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Recipe for Paranoia TELE VISION "they"? In the manner of Perry Mason, Greene sets out to find out—and therein lies the show's cheapest shot. Conspir- acy buffs have relentlessly tried to pin JFK's murder on both pro- and anti- Castro Cubans, the FBI, the CIA and even the Mafia. As Greene pursues leads to each of these links, the film keeps switching to dramatized flashback scenes in which Oswald is shown secret- ly meeting with a variety of sinister- looking figures. Obviously, someone is trying to recruit him for something. Back in the present, Oswald's defense team reads conspiracy into the most neb- ulous of clues. One of their potential witnesses is Found dead after being stabbed with an ice pick. "That sounds like the Mob," concludes Greene's assis- tant. A second witness expires in an automobile crash. -Another accident?" ABC photos bellows Greene. The assistant then re- ABC's 'Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald': Revisionism and showbiz turns with an elaborate theory involving a CIA-Mafia connection motivated by the haziest of mutual interests. By the time Oswald himself takes the stand to Recipe for Paranoia deny his guilt, the audience has been y many other names, what is today From inconsistencies in the Warren conditioned to select a conspiracy to fit B called a "docu-drama" has been Commission Report, plus all manner of almost any prejudice. around ever since William Shakespeare subsequent speculations, ABC has fash- A Fatal Covenant: Indeed, virtually ev- did his semi-fictional number on Julius ioned what amounts to a brief for the ery ingredient in this production seems Caesar. But the sudden burst of these conspiracy theory. The two-part movie subtly designed to inject yet another slickly confected hybrids of fact and fan- begins with a chilling re-enactment of dose of paranoia into the national psy. cy on television—with its highly suscep- the Dallas assassination, filmed at its che. Ersatz TV newsreels of the triaj tible mass audience—is shaping up as- actual Dealey Plaza locale. It goes on to keep cutting in and out, apparently tc the most controversial video develop- trace the life of Oswald—portrayed as lend an aura of journalistic credibility tt ment since Archie Bunker brought bigot- alternately arrogant and vulnerable by what is anything but journalism. Gaz ry to the sitcom. Viewers of ABC were look-alike John Pleshette—in both zara's prosecutor registers as one of those still trying to sort out truth from supposi- America and Russia, and culminates in a hyperambitious legal hustlers who.get tion in "Washington: Behind- Closed lengthy trial pitting prosecutor Ben Gaz• ahead by knowing when to look the othe Doors" earlier this month when the net- zara against defense counsel Lorne way. The choice of Lorne Greene to pla work hit them with "Young Joe: The Greene. the wise old defense owl is almost guar Forgotten Kennedy." That docu-drama Gazzara voices his doubts right from anteed to make his myriad "Bonanza blithely fleshed out what little is known the start "A poor shlub who couldn't fans accept whatever he avuncularly sin about John F. Kennedy's older brother even hold a job is capable of planning a gests. And Pleshette's Oswald ultimate! with enough Freudian assumptions to Presidential assassination?" he incredu- emerges as the classic patsy. The fib make even psychohistorians uneasy. lously asks an aide. But a phone call from presents him as a man so determined And last weekend, NBC presented a none other than "President dramatized portrait of Caryl Chessman, Johnson" advises him not to Plesh ette as Oswald, Malone as Marina the California sex criminal who was ex- try to look for a conspiracy ecuted in 1960, strongly suggesting that because "there's no water in Chessman was denied a fair trial. that well . and it wouldn't Now ABC has applied the docu-drama be good for the country." technique to an even more explosive Sighs Gazzara: "I've just subject On this Friday and Sunday, ABC been told what to think." So will broadcast "The Trial of Lee Harvey have the viewers. There is Oswald," a four-hour film dealing with not a shred of evidence that what might have happened had JFK's Johnson ever intruded in the accused assassin lived to face prosecu- assassination investigation. tion. It's an engrossing notion, but what So much for establishing a emerges is a case study of the dangers of factually objective tone. TV's pervasive new form. The docu-dra- - Who Are 'They'? Now it is m a's creators maintain that they are offer- left to Greene to perforate ing America a salutary catharsis, an op- the prosecution's one-man, portunity to *discover whether Oswald one-gun case. As Gazzara would have been found guilty or inno- looks on with sheepish admi- cent—and whether he acted alone or as ration, Oswald's attorney re- part of a conspiracy. Yet by indiscrimi- duces the state's witnesses to nately blending hard evidence with pure stammering cretins while conjecture, ABC must stand accused of Mother Oswald mutters from irresponsibility in the first degree. The the audience, "They put my verdict here is guilty as charged. son up to it." Just who are 64 Newsweek, October 3, 1977 I . i i 1 • 1. CDI ZY ) 0\f\1' \AI'S -)_ V f)LI NYV-p 2 -70 t .
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