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Ruby and Oswald (1978)
Much More Accurate Than Oliver Stone's JFK!
This docu-drama actually nails the down the facts of the tragic events during those four days in Dallas. Four days in Dallas. Two nut jobs jobs with guns. Three dead bodies: The President, The Policeman, and The Assassin. No conspiracy. Just madness. Ain't that America.
JFK Assassinated
11-22-1963
in Dallas, TX
by LHO.
One man.
One rifle.
Three shots.
Eleven seconds.
Oswald acted alone.
Ruby acted alone.
No conspiracy.
🇺🇸RIP🌹JFK🇺🇸
JFK (1991)
CONSPIRACIES ABOUND IN JFK AND THEY ARE ALL FALSE!
Grab some popcorn and prepare to be entertained. Just don't expect the truth.
This movie is like a dumpster fire of conspiracy theories. Geez.. how high up does the killing of JFK go? The FBI, CIA, MIC, MOB??? In fact, it never went any higher than the 6th Floor of the TSBD and one man LHO. You want the truth? Can you handle the truth? The truth is much simpler.
Four days in Dallas. Two whack jobs with guns. Three dead bodies: The President, The Policeman, and The Assassin. No conspiracy. Just madness. Ain't that America.
JFK Assassinated
11-22-1963
in Dallas, TX
by LHO.
One man.
One rifle.
Three shots.
Eleven seconds.
Oswald acted alone.
Ruby acted alone.
No conspiracy.
RIP JFK
History will not been kind to Oliver Stone's JFK. Since the film focuses on too many conspiracies, and overlooks the real facts about the assassination it's hard to know where to begin. But hey, he did get the date right.
For the record: The only shooter was Lee Harvey Oswald. One man. One rifle. Three shots. Eleven seconds.
The biggest breakthrough in the JFK Assassination came from Max Holland and Johann Rush. By taking a fresh look at the Zapruder film, the most watched piece of film in history. For 44 years, everybody thought it was a time clock of the shooting. It turns out it was, and it wasn't.
Zapruder's 26-second movie has two distinct parts. Approximately seven seconds after he started filming from the north side of Elm Street, Zapruder stopped his Bell & Howell Zoomatic at frame 132 because only Dallas police motorcycles were driving by. He did not restart his camera until the president's limousine was clearly in view. Consequently, Z 133 is the first frame to actually show the president's Lincoln - a frame exposed several seconds after the car had made the sharp turn onto Elm Street from Houston Street.
Zapruder's film did capture the assassination, just not all of it. He missed Oswald's first shot. And Oswald missed his first shot too.
First Shot: The first shot was obstructed by traffic light pole and glanced off. This explains how Oswald missed not only JFK, but the entire limousine. This location is also 70 feet before Zapruder restarted filming. And where many ear witnesses said they heard the first shot. (105 feet distance to JFK). Oswald then had to wait (briefly) for the Lincoln to clear the oak tree before firing the second shot. This accounts for the overwhelming testimony by witnesses as to the shot pattern: One...pause...Two...Three. Also, it matches the distribution of the three cartridges on the 6th Floor.
Second Shot: The second shot went through President Kennedy and Governor Connally. It was on a straight line. It was a jacketed bullet. This was no magic bullet, only tragic. (190 feet distance to JFK)
Third Shot: The third shot was fatal.
(265 feet distance to JFK).
This means Oswald didn't fire three shots in 6 seconds. He fired three shots in 11.2 seconds.
With intervals of around 6.3 seconds and 4.9 seconds between the shots. Because the Lincoln was moving away from Oswald in a straight line, he was almost shooting at a stationary target. Like all Marines, Oswald was trained and tested in shooting. In December 1956, he scored 212, which was slightly above the requirements for the designation of sharpshooter. In May 1959 he scored 191, which reduced his rating to marksman. Still more than capable.
This long overdue discovery changes nothing from one perspective (Oswald still did it) it also changes everything, if only because it disrupts the state of mind of everyone who has ever been transfixed by the Zapruder film. The film, we realize, does not depict an assassination about to commence. It shows one that had already started.
Just gimme some truth, sang John Lennon. If you want some truth about the assassination, skip JFK and go rewatch the Zapruder film, with the knowledge that it is in two-parts. It still has the power to jolt and revolt you. And it's all too real.
Grizzly Man (2005)
Treadwell: An addict not in recovery
Grizzly Man works on a lot of different levels. However, as a recovering addict and alcoholic, what I found most interesting about the film was how it exposed Timothy Treadwell as an addict (alcoholic) who may have swapped his substance addiction (drugs and alcohol) for a process addiction (gambling, sex, danger) with the bears. Like all addicts in their disease(and not in recovery), he basically needed more and more bear to get the same fix (high) he experienced during his initial contact with them.
With all addictions, there is a progressive movement away from truth. As Timothy's bear addiction moved him away from reality and toward a state of "insanity." His distorted thinking becomes apparent in the footage he shot of himself (that was never aired on his TV Special, The Grizzly Diaries).
"Addictions (without recovery) are almost always progressive and fatal." -- Anne Wilson Schaef
Everything about Timothy's behavior, from the misplaced anger at the Forest Service and exaggerated paranoia about poachers, to his delusional thinking about actually being a bear, showed a person trapped in their disease and moving further away from reality.
Add to the fact, that his impaired thinking process was based upon faulty beliefs. And this is where his lack of formal training or education in zoology, or any of the natural sciences, really came back to bite him. (No pun intended).
A "non-addict" thinking person would have understood that if a male bear will kill cubs to stop a female bear from lactating so that she'll want to mate again, and that hungry bears do eat other bears to survive, that maybe they could eat me too!
Like all addicts, Timothy became progressively self-centered, isolated, paranoid, confused, controlling, perfectionist, blinded to his disease (denial), insane, blaming (projection), and dysfunctional. In short, his life had become unmanageable. And ultimately it put him, his girlfriend and at least two bears to death.
Herzog's film works as a tragedy. But also serves as a cautionary tale for all addicts, that can be summed-up by a lyric from Neil Young:
"The very thing that makes you live, can kill you in the end." -- Neil Young