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A Ratings Conspiracy JFK's TV Connection? ENTERTAINMENT/ THE ARTS/TV LISTINGS CALENDAR ilos Angeles dlimes HOWARD ROSENBERG A Ratings Conspiracy J.F.K.'s TV Connection? No Commission Needed he Warren Commission's Attribute that result to the guishable from the other. And not finding that Lee Harvey loud, echoing resonance of surprisingly, the aroma of TV TOswald acted alone in as- Stone's persuasively crafted, only ratings is in the air. sassinating President John F. partially truthful film, which Wednesday—the first day of Kennedy launched a cottage in- leaves the distinct impression the crucial February ratings dustry of skeptics and conspiracy that elements of the government, sweeps—foiind a whopping five theorists that Oliver Stone's programs featuring various kinds "JFK" and its attendant publicity • RELATED STORIES: F16 of Kennedy assassination parries. have upsized into a Fortune 500 It started with NBC's "Today" conglomerate. including even then- Vice .Presi- program (whose weeklong "Who On the NBC morning series "A dent Lyndon B. Johnson, were Killed JFK?" series was to con- Closer Look" this week, host behind Kennedy's 1963 murder in clude today with the inevitable Faith Daniels polled her studio Dallas. interview of Stone), continued audience on the multiple hypoth- The media and this story are with "A Closer Look." followed eses on the assassination. No now joined at the hip, the cover- that evening with the syndicated Associated Press surprise: A big majority believed age and speculation having fused series "Inside Edition," the CBS President and Mrs.Attedy a. d Texas Gov. John Connally on the that "the government" did it. so completely that one is indistin- Please see KENNEDY, F24 fateful day in 1963::*0ottageeindustry becomes a conglomerate. LOS ANGELES TIMES as of midday Thursday, no news come away with the opinion thatit—. organization had called "Inside says absolutely. KENNEDY Edition" about its claim to have Not necessarily is what you gc,t ' seen files that are presumably from a 1988 edition of the PB§..1 .; Continued from F1 off-limits to the rest of the media science series "Nova" that is being ' News program "48 Hours" and the and that—motivated by "JFK"—a rerun at 8 p.m. Feb. 25 on KCET KCBS-TV Channel 2 newscast at growing number of Americans has Channel 28. .• 11 p.m. been demanding be declassified by Although the title—"Who Shot "Have you made up your mind the government. President Kennedy?" —ncld?"• on the J.F.K. assassination?" an- "If it had been NBC News or sounds trite, this is a formidable:; chor Bree Walker asked during a ABC News, I suspect it would have program that, through use of so- station break advertising the local gotten more attention," said Wes- phisticated photo enhancement newscast. "We have another point tin, who protests "Inside Edition" and three-dimensional computer " of view you'll want to hear." begin lumped together with taw- modeling• methodically makes a ' It sounded like Cal Worthington. dry series such as "Hard Copy" and case for the single-bullet/single—.- selling conspiracy theories now "A Current Affair." "We are rele- assassin theory that "JFK" al:- ; instead of cars. gated to the dust heap," he said. tacks. The Channel 2 story was a thin Meanwhile, cable's Arts & En- The hour is meticulously fair ; tie-in . with "48 Hours," which— tertainment network re-enters the using only physical evidence, not while getting its highest ratings fray with a Feb. 24-28 slab of politics, to examine all the argu- ever (reaching 15.5 million ments that have been made against. Dallas Sheriff J.C. Day checks J.F.K. assassination programming homes)—met its goal of separating that includes a rerun of the five- the Warren Commission's conclu- "concrete evidence from conjec- Lee Harvey Oswald's rifle in "No- part 1986 Showtime production sions. With Walter Cronkite as • ture" principally by rehashing past va" documentary airing Feb. 25. "The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald" host, this is a sterling piece of '''"' CBS investigations of the assassi- and a repeat of a documentary, journalism from producer Robert". ' nation ("When the bullet passed "Who Killed JFK? On the Trail of Richter, one that establishes only through the President's neck Agency" lied to the public about the Conspiracies." And on "Open scientific plausibility, not certain- ' ' . .") and reviewing the contro- Oswald and that a now-deceased Mind" (at 1200 a.m. Monday on Ey. versy over the validity of Stone's CIA official named David Alice KCET Channel 28), Stone gives his Better that than speculation la- film. Phillips—who purportedly resent- zillionth interview about "JFK," beled as truth. It was "Inside Edition" —consis- ed Kennedy's handling of the Bay this time with Richard Heffner. tent ly the most honest and journal- of Pigs invasion—met with Oswald istically responsible of TV's syndi- two months before the assassina- 6 y have to take dramatic license," cated, tabloid-style series—that tion. Stone told Dan Rather on "48 weighed in the noisiest Wednes- O'Reilly also cited other material Hours" Wednesday night. The For day, promising an "exclusive" peek from the files that he said estab- filmmaker was severely critical of "inside the sealed J.F.K. assassina- lished a "criminal Iink between the the Warren Commission report and Home Delivery, tion files the government didn't CIA and Oswald." called his own account a "counter- want you to see!" Phillips' name has surfaced be- myth." Facts, he added, "only take Call -•I What anchor Bill O'Reilly fore in assassination probes. If you so far." claimed to be reporting were ex- "Inside Edition" did see these files, Stone Insisted that when his film 1-800-LA TIMES. cerpts of flies from the 1976-78 however, that in itself is news. inserts fiction, "We say maybe." probe of the J.F.K. slaying by the O'Reilly gained access through a Many who have seen it, though, , h111 • House Select Committee on Assas- source who is "quite knowledgea- sinations. Those files were said to ble," said "Inside Edition" execu- have been ordered sealed until tive producer Av Westin, a former 2029. top executive at ABC News. "He The "explosive" material report- walked O'Reilly through it, point- Opento ed included a charge by "House ing out what was in it and what he RTTN 31-Fun investigators" that "high-ranking thought was significant." AT SUN.:FEfl - officials of the Central Intelligence Astonishingly, Westin said that ' 67 rIr410. Avonwi; .
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