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With Oswald's Ghost, director Robert Stone, offers an unprecedented deconstruction of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, uncovering how this single event forever changed the face of American culture and why it continues to plague the nation's psyche. The 90-minute film features interviews with authors Norman Mailer and Edward J. Epstein, politician Gary Hart news anchor Dan Rather, activist Tom Hayden, attorney Mark Lane, and others. Using a wealth of archival material, much of it never before publicly seen or heard, Stone chronicles America's forty-year obsession with the pivotal event of a generation. Quietly implicit throughout the film is a haunting parallel to 9/11 and its aftermath.
More than forty years after his death, seventy percent of Americans continue to believe that the 46-year-old President's murder was the result of a conspiracy. Did Lee Harvey Oswald, a twenty-four-year-old former marine and communist sympathizer, act alone? Was he influenced by Cuban dictator Fidel Castro or a rogue element of the CIA? Did the KGB or the Russian government order the killing? "How could someone as inconsequential as Lee Harvey Oswald have killed someone as consequential as John F. Kennedy?" asks historian Robert Dallek in the film. It is that seemingly unanswerable question that continues to haunt us.
"This is a film about how we absorbed and responded to the trauma and shock of being inexplicably-and repeatedly-robbed of our sense idealism, optimism and security," says Stone. "In the past six years, we've watched a new generation of Americans experience that same trauma." While there may never be a last word on the Kennedy assassination, Oswald's Ghost is as close to a definitive account as has ever been made of what the assassination did to America.

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Filmmaker Q&A

Filmmaker Robert Stone (Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst, Radio Bikini) answers questions about his latest work, Oswald's Ghost. How did you decide to make Oswald's Ghost? About fifteen years ago...
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Submit your questions for director Robert Stone

Have a question for Oswald's Ghost producer/director Robert Stone about the film or the JFK assassination? Send a message or leave a comment, then check back for his response.
Posted by on Mon, 24 Sep 2007 07:42:00 GMT