best conspirator/villain in the film JFK

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who is your favorite person either responsible for the death of President Kennedy or part of its subsequent coverup (according to the film JFK)?

Poll Results

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David Ferrie 2
willie o'keefe 2
gay hustler in airport bathroom 2
Clay Bertrand/Clay Shaw 1
token black assassin 1
epileptic man who has seizure in Dealey Plaza 1
Bill Broussard (Michael Rooker's turncoat who tries to frame Jim Garrison in a Larry Craig-esque gay bathroom sting) 1
Jack Ruby 1
Dallas police chief 0
the dozen or so generals keeping watch over JFK autopsy 0
sam giancana 0
jd tippitt - probably sent to kill oswald so oswald killed him 0
tv host played by John Larroquette 0
roger mcdowell 0
shoe salesman who ratted out oswald at movie theater 0
J Edgar Hoover 0
Oswald impostor played by Frank Whaley 0
roomful of national security advisors 0
"General Y" 0
Mr and Mrs Williams 0
Guy Banister 0
Dean Andrews 0
Earl Warren 0
George de Mohrenschildt 0
umbrella man in Dealey Plaza 0
Lyndon Johnson 0
Allen Dulles 0
Dallas PD gunman on the grassy knoll 0
fbi agents in dealey plaza 0
nameless Cuban duo who spend entire movie sweating in battle fatigues 0
Lee Harvey Oswald (not sure if he was involved as heavily as everyone else, in fact he may have tried to stop the assas 0


omar little, Tuesday, 5 July 2011 20:22 (thirteen years ago)

Did you ever stop to think about what he was feeling?!

The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 5 July 2011 20:22 (thirteen years ago)

this is hard!

a man is only a guy (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 5 July 2011 20:23 (thirteen years ago)

like if we were talking IRL people it's gotta be Hoover (Giancana close second) but in the film some of the other bit parts are way more endearing

a man is only a guy (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 5 July 2011 20:24 (thirteen years ago)

i meant to include "the wind that ominously breezes in through the windows just before RFK gets shot, causing Jim Garrison to run into the other room just in time to see RFK lying in a pool of his own blood on TV"

omar little, Tuesday, 5 July 2011 20:27 (thirteen years ago)

this is hard!

so is this man:

http://www.jfk-online.com/jones.jpg

The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 5 July 2011 20:31 (thirteen years ago)

OH what have we here!?

omar little, Tuesday, 5 July 2011 20:31 (thirteen years ago)

This poll's a mouse fightin' a gorilla!

The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 5 July 2011 20:39 (thirteen years ago)

you as crazy as your mama, alfred.

death to ilx, long live the frogbs (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Tuesday, 5 July 2011 20:43 (thirteen years ago)

goes to show it's in the genes.

death to ilx, long live the frogbs (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Tuesday, 5 July 2011 20:43 (thirteen years ago)

this thread is like batshit conspiracy movie catnip to me.

death to ilx, long live the frogbs (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Tuesday, 5 July 2011 20:44 (thirteen years ago)

gay hustler in airport bathroom

only in the director's cut, iirc

da croupier, Tuesday, 5 July 2011 20:46 (thirteen years ago)

With all due respect to Willie O'Keefe andOswald impostor played by Frank Whaley, David Ferrie in a walk

da croupier, Tuesday, 5 July 2011 20:47 (thirteen years ago)

my heart says dean andrews but my eyebrows say david ferrie

death to ilx, long live the frogbs (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Tuesday, 5 July 2011 20:47 (thirteen years ago)

oh wait, that's john candy, right? yeah I'll give him the silver.

da croupier, Tuesday, 5 July 2011 20:48 (thirteen years ago)

All he wanted in the world was to be a Catlick priest.

The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 5 July 2011 20:49 (thirteen years ago)

if andrews had been thrown off a roof after whimpering "oh mama lord sweet jesus stagger lee" to his killers before he could have testified, it might have been a tighter competition

da croupier, Tuesday, 5 July 2011 20:49 (thirteen years ago)

dean andrews didn't know five languages, science, religion, philosophy, military history...

death to ilx, long live the frogbs (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Tuesday, 5 July 2011 20:51 (thirteen years ago)

If Candy was alive I like to think he would have shot 8 seasons of a southern PI series by now

da croupier, Tuesday, 5 July 2011 20:51 (thirteen years ago)

i shouldn't be able to recite such large chunks of a three-plus hour movie with this much dialogue

death to ilx, long live the frogbs (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Tuesday, 5 July 2011 20:51 (thirteen years ago)

http://www.movieline.com/1992/08/oliver-stone-the-stone-age.php?page=all

Personally, I found JFK quite engaging, and was very impressed by the performances of Gary Oldman and Kevin Costner. But the film didn’t work for me, because at no point could I even come close to buying Stone’s theory about the assassination. Why did I have so much trouble swallowing the theory that the United States government was in on Kennedy’s assassination? Basically, because of Joe Pesci’s wig.

Joe Pesci is a preposterous-looking guy in the best of times, but that radiant shock of tangerine-hued fabric that was supposed to pass for Pesci’s hair looked like something the wardrobe department bought mail order from Vito’s Hair Research Center on Channel 67. To my way of thinking, if the creep played by Joe Pesci had anything to do with Kennedy’s assassination, the CIA and the mob and the Pentagon and the military-industrial complex and the KGB and Lyndon Baines Johnson and Fidel Castro would have chipped in to give him enough money to buy a better wig. They did not; he wore the ridiculous wig to his interrogation by Kevin Costner; and for me the whole conspiracy theory fell apart right there.

da croupier, Tuesday, 5 July 2011 20:56 (thirteen years ago)

the sad thing is that the more you read about the cia the more you realize the great conspiracies of our time were carried our by guys with bad rugs and all the style of upholstery salesmen

death to ilx, long live the frogbs (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Tuesday, 5 July 2011 21:05 (thirteen years ago)

Has that pedant read DeLillo, Le Carre or Legacy of Ashes?

The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 5 July 2011 21:14 (thirteen years ago)

probably, and yet he made a joke about a bad wig in a movie all the same

da croupier, Tuesday, 5 July 2011 21:17 (thirteen years ago)

probably worth letting you know those paragraphs are from a joe queenan essay for movieline riffing on Stone's oeuvre, and not a serious consideration of the JFK conspiracy

da croupier, Tuesday, 5 July 2011 21:19 (thirteen years ago)

i thought it was pretty well established that david ferrie had a terrible wig in real life too but then you go to wikipedia and it's all [citation needed]

death to ilx, long live the frogbs (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Tuesday, 5 July 2011 21:21 (thirteen years ago)

History hinges on men with bad/no hair.

The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 5 July 2011 21:22 (thirteen years ago)

Would Kevin Costner had saved Whitney Houston's life in The Bodyguard with longer hair? Doubt it.

The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 5 July 2011 21:22 (thirteen years ago)

i have my own opinions here but really in the end *breaks fourth wall, looks at ilx* it's up to you

omar little, Tuesday, 5 July 2011 23:21 (thirteen years ago)

Did you ever stop to think about what he was feeling?!

Yeah, where is Liz Garrison on this list?

ephendophile (Eric H.), Tuesday, 5 July 2011 23:23 (thirteen years ago)

Pesci as David Ferrie, for inspiring Sean Penn's equally unhinged performance in Carlito's Way: a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigmatic hairpiece. Second place: John Candy, daddy-o.

clemenza, Tuesday, 5 July 2011 23:30 (thirteen years ago)

(Is Larry Hagman listed? I can't figure out which guy he is.)

clemenza, Tuesday, 5 July 2011 23:32 (thirteen years ago)

he's in Nixon!

The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 5 July 2011 23:32 (thirteen years ago)

sloshing a lotta scotch around his mouth

The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 5 July 2011 23:33 (thirteen years ago)

You're right...I'm getting my wires crossed. What about Eric Bogosian's talk-radio host?

clemenza, Tuesday, 5 July 2011 23:34 (thirteen years ago)

People like to act more important than they are.
Especially in the homosexual underworld.
But when they got him...
...I got scared.
Real scared.
That's when I got popped.

omar little, Tuesday, 5 July 2011 23:34 (thirteen years ago)

omar we all know why YOU'RE a liberal.

death to ilx, long live the frogbs (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Tuesday, 5 July 2011 23:36 (thirteen years ago)

Hagman could've been in JFK -- one of the guys around LBJ, like the weird Dr. Strangelove German ("Vee haf to cohntrrol ze intelligence from Saigon").

The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 5 July 2011 23:42 (thirteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

System, Sunday, 17 July 2011 23:01 (thirteen years ago)

the most important poll in ilx history.

apichathong song (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Sunday, 17 July 2011 23:16 (thirteen years ago)

I got nuthin' to hide. I'm already in JAIL.

The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 17 July 2011 23:18 (thirteen years ago)

people got to know. people got to know why he was kilt. because he was...a communist.

apichathong song (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Sunday, 17 July 2011 23:19 (thirteen years ago)

no pesci no credibility

cave duel (latebloomer), Sunday, 17 July 2011 23:20 (thirteen years ago)

not being familiar with the homosexual underworld of the 1960s personally, i have to wonder how many nixon voters there were.

apichathong song (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Sunday, 17 July 2011 23:20 (thirteen years ago)

You're not a bad lookin' man, Mr. Nixon. Not bad lookin' at all.

The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 17 July 2011 23:31 (thirteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

System, Monday, 18 July 2011 23:01 (thirteen years ago)

i voted for kevin bacon but honorable mention goes to the guy who shouts YOU HEARD ECHOES -- ECHOES!

my Sonicare toothbrush (difficult listening hour), Monday, 18 July 2011 23:31 (thirteen years ago)

one year passes...

echoes guy was fantastic. he looked like he'd been spending a couple hours telling a hundred different people about echoes and at that point just wanted to go home to the wife and kids.

LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Friday, 30 November 2012 06:00 (twelve years ago)

Underrated and unmentioned: Dr. Strangelove NSC guy hissing in German accent, "Vee haf to cahntrol the eentelligence from Saigohn."

the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 30 November 2012 12:15 (twelve years ago)

well don't let mcnamara start sticking his damn nose in this thing. every time he goes over to saigon on some fuckin fact-finding mission, he comes back and just scares the SHIT outta the president! now i want max taylor on him night and day. like a FLY ON SHIT. you control mcnamera, you control kennedy.

difficult listening hour, Friday, 30 November 2012 14:14 (twelve years ago)

I believe I shall go home and paint my body gold while Joe Amadeus Pesci tweaks my nipple.

Bobby Ken Doll (Eric H.), Friday, 30 November 2012 15:30 (twelve years ago)

i believe i shall go home and reorganize my collection of 16mm homoerotic exercise films

strongo hulkington's ghost dad, Friday, 30 November 2012 15:31 (twelve years ago)

I believe I shall go home and – oh! what have we here? more champagne?

the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 30 November 2012 15:32 (twelve years ago)

I believe I shall go home and both brothers.

Bobby Ken Doll (Eric H.), Friday, 30 November 2012 15:35 (twelve years ago)

convicted of pandering and solicitation

the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 30 November 2012 15:36 (twelve years ago)

how many viewings did it take for you guys to kill all these brain cells?

saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Friday, 30 November 2012 15:37 (twelve years ago)

apparently it took just one viewing for you

the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 30 November 2012 15:37 (twelve years ago)

Back and to the left, Morbs.

Bobby Ken Doll (Eric H.), Friday, 30 November 2012 15:39 (twelve years ago)

morbs: 176 at last count.

strongo hulkington's ghost dad, Friday, 30 November 2012 15:39 (twelve years ago)

or maybe just one magic viewing.

strongo hulkington's ghost dad, Friday, 30 November 2012 15:40 (twelve years ago)

wd sooner watch Seinfeld ep for sure

saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Friday, 30 November 2012 15:41 (twelve years ago)

Which viewing went through Wayne Knight's wrist and took a dramatic U-turn into his big thigh?

Bobby Ken Doll (Eric H.), Friday, 30 November 2012 15:41 (twelve years ago)

gay hustler Samuel in the airport bathroom scene is highly underrated imo

LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Friday, 30 November 2012 17:28 (twelve years ago)

that's cuz he's only in the director's cut! i rented it by accident and was blindsided by that prescient moment

da croupier, Friday, 30 November 2012 17:38 (twelve years ago)

amazing how that black ops crew knew garrison was gonna be taking a dump at that precise moment .

LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Friday, 30 November 2012 19:09 (twelve years ago)

eleven months pass...

I believe I shall go home and both brothers, which is precisely the point of a long dining table.

the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 10 November 2013 15:16 (eleven years ago)

Love that Oswald is last on this list.

Bailey (Collins) Lover (Eazy), Sunday, 10 November 2013 15:51 (eleven years ago)

seven months pass...

honey it'll be off the record. I'll bring him in on a Sunday. A quiet chat b/w two gentlemen.

guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 6 July 2014 14:31 (ten years ago)

I forgot to include "anonymous caller to garrison residence who talks to Jim's daughter and sounds exactly like Clarence from 'it's a wonderful life'.

LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Sunday, 6 July 2014 14:44 (ten years ago)

what kinda man are you?

guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 6 July 2014 14:48 (ten years ago)

This movie's been on all wekeend

guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 6 July 2014 14:48 (ten years ago)

six months pass...

Son of a bitch there he goes again he's got his hands on the chicken switch

guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 12 January 2015 18:05 (ten years ago)

that guy was great, i should have included him specifically.

LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Monday, 12 January 2015 18:06 (ten years ago)

all those cigars in that scene. never seen so much smoke. except for the smoke wafting over the fence on the knoll.

LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Monday, 12 January 2015 18:07 (ten years ago)

and a liveried servant serving cocktails

guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 12 January 2015 18:11 (ten years ago)

i should watch 'nixon' again to do a similar poll (larry hagman! j edgar! j edgar's poolboy! a jealous clyde tolson!)

LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Monday, 12 January 2015 18:31 (ten years ago)

I haven't seen Nixon since it came out. sometimes I wonder if it's worth watching again but I'm a little leery

Οὖτις, Monday, 12 January 2015 18:35 (ten years ago)

nixon is totally the new jersey

da croupier, Monday, 12 January 2015 18:47 (ten years ago)

it's getting increasingly hard to remember that oliver stone used to be an omnipresence come awards time and was such a cultural force as a director. his steez really didn't translate well past the mid-'90s at all, probably worse than any other major director of his era. what's been his biggest film since 'nixon'. 'w' maybe? i saw 'wall street 2' and thought it was actually quite well done in a ludicrous way, and could have been something much better minus shia labeouf.

LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Monday, 12 January 2015 19:13 (ten years ago)

his 'untold history' series is really excellent.

(The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Monday, 12 January 2015 19:15 (ten years ago)

"W" is great, small stakes and small cast as it is. But he's def lost his way as a director.

Οὖτις, Monday, 12 January 2015 19:15 (ten years ago)

I watched Wall Street 2 with its intended dinner theatre audience and there a sense that everyone wanted Quality Adult Entertainment and gave the film a lot of chances.

Stone's eminence started to wane with NBK, which was a modest hit and one of those things everyone was talking about until Pulp Fiction. Nixon was the critical comeback, I guess, just to prove he could do JFK again without any of the verve. I saw Any Given Sunday in the theatre but except for some bonecrunching it reminded me of Coppola directing Jack.

guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 12 January 2015 19:18 (ten years ago)

*there was a sense

guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 12 January 2015 19:18 (ten years ago)

wall street 2 w/all its neon lit NYC and a sneering michael douglas felt like stylistically a 'black rain' redux in some ways. actually it also had a motorcycle driving villain w/josh brolin. ridic movie.

LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Monday, 12 January 2015 19:19 (ten years ago)

U.S. Gross Numbers Only:


Any Give Sunday - $75,530,832
World Trade Center - $70,236,496
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps - $52,474,616
W. - $25,534,493
Alexander - $34,297,191
U Turn - $6,633,400

pplains, Monday, 12 January 2015 19:21 (ten years ago)

Whoops, W out of turn there, but you get the gist.

pplains, Monday, 12 January 2015 19:22 (ten years ago)

i had sort of meant that maybe 'w' was his biggest critical success but then i realized maybe 'any given sunday' was actually critically well received too?

god i didn't know WTC did that well.

LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Monday, 12 January 2015 19:23 (ten years ago)

If it's planned right, no problem. They got close to De Gaulle.

Eisenhower always rode in open top.

We need three mechanics in three different locations.

An office building, a high-powered rifle.

Triangulation of crossfire, that's the key. That's the key.

A diversionary shot gets the Secret Service looking one way.

Boom! Get the kill shot.

One man has to be sacrificed.

In the commotion, the job gets done.

The others leave the country.

LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Monday, 12 January 2015 19:49 (ten years ago)

the uncut Alexander made a top-10 list or two this year

touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Monday, 12 January 2015 20:05 (ten years ago)

Nixon was the critical comeback, I guess, just to prove he could do JFK again without any of the verve

oh vuuuuurve is what you call it, huh

touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Monday, 12 January 2015 20:06 (ten years ago)

two years pass...

RIP to the man who shook my baby hand in bay ridge in 61 and then got caught slippin in Dallas 54 years ago today. JFK🇮🇪💚🇮🇪

— Colin Quinn (@iamcolinquinn) November 22, 2017

omar little, Wednesday, 22 November 2017 14:56 (seven years ago)

how's your mousse

morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 22 November 2017 15:38 (seven years ago)

I often have a friend sit at one end while I sit at the other. It's precisely the point of a long dining table. The splendor of the meal adds to its enjoyment.

omar little, Wednesday, 22 November 2017 15:44 (seven years ago)

three years pass...

That faggot Kennedy won't let us! Our hands are empty -- how CAN we keel him?

So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 23 June 2021 00:54 (three years ago)

I keep waiting for someone to adapt 'American Tabloid/The Cold Six Thousand' into a long form TV show, but it has so many nasty 'swears' - I think it would be too much to film now.

earlnash, Wednesday, 23 June 2021 04:41 (three years ago)

if i could have one hollywood wish granted it would be an 8 season huge budget HBO adaptation of all the ellroy books from black dahlia to blood's a rover

oiocha, Wednesday, 23 June 2021 05:00 (three years ago)

six months pass...

Yeah, where is Liz Garrison on this list?

― ephendophile (Eric H.),

So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 9 January 2022 15:46 (three years ago)

two years pass...

"the subsequent Garrisex"

Alfred, this is gonna haunt me forever

omar little, Tuesday, 9 July 2024 17:26 (eleven months ago)

i really missed the boat by not including the FBI agent who bullies and subsequently turns Bill Broussard (portrayed by Wayne Tippit)

omar little, Tuesday, 9 July 2024 17:32 (eleven months ago)

two months pass...

i should watch 'nixon' again to do a similar poll (larry hagman! j edgar! j edgar's poolboy! a jealous clyde tolson!)

― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little),

the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 16 September 2024 17:23 (eight months ago)


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