Please Share Your Favorite JFK-Related Movies, Images, Texts, Etc.

[snot]

I have limited time and there's a ton of stuff out there, a lot of it not so great.

Hope you don't mind my posting this request here, because I'm not really interested in exploring conspiracy theories per se – not that I rule them out; it's just that that is not the focus of my exploration – but I figure some people here are probably experts on JFK-related matters in general.

My focus is more on the JFK presidency and the aura and mythology that grew up around him, and especially on our reactions to him and to the assassination, the effects of the assassination on our collective psyche.

Also, do you know a good site with sourced quotations? (I.e., with attributions re- which text or speech each quotation is from.)

Many thanks for any suggestions!

[Agnosticsherbet]

1. The Ballad of PT 109 by Jimmy Dean

You can hear it on Youtube

[greyl]

2. 11/22/63: A Novel by Stephen King

Fascinating page-turner with some rarely told verified facts about Oswald and his acquaintances. Loved it.

11/22/63: A Novel - Stephen King

Race Across Time to Stop Assassin and Fall in Love

By JANET MASLIN

Stephen King’s latest magnum opus, “11/22/63,” finds a way to revisit and even revise the events surrounding the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. The book’s front cover depicts a newspaper account of Kennedy’s death in Dallas on that date. Its rear cover presents the opposite outcome, with the president and first lady looking happy and unscathed.

On the 849 pages between those covers, Mr. King pulls off a sustained high-wire act of storytelling trickery. He makes alternative history work — but how? It’s at least as interesting to examine Mr. King’s narrative tactics as to discover his opinions about conspiracy theories. By the way, he thinks it a near-certainty that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/31/books/stephen-kings-11-23-63-review.html

Stephen King Plots To Save JFK In '11/22/63'

by NPR Staff

To research the book, King dove into the past. He read books and watched documentaries about the assassination. He scoured the famous Zapruder 8mm movie footage of the killing. And he started to learn more about assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, whom protagonist Jake stalks throughout 11/22/63.

"When I went into this project, I knew very little about Lee Harvey Oswald," King says. "I could have picked his face out of a lineup, and I watched him shot to death on TV two days after the Kennedy assassination, but I knew almost nothing about him."

What he found out was disturbing: "His mother was a domineering force in his life," King says. "Lee slept with her in her bed until he was 11, and until he was 13 years old, a weekly ritual was that he would take off all his clothes so she could look at him and see whether or not he was getting manly yet."

King also depicts Oswald's relationship with his wife and their community of Russian friends. "When he married Marina, apparently he loved her very much, but he also beat her," King says. "She had no English, and he wasn't interested in having her learn English because while she was Russian and he could speak Russian, she was under his thumb."

http://www.npr.org/2011/11/13/142181938/stephen-king-plots-to-save-jfk-in-11-22-63

Buy it: 11/22/63: A Novel - Stephen King