Oswald's Ghost Airs on PBS

This is a post originally posted on Mary Ferrell. Jan 15, 2008: PBS' American Experience is showing this week Oswald's Ghost, a film by Robert Stone which grapples with the the JFK assassination and its aftermath, but whose point of view is summed up by historian Robert Dallek: "How could someone as inconsequential as Lee Harvey Oswald have killed someone as consequential as John F. Kennedy?" This question, of course, assumes that he did. The film's positive reviews by the Boston Globe, LA Times, Dallas Morning News, and Miami Herald, are accompanied by less-than-enthusiastic response from those who know the JFK case better. Jim DiEugenio's review dissects the film's choice of topics and talking heads, and notes that Oswald's Ghost fails to even mention the House Select Committee on Assassinations and the Assassination Records Review Board (DiEugenio: "In other words, the body that literally almost doubled the amount of documentation available on the JFK case goes unnoticed in a film on that very case"). See also David Lifton's account of a pre-release screening (Night at the Museum).