Michaleen Kilroy
-
Posts
395 -
Joined
-
Last visited
Content Type
Profiles
Forums
Events
Store
Posts posted by Michaleen Kilroy
-
-
1 hour ago, James DiEugenio said:
Thanks gentlemen.
I guess I did not get discounted as writers so often do.
I actually got listed second in the end credits.
Groucho knew the deal:
-
On 12/10/2021 at 5:43 AM, Benjamin Cole said:
It's amazing what you did for Oliver Stone.
Love the look, the polish, the music, the camera-work. All A+ in JFK Revisited.
But without content....
Second that!
As writers, we know where the true power lies
-
31 minutes ago, James DiEugenio said:
I liked it.
Someone actually mentioned what we were doing in the film!
And I was trying to demonstrate a legal standard of conspiracy.
I think that does come through, Jim. It does feel like the arguments are ones that would be made in a real trial, not a kangaroo court. IMO both sides of the conspiracy divide have not made sure their arguments are backed by the evidence and don’t insult the intelligence of the audience. JFK Revisited treats the audience like a jury and the verdict is made clear on conspiracy beyond a reasonable doubt.
-
3 hours ago, James DiEugenio said:
In the long version of the film, we go into this much further and deeper.
The Irish angle was important to Kennedy. He told Nehru that face to face when he was trying to lecture him on the evils of colonialism.
He said words to the effect: No one has to lecture me on that subject, I came from a race of people who were colonized for 800 years.
That is so cool to hear, Jim.
Over the years I’ve read in several places where JFK knew his Irish history well and loved a good rebel song at family gatherings.
To the elders in my family, he was a ‘good lad’ - a sensible Irishman who broke through the previously exclusive Anglo Protestant presidency. An Irish immigrant descendant made good in America.
-
This brief clip from his UN speech in Sept 61 couldn’t demonstrate any clearer how extraordinary JFK’s foreign policy outlook was:
https://twitter.com/Bezosbucks/status/1464683415651893252?s=20I have to admit when he said ‘my nation was once a colony,’ I immediately thought ‘Ireland,’ whose history and culture he knew well and I’ve always believed was the key factor in his entire outlook on government.
I grew up in an Irish Catholic family with grandparents on both sides from the old sod. My namesake relation was an IRA general that was critical in kicking the British out. The infamy of British rule in Ireland was legend and ever-present in my upbringing.
Here’s the complete speech:
https://www.jfklibrary.org/archives/other-resources/john-f-kennedy-speeches/united-nations-19610925
-
17 hours ago, Benjamin Cole said:
Deleted post.
-
22 minutes ago, James DiEugenio said:
Thanks for that Jeff. I have sworn off Litwin.
Also Mike, we have a good nationally known PR firm for the film. So it will be getting some attention. I am doing a national show in Australia next week, I think on Wednesday.
Good to hear, Jim.
-
Saw this today on Twitter:
I hope the documentary has a good PR person/firm promoting it. There’s almost too much here for great story angles/pitches.
As a PR guy, I always thought the JFK research community suffered from the lack of a cohesive PR strategy and implementation. JFK Revisited deserves its due in the media.
-
20 hours ago, James DiEugenio said:
-
1 hour ago, James DiEugenio said:
One of the great things about the film is the cinematography by Bob Richardson.
I have seen a lot of documentaries. I have never seen one with the quality of photography this one has.
Richardson has won three Oscars and you can tell that from his work here.
When you add in Kurt Matilia's editing, which is also remarkable, this is pretty much hands down the best made JFK documentary ever. To think that Kurt culled something like 46 hours, 23 interviewees, into 120 minutes of really fast flowing, beautifully shot, exquisitely photographed cinema, that is really something.
When I first saw the film on Showtime, I sent a note to Bob congratulating him on his superb work. And also Oliver for requesting him. If this was a different subject, both men would get Emmy awards. To think that my script got shot and edited by these two guys, pretty heady stuff.
And BTW, that is not just me. There have been about five people in the film business who have contacted me and said they were stunned by how great the film looked. And calling it the best in the field.
As great a feature film ‘JFK’ was, this is as great a documentary.
Just wondering if it will have a similar aftershock as ‘JFK’ did. I think the word of mouth will move more slowly but might even have greater impact over time.
The MSM is just acknowledging Hoover’s role in the Malcolm X assassination. Anything’s possible I guess.
-
Headline should be: MSM finally takes notice of federal govt malfeasance in ‘60s assassination:
If there’s any justice in the world, this is the beginning of the end for the great assassination coverups but not holding my breath.
A good start but there’s so much more portentous ‘revelations’ in JFK Revisited.
-
Rachel Maddow did a segment on this tonight. Hoover’s FBI was responsible for a gross miscarriage of justice involving black and/or left leaders? Least shocking news ever. In fact, I thought it was common knowledge they were likely involved in the hit.
Maybe Rachel can now get to the FBI’s brazen and unlawful coverup of the JFK assassination for LBJ. -
Just saw it as well. What a tremendous service to the truth and to the American people. Thanks to Oliver and Jim for a job extremely well done.
Proof enough for me that LHO would not have been convicted at trial, he was undoubtedly an intelligence asset and operative, and powerful people in the CIA and Pentagon saw JFK’s progressive foreign policy as dangerous and wanted him out of the way.
-
Those photos expose the lie that JFK objected to tight security. SS and other law enforcement is all around him and within arm’s reach most of the time.
-
Seems like their dad would be a top prospect in the JFKA story. And what reason would they have for associating a relative in any way with this terrible crime against the country?
-
1 hour ago, Benjamin Cole said:
Egads. "Exhaustive."
So, the HSCA that concluded there was likely a conspiracy...was just a flim-flam fly-by-night operation?
And when you watch the Zapruder film....do not believe your eyes.
Yeah, guess the ‘newspaper of record’ never heard of the HSCA or McKnight’s well-researched book ‘Breach of Trust.’
The Gray Lady invested in the official story and never let go. Whatta crock.
And yeah Connally in Z film, him and his wife’s testimony, his shirt, eyewitness accounts of the last two shots, all prove a second gunman was involved beyond a reasonable doubt.
-
Nobody lies like The NY Times on JFK, redefining the word ‘exhaustive’ for all time:
“Despite an exhaustive, yearlong inquiry into the murder led by Chief Justice Earl Warren that concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone, surveys over the years have consistently found that most Americans believe others were involved.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/23/world/americas/jfk-assassination-pandemic.html?
-
3 hours ago, W. Niederhut said:
.
-
Personally, I think you’d have to be naive to believe key records will ever see the light of day. It WILL be kicked down the road yet again.
Confirms that the CIA has ultimate power in this country.
-
1 hour ago, W. Niederhut said:
What a travesty. Words cannot describe my disgust.
And, BTW, asking that Biden release these records in accordance with the law is the only request I ever submitted in a letter to a POTUS.
Me too. Travesty and disgusting are the right words. And I am pissed. I helped get this guy elected.
-
“Temporary continued postponement is necessary to protect against identifiable harm to the military defense, intelligence operations, law enforcement, or the conduct of foreign relations that is of such gravity that it outweighs the public interest in immediate disclosure,” Biden wrote.
Conspiracy related or not, there must be something really terrible in those final docs.
Blaming Covid-19 is a joke of course. The USG has had nearly 60 years to review these docs.
Stonewalling for the CIA on JFK is apparently the only thing that presidents of both political parties can agree upon.
Frickin’ incredible.
-
The trailer gave me goosebumps. Looks like a helluva doc!
We’re blessed to have you and Oliver still on the case, Jim.
-
I could be wrong but doesn’t LHO have to do just two things to help in his framing?
- bring the Carcano to work that has a paper trail or give the rifle to someone who is part of the conspiracy
- make sure he’s out of sight during the shooting
Seems like if he was listening to a handler in NO, which seems obvious on its face to me, he would abide by these requests without pushback or questions.
Then when Truly and the DPD officer show up in the lunch room (and Truly tells him the president has been shot), it’s not hard to put two and two together considering the supposed company he had been keeping.
If I had nothing to say that would make a lick of sense to police and knew my gun was in the building, I’d get the hell outta there too. And I’d be even be more afraid of those who framed me so yes I’d get home fast to get a gun, ensuring the taxi stops before my house to see what’s up, and then skedaddle to… wherever LHO was heading.
Priscilla Johnson once claimed that LHO was perfectly capable of accomplishing the assassination on his own. OK if you buy that then you have to ask - wasn’t he also capable enough to have an escape plan in mind? Or use a weapon that could not be traced back to him? Or not carry the ID that ties you to the rifle you used to kill the president?
A deranged assassin probably would’ve stayed where he was and bunkered down well-armed, probably shooting others in the motorcade as well and ready to die by cop.
A clever assassin would’ve had a game plan after pulling it off. LHO didn’t act like a guy on a suicide mission following the crime. He acted like a guy with no clue what to do next and running scared.
-
The key takeaway - a JMWAVE agent and precursor to Joannides didn’t buy the official story either:
Today, Lilliam remembers her dad “being sort of angry that we weren’t going to get any answers... and just really wondering about it: Was it (Lee Harvey) Oswald who shot the president like we all thought? And he conveniently gets shot himself?”
JFK Revisited: Through The Looking Glass
in JFK Assassination Debate
Posted · Edited by Michaleen Kilroy
In all seriousness, Jim, what you and Oliver have done is changed how future generations will perceive this event forever. I don’t have a lot of faith in our current govt and MSM changing their tune on JFKA anytime soon, but future historians will. The evidence presented so compellingly in JFK Revisited simply can’t be ignored.