ABSTRACT
JFK, released in 1991, represents Oliver Stone's argument regarding America's betrayal by its leaders and the consequent expulsion of Americans from the Garden that was Camelot. JFK, by Stone's own admission, is an attempt to wake the American people up to the downward slide in society and government following John F. Kennedy's assassination. In response to the journalists' attack on JFK, Stone frequently asserted that the filmmaker is allowed to interpret and reinterpret history as seems fitting: "Filmmakers make myths. JFK provided Stone with his greatest technical, logistical, and emotional challenge. Jim Garrison, however, like Christ in his ministry and, ironically, like Oliver Stone in his making of JFK, suffers ridicule for his newfound vision of the truth. JFK's climax comes with Garrison's ultimately unsuccessful trial against Clay Shaw. Garrison not only suffers persecution at the hands of the press, but he is also ridiculed and ultimately betrayed by his own men.
