JFK (2/7) Movie CLIP - Crossfire in Daley Plaza (1991) HD

CLIP DESCRIPTION:
Lou Ivon (Jay O. Sanders) gives Jim Garrison (Kevin Costner) a demonstration in shooting a rifle at the book depository in Daley Plaza to show that it would be impossible for one man to have shot President Kennedy alone.

FILM DESCRIPTION:
The November 22, 1963, assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy shocked the nation and the world. The brisk investigation of that murder conducted under the guidance of Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren distressed many observers, even though subsequent careful investigations have been unable to find much fault with the conclusions his commission drew, the central one of which was that the assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, acted alone. Instead of satisfying the public, one result of the Warren Commission Report was that an unimaginable number of plausible conspiracy theories were bruited about, and these have supported a sizeable publishing mini-industry ever since. In making this movie, director Oliver Stone had his pick of supposed or real investigative flaws to draw from and has constructed what some reviewers felt was one of the most compelling (and controversial) political detective thrillers ever to emerge from American cinema. Long before filming was completed, Stone was fending off heated accusations of artistic and historical irresponsibility, and these only intensified after the film was released. In the story, New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison (Kevin Costner) is convinced that there are some big flaws in the investigation of Oswald (Gary Oldman), and he sets out to recreate the events leading up to the assassination. Along the way, he stumbles across evidence that a great many people had reason to want to see the president killed, and he is convinced that some of them worked in concert to frame Oswald as the killer. Among the suspects are Lyndon Baines Johnson (the next president), the CIA, J. Edgar Hoover, and the Mafia. Over the course of gathering what he believes to be evidence of a conspiracy, Garrison unveils some of the grittier aspects of New Orleans society, focusing on the shady activities of local businessman Clay Shaw (Tommy Lee Jones). Garrison's investigations culminate in his conducting a show trial that he knows he will lose and which he is sure will ruin his career in order to get his evidence into the public record where it can't be buried again. This movie won two of the many Academy Awards for which it was nominated: one for Best Photography (Robert Richardson) and the other for Editing (Joe Hutshing).

CREDITS:
TM & © Warner Bros. (1991)
Cast: Kevin Costner, Jay O. Sanders, John Connally, Nellie Connally, Jacqueline Kennedy, John F. Kennedy
Director: Oliver Stone
Producers: A. Kitman Ho, Arnon Milchan, Joseph P. Reidy, Oliver Stone, Clayton Townsend
Screenwriters: Oliver Stone, Zachary Sklar, Jim Garrison, Jim Marrs

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[gertrudemcfuzz]

1:39 "Lemme ask ya somethin' Lou. You think these people driving up Houston Street are gonna get antsy when they see me stickin' this Carcano out this infamous window and pointin' it in their direction?"

[fredbazoo]

I always found Gary Oldmans performance of Oswald to be one of the most spookiest portrayals on

[bladeklinge]

Me explaining to the server how the guy who killed me was aimbotting

[bodhi]

What scares me is how people do not question the government these days. Not only that, they attack those who do.

[joshueabelis]

The secreat service guy who jumped on the car when jfk was hit. Wrote a book. Dont like polotics or conspiracy. But he says being on the ground, it felt like being shot at by multiple targets and doesnt believe Oswald did it.

[gillies]

The JFK assasination is so strange. I have went from thinking there was no conspiracy to knowing there was a conspiracy to suspecting there may not have been one and back around and not always in that order.

[modrenwarefare]

2:57 one of the best edited sequences to ever exist. Building suspense while depriving you of the actual headshot.

[mariobonilla]

Gary Oldman should have won an Oscar for such an excellent film, he met Oswald's friends, wife and daughters, to perfect this role.

[rollotomasi]

When I was a kid, my dad took me to see JFK as he traveled thru Baltimore....we were on the corner of North Avenue and Harford road, my dad
was surprised at the open limo and even commented on how unsafe it looked if someone wanted to hurt the were 6 feet from JFK, most exciting day of my young

[jadedmastermind]

That 3, 2, 1, countdown at 2:52 is horrifyingly brilliant in its rapid-fire barrage of images surrounding the assassination of JFK.

[marksievert]

Suddenly this movie is relevant again!

[MikhailSharma]

The way Oswald died tells you that something isn't right with this case.

[MasterChief-slro]

Seems after 50 years. They still refuse to release

[REjill]

There are three missing frames from the Zapruder film. Jfk shot first

[josephbrandon]

"That's how a conspiracy works. Them boys on the grassy knoll, they were dead within three hours. Buried in the damn desert in unmarked graves past Terlingua." "And you know this for a fact?" "Still got the shovel."

[AT-kijz]

They dusted off the old JFK/Dallas playbook on 7.13.24

[ThothTheAtlanteanK]

" I'd say these were professional rifle people Chief! Serious people" That was so true!

[garrison]

Screw the haters, this is a fantastic movie. It really captures the feeling in the air that so many Americans felt when this happened.

[john]

This scene is fantastic IMO. The combination of the acting, music and actual footage was great.

[davidyoung]

The idea of crossfire is something that is often missed by the layman. Crossfire isn't just something that civilians are caught in during war. Its extremely powerful. Even just having 2 shooters overlapping a unit means they have to split and focus on two belligerents at once. To have 3 shooters, triangulated on 1 target! Well, just use your imagination.