I Was A Teenage JFK Conspiracy Freak by Fred Litwin

Author:Fred Litwin [Litwin, Fred]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: NorthernBlues Books
Published: 2018-09-13T05:00:00+00:00

Of course, the homophobic nature of the film goes beyond the script. As Ehrenstein notes, “Forget about bullet trajectories and smoke seen coming from the grassy knoll. All Stone has to do is show a sinister Jones [actor Tommy Lee Jones playing Clay Shaw] groping sleazy tootsie Bacon [O’Keefe in the film] and acting simperingly haughty toward true-blue Costner [Garrison] and you know who ‘really’ killed Kennedy.” An opinion piece in the New York Times added that “Shaw’s homosexuality is meant to signify nothing except the fact that he’s sinister, and capable of murder. The inclusion of the orgy scene is gratuitous. Mr. Stone might as well have shown Jack Ruby bargaining with other Jews in the back row at temple.”

Columnist George Will wrote that “Stone is forty-five going on eight. In his 3-hour lie, Stone falsifies so much he may be an intellectual sociopath.” Washington Post reporter George Lardner, the last person to see David Ferrie alive, called the film, “Dallas in Wonderland.” Charles Krauthammer pointed out that “In one corner, a $40 million Hollywood film, featuring the nation’s number one heartthrob, endowed with a publicity budget of millions, shown in 900 theaters. In the other hand, perhaps a dozen scribblers, writing in various magazines and op-ed pages. You don’t need Marshall McLuhan to figure out who’s got more clout.”

Stone spent most of 1991 and 1992 battling JFK’s critics. He wrote letters, op-eds, and was forced to dive into the minutia of the assassination. People wanted to talk about magical bullets, the backwards head snap, and Clay Shaw, not Vietnam. And so, when 9/11 happened, Stone avoided the truthers. He was far more interested in talking about the end results of 9/11, like the Iraq war. Still, he couldn’t help but say stupid things. The following discussion took place at a panel discussion, in October 2001, on “the role of filmmaking in the national debate:”

Stone: There’s been conglomeration under six principal princes—they’re kings, they’re barons! And these six companies have control of the world. Michael Eisner decides, “I can’t make a movie about Martin Luther King, Jr.—they’ll be rioting at the gates of Disneyland!” That’s bullshit! But, that’s what the new world order is. They control culture, they control ideas. And I think the revolt of September 11th was about ‘Fuck You! Fuck your order –”

Christopher Hitchens: Excuse me, revolt?

Stone: Whatever you want to call it.

Christopher Hitchens: It was state-supported mass murder [by Islamists], using civilians as missiles.

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