Oliver Stone Archives - The Transnational

Edward Curtin: JFK Revisited – Through the Looking Glass by Oliver Stone – A Film Review

By Jesper Munk Jakobsen on February 23, 2022 CULTURE, History, MEDIA, Military & militarism (MIMAC), Racism, United States - Empire and domestic

Edward Curtin February 21, 2022 Two of the greatest speeches ever delivered by an American president bookend this extraordinary documentary film. It opens with President John F. Kennedy giving the commencement speech at American University on June 10, 1963 and it closes with his civil rights speech to the American people the following day. It is a deft […]

Deconstructing JFK: A coup d’état over foreign policy?

By Jesper Munk Jakobsen on February 10, 2021 Africa, Egypt, History, United States - Empire and domestic

Kennedy delivers the famous speech in West Berlin in June 1963, five months before his assassination. [Source: 20minutos.es] James DiEugenio February 10, 2021 When Oliver Stone’s blockbuster film JFK premiered in 1991, it delivered a hugely embarrassing shock to academic historians, Democratic Party grandees, corporate media pundits and other respected purveyors of conventional wisdom. That’s because, for the […]