JFK - Collector's Edition 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray [4K UHD]

If you ever thought about Eisenhower's wise words in his farewell speech : "beware of the military-industrial complex", and kept wondering what he really meant, well, look at this film. President Kennedy wanted a Pax Americana for the world. (By the way, when was the last time you ever heard those words ?) President Kennedy wanted to make peace with the Soviet Union, and he wanted to retreat all troops from Vietnam by 1965. The day after he was killed, Johnson took over and immediately sent more troops to Vietnam. The US would stay there till 1975. The war was lost in human and political terms, but the "military-industrial" complex got richer and more powerful. Bell sold their helicopters, General Dynamics their fighters, etc. War is the biggest industry in the US, but the public doesn't know how it works. We aren't allowed to know, because of "national security". So there's a lot of money to be made, since furthermore, there's no sharp line to be drawn between the military ordering equipment and the industry offering it.This film is very important. It shows the exact point in history when the US lost the very significance of its democracy. Since then, the US are an evil empire, where foreign politics doesn't depend on the personal ideas of the elected president, but on what the military-industrial complex wants. Obama already said he would increase the defense budget. He also said he wanted to retreat troops from Iraq, but immediately added that the situation in Afghanistan merits more attention. Obama promised change, but he didn't even remove the secretary of Defense of Bush ! What kind of change is this ? In his place, I would be scared to death also. Remember Kennedy fired Dulles from the CIA, and who "helped" trying finding out who killed president Kennedy in the Warren commission ? Yeah, precisely : his good old buddy Dulles... What kind of "democracy" is this ?This film shows in quite some detail how the conspiracy was forged. To begin with, all standard security procedures were violated. The major of Dallas changed the route of the presidential car, so that it included a slow turn. A lonely shooter was blamed, and killed before the public could hear him say he really worked for the military intelligence - where he was taught Russian and was sent to Russia as a double agent. He just managed to say to the cameras he was "a patsy". Then Ruby, Oswald's killer, was injected with cancer cells, so he couldn't tell who was ordering him. Immediately after the killing of Kennedy, CBS reported that "president Kennedy was hit by three shots" ! How did they know that ? Who said that anyway ? It was false, to begin with. The Zapruderfilm showed there were at least six shots ! And to prevent the truth to emerge, the autopsy of Kennedy was interrupted by some admirals, taking the corpse away to Washington, where the brain of Kennedy "was lost" and the photos of his dead body manipulated. More intriguing is that in New Zealand the newspapers had the full story of Oswald and his fake biography four hours before he was actually charged with the murder of the president, following Colonel Fletcher Prouty, X in the film, and author of the book "JFK - The CIA, Vietnam and the plot to assassinate John F. Kennedy".Hitler said in "Mein Kampf" : The bigger the lie, the more credibility it gets, "since it would never come into the heads of the people to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously. Even though the facts which prove this to be so may be brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and waver and will continue to think that there may be some other explanation."Ambassador Joseph Wilson said : "... a majority of Americans, wanting to trust in the president and his words, actually came to believe that Saddam had nuclear weapons and was somehow responsible for the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001."Now, in the fake democracy the US is nowadays, it seems very likely that even 9/11 was orchestrated by the military-industrial complex. I know you'll probably have problems believing this. I had trouble to believe it myself, I'll tell you. Hear me out, and above all : compare with what happened to Kennedy. To begin with, the murderer was immediately identified. No need to go through a thorough investigation. Osama bin Laden was blamed immediately by Bush. How did they know that ? This is very weird, taking into consideration that the intelligence was apparently a total mess, since those attacks happened in the first place. Now, as happened in the case of Oswald, Osama bin Laden was CIA, and the saying goes : once CIA, always CIA. Now, if you have a suspect, like Osama bin Laden, then it's even stranger that you let all his family members fly away on 9/12, when not a single other plane in the US was allowed to fly. Probably, like with Oswald, the military-industrial complex was not interested that the public became aware of the connections Osama bin Laden still had with the CIA, or maybe they didn't want to reveal the relationship of the Bush and the bin Laden families, shown by Michael Moore in his film Fahrenheit 9/11. What's for sure is that the White House wasn't interested in a investigation. George W. Bush also interfered with Congress investigating the attacks, saying - on the record, see Fahrenheit 9/11 : "It's important for us not to reveal how we collect information. That's what the enemy wants."We also have a clear problem with some "evidence" that was shown to all of us on 9/11. They told us the Pentagon was hit by a plane. Have you ever taken a close look to the small hole that was made in the building ? This is far too small for a large 767. There weren't any remains of a fuselage, the motors, the wings, no, nothing at all, let alone some bodies... Compare with any other plane crash you have seen photos of...To make the similarities with the Kennedy assassination complete, it is also very intriguing that the BBC announced the collapse of the Solomon Brothers Building (WTC7), a huge skyscraper, 23 minutes before it actually happened ! Even worse, when they announced it, you could still see the building erect on the live images behind the speaker. Don't believe me. I don't ask you that. I prefer you check it out for yourself : do a web search with the words "Solomon brothers collapse BBC".Now, the collapse of the Solomon Brothers building is at the same time the "magic bullet mystery" of 9/11. I do not know of any law or force in nature that when two skyscrapers collapse, it will always take a third skyscraper down. In this way, the Solomon Brothers represents the "magic collapse mystery" of 9/11.As with the Kennedy killing, we have to look beyond the facts, and ask WHY this happened, and take a look on the consequences of this "attack". The list is as follows : (1) the war in Afghanistan, (2) the invasion of Iraq, (3) the Patriot Act, limiting our democratic, civil rights and (4) the Guantánamo prison, where people were jailed without legal defense and even tortured.When presidents of the US draw a line between Good and Evil, I always feel uncomfortable. We first had to be aware of the Soviet Union, the "Evil Empire". Now, Iraq, Iran and North Korea are considered the "Axis of Evil". Bill Hicks saw it a little different : "One day, we might find out that WE are the evil empire".

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At one time the question of who killed President John F. Kennedy on that bad November day in 1963 was something of a cottage industry among those who did not buy into the admittedly rushed conclusions of the Warren Commission that was ordered to come to some conclusions in the wake of many unanswered questions by his successor, Lyndon Baines Johnson, in order to assuage the shell-shocked American people. In some circles, circles like that around New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison whose investigation of the matter is the subject of Oliver Stone’s take on the subject in his award-winning JFK, that report only added fuel to the fire of those nagging unanswered questions. Especially by those who could not believe on the public facts of the case that a lone gunman, something of a loser and misbegotten, Lee Harvey Oswald could have done the deed alone. And while that cottage industry has faded somewhat as those who were avidly pursuing their theories have passed on or nothing has come up since then to finally allow them to find their “smoking gun” there will always been a place for such speculation as long as some people like to cling to conspiracy theories of history-or politics.Of course everybody in America in those days, like in earlier times Pearl Harbor and later times 9/11, knew exactly where they were when they heard the news of the assassination of JFK. I had been in a classroom at North Adamsville High when the headmaster came on the P.A. system to tell us the shocking news that one of our own, our poster boy Irishman even if he was chandelier, had been killed down in heathen redneck Dallas. I took it personally pretty hard for a while but I moved on between unattached girls, college, military service, more girls, women, who I wound marrying and having children with and trying to keep body and soul together for a while. Then one day some years after 1991 the year Stone’s film came out I was at a library and noticed a DVD on display with the title The Men Who Killed Kennedy from 1988. The title implying, as is usual in this case, more than one killer alone perked my latent interest since although I was aware of the various theories afloat, most notably Mark Lane’s Rush to Judgement which was the “godfather” of the genre I still figured that the nefarious Oswald did the deed on his own hook. I grabbed that DVD with both hands and subsequently read or viewed most of the material in English on the subject. That was the time when I initially looked at Stone’s film to see where he was going with his theory honing in especially on Garrison’s work which did actually bring somebody, Clay Shaw, if unsuccessfully, before a court.I had written a short review of that original film The Men Who Killed Kennedy some of which I have reread and after recently re-watching JFK, no mean task at three and a half hours, can stand for my take on Stone’s take on the Garrison investigation. Below are some points the two films have in common notwithstanding that Stone, as on other occasions, has used a great deal of cinematic license to produce a commercial film.“Those of us who are interested in history often come across situations where we have to defend the notion that there are conspiracies in history but not all history is a conspiracy. In modern times, with the earlier example of Pearl Harbor and the possible future exception of 9/11, the ‘mystery’ of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in November 1963 has played into the hands of those who see history merely as a conspiracy. I have read more than my fair share of books on the subject, most recently the late Norman Mailer’s book on Oswald, and here I review a documentary, The Men Who Killed Kennedy from 1988 that, in essence, merely adds fuel to the fire of that controversy. At this remove however I think it is clear that the conspiracy- mongers have had their day on the subject and have come up short. Not through lack of trying, though. (Of course their rejoinder courtesy of the late newsman Daniel Schorr is that the conspiracy was so well planned that even fifty plus years later it still holds water-everybody kept quiet.)“Given my leftward political trajectory since the time of the assassination one would think that I would be amenable to some theory of high-level governmental, corporate or criminal conspiracy. As a teenager I campaigned for Kennedy in 1960. I was shocked and dismayed by his murder, throwing away a political notebook that I kept and swearing off politics forever. That resolve obviously did not last long. I am, moreover, more than willing to believe that governmental officials, corporate officers and criminal masterminds are willing to do anything to keep their positions of power. I could especially believe the theory that then Vice-President Johnson and his minions had a hand in the plot. Hell given Johnson’s nasty political sense in his rise to national prominence he could have done the whole deal. However, it just does not wash here. Part of the problem is there are just too many theories to fit the facts.“The real problem with the various conspiracy theories is that they ask us to suspend disbelieve for their theories even greater than the botched up job that the Warren Commission provided. These theories inevitably work between the lines of that report.I think the classic example in this documentary, that can stand for my opinion in general, is when one of the conspiracy theorists very calmly states his propositions about how the Warren Report botched things and then, as calmly cites four possible groups of conspirators who could have done the deed, anti-Castro Cubans, disgruntled CIA rogue elements, disgruntled militarists and Mafia-types. Well that narrows the field considerably, doesn’t it? Stone’s film falls into that crack since in the course of three and one half hours every theory that I am aware even to the various characters the theories relied on got a airing.“But here is the kicker- I am convinced that Lee Harvey Oswald was capable of doing the murder by himself, that he did it and that he stands before history as having done it. Grand conspiracy theories that deny the role of the individual in history do so in this case for no apparent reason. That ‘theory’ may not be sexy enough for some but Oswald should have his fifteen minutes of infamy. Unless someone produces the ‘smoking gun’ missing in all other theories-in short, a real named person (or persons) who did the deed let us leave it at that. Garrison tried and failed with the possible CIA connection through the trial of Clay Shaw who actually was, as the end notes point out was working for the CIA in 1963-although that does not mean he was a conspirator-post facto. A very interesting and well-produced film though.