Reply #13: It is a fun flick, but

[Barney Rocks]

not historically accurate--definitely not to be taken as historically true. If you want to know the facts--read some of the many well-researched books on the subjects--or documentaries.

(What Stone did was just take bits and pieces from several of the most popular conspiracy theories--and he wove them together into a story that sounds pretty entertaining--but does not fit with historical fact--lots of contradictory things--between the different theories he cobbled together and from fact.)

Stone does not attempt to spin his works as historically accurate--he admits that they are entertainment first.

A funnny fact--Stone also did a documentary on Nixon that (like the one on Kennedy) was full of distortions. The two Nixon girls and two Kennedy children (John Jr was still alive at that time) actually talked--they considered getting together and suing Stone for defamation! But the bar is so high for a public figure to prove defamation that they decided not to do it. Wouldn't that have been funny though? The Kennedy and the Nixon kids working together to sue the filmmaker who lied about their families. That would have been a real winner on court tv for sure! (I have a family member who is an attorney--he works for the law firm that considered taking the case!!!)