2007
Seventh Art Releasing
1 h 23 m

2007
Seventh Art Releasing
1 h 23 m

Summary A decade after JFK's assassination, America's political culture was changed almost beyond recognition. With Oswald's Ghost, acclaimed director Robert Stone offers an unprecedented deconstruction of the mythologies and controversy surrounding what is perhaps the most tangled and far reaching murder mystery of all time. Featuring interview...

Documentary

Directed By: Robert Stone

Written By: Robert Stone

2007
Seventh Art Releasing
1 h 23 m

2007
Seventh Art Releasing
1 h 23 m

Oswald's Ghost

Name: Oswald's Ghost
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2007-11-30
Duration: 1 min 23 s
Rating: 62
Cast: Hugh Aynesworth, David Bellin, Hale Boggs, Judith Campbell Exner, Fidel Castro

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 13 Critic Reviews

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Directed By: Robert Stone

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Generally Favorable Based on 13 Critic Reviews

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Generally Favorable Based on 13 Critic Reviews

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Entertainment Weekly

In Oswald's Ghost, his vast chronicle of the JFK assassination and its cultural aftermath, Stone uses little-seen footage to assemble the events of Nov. 22, 1963, with a fascinating present-tense density.

By Owen Gleiberman FULL REVIEW

TV Guide Magazine

Veteran conspiracy buffs probably won’t find much of Stone's material particularly new, but Stone’s film does serve as a neat summary for the rest of us while offering a number of intriguing insights into how conspiracy theories work and what they say about specific cultural and political climates.

By Ken Fox FULL REVIEW

The A.V. Club

Late in the film, Stone interviews Norman Mailer, a one-time conspiracy-believer who eventually wrote a book that tried to get inside Oswald's head, explaining how Oswald's story is America's story. In less than a minute, Mailer describes the documentary Stone should've made.

By Noel Murray FULL REVIEW

Salon

Lee Harvey Oswald's guilt or innocence or accomplices are not the point of the film; Stone is more interested in the fact that much about the Kennedy murder is now so shrouded in myth and mystification as to be permanently unknowable, and that that fact alone has gnawed away at the self-confidence of middle-class white America ever since.

By Andrew O'Hehir FULL REVIEW

Los Angeles Times

Stone covers territory all too familiar to most Americans old enough to remember the JFK assassination.

By Kevin Thomas FULL REVIEW

Village Voice

Riveting yet ultimately unsatisfying documentary.

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Film Threat

The only obvious question that Oswald’s Ghost raises is: how come Mort Sahl wasn’t in the movie? (If you don’t get that joke, you need to brush up on your Kennedy conspiracy lessons.)

By Phil Hall FULL REVIEW

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Production Company British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), Robert Stone Productions, The American Experience

Release Date Nov 30, 2007

Duration 1 h 23 m

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Website http://www.oswaldsghost.com/

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Awards

Primetime Emmy Awards

• 1 Nomination

Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival

• 1 Nomination

Oswald's Ghost

Top Cast

Hugh Aynesworth

Self

David Bellin

Self

Hale Boggs

Self - Warren Commission

Judith Campbell Exner

Self - Alleged JFK Mistress

Fidel Castro

Self - Cuban President

Ramsey Clark

Self - Attorney General

John Sherman Cooper

Self - Warren Commission

Walter Cronkite

Self

J.E. Curry

Self - Dallas Police Chief

Robert Dallek

Self

Ngo Dinh Diem

Self

Allen Dulles

Self - Warren Commission

Edward Jay Epstein

Self

Edmond Fatter

Self

David Ferrie

Self

Gerald Ford

Self - Warren Commission

Jim Garrison

Self

Sam Giacono

Self

Todd Gitlin

Self

Kenneth Harris

Self - BBC Reporter

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