Kennedy’s killing was almost immediately composed into a narrative structure, which has already emerged in popular culture and politics, which is a way of narration, which considered public actions to be manifested by secret graphs. Thriller Richard Condon “The Manchurian Candidate” (published in 1959 and published in 1959 AA Adapted to Hollywood in 1962) and Thomas Pynchon’s Shaggy-Dog Experimental Whodunit “V.” It is one of the most famous examples of the preliminary of this paranoid style in American fiction. (The phrase “paranoid style” comes from an influential essay about political spicyism to historian Columbia University Richard Hofstadter, originally lecturer shortly before the assassination and assassination and Posted in Harper’s in 1964.)
In the same year the Warren Commission report He strongly came to the conclusion that Oswald was the only scorer And the only party responsible for killing Kennedy. Yet the report did anything other than closing the case. Over the years, the Commission was subjected to a permanent stream of revisionism and refuted, which was first performed by journalists and politicians and later, perhaps more decisive, more decisive, Rinsers and filmmakers.
Counternternarrative versions percolni novels and movies from the end of 60 years and pick up steam in the 80’s and 90s. Alan J. Pakula’s “Looking at parallaxs” (1974), although not explicitly about JFK, depicts the bleak, cynical image of the American elite that absorbs its own, devoted to anything beyond the preservation and weapons of fraud. Condon’s “Winter Kills” published in 1974 and five years laterHe leads a dark comic variant on this topic and attributes Kennedy’s figure to the death of the moral rot and the innate dishonesty of the ruling class, which he embodied and betrayed.
Vietnam and Watergate disasters, along with revelations of the hidden activities of the CIA and FBI, fed the distrust of the state that would throw itself left and right. The assassination was perceived from both sides as a central event in the secret history of our time, a free thread that would reveal the skewed sinister charts involving intelligence agencies, mafia, Howard Hughes, J. Edgar Hoover, Lyndon B. Johnson and various deceitful organizations and lively actors. The cumulative morality of these stories was that nothing had ever been what seemed, and that US institutions were warriors of betrayal and fraud.
In the 1988 baseball comedy “Bull Durham”, Crash Davis Kevin Costner Davis in a monologue defining the character declares: ‘I believe Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone“This is what smart, sexy, adult romantic lead is playing a beginning film star by say. Three years later, Costner played in Oliver Stone “JFK” like Jim Garrison, a real district representative of New Orleans, who watched a case that included a huge network of conspirators, including Kennedy’s successor Johnson. “We’re here through looking glass, people,” he said. “White is black and black is white.” In 1991, that It was what a fair warrior would say for the truth played by the double winner of Oscar.
