Product: Frame 313: The JFK Assassination Theories (2008)
Rating: 3.0
For the Novice
I've read more than my fair share on the JFK assassination and it's involved beyond the meaning of the word. There are a lot of players in and out of government that overlap. It's just a bear to untangle, but a lot of tenacious investigators have kept at it and turned it into a living, breathing whole.This documentary outlines the various basic conspiracy theories involved. The CIA/mob thing, the Oswald thing, the Cuban/Castro connection and so forth are covered. Depending on your depth of knowledge concerning the assassination, there will be little, if anything new here. And it does suffer a bit in the compartmentalizing of things because most of them DO overlap. And some of the biggest players, David Ferry, Clay Shaw, et al. aren't even mentioned. These are crucial omissions because these people are at the core of the proceedings.The production is pretty awful. This looks cheap and lacks any degree of professional sheen. You get the basic talking heads mixed with some archival footage that, at times, is a bit much.I guess you can consider this a Readers Digest version of the field. If you know nothing about the conspiracy surrounding the assassination this is a reasonable place to start but that's about it.