Which JFK show will you watch tonight?

[burythehatchet]

Seems like all sorts of new evidence is coming to light...

[hlthe2b]

1. Can someone tell us more about the Frontline special?

I'd probably watch that if I were going to watch any of them..

[burythehatchet]

2. Here ya go

PBS Nov 20 09:00pm Add to My Calendar
Series/Documentary, 180 Mins.
"Who Was Lee Harvey Oswald?", Episode #1205.
An investigation uncovers evidence in an examination of Lee Harvey Oswald's life, from childhood to his arrest for John F. Kennedy's assassination.

[supernova]

3. Neither - Watching Johhny Depp movie

to celebrate his Sexiest Man Alive award! :D

I'm christening my new DVD player with the Criterion edition Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Besides doing an unbelievably dead-on HST, there's a 20 minute interview with JD and he reads faxes/correspondence he and Hunter exchanged during filming.

edit: JFK? I think it's ghoulish to celebrate someone more for their death than the life they led. I prefer to remember him alive and what he wanted to inspire in us. That I believe was his true gift to us. Will we ever find out the truth? I don't know.

[burythehatchet]

5. That sounds like a plan

BYOB?? During my own wayward days, that movie sure hit a chord..Enjoy
:)

[supernova]

7. Oh, natch

:D There's a nice Sangeovese in the kitchen calling my name as I type.

Did you ever read the book? It's a modern masterpiece, IMHO.

[burythehatchet]

10. Never did read it

Unfortunately in those days Doonesbury was about as literary as I got. Hey, gives me another book to put on the list right?

[ronnykmarshall]

4. I'll be too busy

playing with pussy .......... cats that is.

[4_Legs_Good]

6. The best documentary I've seen

I think was a serious one done by NOVA 15 years ago called, I think, simply "Who Shot JFK?" They had early computer modeling of Dealey Plaza. In the end everything was still left wide, wide open, but the documentary was done in a very intelligent way and seemed to be mostly without bias. I saw it in High School, and it's what really started my obsession with the assassination and JFK in general.

It's fun to watch the theories swing back and forth like a pendulum from certainty that the Martian invaders did it, to absolute certainty that it was Oswald alone. I think we're back in Oswald territory these day.

david

[burythehatchet]

8. So are you still interested or did you you

just get over it?

[4_Legs_Good]

13. Oh, I'm still interested

though the obsession comes and goes. JFK was before my time, and as such, I didn't deal with the reality of the situation, but in my mind he's tied up with the kinda spiritual rebirth of the 60's-70's, which I also missed. So I can look back on his as an icon of sorts, of the world when it was a better, more wonderful place.

There's a line in My Dinner With Andre, where Andre says, "it may well be that the 60's was the last burst of the human spirit before it was extingushed forever." Somehow that's always stuck with me.

Anyway, if JFK is so wonderful in my mind, then I can say that 40 years ago this Saturday, America died, and it has yet to be reborn. And only by figuring out what happened that day and *why* can we really hope to rebuild our country.

Or at least that's my warped view of it.

In addition, I think it's a really cool mystery with lots of players and tons of shady stuff, and the best part is that it's all REAL, and that an average Joe like me can really decide one day that s/he wants to do research, and the research is there, and Dealey Plaza is there, and tons of photos are there, etc. It's actually lots of fun.

:)

david

[LSparkle]

9. Wish they were replaying C-Span panel

of journalists who covered JFK's Dallas trip. Fascinating -- didn't catch it all.

[madrchsod]

11. not watching-

mj killed jfk and bc supplied the gun..i`m watching history channels and the fab5 have a great make-over ,best yet

[mlawson]

12. The one that explores the odd fact that JFK never heard of MJ.

On this day, of all days, what could be more appropriate????

[moof]

14. who are MJ and BC ?

n/t

[Wonk]

15. Michael Jackson and Bill Clinton? nt