Goofs

Jim Garrison's glasses appear and disappear several times between shots while he's talking to Senator Long on the plane.

Garrison's pipe appears and disappears between shots when he's watching the crime scene from a fence on Elm Street.

Willie walks into Clay's house with his jacket on, but before being greeted by the butler he bumps into him with his jacket now off.

When Garrison talks with Andrews in the restaurant, Andrews stands up, removing his sunglasses. But when the camera focuses on Andrews in a later shot, the sunglasses appear again.

When Garrison's crew are watching the TV report about Oswald's gun, there's a background female voice saying "He did what?". However, the next shots reveal that there's only one woman in the room and Susie wasn't the one saying that line (she's the one who says "That ties it up!") and then comes this invisible woman and her reply. It's never explained who that person is.

David Ferrie's "confession" in Fountainbleu Hotel never happened. Ferrie went to his death denying any knowledge of Oswald or the plot to kill JFK.

Jack Ruby did not shout "Oswald!" when he shot Lee Harvey Oswald. He didn't shout anything.

Garrison says "We have the epileptic seizure around 12:15 p.m. distracting the police, making it easier for the shooters to move into their places. The epileptic later vanished, never checking into the hospital." But the individual in question hardly "vanished"; his name was Jerry Belknap, a man who suffered from fainting spells after being hit by a car several years earlier. He was located by the FBI on May 26, 1964, and to prove his identity, he produced his receipt for the $12.50 he paid for his ambulance ride to Parkland Hospital. He explained that he had left Parkland without registering because he felt better after being given a glass of water and an aspirin. Moments later, the President's motorcade pulled into the hospital's parking lot, and Belknap realized he was not likely to see a doctor anytime soon anyway.

In the film, they state that when Marina first met Oswald she thought he was a native speaker of Russian. This is false. Marina knew that he was not a native Russian. In fact, his foreign identity helped attract Marina to him, as she thought that a foreign man would treat her better than a Russian would.

When Garrison is in the airplane with Senator Long, it is implied that he looks out the window at the White House below. No civilian airplanes have been allowed to fly within three miles of the White House since World War II.

Garrison's assistant tells him that it "Takes a minimum of 2.3 seconds to recycle this thing." The HSCA concluded that it was possible to fire the rifle within 1.66 seconds using the open iron sights, but it was not formed until 1976, seven years after the Shaw trial. The Warren Report, published in 1964, five years before the Shaw trial, stated that at least 2.3 seconds were required between shots.

Garrison claims that Oswald's statements while in custody would be inadmissible in court. Because this assertion in based on a contrary to fact condition, it can never be verified. Neither can the assertion that Oswald's statements made while in custody would be admissible. In 1964, the Supreme Court ruled Danny Escobedo's murder confession to be inadmissible, because he made it in police custody after his requests to obtain a lawyer were refused. If Oswald had been tried, if he had chosen not to testify and if the courts held that giving him only brief opportunities to find a lawyer and continuing to question him after his efforts were unsuccessful constituted a denial of his right to counsel, his statements in custody would have been inadmissible.

Garrison says Oswald was "interrogated for 12 hours and nobody made a record of it". The Warren Report itself states that Oswald's interrogations were not recorded by court reporter or tape recording. The report includes several reports of these interrogations, made after they were over. Most of them were made after Oswald's death.

When Garrison is speaking with David Ferrie, Ferrie's wig frequently changes position from high on his forehead to low, almost to the eyebrows. He's doing this intentionally with his hands because he is nervous.

In Garrison's version of the assassination, the rifleman in the Dal-Tex Building rests his rifle on a metal frame. No one experienced with rifles would rest one on a hard object when firing it. If he did, the vibrations of the barrel would make the rifle jump up, throwing the aim point off the target.

The amount of time between the end of RFK's speech at the California primary and him being fatally shot is incorrect. There are a little over two minutes in-between those times.

However, films (or TV episodes) that show footage on a TV are known for 'jumping ahead' of the footage time to not bore the audience much.

The advertising sign on top of the School Book Depository was not removed until 1979.

When Garrison is in the airplane with Senator Long we see upper hand luggage shelves already fitted with doors. At the time they were plain open.

After hearing of Kennedy's death, Guy Bannister proclaims, "Camelot in smithereens!" No one referred to Kennedy's presidency as Camelot until a week after the assassination, when Life magazine published Theodore H. White's interview with Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, which made the link.

During a flashback to the scene at Dealey Plaza, a Ford Mustang can be seen clearly in the background. That car did not come out until March 1964.

1980s clothes at the Mardi Gras parade.

When Jim Garrison and his assistant Lou are in the corner window of the Texas School Book Depository, Lou's line "...hasn't been used for two hundred years" doesn't sync with the movement of his lips, a mishap director Oliver Stone tried to correct by manufacturing an "echo" effect to lengthen the sound of dialogue.

When Ferrie is arguing in the hotel room with Garrison, his reflection in the nearby mirror seems to be talking when he is not.

As Oswald is being taken out of the Texas Theater and into the police car, a boom operator in shorts can be seen, as well several other members of the crew in modern dress.

It's stated that Oswald could not have been the shooter because he was spotted in the second floor lunchroom of the TSBD, around 90 seconds after the shooting stopped. There's no mention that the investigators even did a test to see if a person could get from the 6th floor window to the 2nd floor lunchroom in that time. (the real commission did do a test and it could be actually be done, even with walking).

When Ferrie is in the hotel room speaking to Garrison a boom mic can be seen in the mirror.

Jim Garrison tells the jury that Dr. James Humes destroyed the notes he took at the JFK autopsy. He actually burned his first draft of the autopsy report and turned the notes over to his commanding officer. They subsequently disappeared.

In the trial scene, Garrison does a demonstration of the "magic bullet" theory where he shows Kennedy and Connally seated directly in front of one another and at the same height. In reality, Connally was sitting in a jump seat in the limo. He was further towards the interior of the car than Kennedy and was significantly lower down.

Mr. X tells Garrison that the "who" questions aren't important, yet three of his follow up questions, he's literally asking who.

Mr. X says that "we had one-third of a combat division returning from Germany in the air above the United States at the time of the shooting." He suggests they were to be used for riot control. In October 1963, the 2nd Armored Division flew from Fort Hood to Germany, to take part in maneuvers. All but 550 of the division's personnel returned during 12-21 November. By 4 December, they all were home. Armored troops are not as well suited for riot control as infantry is.

Garrison tells his staff that "nothing was done" when William Walter, an FBI security clerk, claimed that he received a Teletype from FBI headquarters, warning of a possible assassination attempt against Kennedy 5 days before he was assassinated. In reality, the FBI instituted an investigation at each of its 59 offices, which yielded no evidence indicating the existence of such a Teletype.