It ain’t great. but its not the worst film ever made.
It feels like a 1970s made for TV movie. Its got some good acting from top Hollywood stars like Laurence Olivier, Ben Gazzara etc..
(Oliviers “MacArthur” make up looks shiny and fake, but his acting is good)
The North Koreans are portrayed as one dimensional bad guys like the villains in a Cannon Chuck Norris flick, they indiscriminately mow down south Korean villagers for no reason!
Apparently, main plot point about a South Korean lighthouse was completely fictional.
And contrary to popular myth, I saw NOTHING in here endorsing the “Moonie” church. MacArthur says many things about “God being on our side” but nothing about Sun Yun Moon being God.
Some motion graphics and B-Roll shots I hope to use in the next episode of “On The Trail of Delusion”
Created with Adobe After Effects and Photoshop.
The next episode of ON THE TRAIL OF DELUSION will have interviews with Canadian JFK expert Dennis Moricet and acclaimed film maker Marianna Vera Yarovskaya .
I create these animated paintings in Photoshop and After Effects.
I paint ONE paint stroke on a layer in Adobe Photoshop. I duplicate that layer and then paint over it. Then I duplicate THAT one and paint over it as well.
And so on, and so on and so on….
then I import the (eventually huge) PSD file into After Effects and sequence the layers…
Surely there must be a simpler / faster way to do this?
Can you think of an app/plug in or some other way I can just paint in Photoshop while SOMETHING records what I’m doing…
Countdown to Dallas, Episode 5, Was the Parade Route changed?
One claim of conspiracy theorists is that the motorcade route was deliberately moved to ensure that the Presidents car went down Elm street (underneath the depository) instead of Main Street
Here, as you can see, that is not possible, because of the concrete abuttment between the two streets
This is Main Street here,. Over here is Elm Street
Today, as in 1963, it is physically impossible to do that.
The only way to get to Stemmons freeway to the Trade Mart again was to go down Elm Street.
And now you know the rest of the story.
More stories on the assassination, and the events leading up to it,
in my latest book,
Countdown to Dallas,
Available everywhere books are sold.
There is also a Countdown to Dallas Podcast produced by Evergreen Podcasting that is also available everywhere
One claim that conspiracists often make about the Kennedy Assassination is that a second person was spotted on the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository minutes before the shooting proof, they claim, of a conspiracy
I’m Paul Brandus, author of Countdown to Dallas, and just minutes before the shooting there was indeed a second person on the sixth floor just steps from Lee Harvey Oswald and his sniper’s perch.
but this does not mean there was a conspiracy
Here now the rest of the story:
Around 5 minutes to 12 the Kennedy motorcade was underway headed for downtown Dallas.
At the depository, employees excited that the President would soon pass by, knocked off early for lunch.
as he was heading downstairs one employee Bonnie Ray Williams said he saw Oswald
at the depository employees excited that the president would soon pass by knocked off early for lunch as he was heading downstairs one employee Bonnie Ray Williams said he saw Oswald on the fifth or sixth floor he wasn’t sure which but moments later another employee Charles Given went to the sixth floor to get his cigarettes there he saw Oswald they had a brief conversation
Given said “Aren’t you going downstairs it’s near lunchtime.” Oswald “No sir.” Given left now minutes after that brief encounter Bonnie Ray Williams also returned to the sixth floor “why?” “To watch the presidential motorcade.”
At the time everyone was talking like they was going to watch from the sixth floor Williams testified and while he waited for his buddies Williams ate his lunch a chicken sandwich and bottle of Dr pepper he remembers sitting in front of the third or fourth window Williams recalled quote “I couldn’t see too much of the sixth floor because the books at this time were stacked so high if there was anyone else up there on the sixth floor,” Williams neither saw nor heard anyone now here’s where it gets interesting down on Houston Street a young man Arnold Roland was standing with his wife Barbara looking around his eyes drifted up to the sixth floor of the depository there in the corner window he saw a man holding a rifle with a telescopic site roland assumed that this was a Secret Service agent there to protect the president so it never occurred to him to point this man out to a nearby police officer but Oswald was not the only person Roland saw on the sixth floor his wandering eye also saw what he described as ” a colored man a few windows away” this was Bonnie Ray Williams eating his lunch now the other guys that he was going to watch the parade with James Garman and Harold Norman were their names had earlier been down on the sidewalk but decided the view would be better from the fifth floor of the depository why the fifth floor? because the sixth floor here shown that day was a jungle of boxes by now as Garman recalled it’s between 12:20 and 12:25 just minutes before the assassination they were soon joined by Williams who had finished his lunch leaving this greasy bag and empty soda bottle near the window bonnie Ray Williams had been so close to Oswald while he ate that police and the media later thought the garbage had been Oswald’s a month after the assassination this book published by United Press International and American Heritage repeated this mistake writing in the caption quote “The sniper had dined on fried chicken and pop while waiting patiently to shoot the president.” One report said “Wrong.” But it does show just how close how tantalizingly close Bonnie Ray Williams sat to the man who was about to murder the president this proximity helps explain why two other men on the street here at the southwest corner of Houston and Elm saw Oswald sitting perfectly still their names Bob Edwards and Ronald Fiser moments before the motorcade appeared Edwards spotting Oswald told Fiser quote “Look at that guy there in that window he looks like he’s uncomfortable.” Were words to that effect fischer chimed in quote “This man held my attention for 10 or 15 seconds all the time I watched him he never moved his head he never moved anything just was there transfixed he looked to be 22 or 24 years old.” It’s likely that Oswald who was 24 never moved because Bonnie Ray Williams as we’ve established was just feet away eating his lunch meanwhile Oswald was also seen by yet another man who sat here tantalizingly close to the window his name was Howard Brennan here’s Brennan at that spot in a recreation of November 22nd he saw Oswald in the sixth floor window right above James Gar Harold Norman and Bonnie Ray Williams who had by now joined his buddies on the fifth floor “I saw this man on the sixth floor,” Brennan later testified he added “There was no other person on that floor that ever came to the window that I noticed there were people on the next floor down which is the fifth floor colored guys.” The time frame here is about 12:22 which lines up with the Williams testimony Brennan could give exact times because from his vantage point he could see the big clock the famous Hertz sign that in 1963 stood on the roof of the depository now let’s go back to Ronald Fiser about 30 seconds before the shooting 30 seconds fischer looked up again an affidavit he gave to Dallas police that very day said “I looked up at the window and noticed that he seemed to be laying down or in a funny position anyway because all I could see was his head.” When the presidential car turned left onto Elm Street there was but one person on the sixth floor here in the southeast corner window not two as some conspirators have alleged and now you know the rest of the story more stories on the assassination and the events leading up to it in my latest book Countdown to Dallas available everywhere books are sold there’s also a Countdown to Dallas podcast produced by Evergreen Podcasting that is also available everywhere
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