Oliver Stone’s “JFK” was a source of much controversy and debate in the American public. His retelling of the events leading to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy was condemned by some for taking liberties with historical facts and even implicating President Lyndon Johnson in the conspiracy to kill Kennedy. The film focuses on the investigation of New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison (Kevin Costner), who filed charges against a New Orleans businessman Clay Shaw (Tommy Lee Jones) for his participation in the conspiracy to assassinate Kennedy, going against the official version of the events in which captured assassin Lee Harvey Oswald acted on his own. Oliver Stone considered the film his “counter myth to the Warren commission’s fictional myth”. In 1963 Jim Garrison starts an investigation after learning about potential links to the assassination in his backyard of New Orleans. However, Lee Harvey Oswald, the suspected shooter, is killed by Jack ruby before he is brought to the trial and Garrison closes the investigation. He reopens it in 1966 after reading the Warren commission report and finding what he thought were many inaccuracies. His long and arduous investigation, which threatens to ruin both his marriage and his professional career, eventually leads him to the conclusion that a conspiracy at the highest levels of government was in place, involving CIA members, the mafia, secret service, FBI and even Kennedy’s vice-president Lyndon Johnson.
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