Jacqueline Kennedy’s pink Chanel suit: then & now
Jefferson Morley
May 2, 2016
One of the most haunting images from November 22, 1963, is Jacqueline Kennedy’s pink suit smeared with President Kennedy’s blood in Dallas.
The complicated sisterhood of Jackie Kennedy and Lee Radziwill
Jefferson Morley
April 28, 2016
Jackie Kennedy had a life of her own apart from her husband and it was full of glamour, lovers, sorrow, and sibling rivalry. From Vanity Fair, a look at the most famous sisters in the world, the Bouvier girls—Jacqueline and Caroline Lee.
The Kennedy Films of Robert Drew & Associates
Jefferson Morley
April 24, 2016
In 1960, the group was granted direct access to John F. Kennedy, filming him on the campaign trail and eventually in the Oval Office. This resulted in three films of remarkable, behind-closed-doors intimacy—Primary, Adventures on the New Frontier, and Crisis—and, following the president’s assassination, the poetic short Faces of November.
Source: The Kennedy Films of Robert Drew & Associates- The Criterion Collection (HT/ejc)
The women at the heart of the JFK assassination story
Jefferson Morley
December 19, 2015
Many of this year’s commemorations highlight the curious fact that so much JFK “assassination art” focuses not on the presidential victim or even on the shooter(s), but on the drama’s leading ladies, Jackie Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe.
Source: Artists Address the Women at the Heart of JFK’s Assassination | The Creators Project
Voices from the JFK filmography
Jefferson Morley
December 2, 2015
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ecause of my fascination over the years with the killing, I’ve been able to directly interview some of the performers and directors of the various John F. Kennedy assassination films….. here is a pastiche of the interviewees and their viewpoints.
Source: Death of a President: Voices from the JFK Filmography – Film Autonomy by Patrick McDonald.
Natalie Portman will play Jackie Kennedy in a new biopic
Jefferson Morley
October 31, 2015
With Natalie Portman already signed on to play the former First Lady and the recent news that Peter Sarsgaard is in final negotiations to play Robert Kennedy, Jackie is stacking up to be a movie that will go down in history as one of the best.
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Where do the 2016 presidential contenders stand on secrecy?
Jefferson Morley
October 28, 2015
The Republican presidential candidates debating on October 28 will, if elected, face a question of secrecy.
The CIA retains 1,100 documents related to the assassination that are supposed to be made public in October 2017. The CIA is likely to ask for continued secrecy.
What will President 45 do? …
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How Dallas led to Beatlemania
Jefferson Morley
October 3, 2015
Source: Krerowicz will discuss how the assassination of Kennedy helped Beatlemania flourish.
‘Assassination Theater’ and the risk of rabbit holes
Jefferson Morley
September 27, 2015
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Project ARTICHOKE: how the CIA tried to hypnotize an unwitting assassin
Jefferson Morley
September 26, 2015
A revealing document from UNREDACTED, the blog of the nonprofit National Security Archive illuminates how CIA officers pondered carrying out political assassinations. …
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David Talbot’s top 7 JFK books
Jefferson Morley
September 24, 2015
Erik, Jeff S., and other frustrated readers complained that the link to my September 13 post, David Talbot’s JFK reading list, was broken. Sorry about that. You can read the story here. …
‘Assassination Theater’ probes a Mafia plot against JFK
Jefferson Morley
September 24, 2015
“I’m an investigative reporter but I’ve always loved plays,” says Hillel Levin. The result is “Assassination Theater,” Levin’s investigative drama about the murder of President John F. Kennedy, now playing at the Museum of Broadcast Communications in Chicago.
Focusing on Chicago FBI agent Zach Shelton, the four-man drama develops a “Mafia did it” interpretation of JFK’s assassination, along with excursions into the medical evidence and the life of Jack Ruby.
It is unusual territory for a stage drama.
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Peter Dale Scott reconceives the JFK story
Jefferson Morley
August 27, 2015
Peter Dale Scott’s conceptualization of the assassination of President Kennedy offers a bracing challenge to contemporary American historiography, political science, and national security studies.
“Since the aftermath of World War II, the deep state’s power has grown unchecked, and nowhere has it been more apparent than at sun-dappled Dealey Plaza on November 22, 1963,” the publishers of his new book write.
Certainly Kennedy’s violent death and the failure to hold senior CIA officials responsible for the intelligence failure it represented marked a decisive moment in the consolidation of secretive power centers in the American state.