Oliver Stone & South of the Border

I like Oliver Stone's viewpoint on things. He's willing to have an opinion and stick his neck out. He's done a new film on the rise of leftist leaders in South America. Here's the trailer for "South of the Border":



I loved Oliver Stone's film JFK. Sure it was dramatic and played a bit with the facts, but it was a dramatic presentation of the questions surrounding the JFK assassination. The 1960s was odd. JFK was behind a number of assassination attempts and then was himself killed. The really odd thing was how successful the assassinations were of JFK, RFK, and MLK. Most attempts are like the flubbed shots at Gerald Ford or Ronald Reagan. These were wild shots that winged people. The JFK, RFK, and MLK killings were all head shots, fatal, accurate, the sign of a professional hitman.

Here's a documentary by John Barbour that covers the real facts that Oliver Stone dramatized. This film focuses on Jim Garrison and the case he was able to build for a conspiracy. There are a lot more "real facts" that didn't make it into Oliver Stone's film.

As the documentary points out, Garrison was vindicated in 1979 when a House Committee on Assassinations asserted that the killings of JFK and MLK were indeed conspiracies (details here). Apparently this is a copy of a copy since this version of the documentary has some overlaps at various points. No material is lost, you simply have to put us with a few seconds of repeat every fifteen minutes or so:

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