Comments on: Paul Giamatti, Billy Bob Thornton & Jacki Weaver Head To JFK Assassination Film ‘Parkland’ https://staging2.theplaylist.net/paul-giamatti-billy-bob-thornton-jacki-weaver-head-to-jfk-assassination-film-parkland-20121031/ Fri, 13 May 2016 11:14:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: conrad https://staging2.theplaylist.net/paul-giamatti-billy-bob-thornton-jacki-weaver-head-to-jfk-assassination-film-parkland-20121031/#comment-66850 Fri, 13 May 2016 11:14:04 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2012/more/uncategorized/paul-giamatti-billy-bob-thornton-jacki-weaver-head-to-jfk-assassination-film-parkland-104497/#comment-66850 First, it is not true that Hollywood avoided the subject except for "JFK". In 1973, Burt Lancaster starred in Executive Action, a film about the JFK conspiracy. As for Vince Bugliosi, his book does little more than regurtitate the Warren Commission Report, which itself presumed Oswalds guilt and twisted the facts to support its pre-concieved conclusions.

]]> By: greg parker https://staging2.theplaylist.net/paul-giamatti-billy-bob-thornton-jacki-weaver-head-to-jfk-assassination-film-parkland-20121031/#comment-66851 Fri, 13 May 2016 11:14:04 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2012/more/uncategorized/paul-giamatti-billy-bob-thornton-jacki-weaver-head-to-jfk-assassination-film-parkland-104497/#comment-66851 Bugliosi is a compulsive prosecutor and his book is a prosecutor’s brief. It doesn’t tell the real story and Bugliosi’s “facts” would never have passed muster in anything but a kangaroo court.

I know Giamatti, Thornton and Weaver would give outstanding performances, but I hope they reconsider. In the end, history is not being reclaimed by Bugliosi – his tome is merely the refocusing and reasserting of the officially sanctioned version of history. There is a BIG difference.

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