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Oswald: Myth, Mystery and Meaning
Don DeLillo, Edward J. Epstein, and Gerald Posner respond to questions about the elusive character and contested significance of the 24-year-old former Marine who shot John F. Kennedy.
November 19, 2013
Conspiracy: Cases For and Against
Millions of Americans believe there exists a larger, darker explanation for President Kennedy's assassination than just Oswald, the lone, disturbed gunman.
November 19, 2013
Oswald, the CIA, and Mexico City
What the CIA knew about Lee Harvey Oswald's 1963 visit to Mexico has become one of the most closely guarded secrets in the agency's history.
November 19, 2013
Glimpses of a Life
Many experts say the real Lee Harvey Oswald can be discerned in his writings and statements and in the documents and files concerning him. Here is a small sampling.
November 19, 2013
Interview: G. Robert Blakey
"Any effort to explain what happened in Dallas must explain Lee Harvey Oswald, and Lee Harvey Oswald is a mystery wrapped up in an enigma, hidden behind a riddle," says the chief counsel to the 1977 House Select Committee on Assassinations.
November 19, 2013
Interview: Priscilla Johnson McMillan
Historian Priscilla Johnson McMillan speaks with FRONTLINE about the perplexing, troubling events of Lee Harvey Oswald’s life, as seen through the eyes of his wife Marina.
November 19, 2013
Interview: Robert Oswald
Lee Harvey Oswald's older brother says that the "hard physical evidence" from the Kennedy assassination leads him to one conclusion: "The Warren Commission was correct."
November 19, 2013
Interview: Gerald Posner
There is no physical evidence at Dealey Plaza to suggest anyone but Lee Harvey Oswald assassinated President Kennedy, says Gerald Posner, author of "Case Closed."
November 19, 2013
Norman Mailer on Oswald
Can there be any American who, having failed to gain stature while he was alive, now haunts us more than Lee Harvey Oswald, asks Norman Mailer in "Oswald's Tale: An American Mystery."
November 19, 2013
Hollywood & History: The Debate Over "JFK"
What obligation does Hollywood owe facts, accuracy, the truth? When popular history like Oliver Stone’s JFK gets hold of a subject, what kind of damage can be done?
November 19, 2013
"Oliver Stone's Paranoid Propaganda"
Oliver Stone's "JFK" is neither entertainment nor art, but a political bid to make the filmmaker's rather paranoid vision the established view of a traumatic national event, writes commentator John Leo.
November 19, 2013
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