A multi-part, substantial series investigating the Kennedy assassination is certainly called for after the coup d'etat that killed Kennedy. But an 8-part series from 1988 is not what an 8-part series would be today. Film technique & investigative technology are in better shape; that and we're less innocent.
Some of these people are cranks. And some of these accusations had to be recanted. If a lot of these men weren't relishing their importance for knowing the "one secret truth" and drawing self-importance from these stories, they'd be reliving war stories or something similar. And if all the witnesses who disagree with the Warren report are mysteriously offed, where is this parade of live, disagreeing witnesses coming from? Some things would make the series more useful; a graphic map of Dealy plaza logging the positions of each witness/figure would be helpful.
The series promotes a shooter on the grassy knoll, and presents picture that may show him. How could a shooter be standing so close in basically plain-view at the top of a hill w/o anyone seeing him and screaming? Tom so and so may have plausible technical approaches but his rambling, drunk-sounding language ("coordinances") destroys his own credibility.
The problem with this editorial stance in this epic treatment is that everyone is eventually guilty, every witness is to be taken at face value, and every theory investigated is found to be true. No standard for rejecting outlandish theories in the now wealth-making "JFK theory industry" is promoted.
Other figures are missing entirely (David Ferrie, Clay Shaw)
Some of these people are cranks. And some of these accusations had to be recanted. If a lot of these men weren't relishing their importance for knowing the "one secret truth" and drawing self-importance from these stories, they'd be reliving war stories or something similar. And if all the witnesses who disagree with the Warren report are mysteriously offed, where is this parade of live, disagreeing witnesses coming from? Some things would make the series more useful; a graphic map of Dealy plaza logging the positions of each witness/figure would be helpful.
The series promotes a shooter on the grassy knoll, and presents picture that may show him. How could a shooter be standing so close in basically plain-view at the top of a hill w/o anyone seeing him and screaming? Tom so and so may have plausible technical approaches but his rambling, drunk-sounding language ("coordinances") destroys his own credibility.
The problem with this editorial stance in this epic treatment is that everyone is eventually guilty, every witness is to be taken at face value, and every theory investigated is found to be true. No standard for rejecting outlandish theories in the now wealth-making "JFK theory industry" is promoted.
Other figures are missing entirely (David Ferrie, Clay Shaw)