Killing Kennedy (Rob Lowe) Full Movie

[Rodney Rivers]

http://youtu.be/y4pU_C2gfKw

[David Andrews]

I understand the appeal of naturalistic, non-imitative portrayals of historical figures. Bruce Greenwood did a stunning job not imitating JFK or overly altering his own appearance to play Kennedy in Thirteen Days, and simply inhabited the role. But for the life of me, I don't understand how an actor who patently doesn't resemble Oswald can hope to succeed at carrying across a piece of propaganda like this. There's a lot of "Why bother?" here, but that takes top prize in category. Maybe somebody in Casting...wanted to subvert this thing. If so - Bully, they succeeded.

Edited December 14, 2013 by David Andrews

[Pat Speer]

Here is my rant on Killing Kennedy.

From The Onslaught, at Patspeer.com

November 10: Killing Kennedy, a feature-length film on the assassination, premieres on the National Geographic Channel. It stars Rob Lowe as Kennedy. It reveals itself as nonsense within the first few seconds. It shows Oswald leave the Paine residence with a long rifle-sized package in his hands. No one, of course, saw such a package. This package appears to be about 6 inches wide. Well, this matches the size of the package noted by the witnesses, but is inconsistent with the 10 inch or so bag pulled out of the depository, and photographed by newsman. It then shows Oswald sneak upstairs and build the sniper's nest from scratch. This never happened. Most of the boxes were stacked there by the crew working on the floor. It then shows Oswald pull an intact rifle from the paper bag. Geez! This serves to conceal that the bag placed into evidence was too small to hold an intact rifle, and that the FBI proposed that he brought the rifle into the building disassembled and put it together with a dime. They then show him put a full clip into the rifle. This hides that there were at most four bullets in the clip, and that no rifle bullets were found among Oswald's possessions. They then show him track the limo up Houston Street while standing in front of an open window. Well, this hides that the window went down almost to the floor and was only open a few inches, and that someone firing from this window and tracking a car would have to do so while kneeling. They then show him fire. Only now do they show us the title: Killing Kennedy. I struggle to hold back the projectile vomit my mind so desperately wants to expel.

The rest of the program is almost as bad. When Oswald visits Mexico City, the program shows someone taking photographs of him, freezing on the black and white image of him entering the Cuban Embassy. No such photograph exists. The photographs the CIA thought showed Oswald turned out to show someone else, who many assume was impersonating Oswald. As it closes in on the assassination, the program continues to spiral downward. It shows Oswald at a shooting range, putting three rapid fire shots into the head of his target. This is a deliberate lie. The FBI was able to account for almost all of Oswald's actions after his return from Mexico City, and found none of the "Oswald-sightings" at shooting ranges to be credible. Besides, the beginning of the program showed Oswald remove his rifle from the Paine residence, where it had been stored in a blanket in an unlocked garage. Are we supposed to assume, then, that Oswald removed his rifle from the Paine's garage so he could practice with it, and then sneaked it back in? In the middle of the day? Without anyone noticing? No, not entirely. The program then shows Marina catch Oswald re-wrapping his rifle in the Paine's garage, and ask him what he is doing. This scene is total nonsense. It never happened, or, if it did, Marina has never told anyone about it. Bill O'Reilly and his co-writer martin Dugard just made it up. After commercial, they show Jack Ruby bragging about how much he loves Kennedy, and Oswald finding out about the upcoming motorcade while reading the paper at work. They show him open up a window and look down Elm Street. Elm runs straight away from the window. This, of course, is not the view from the school book depository, from which Elm runs left to right. It is instead, and probably not accidentally, the view from the building across the street: the Dal-Tex Building. The program then repeats the beginning, with Oswald getting into the car with Buell Frazier. This time, however, they show Oswald stash his still-wrapped rifle in between some boxes after he shows up at work. There's no evidence this happened. It then shows him build the sniper's nest, only to be asked by someone--presumably Charles Givens--if he was gonna come downstairs. They have Oswald tell him no, when the actual story told by Givens was that Oswald told him he'll be down shortly and to keep the elevator available. It then shows Oswald get his rifle, and track the limo, while standing, of course. He fires, a shot, a gap of about four seconds, a second shot, a gap of about two seconds, a third shot. Surprisingly, considering the nature of this program, they show the first and third bullets strike Kennedy. They do not show what happened to the second bullet. It then shows Oswald successfully evade capture by motorcycle officer Marion Baker, who confronts Oswald while Oswald is rapidly moving across the middle of a large open room. Baker, in fact, saw a barely-moving Oswald through the window of a small lunch room. A few minutes later they show Oswald racing down a street and hailing a cab. Well, this is deceptive as well. He got into the cab at a cab stop outside the bus station, after letting a woman take the cab before it. They then show Capt. Will Fritz smelling one of the three shells found in the sniper's nest, then emptying the rifle to remove an unfired shell. This never happened, of course. The rifle was found on the far side of the building from the sniper's nest. They then show Oswald race into his rooming house and...change shirts. Well, this is a surprise seeing as how the FBI found fibers on the rifle that matched the shirt Oswald was wearing when arrested. Soon thereafter, they show Oswald kill Officer Tippit. He shoots four times. Oops. Oswald is believed to have fired five bullets. Oswald is then arrested. When interrogated after his arrest, the program sinks to another low. Agent Hosty whips out a file that has a photo of Oswald in Mexico, and asks him what he was doing there. Well, once again, no such photo exists! Moments later, they show Jack Ruby telling his policemen friends about how he can't stand the thought of Mrs. Kennedy returning to Dallas for a trial. Well, this is nonsense. Ruby later admitted that this was an excuse made up by his lawyer AFTER he killed Oswald. It just gets worse and worse. They then show Ruby sneak into the basement down an empty ramp with NO ONE around. Well, my gosh. This hides that a number of men were in the area and that 1) NONE of them saw Ruby slip down the ramp into the basement where he shot Oswald, and 2) the Dallas Police Officer in charge of security for the basement subsequently failed a lie detector. They then show Oswald marching out into the basement with a slight smirk on his face, only to be killed by a presumably well-meaning Ruby. There's no mention of Ruby's ties to organized crime, of course. He's just a patriotic American caught up in the moment. Why, of course.

(Note: a UPI article the next day reports that 3.4 million viewers watched this piece of trash.)

Edited December 14, 2013 by Pat Speer

[Paul Brancato]

Thanks Pat. I only got through 15 minutes.

Bill Maher, who I enjoy most of the time, really disappointed when he had Rob Lowe on a few weeks ago. They barely touched on the movie, but Maher, on that episode or another one recently, made some lame ass comment about how the American public just couldn't come to grips with our great president having his life snuffed out by a low life nonentity. If only one person with a bully pulpit like Maher or Jon Stewart would have the courage to tackle the never ending propaganda. We continue to be called 'conspiracy theorists', continue to be marginalized in the media no matter how many impressive and factual books we write. Don't these media giants ever read? Or do they perhaps imagine that by their continued silence they are actually doing America a huge favor by not opening up such a massive wound in our body politic? The so-called left remains utterly ineffective at combating the national security state, and is culpable as hell in facilitating the continuing fascist takeover.