{"id":61649,"date":"2022-01-27T09:25:14","date_gmt":"2022-01-27T14:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=61649"},"modified":"2022-01-27T09:25:14","modified_gmt":"2022-01-27T14:25:14","slug":"jfk-revisited-through-the-looking-glass-by-oliver-stone-a-film-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=61649","title":{"rendered":"JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass by Oliver Stone, A Film Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"before-post\">\n<h3 class=\"post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/off-guardian.org\/2022\/01\/23\/jfk-revisited-through-the-looking-glass-by-oliver-stone\/\"><span class=\"the-title\">JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass by Oliver Stone, <\/span><span class=\"subtitle\">A Film Review<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post_page-content post\">\n<p class=\"dropcap\">Two of the greatest speeches ever delivered by an American president bookend this extraordinary documentary film. It opens with President John F. Kennedy giving the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ratical.org\/ratville\/JFK\/HWNAU\/JFK061063.html\">commencement speech at American University on June 10, 1963<\/a>\u00a0and it closes with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jfk.org\/president-kennedys-report-to-the-american-people-on-civil-rights-june-11-1963\/\">his civil rights speech to the American people the following day<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It is a deft artistic touch that suggests the brevity of JFK\u2019s heroic efforts for world peace and domestic racial equality and justice before he was assassinated in a public execution in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963.<\/p>\n<p>In the former anti-war speech, he called for the end to the Cold War with the Soviet Union, the halt to the arms race, and the abolishment of war and its weapons, especially nuclear.\u00a0 He said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What kind of peace do I mean? What kind of peace do we seek? Not a Pax Americana enforced on the world by American weapons of war. Not the peace of the grave or the security of the slave. I am talking about genuine peace, the kind of peace that makes life on earth worth living, the kind that enables men and nations to grow and to hope and to build a better life for their children \u2013 not merely peace for Americans but peace for all men and women \u2013 not merely peace in our time but peace for all time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In the latter address to the American people, having just sent National Guard troops to the University of Alabama to make sure two black students were admitted despite the racist objections of Governor George Wallace, his words transcended the immediate issue at the university and called for the end to the immoral and illegal discrimination against African Americans in every area of the nation\u2019s life.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass by Oliver Stone, A Film Review Two of the greatest speeches ever delivered by an American president bookend this extraordinary documentary film. It opens with President John F. Kennedy giving the\u00a0commencement speech at American University on June 10, 1963\u00a0and it closes with\u00a0his civil rights speech to the American people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[16936,1372,8530,23435,14267],"class_list":["post-61649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-edward-curtin","tag-jfk","tag-john-f-kennedy","tag-off-guardian","tag-oliver-stone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61649"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61650,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61649\/revisions\/61650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}