Quite a mind-blowing film, both in content and technique.
The editing, led by Joe Hutshing and Pietro Scalia is mind-blowing and won the Oscar, they were assisted by Hank Corwin and Julie Monroe. The sound design is pretty amazing also. John Williams' music doesn't even sound like him until near the end. Robert Richardson won his first Oscar.
Kevin Costner is the DA who won't give up, Jim Garrison. His team comprises Laurie Metcalfe, Jay Sanders, Michael Rooker, Wayne Knight (the one who smiles at the trial's outcome) Gary Grubbs and some other people.
With Gary Oldman (who kept making me think of Sam Rockwell) Joe Pesci, Edward Asner and Tommy Lee Jones. Meaningful cameos come from Donald Sutherland, who provides all the info about how lucrative the Vietnam war is, in a fabulous scene, John Candy, brilliant as slippery lawyer, Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Kevin Bacon.
Many do subscribe to the theory that Kennedy was going to pull out of Vietnam, but as to the multiple shooters, that is surely beyond dispute (the 'magic bullet' stuff was just so much crap.)
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