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he was hardly a strong advocate for the critics of the Warren Commission. Evidence of
Oswald’s ties to U.S. intelligence was dismissed, and only the possibility of a mob plot
was considered.
Creative artists and documentary producers have used the mediums of film and
television to examine all the controversies surrounding the Kennedy assassination,
including the different interpretations of Oswald’s life. These productions have often
exhibited a degree of creative license, similar to the novels about Oswald, in trying to fill
in blank spaces in the historical record. By far, the most important film about the
assassination is Oliver Stone’s JFK. The Hollywood director and his film became a
focus of a sharp debate about the assassination and an artist’s role in interpreting history.
Film and television provided Warren Commission critics such as Stone and its defenders
to bring their arguments to a wide audience, even greater than the readers of the many
best-selling books about the assassination. Stone and British producer Nigel Turner
rejected notions of journalistic balance in trying to make their case for conspiracy in
visually-telling ways. These works not only shaped public perceptions, but their
popularity also reflected the skepticism of many Americans about the Warren
Commission report.
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