Government is No Longer Believable

This is the title Oneonta's "The Daily Star" gave my editorial letter after reading one of George Will's typically over-conservative articles attacking the film JFK. The editorial is below: Oliver Stone is playing hardball. There's no doubt about that. He made very strong anti-war statements in his films Salvador, Platoon, and Born on the Fourth of July. In his new film, JFK, he makes his strongest attack at our government. But that doesn't mean our government doesn't deserve it.

I waited to see JFK before I read George Will's article about the film's fabrications. I'm 21 years old and Kennedy's assassination was before my time. I'll admit I knew little about it going into the film, so I was fairly open-minded.

Stone presented over three hours of solid facts in his film supporting a CIA-led conspiracy to kill the president. Remember, however, facts in film ain't necessarily so.

I took into account the fact that Stone may have stretched a few truths, but I was in his hands for 189 minutes. In 1962, I probably would've believed the government's theory of Lee Harvey Oswald the loner, but after Vietnam, Watergate and the Iran-Contra Scandal,I'm inclined to believe very little the government tells me - or what they bother to tell me.

The problem I have with George Will's article is that he attacks Stone in every paragraph. Has he forgotten that JFK is based on books by Jim Garrison and Jim Marrs?

Whether this story is true or not, I don't think anyone will ever know, but Oliver Stone's JFK has got me thinking. I believe that's what Stone set out to do.

Critic's can't praise the film enough, but George Will and many other columnists in America attack the film as being full of lies without taking the time in their articles to prove the truth. How can you know a lie if you don't know the truth?

Face it, George is just as clueless as the rest of us about one of America's greatest tragedies.

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