A Writer’s Notebook: Watching Oliver Stone’s “JFK”

JFK and Jackie glide long the Dallas thoroughfare before the unthinkable happens. Image copyright Walter Sisco, courtesy Wikimedia.

Friday is the 50-year anniversary of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination, a day made no less disturbing given the passage of five decades and the proliferation of shootings we experience with frightening regularity now. When Oliver Stone’s film JFK debuted in 1991, I walked into the theater wondering how it would feel to experience the events of that day so...