JFK
Director: Oliver Stone
Genre: Thriller, Biography, Mystery, History, Drama
Year: 1991
Country: United States of America, France
Language: English Language, Spanish Language
Starring: Kevin Costner, Gary Oldman, Donald Sutherland, Tommy Lee Jones, Ron Rifkin, Laurie Metcalf, Kevin Bacon, Sissy Spacek, Sally Kirkland, Joe Pesci, John Candy, Gary Grubbs, Wayne Knight, Vincent Phillip D'Onofrio, Ed Asner, Jack Lemmon, Michael Rooker, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Jim Garrison, Walter Matthau, Brian Doyle-Murray, Jay O. Sanders, Jo Anderson, Beata Pozniak, Ray LePere, David Benn, Martin Sheen, Ron Rifkin
JFK is a 1991 American film directed by Oliver Stone. It examines the events leading to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and alleged subsequent cover-up, through the eyes of former New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison (played by Kevin Costner).
Garrison filed charges against New Orleans businessman Clay Shaw (Tommy Lee Jones) for his alleged participation in a conspiracy to assassinate the president, for which Lee Harvey Oswald (Gary Oldman) was found responsible by two Government investigations: the Warren Commission, and the House Select Committee on Assassinations (which concluded that there was another assassin shooting with Oswald).
The film was adapted by Stone and Zachary Sklar from the books On the Trail of the Assassins by Jim Garrison and Crossfire: The Plot That Killed Kennedy by Jim Marrs. Stone described this account as a "counter-myth" to the "fictional myth" of the Warren Commission.
The film became embroiled in controversy. Upon JFK's theatrical release, many major American newspapers ran editorials accusing Stone of taking liberties with historical facts, including the film's implication that President Lyndon B. Johnson was part of a coup d'état
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