'JFK'

I was a kid when this movie came out. I don't remember all the controversy, but watching it now, I realize where folks might get riled up.

Forget all the seemingly forged, exaggerated and implied "facts" that Oliver Stone throws out, he essentially claims that Lyndon Baines Johnson orchestrated a coup and overthrew the president.

That's serious accusations to throw at a dead man. But I digress.

This is a fun movie. I can almost guarantee that there were thousands of Americans pissed off at the government convinced that JFK's murder was a vast series of webs and conspiracy.

While I don't doubt that his murder was bigger than Lee Harvey Oswald, creating propaganda to somehow question the establishment and to create a molehill out of flat ground seems silly.

I also love how Stone insinuates that JFK was damn-near perfect and despite his mistake with the Bay of Pigs, he was going to not make that mistake again and go into Cuba or Vietnam. Ah, it's refreshing to take someone and totally rewrite what they felt about things. There is no way Kennedy was going to stay out of Vietnam or any other country to fight communism. Also, making Oswald the victim wasn't the coolest thing to do. Oswald wasn't minding his own business. He played his part as either the lone or one of five gunmen, all of whom were able to roll into downtown Dallas with rifles and get shots off that only a handful of people noticed.