Executive Action (1973)
Burt Lancaster and Robert Ryan star in this talky yet interesting and thought provoking account of the alleged plot by US officials to assassinate President Kennedy, using Lee Harvey Oswald as the patsy.
The film uses a lot of real footage leading up to the assassination and it branches well with the real life actors. The film is so convincing in its set up that after its conclusion the viewer is convinced Oswald was innocent. The viewer is left with the feeling that it was all a frightening conspiracy by conservative politicians and intelligence agencies to remove a president at odds with their views on the Vietnam war, race relations and oil supplies.
Recommended to those who don't want to sit through three hours of Oliver Stone's JFK, as its essentially the same film made twenty odd years earlier.
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