Plunging into The Labyrinth

Feisty filmmaker Oliver Stone counters criticisms of the conspiracy theory and cover-up scenario in his tsunami wave of a movie, JFK

Q. In JFK you commingle real news footage with re-created historical scenes. Do you consider the film a docudrama, a work of fact or fiction?

A. Am I a zebra? Am I a giraffe? What color are my spots? These are categorizations, and I tend to resist them. During the trial Jim Garrison says, let's speculate for a moment what happened that day. He goes on to speculate as to the events as they might have happened with more than one shooter. So I'm giving you a detailed outlaw history or counter-myth. A myth represents the true inner spiritual meaning of...

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