Miscellanea, Errata, Et Cetera

This section of Fair Play contains a variety of stuff that didn't quite fit in anywhere else.

JFK Film In the Works

A new film fantasy about the JFK assassination wrapped up shooting in April.

Nobody Knows was shot mostly in Michigan and stars Ralph Waite, best known for his role in TV's The Walton's, as a time traveller who goes back to 1963 and averts the assassination.

Nobody Knows is directed by Robert Dyke, and also stars Larry Drake (LA Law) as J. Edgar Hoover and Barry Corbin (Northern Exposure) as LBJ. Veteran stage actor Victor Slezak plays JFK.

"We could have shot in Los Angeles or done the whole thing in Texas," Dyke told the Detroit Free Press. "But I live in Michigan and I wanted to make the movie here." He added that his investors, most of whom are also from Michigan, also liked the idea. Two days were spent shooting in Dealey Plaza in Dallas.

The film is being produced independently on a small budget. Whether it will enjoy wide distribution remains to be seen.

False History?

Strictly gossip: It appears author Pat Lambert's book False Witness, which purports to be an objective look at Jim Garrison and Oliver Stone, is in development as a project on cable TV's The History Channel.

The book, a hatchet job on the Garrison case, was reviewed in Fair Play #28. The reviewer, Garrison biographer Joan Mellen, called Lambert's book "an unpleasant one-sided diatribe, a belated, curious valentine to the elusive [Clay] Shaw."

Can't wait for the movie!

The World Book and JFK

Note: I recently bought a new computer. Some pretty good software came bundled with it, including a copy of The World Book enyclopedia. I checked out what they had to say on the JFK assassination, and reproduce a portion below. Check out their "additional resoures"!

The Warren Commission, headed by Chief Justice Earl Warren, investigated the assassination. In 1964, the commission reported that Oswald had acted alone. But critics disputed the findings. Many believed Oswald was part of a group that had planned to murder Kennedy.

During the 1970's, a special committee of the United States House of Representatives reexamined the evidence surrounding the assassination. The committee accepted the testimony of acoustical (sound) experts who claimed that shots were fired from two locations along the motorcade at almost the same time. In 1978, the committee concluded that Kennedy "was probably assassinated as a result of a conspiracy." But other authorities strongly disputed the committee's conclusion. In 1982, the National Research Council, a scientific research organization, also disagreed with the House committee's finding.

Contributor: Eric Sevareid, Former National Correspondent, CBS News.

Additional resources

Giglio, James N. The Presidency of John F. Kennedy. Univ. Pr. of Kansas, 1992.

Hamilton, Nigel. JFK, Reckless Youth. Random Hse., 1992.

Posner, Gerald L. Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK. Random Hse., 1993.

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