Reclaiming Parkland
Subtitle: Tom Hanks, Vincent Bugliosi, and the JFK assassination in the new Hollywood
By: James DiEugenio ; with a preface by Lisa Pease and a foreword by William Davy
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 452
ISBN-13: 9781626365339
Subjects: Conspiracies; Playtone (Firm); Assassination; History in motion pictures; Parkland (Television program); History on television; Mass media and public opinion
Description: Vincent Bugliosi's books about the Kennedy assassination, Reclaiming history, was scheduled to be made into a miniseries. DiEugenio details the problems with Bugliosi's book, explores the cooperation of the mainstream press in concealing these many faults, and how the film eventually adapted from that book-- Parkland-- displays the same imbalance that the book does. He examines the connections between Washington and Hollywood, as well as the CIA influence in the film colony today.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: How a calamity befell us. The prosecutor ; The producers ; You call this a trial?; title: Exposing Reclaiming history. On first encountering Reclaiming history ; Oswald's defense ; Bugliosi on the Zapruder film and the autopsy ; Bugliosi vs. Garrison and Stone ; Bugliosi on the first forty-eight hours ; Bugliosi and the FBI ; Bugliosi hearts the Warren Commission ; The DA acquits everyone; title: From Reclaiming history to Parkland, and beyond. Hanks as historian: a case study ; Where Washington meets Hollywood ; Playtone and Parkland ; My dinner with Giorgio; title: Afterword.