Stone's stones...

Rating: 10/10 (21 November 2013)

If there's one thing Oliver Stone doesn't lack, it's GUTS. He speaks his mind, and stands behind what he says; you can't ask for more than that. JFK is an absorbing account of one of the more heinous criminal acts of the 20th century (everything that followed, as Stone has observed, has been a Backward Progression). The recent book by Thom Hartmann collaborator Lamar Waldron, THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF THE JFK ASSASSINATION, gives us yet another detailed look at the murder, based in part on FBI wiretaps of the Mafioso allegedly involved. It's been suggested, too, that a rookie Secret Service man accidentally fired the fatal shot that killed Kennedy. Until the million or so pages of classified information about the assassination are made public, speculation is all we really have. I have my own theory, of course: the man on the grassy knoll was none other than Joe DeMaggio.