Clay Shaw. Willie O\u2019Keefe, on the other hand, is a fictional character, and the way the movie shows Jim Garrison finding out about Clay Bertrand is incorrect.<\/p><p>The truth is much more simple, actually. And that is Jim Garrison found out about Clay Bertrand from the Warren Commission \u2014 and he knew about the popular businessman Clay Shaw, so before long a hunch turned into a belief that the two were one and the same man.<\/p><p>I\u2019ve mentioned the Warren Commission briefly throughout this episode, but soon after President Kennedy was assassinated, obviously the government launched an investigation into it. Officially it was launched by President Lyndon B. Johnson and it was named\u00a0<em>The President&#8217;s Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy<\/em>. Unofficially, it was called the Warren Commission because the man leading the investigation was Chief Justice Earl Warren.<\/p><p>He wasn\u2019t the only one involved, of course. There were 34 officially-listed staff members, legal counsels and assistants assigned to the project, and who knows how many unlisted FBI agents, police officers, and other law enforcement.<\/p><p>During the investigation for the Warren Commission, it was\u00a0<em>those\u00a0<\/em>investigators who found out about the call from a man claiming to be Clay Bertrand to the lawyer Dean Andrews, Jr. He did, like the movie shows, ask Dean to be the lawyer for Oswald. At least, that\u2019s according to what Dean told the investigators \u2014 and we\u2019ve already talked about how accurate those statements probably were.<\/p><p>So, the Warren Commission report is where you\u2019d turn to find the official story behind the assassination of JFK. Of course, we all know the official story told by the U.S. government isn\u2019t always the\u00a0<em>true<\/em>\u00a0story.<\/p><p>But, I\u2019ll leave it up to you to decide what to believe is the truth.<\/p><p>Back in the movie, the next major plot point only adds fuel to the conspiracy. Ellen McElduff\u2019s character, a woman named Jean Hill, tells the investigators that there were shots that came from a grassy knoll across the way from where Oswald was located. She claims she heard between four to six shots, but that Secret Service agents threatened her into saying she only heard three shots and they all came from the book depository.<\/p><p>Well, that\u2019s certainly odd. Why would they do that so soon after the assassination?<\/p><p>We also see some other footage \u2014 footage the movie makes look like real, historical footage, except we know it\u2019s not because, well, for one there\u2019s a very young Vincent D\u2019Onofrio in it. Haha! But, the point of this footage in the film is to give more witness testimony. They swear they heard shots coming from the grassy knoll, and while everyone else was still trying to figure out what they had just witnessed happen right in front of them, there was a man running by the knoll.<\/p><p>As is the case for most of these plot points, there\u2019s the official line and then some of the theories posed by others who have investigated the case in a more unofficial manner.<\/p><p>Regardless of what you believe, both officially and unofficially, the movie is correct in showing that there were people who claimed to have heard shots from the grassy knoll. They also claimed to have seen a man running. Some even got as detailed as saying the man who was running was a policeman \u2014 and he was running\u00a0<em>away\u00a0<\/em>from the President\u2019s motorcade. There\u2019s even a photo someone snapped of the policeman running some 30 seconds or so after Kennedy was shot.<\/p><p>So, that must mean he was chasing a gunman by the knoll, right? Or maybe, as others have theorized, perhaps the policeman\u00a0<em>was\u00a0<\/em>the man people saw running. Another version of the story suggests that the policeman was running toward a fellow officer in more of a, \u201cWhat the \u2026 just happened!?\u201d<\/p><p>Officially, though, even though there were reports of shots coming from the grassy knoll, the explanation was simply that people heard shots and didn\u2019t identify where they were coming from correctly. To understand that, you\u2019ll have to understand how the buildings are laid out in Dealey Plaza where President Kennedy was shot.<\/p><p>Elm Street is the name of the road where Kennedy was shot. As you go down Elm Street, you\u2019ll find tall buildings \u2014 roughly six or seven stories each \u2014 on either side of the road. Then, it opens up to the small little city park named Dealey Plaza. On one end of the park there\u2019s the grassy knoll \u2014 which is just a grassy patch of land. If you\u2019ve ever visited it, you\u2019ll know it\u2019s really not very big.<\/p><p>And if you visit the area today, you\u2019ll also see a white X on Elm Street. That\u2019s where it happened.<\/p><p>The official story goes that when Oswald pulled the trigger he was shooting out a sixth floor window. That sound bounced around the other buildings and echoed over the open area by the little city park, making it sound like there were more than the three shots fired.<\/p><p>So, yes, it is true that people claimed to have heard more than three shots. And yes, it is true that some people thought the sounds came from the area of the grassy knoll. But, they were most likely hearing the echoing sound of gunshots in a busy city street and had a hard time identifying exactly where it came from.<\/p><p>At least, that\u2019s the official story.<\/p><p>Going back to the movie, things take a dive into the conspiracy world when Kevin Costner\u2019s version of Jim Garrison is contacted by a secret government agent. He identifies himself only as \u201cX\u201d and is portrayed in the film by Donald Sutherland.<\/p><p>According to X, Jim Garrison is on the right path. He explains that President Kennedy is hated by the CIA, the FBI and even the Mob. And by Jim being on the right path, he\u2019s saying that the assassination was orchestrated by members in those government agencies and Oswald was just a patsy.<\/p><p>Oh, and it is true that Oswald said he was, \u201cjust a patsy.\u201d He refused to confess and instead claimed he was just a patsy mere hours before he was killed by Jack Ruby. The movie makes sure to show that\u2026and that is something a lot of people refer to to suggest he was the fall guy for a much larger conspiracy.<\/p><p>As X explains, the reason for the U.S. government wanting to take out their own president is because they were furious about the failed Bay of Pigs invasion in Cuba. They also didn\u2019t like how he was weakening, to borrow from what we heard President Eisenhower say in the beginning of the movie, \u201cthe military industrial complex.\u201d<\/p><p>Perhaps most importantly to this is an idea X explains that President Kennedy was planning on withdrawing from Vietnam during his second term \u2014 something these secret government agents didn\u2019t agree with. So, they did something about it.<\/p><p>Yet again, this is a story that the movie tells somewhat accurately to the conspiracy theorist\u2019s version, but a much bigger question is whether that version story itself is true or not.<\/p><p>Let\u2019s start with the character of X. He is fictional. Director Oliver Stone admitted this, but was quick to add that he based X on Air Force Colonel L. Fletcher Prouty.<\/p><p>What\u2019s interesting about this is that the movie is correct in showing that Prouty believed there was a bigger conspiracy at play. He believed not only the CIA was behind it, for mostly the reasons we just talked about, but that even the Federal Reserve was involved, too.<\/p><p>Prouty also was pretty outspoken about his beliefs, so you can find quite a bit by doing a search for him. A brief overview, though, not only has him connecting JFK to the CIA, but also that the U.S. Air Force had custody of two extraterrestrial bodies and, of course, that flying saucers were, in fact, real. He also believed that the Jonestown mass suicide wasn\u2019t a mass suicide at all but a mass murder by U.S. intelligence agencies, President Franklin D. Roosevelt was poisoned by Winston Churchill, and while this wasn\u2019t until decades later, that the same secretive government team that took out JFK also took out both Princess Grace of Monaco and Princess Diana.<\/p><p>In the movie, all this ties together for Jim Garrison as X explains the conspiracy and we\u2019re lead to believe Clay Shaw was the mastermind behind the assassination on behalf of the CIA.<\/p><p>There\u2019s one catch to that, though. Jim Garrison never met Colonel Prouty until many years after Clay Shaw was put on trial. The truth is that Jim Garrison never had a secret informant \u2014 that was all added for the movie.<\/p><p>The true story behind why Jim Garrison was led to believe Clay Shaw was the mastermind\u00a0<em>for\u00a0<\/em>the CIA in the plot to assassinate JFK is very complex \u2014 which could be why the movie tries to simplify things a bit \u2014 but I\u2019ll try to recap the highlights here.<\/p><p>It starts during World War II, when Clay Shaw served in the US Army Medical Corps. After the war, Clay became a successful businessman \u2014 but he still maintained connections in the government. In 1947, the CIA was formed with the intention of gathering information on other countries.<\/p><p>Clay traveled to many countries for his business, but one of particular interest was Czechoslovakia. That country was of interest to the U.S. because, within the span of one week in February of 1948, its government changed from a democratic state to a Communist dictatorship.<\/p><p>In 1948, he volunteered some information he\u2019d gathered while traveling abroad to the CIA. On its surface, that adds a connection between Clay Shaw and the CIA. That connection seems a little less important when we back up and realize that the CIA had hundreds of thousands of civilians doing that exact same thing Clay Shaw did.<\/p><p>It was done through a department called the Domestic Contact Service, or DCS. Between 1948 and 1956, Clay delivered a total of 33 separate reports through DCS. There is no official reason for why he stopped in 1956. Well, that\u2019s not entirely true. There was one, it\u2019s just not very helpful:<\/p><p><em>Why the relationship ended after 1956 is not revealed in any of the recently declassified CIA files or Shaw\u2019s own papers. Whatever the reason, the documentary record is clear: Shaw was not handed off by the DCS and developed as a covert operative by the CIA\u2019s Plans (now Operations) Directorate. The relationship just lapsed.<\/em><\/p><p>That is a quote from the official government report on Clay Shaw\u2019s reason for stopping his service to the DCS. Interestingly, though, when Jim Garrison arrested Clay Shaw on March 1<span style=\"font-size: 13.5px; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;\">st<\/span>, 1967, he didn\u2019t have any knowledge of a link to the CIA. He just thought Clay was involved in the assassination plot. As soon as Jim arrested Clay, the CIA started looking into Clay Shaw to see if Jim Garrison was onto something. That\u2019s when they discovered Clay had submitted information to DCS.<\/p><p>As it happened, a guy who was in the New Orleans DCS office named Lloyd Ray was looking into Clay. He knew Clay personally from when Clay had been volunteering information to DCS. Just to play it safe and make sure everyone knew about his personal relationship to the businessman now under investigation for allegedly assassinating the president, he sent a message to the CIA\u2019s general counsel explaining it.<\/p><p>That\u2019s what caused things to blow up.<\/p><p>Somehow, a newspaper in Rome caught wind of Lloyd\u2019s cable. That paper, called\u00a0<em>Paese Sera\u00a0<\/em>published a connection between the New Orleans businessman Clay Shaw and the CIA. This same paper had previously printed an article in 1961 \u2014 two years before Kennedy\u2019s assassination \u2014 claiming that the CIA was in league with a military coup in Algeria. That was the first connection Jim Garrison had to the conspiracy, and six years later it resurfaced with this new article.<\/p><p>They spread a story about a group in Rome called CMC who they believed to be a sub-organization of the CIA \u2014 an organization that had ties to Clay Shaw.<\/p><p>From there, it didn\u2019t take long for the stories to spread like wildfire in the media. On April 25<span style=\"font-size: 13.5px; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;\">th<\/span>, 1967, the\u00a0<em>New Orleans States-Item\u00a0<\/em>newspaper published a front-page story stating that the CIA was linked by evidence uncovered, \u201cby an influential Italian newspaper.\u201d Before long, Clay Shaw was involved in a conspiracy to assassinate President Kennedy on orders from the CIA.<\/p><p>At least, that was the story that spread.<\/p><p>Just a moment ago, I mentioned that Jim Garrison didn\u2019t know about Clay\u2019s connection to the CIA. The reason for that was because, at the time, DCS was a top-secret program \u2014 so Jim Garrison didn\u2019t know anything about that when he was investigating Clay Shaw. He just knew about some threads that connected Clay to the CIA. What he didn\u2019t know was that those threads were through the DCS program and were also threads that, by the 1970s, also included hundreds of thousands of other business men and women like Clay Shaw who voluntarily passed on information to DCS.<\/p><p>Whew! I told you it was complex. And even though we had to skip a bit ahead in the historical timeline some to get an overview, we didn\u2019t even begin to scratch the surface. You can read a much more detailed history of that over on the CIA\u2019s website. I\u2019ll include a link to it in the show notes for this episode at basedonatruestorypodcast.com.<\/p><p>Of course, there\u2019s always the idea that, if indeed the CIA were involved, then\u00a0<em>of course\u00a0<\/em>they\u2019d have something explaining away their involvement \u2014 that\u2019s how cover-ups work, after all! So, I\u2019ll leave that up to you to on how much you believe is truth.<\/p><p>Back in the movie, the climactic ending takes place during the trial of Clay Shaw. Jim Garrison lays out the evidence for the jury and makes his case.<\/p><p>As a little side note, the trial was also where the public became aware of the Zapruder film for the first time. We\u2019ve already talked about most of that evidence, including the now-famous Zapruder film.<\/p><p>However, this trial did happen. To date, Clay Shaw is the only person to ever be put on trial for the assassination of President Kennedy. Even though he was the only person put on trial, it\u2019s not like they thought he acted alone. Of course, Lee Harvey Oswald was named, along with David Ferrie and some others.<\/p><p>We haven\u2019t really talked much more about David Ferrie \u2014 he\u2019s the character played by Joe Pesci \u2014 but as a quick side note, the movie was correct in showing that he died during the timeline of the investigation. That happened on February 22<span style=\"font-size: 13.5px; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;\">nd<\/span>, 1967, which was less than a week after the media broke the news that Jim Garrison was investigating the assassination.<\/p><p>There was some suspicion around his death, because the autopsy determined he died of natural causes\u2026but they also found two suicide notes written when he was found dead. So, which was it? Suicide or natural causes? Or was it that he planned on committing suicide and died of natural causes before he could? We don\u2019t know; nothing could be proven either way.<\/p><p>So, by the time Clay Shaw was arrested and charged with conspiring to assassinate the President on March 1<span style=\"font-size: 13.5px; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;\">st<\/span>, 1967, the two main co-conspirators named, Lee Harvey Oswald, and David Ferrie, were already dead.<\/p><p>Almost two years after being arrested, on January 29<span style=\"font-size: 13.5px; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;\">th<\/span>, 1969, the trial began. It lasted the entire month of February and, just like the movie shows, when the jury deliberated on March 1<span style=\"font-size: 13.5px; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;\">st<\/span>, 1969 \u2014 they came out only one hour later and acquitted Clay Shaw of the charges.<\/p><p>Back in the movie, we see Kevin Costner\u2019s version of Jim Garrison get swarmed by reporters as he\u2019s leaving the courtroom. Answering questions about if he\u2019s going to resign or not, Jim says he\u2019s not going to resign. He\u2019ll run for the District Attorney again, and he\u2019ll win again. And he\u2019ll continue the investigation for another 30 years because that\u2019s what he owes to Jack Kennedy and the country.<\/p><p>He did not continue the investigation that long.<\/p><p>Jim Garrison was the District Attorney in New Orleans until 1973, when he was tried for accepting bribes in an illegal pinball machine scandal. He was found not guilty, but that certainly hurt his public image and he was defeated in a re-election campaign.<\/p><p>As a fun little fact, the man who defeated him and became the new District Attorney in New Orleans was Harry Connick, Sr. Yes, that\u2019s the father of the singer.<\/p><p>Back in the movie, after Jim is hounded by the media, their attention is drawn away as Clay Shaw leaves the courtroom. The horde of reporters migrate over to him, leaving Jim to walk down the hallway alone with his wife and son.<\/p><p>Finally, some text scrolls up giving us details about what happened after the investigation.<\/p><p>First, it says that in 1979, a man named Richard Helms, who was the Director of Covert Operations in 1963, admitted under oath that Clay Shaw had worked for the CIA.<\/p><p>That\u2019s not really true. Some of it is, though. Richard Helms was indeed a deputy director for the CIA at the time. And he was deposed for a libel case related to a book called\u00a0<em>Coup d&#8217;\u00e9tat in America<\/em>. The part that\u2019s not true is about how he admitted that Clay Shaw worked for the CIA. What Richard really said was, \u201cone time, as a businessman, [Clay Shaw] was one of the part-time contacts of the Domestic Contacts Division.\u201d<\/p><p>We already learned about the DCS \u2014 Domestic Contacts Service, or Division as Richard called it. We also learned that even though DCS was under the CIA, Clay Shaw was just one of thousands and thousands of American citizens who gave information to the DCS over the years.<\/p><p>The next bit of text says that Clay Shaw died in 1974 of lung cancer and that no autopsy was allowed.<\/p><p>That\u2019s true. Well, maybe.<\/p><p>Clay Shaw did die in 1974. And it is true that Clay Shaw was buried before an autopsy could be performed. Some people have suggested perhaps this was on purpose \u2014 to cover a more mysterious cause of death.<\/p><p>But, as far as I can tell in my research there\u2019s never been any proof of that. Here\u2019s a brief excerpt from the police report from the officers who arrived on scene after Clay\u2019s death:<\/p><p><em>Although the exact cause of Mr. Shaw&#8217;s death could never be determined without the results of an autopsy, it is clearly evident that Mr. Shaw&#8217;s condition was terminal. During the week prior to his death, he was seen by his attending physician and was being made as comfortable as possible. As of the completion of this report, no evidence has been found to indicate that Mr. Shaw&#8217;s death was anything but natural. Final classification to be made by the Orleans Parish Coroner&#8217;s Office.<\/em><\/p><p>His official cause of death was lung cancer, something attributed to his being a chain-smoker. If you recall, Tommy Lee Jones\u2019s version of Clay is almost always smoking a cigarette when we see him.<\/p><p>Another bit of text in the movie says that between the years 1976 and 1979, a Congressional Investigation found a, \u201cprobable conspiracy\u201d in the assassination of President Kennedy. But then it says that, as of 1991 when the movie was released, nothing has been done about it.<\/p><p>As is the case for most of the facts throughout the movie, we\u2019re split with some truth and some, well, some stretching of that truth. With that said, though, the statement in the movie is closer to straight truth.<\/p><p>There was a committee who looked into the assassination. Their final report was released in 1979. It\u2019s way too long to include here \u2014 for example, just their summary of findings is four pages long!<\/p><p>But, here\u2019s a couple of their findings that I think are relevant:<\/p><ul style=\"font-size: 18px; background-color: #ffffff;\"><li style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><em>The Federal Bureau of Investigation failed to investigate adequately the possibility of a conspiracy to assassinate the President.<\/em><\/li><li style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><em>The Warren Commission failed to investigate adequately the possibility of a conspiracy to assassinate the President.<\/em><\/li><li style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><em>Scientific acoustical evidence establishes a high probability that two gunmen fired at President John F. Kennedy. Other scientific evidence does not preclude the possibility of two gunmen firing at the President. Scientific evidence negates some specific conspiracy allegations.<\/em><\/li><li style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><em>The committee believes, on the basis of the evidence available to it, that President John F. Kennedy was probably assassinated as a result of a conspiracy. The committee is unable to identify the other gunman or the extent of the conspiracy.<\/em><\/li><\/ul><p>Wow! I mean, that\u2019s pretty crazy, right?<\/p><p>The findings go on to say that based on evidence they don\u2019t believe the Soviet or Cuban government were involved. It also didn\u2019t believe anti-Castro groups were involved or a national syndicate of organized crime was involved.<\/p><p>And last, but certainly not least, the movie gets its bubble burst when the report mentioned that it also didn\u2019t believe the CIA was involved in the assassination at all.<\/p><p>I\u2019ll include a link to their official report in the show notes so you can check it out yourself.<\/p><p>Even though the movie says nothing was done since the movie\u2019s release in 1991, there was a scientific study on the audio ballistics done in 1982.<\/p><p>We didn\u2019t talk at all about this because the movie doesn\u2019t show it, but there was a police motorcycle that happened to have its microphone open at the time. So, they studied that audio with the idea that if there were gunshots it should be heard on the audio.<\/p><p>Basically, that report indicated there wasn\u2019t anything that would support the conclusion of a second shooter.<\/p><p>The final bit of text on screen in the movie says that the files of the House Select Committee on Assassinations are locked away until the year 2029.<\/p><p>That\u2019s not true, but of course there\u2019s no way the movie could know this. Those files were supposed to be released in 2029. But, after the movie was released, that changed.<\/p><p>The movie spawned such a resurgence into the assassination of JFK that there was new pressure to release previously top-secret documents.<\/p><p>Then, on October 26<span style=\"font-size: 13.5px; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;\">th<\/span>, 1992, Congress passed the\u00a0<em>President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992.<\/em><\/p><p>As part of the Act, a board was set up to determine what they should do with the documents. For four years, between 1994 and 1998, the board met and tried to figure out what they should do.<\/p><p>Finally, they determined that documents should be released by October of 2017. If you recall from a couple years ago when there was a massive dump of new JFK files released \u2014 that was a direct result of the board\u2019s decision.<\/p><p>What you may not know, though, is that board itself was a direct result of the 1991 movie\u00a0<em>JFK<\/em>. Here\u2019s a section from their final report:<\/p><p><em>The suspicions created by government secrecy eroded confidence in the truthfulness of federal agencies in general and damaged their credibility. Finally, frustrated by the lack of access and disturbed by the conclusions of Oliver Stone\u2019s JFK, Congress passed the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (JFK Act), mandating the gathering and opening of all records concerned with the death of the President.<\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Resources JFK (1991) &#8211; IMDb JFK (1991) &#8211; Plot Summary &#8211; IMDb JFK (film) &#8211; Wikipedia JFK Assassination Records &#8211; 2018 Additional Documents Release | National Archives The Lie That Linked CIA to the Kennedy Assassination \u2014 Central Intelligence Agency JFK &#8212; The Assassination Movie How Accurate is Oliver Stone&#8217;s Film JFK? : 22 November [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[95,108,116],"tags":[151,153],"class_list":["post-3094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conspiracy","category-politics","category-true-crime","tag-series-movies","tag-narration"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>126: JFK | Based on a True Story Podcast<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Ever wondered how much of the 1991 movie JFK is historically accurate? 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