JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass
7.5
2021
1 hr 58 min
Drama
, Crime
, Documentary
Thirty years after his film JFK, filmmaker Oliver Stone takes viewers on a journey through recently declassified evidence in the assassination of President Kennedy - the most consequential American murder mystery of the twentieth century. Joined by Oscar-winning narrators Whoopi Goldberg and Donald Sutherland, as well as a distinguished team of forensics, medical and ballistics experts, historians, and witnesses, Stone presents compelling evidence that in the Kennedy case “conspiracy theory” is now “conspiracy fact.”
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- Cast：
- Whoopi Goldberg , Donald Sutherland , Oliver Stone , John F. Kennedy , Lee Harvey Oswald , Jack Ruby , Richard M. Bissell Jr.
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