Reporting an Assassination

"Parkland" director Peter Landesman on JFK research

"...If you've got a conspiracy theory about the JFK assassination, Peter Landesman doesn't want to know. The director..."

Nov. 22, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

JFK

Oliver Stone gives the "lone gunman" assassination theory a run for its money.

"...always seem to have bottom lines. So, too, with JFK. Here the bottom line is the demolition of the..."

Dec. 27, 1991 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Letters at 3AM: JFK and That Hard Rain

When boomers and their offspring die out, Kennedy's assassination will have the approximate historical echo of William McKinley's

"...In retrospect, I admire at least this about JFK: On 9/11, George W. Bush went into hiding and..."

Nov. 22, 2013 Column by Michael Ventura

Point Austin: Reflections on Assassination

Trying to find some wisdom on a grim anniversary

"...historical tipping point of cultural obsession with the Kennedy assassination. Most younger people I know don't share my generation's..."

Nov. 22, 2013 News Column by Michael King

Remembering JFK

Archives offer insights gleaned 50 years since JFK's assassination

"...Texas Investigates: the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy and Wounding of Governor..."

Nov. 24, 2013 Qmmunity Post by Sarah Marloff

The November Men

"...too many viewings of the Zapruder film of the JFK assassination. You can go mad with conspiracy fever and,..."

July 8, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Friend of the Family

In Thomas Mallon's new nonfiction book, the strangest figure in the JFK assassination is the most honest one.

"...To students of the JFK assassination, the strange life of Ruth Paine is yet..."

Jan. 25, 2002 Books Feature by Clay Smith

A Journey to 'Parkland'

Writer/director Peter Landesman on the untold stories of JFK's death

"...journalist-turned-filmmaker Peter Landesman started writing the script for his JFK assassination film Parkland, he knew there was still drama..."

Oct. 5, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Nostradamus

"...prognositicator Nostradamus. His adherents claim his predictions included the JFK assassination, both world wars, AIDS, moon landings, and more...."

Dec. 2, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

ASK: Roland Swenson

JFK symposium exposes SXSW head as CIA operative!

"...Swenson co-hosted an annual conference in Dallas called the Assassination Symposium on Kennedy, known as ASK, that drew hundreds..."

Nov. 21, 2013 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

The JFKonspiracy

Kathy McCarty wants to know "Why?" Why is wanting to know more about the Kennedy Assassination such social suicide?

"...popular attitude adopted by people in general toward the assassination of JFK is one of more or less silent..."

Nov. 10, 2000 Features Feature by Kathy McCarty

Jackie

A portrait of the First Lady in the aftermath of JFK's assassination

"...portrait yet of Jacqueline Kennedy’s horrifying ordeal following the assassination of her husband, president John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Jackie has..."

Dec. 23, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Beatles: Eight Days a Week – The Touring Years

Ron Howard tackles the Beatles

"...is seen through the fulcrum of such events as JFK’s assassination and the escalating war in Vietnam. With the..."

Sept. 9, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

It All Began So Beautifully ...

LBJ Library and Museum houses Austin's key connection to Kennedy's assassination

"...Baines Johnson issued from the same barrel that killed JFK. His first inauguration occurred aboard Air Force One in..."

Nov. 22, 2013 Arts Feature by Kate X Messer

Notes on Mad Dogs

If you were young, talented, and a little crazy in the old Austin, you may have answered to the bizarre title of "Mad Dog."

"...anti-Texas fervor that existed in the nation after the JFK assassination, coupled with the transformation that was happening in..."

Jan. 26, 2001 Books Feature by Clay Smith

Shelf Life

"...typical nuclear family is watching TV and, upon seeing JFK's assassination, become convinced that the commies have taken over..."

Nov. 11, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

In the Line of Fire

"...remorse(?), self-doubt(?), confusion(?) regarding his role in the 1963 assassination of JFK, is a classic creation. The script gets..."

July 9, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Ruby

"...to cash in on the success of Oliver Stone's JFK. They get the period details right and the cheesy..."

April 3, 1992 Movie Review by Kathleen Maher

This Terrible Moment

'All the Way' playwright Robert Schenkkan and its LBJ, Bryan Cranston, on JFK's assassination

"...to a memento from the wake of John Kennedy's assassination: "A very little thing, but it meant a lot..."

Nov. 22, 2013 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Watchmen on the Walls of Freedom

UT composer Dan Welcher commemorates JFK: The Voice of Peace 40 years after the President's scheduled visit to Austin.

"...Austin waits no longer. Through local composer Dan Welcher's JFK: The Voice of Peace, being performed by the Austin..."

Nov. 7, 2003 Music Feature by Robert Faires

Writers on Kennedy

What we think about when we think about JFK

"...is the case of John F. Kennedy. A political assassination is both a personal tragedy for loved ones and..."

Nov. 22, 2013 News Feature by Robert Jensen

LBJ

Harrelson dons prosthetics for this complicated biopic

"...a series of flashbacks depicting LBJ’s frustrated tenure as JFK’s VP until an assassin’s bullet promotes him to president,..."

Nov. 3, 2017 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Writers on Kennedy

What we think about when we think about JFK

"...I have a very clear memory of JFK's assassination, but it's not mine. It's my mother's. I..."

Nov. 22, 2013 News Feature by Belinda Acosta

Conspiracy

The short happy life and quick assassination of ASK

"...In 1990, we programmed a panel on the Kennedy assassination. It was so well-attended, interesting, and exciting that SXSW..."

Nov. 22, 2013 Features Feature by Louis Black

Porno

Horror-sex-comedy never quite (ahem) rises to the occassion

"...is an illusion, we're being lied to about the JFK assassination, the color of the dress was solely down..."

April 10, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Getting to Know Robert Morrow

Newly elected GOP county chair causing a Republican revolt

"...the idea that LBJ, using the CIA, orchestrated the JFK assassination. “I can go toe-to-toe with any researcher or..."

March 8, 2016 News Post by Mary Tuma

Day Trips: Reunion Tower, Dallas

Get a bird's-eye view of Big D from the tower's observation deck

"...explore the scenery. The seven-minute video about the Kennedy assassination is an eyewitness account by Clinton Hill, the Secret..."

Dec. 18, 2015 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Crop Circles: Quest for Truth

"...film about as valid and honest as those obscure JFK assassination videos that pop up on the Internet from..."

Sept. 6, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Postscripts

"...ask the author of yet another book about the JFK assassination is why the world needs yet another book..."

Nov. 20, 1998 Books Column

Barbara Purcell's Top 10 Only-in-Austin Arts Highlights of 2019

The year seen through a lens of the city, upending the expected and lifting up the unusual

"...3) BOB CARO DODGING JFK CONSPIRACY QUESTIONS (BookPeople) Who would have thought an audience..."

Dec. 20, 2019 Arts Feature by Barbara Purcell

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