Product: Frame 313: The JFK Assassination Theories (2008)
Rating: 5.0
An excellent primer on the execution of JFK
A compelling case is presented for the CIA/Mob/anti-Castro nexus at the heart of the murder of President John F. Kennedy. However, the subtitle ("The JFK Assassination Theories") is a bit misleading. While each of these 'organizations' is treated as somewhat seperate strands, they are actually presented as interrelated aspects of a single assassination theory.The case for multiple shooters seems inescapable. However, the Warren Commission's version is the lone nut gunman with the Oswald case closed two days later. Neat and tidy with no trial, no competing version of events, no real investigation. In many ways, a perfect crime. An hour and 20 minutes after Kennedy was shot Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested, and 2 days later he was killed by Jack Ruby, the fall guy.Ruby, who had long standing Mob connections in Chicago, stated that "The world will never know the true facts of what occurred, my motives. The people who had so much to gain, and had such an ulterior motive for putting me in the position I'm in, will never let the true facts come above board to the world." He asked the Warren Commission to take him to DC and hear his testimony, but they refused. Ruby may also have believed that he was injected with the cancer cells that subsequently killed him (cf, the Wikipedia article on Jack Ruby).This is an outstanding and brilliantly produced documentary that both provides the historical context and puts the pieces of the puzzle together into a coherent picture of the forces behind the henious act that, as Jack Ruby said, was "an act of overthrowing the government."Btw, the title comes from the Warren Commission's assertion that a second shot struck JFK at frame 313 of the Zapruder film.