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Kennedy. The show airs tonight at 7 on LPB. a documentary about Shaw's trial on charges he conspired to kill John F. because it practices everything that CONTINUED FROM tC Documentary

and that democracy itself was beholden to the big brass of the military.

Garrison's cue had more holes in it than conveniently fails to mention that neglects the niggling reality. He

the motorcade at Dallas.

prosecution? Three key witnesses had presumably to plot the murder. One other witness was eccentric to say the placed Shaw In Oswald's company, witness was a pathological liar. The least. And the third crucial witness was

a former mental patient known for his flamboyant lapses of sanity. One of his

Stone lionises Garrison's rhetoric and

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Have Something," was that other which goes unmentioned in "He Must assassins hid in the storm drains of Elm Street and shot the president from below the asphalt. These sewers were

required the CIA to recruit midget hit only three feet high, which would have

men to carry off the job.

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using MeCarthylte tactics to try an innocent man for murder. It there is any Have Something" will find a forum as large as Stone's prayerful piece of propaganda. justice, the -made "He Must Stone's "JFK" and a multimillion-dollar budget, of Wagnerian opera. Tyler's "tie Must Have Something" was made for a to give his tabloid aesthetic the weight

Tyler rightly faults Garrison for

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has become powerful by sermonizing celebrated for

three hours. Stephen Tyler's "He Must Have hypocrisy, Stone would be the front- runner to take home a trophy. Short of Something," a one-hour documentary airing tonight at 7 on LPB. that, Stone should take home a copy of

Stone merely preaches. recent film about the Kennedy Mutt Have Something" is the best

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Justice. thinking man's thinking man, is "He Must Have Something." As it turns out, was a total contempt for American the something that Jim Garrison had

Stone, like Garrison, is a man prone to

The antidote to Stone, the non.

Orleans district attorney who kiss to Jim Garrison, the former New Clay Shaw for conspiring to kill prosecuted Crescent City businessman

Kennedy. When Garrison brought the rhapsodized about the need for honesty case against Shaw in 1969, he and a government where little people could be safe. Garrison's theory — half

hypothesis, half hallucination •— that Paw had helped Oswald plot Garrison claimed that the federal Kennedy's murder, with generous help government was suppressing the truth, from the Pentagon and the CIA.

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