Oswald's Ghost (NR)

synopsis

A decade after JFK's assassination, America's political culture was changed almost beyond recognition. "Oswald's Ghost", offers an unprecedented deconstruction of the mythologies and controversy surrounding what is perhaps the most tangled and far reaching murder mystery of all time. Featuring interviews with Norman Mailer, Gary Hart, Tom Hayden, Mark Lane and others, the film probes the deep psychic wounds inflicted by the Kennedy assassination on American politics and culture, the scars of which remain evident to this day. Using a wealth of archival material, much of it never before seen or heard, "Oswald's Ghost" chronicles America's 40-year obsession with the single most pivotal event of the boomer generation.