Fatal Deception: Mrs Lee Harvey Oswald

Plot

The story focuses on Marina Oswald (Helena Bonham Carter), the wife of Lee Harvey Oswald. Barely able to speak English, she is thrust into questioning by David Lifton (Robert Picardo). It portrays deep sadness, and explores the story of a woman ending up alone in a foreign country, subjected to considerable shunning, even after her remarriage.

The story is based on the widow of Lee Harvey Oswald, the alleged assassin of President Kennedy. Via flashbacks, the story traces the woman's life from her days in the Soviet Union, the turmoil following the assassination, raising her family, and coming to grips with the fact that, she too, may have been a pawn in a grand conspiracy.

The story-line mostly comports with the Official Narrative, but--particularly related to her communication with key Warren Commission critic David Lifton--does raise a few questions. One might have wished for a script which much more robustly challenged the usual "party line" of Oswald's involvement in this terrible tragedy (and especially in light of dozens of irregularities surrounding events in Dallas--related to the behavior of both local and federal agencies--and how the Warren Commission acted in summary fashion to whitewash the investigation), and how there were three WC dissidents, Senator Sherman Cooper, Senator Richard Russell, and Congressman Hale Boggs, who were never acknowledged in the final report—in itself--terribly concerning to many Americans since the sixties.

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