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Viewers of Oliver Stone's 1991 polemical blockbuster all those years ago were left, like me, with a sense of something being a bit off but with no facts to get our teeth into. This miniseries blows the whole conspiracy theory wide open, for even the most conspiracy-jaded folk.

JFK- Destiny Betrayed: elegantly argued, historically contextualised, clinically put together. No other director is as persuasive as Oliver Stone and this docu-series sees him at the top of his game. Miss it at your very real peril. Freedom and democracy are at stake......

For those who don't know, this is the 4 hour expanded edition of JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass. Much of the same aspects of the assassination are discussed here, just in more detail. There are also some that weren't mentioned in Revisited. Such as the Harper Fragment and Kennedy's foreign policy with Africa. However, while Revisited was a more appropriate length, and flowed better, this version has more issues. Mostly the structure and editing. Because it cuts back and forth between topics that don't connect and aren't relevant to the assassination. Mostly Kennedy's foreign policy. As someone who's studied the assassination for 8 years, I was let down by this. To be clear, I don't think this version is awful. Far from it. But it has more issues than JFK Revisited. Though that version is much easier for the average viewer to understand. This is version goes into far more detail.

An incredible document explaining how shortsighted, ignorant, and violent men murdered the potential for the US to work with a global community of visionaries in the creation of a truly democratic, collaborative, and peaceful world. Solidifying a foreign policy of imperialism instead of liberation. Maybe we can learn from this history so we are not doomed to repeat it?

For as long as I remember, the assassination of JFK has both bothered and interested me. I've watched the docos and read a few books, but this 4-part expose was nothing short of extraordinary. The depth of new, untold facts leads the viewer down a path of lies, deception and undoubtable truths that, frankly, left me breathless, angry and at times, in tears. Brilliantly presented, often with Oliver Stone (Director, "JFK" 1991 blockbuster with Kevin Costner) interviewing many of the extremely reputable doctors, pathologists and investigators, it is truly a must-see series that not only reveals so many closely guarded secrets and anomalies, it's presented in such a way that many doubters would hang their heads in shame that they were never lead to believe the greatest lie the world has ever been told.

"Destiny Betrayed" goes into startling detail built on the foundation of "JFK Revisited". There is a powerful coherence to the manner in which the film is structured in developing chapters and sub sections through the astonishing recounting of dozens of accounts of witness testimony and evidence that leaves one incontrovertibly with the understanding of how thorough, extensive, and calculated a cover up the Warren Commission was. One cannot come away after viewing with any other conclusion. Where the film" JFK" was long on reasonable speculation, "Destiny Betrayed" is the opposite, a compilation of a mountain of of precise and detailed evidence.

This cover up, and the complicity of the mainstream media over decades is one of the most shameful chapters in American history. One great takeaway from this incredible documentary for me is WHY the Warren Commission went to such extraordinary lengths to cover up the truth of more than one gunman. They were scared out of their minds where a true investigation might lead. One year removed from the Cuban Missile Crisis, if Castro or the Russians wee involved, their fear was it could lead to war. If it was an internal affair, it could tear the country apart. One can understand their desperation.

However now is not then. That this despicable act of national betrayal still stands is an abomination. That whoever was involved was allowed to get away with it is a national disgrace, one of the greatest in our history. At least Stone and DiEugenio have created an archive that can be accessed by those who have the desire for truth.

This is a methodical analysis of both the physical circumstances and political environment before and after the assassination.

The tentative conclusions reached by Stone are compelling. When combined with the details surrounding Robert Kennedy's assassination they are overwhelmingly so.

Some right wing ideologues appear to criticise Stone, not for being inaccurate, but for being 'un-American'. For example, there is a review here which exemplifies this attitude by claiming that Kennedy was a 'traitor'.

So much for democracy.

With this backdrop it is easy to see why Trump stopped the release of the final tranche of documents relating to the assassination. Who would want to be the person to reveal to the world that American institutions, with the complicity of powerful economic and political ideologues, murdered their own President.

Always appreciated the original movie and the TRUTH it has always revealed. Even more evidence and factual reporting in these.four episodes cramed with real detail! Looking at the reviews on the internet I see. There are still the usual hacks that would attempt to undermine this series with the lone gunman rubbish held onto and crammed down our throats by those whose wish to hide the real truth that this was a well organised and planned act by people with evil and sinister motives who were never brought to so-called justice. This is a pattern that has been used to assasinate those that would bring about REAL change throughout history! A little known example is the assasination of Michael Collins in 1922 by the british secret service and its cohorts within Irish politics.(for those who want to know more read Commodore John Turis Englands Greatest spy and the Assasination of Michael Collins by S. M. Sigerson - contains lots of Factual evidence) The truth was clouded and obscured back then by hidden men in power and the Truth is still resisted to this day in much the same way as JFK. Don't forget his son was murdered under a cloud of false information in a plane that "mysteriously" crashed into the sea Watch Dark Legacy II. Remember the REAL TRUTH will always come out!!

I was optimistic about this miniseries but unfortunately its mostly a let down. Episode one starts out interestingly enough with the untold story of Dag Hammerskold's plane crash and various other nefarious activities of the CIA. It then goes into minutiae of released documents that for the most part don't go anywhere. The dots aren't connected. Too much time is spent on Kennedy's foreign policy by Hollywood lefties. I wanted focus on the Deep State and how a president isn't really in charge of the executive branch to this day. The Assassination and Mrs Paine is much better option on the subject, also available on Amazon.

One of Oliver Stone's most remarkable works. This four-episode documentary contains a great deal of information and it is a work of love and conviction. Over the decades, many researchers have independently contributed to unearth and unravel the complicated mess behind JFK's assassination. Stone's historical vision -which has matured over the years, along with his cinematic- here is backed by James DiEugenio's invaluable research on the subject. The result is a work which, not only brings valuable light into the mechanism behind the conspiracy, the assassination and the subsequent coverup, but which also reflects on the effects and consequences both culturally and politically for the US and the world.

It's unfortunate that the docuseries is not easily available on the more popular streaming platforms (with the exception of rent/buy in Amazon). It really should be seen and discussed by a wide public, particularly the younger generations.

There's plenty of old and new documentaries about Kennedy's assassination on Youtube. By watching one of the bunch i was influenced to ABSOLUTELY not miss the new masterpiece of Oliver Stone! I just lost 6 hours of my life...

Stone released a two hours documentary called JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass on november 12, 2021 and this one, a four hours long in four parts one month later.

So i've watched the two hours one first and the four hours after. This very one here. The two hours is a ''condensed'' part of the four hours so you watch the same thing twice! A real cheat.

What we have here so new and awaited for nearly 60 years?? NOTHING!!!!!!

All we have here is FOUR long hours of Kennedy politics. Nothing new about the who, the why, the... You have already everything and better on Youtube or on the best documentary made about Kennedy's killing : The Men Who Killed Kennedy.

Only Kennedy's autopsy is ''interesting'' but we already knew all the details or about on Youtube by the doctors at Parkland hospital or in The Men Who Killed Kennedy.

Not a word about Tippit, nothing new about Oswald, nothing, nothing, nothing. Only Kennedy's politics. So if you want to know about Kennedy's politics, you have four hours full of it!

And a chance i did not pay to watch 6 hours of nothing! I found them for free on a peer to peer site...

I'll leave people to make up their own minds but as far as I'm concerned, the only truth told in this series was the words:

"It's not the Russians... Kennedy was a traitor."

Oliver Stones enduring obsession with John Kennedy has resulted in this new four part documentary that features narration from Whoopi Goldberg, Donald Sutherland ( who as the mysterious character X in Oliver Stones 1991 film JFK, delivered a lengthy and explosive monologue about a massive conspiracy to a flabbergasted Jim Garrison, played by Kevin Costner) and interviews with Robert Kennedy Jnr and various others who weren't old enough or even alive when the assassination took place. The problem with this doc, as was definitely the problem with JFK the film, is that while well made and rather riveting, its based on a series of connect the dot coincidences mixed with facts but also a number of dubious assumptions mixed with even more dubious theories, none of which add up to one coming to any definite conclusions one way or the other. It takes every sinister turn it can take, the CIA, the tension with the Soviet Union, the conflict of interest amongst his own administration regarding going deeper into the Vietnam conflict, even the mafia get a mention. Lots of supposed reasons, lots of supposed suspects, lots of cloak and daggers and smoke and mirrors but it really cannot make any definitive statement one way or the other.

Jim Garrison, the hero of JFK 1991, was played admirably as a noble everyman by Kevin Costner. In reality, he was a dangerous fruit loop who arrested people without just cause, appeared on the Johnny Carson show, and even had witnesses hypnotized in a crazy bid to get them to say what he wanted them to say. The Warren Commission, which was portrayed as a group of conspirators, concluded that one rifle fired the two bullets. There was no magic bullet as the Secret Service man was not seated directly in front of the president; the car seats weren't situated that way. Lee Harvey Oswald was a communist sympathizer fantasist who attempted to assassinate another government figure some years before, but missed his mark when he fired. He wanted the notoriety of killing a public figure. The bullets WERE fired from overhead. People love a good conspiracy, and JKF was so loved, many people just would not and will not accept that his death could be so mundane and simple as a lone gunman just decided to kill him. But i believe that is what happened and the evidence dictates that.