Oswald's Ghost (2007)
Release Date: November  30, 2007 (NY; LA release: December 7)
Studio: Seventh Art Releasing
Director: Robert  Stone
Screenwriter: Robert Stone
Starring: Not Available
Genre: Documentary
MPAA  Rating: Not Available
Official Website:  OswaldsGhost.com
Movie Poster: Not Available
Summary: The  assassination of President Kennedy was to its era what 9/11 is to ours. What  followed was a decade of governmental skullduggery, political paranoia,  demagoguery and division on a scale rarely seen in American life. In the White  House, a conspiratorially minded president (Lyndon B. Johnson) threw the nation  headlong into a divisive and unnecessary war in response partly, to his own  growing paranoia over the assassination of his predecessor. For much of the  public, Vietnam and the JFK assassination became merged psychologically into a  vast wellspring of mistrust and disillusionment. With the subsequent  assassinations of Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy in 1968 and the  revelations of President Nixon's constitutional subversion in the early '70s,  the last hopes of American idealism were shattered. A decade after JFK's  assassination, America's political culture was changed almost beyond  recognition. With "Oswald's Ghost," acclaimed director Robert Stone offers an  unprecedented deconstruction of the mythologies and controversy surrounding what  is perhaps the most tangled and far reaching murder mystery of all time.  Featuring interviews with Norman Mailer, Gary Hart, Tom Hayden, Mark Lane and  Edward J. Epstein, and others, the film probes the deep psychic wounds inflicted  by the Kennedy assassination on American politics and culture, the scars of  which remain evident to this day. Using a wealth of archival material, much of  it never before seen or heard, "Oswald's Ghost" chronicles America's 40-year  obsession with the single most pivotal event of the boomer generation. Quietly  implicit throughout the film is a haunting parable to the aftermath of  9/11.
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