The President and the Provocateur : The Parallel Lives of JFK and Lee Harvey Oswald

President John F. Kennedy was said to have been murdered by a lone crazed gunman in a Dallas motorcade a half-century ago. The accused killer, Lee Harvey Oswald, was also murdered under mysterious circumstances just a couple days later. Alex Cox, like most of the American public, does not buy into the moth-eaten establishment tale about the regicide. The President and the Provocateur is not the usual conspiracy volume, and is structured almost like the film Rashomon , including varying views of the story with different fonts and sizes. The Kennedy assassination saga has obsessed filmmaker Alex Cox ( Repo Man , Sid & Nancy ) for most of his life. The President and The Provocateur is Cox’s informed meditation on the conspiratorial tale, and as such is an imaginative rendering of the parallel structures of the lives of John F. Kennedy and Lee Harvey Oswald. Cox's films are available from the renowned distributors Criterion and Anchor Bay. They include Repo Man , Sid and Nancy , and Walker . President John F. Kennedy was said to have been murdered by a lone crazed gunman in a Dallas motorcade a half-century ago. The accused killer, Lee Harvey Oswald, was also murdered under mysterious circumstances just a couple days later. Alex Cox, like most of the American and British public, does not buy into the moth-eaten establishment tale about the regicide. The President and the Provocateur is not the usual conspiracy volume, and is structured almost like the film Rashomon , including varying views of the story with different fonts and sizes. The Kennedy assassination saga has obsessed filmmaker Alex Cox ( Repo Man , Sid & Nancy ) for most of his life. The President and The Provocateur is Coxs informed meditation on the conspiratorial tale, and as such is an imaginative rendering of the parallel structures of the lives of John F. Kennedy and Lee Harvey Oswald. Cox's films are available from the renowned distributors Criterion, the BFI, and Microcinema. They include Repo Man , Sid and Nancy , and Walker . President John F. Kennedy was said to have been murdered by a lone crazed gunman in a Dallas motorcade a half-century ago. The accused killer, Lee Harvey Oswald, was also murdered under mysterious circumstances just a couple days later. Alex Cox, like most of the American public, does not buy into the moth-eaten establishment tale about the regicide. The President and the Provocateur is not the usual conspiracy volume, and is structured almost like the film Rashomon , including varying views of the story with different fonts and sizes. The Kennedy assassination saga has obsessed filmmaker Alex Cox ( Repo Man , Sid & Nancy ) for most of his life. The President and The Provocateur is Cox's informed meditation on the conspiratorial tale, and as such is an imaginative rendering of the parallel structures of the lives of John F. Kennedy and Lee Harvey Oswald. Cox's films are available from the renowned distributors Criterion and Anchor Bay. They include Repo Man , Sid and Nancy , and Walker . Film Director Alex Cox Reflects On The Strange Archetypes Haunting His Life's Obsession: The Kennedy Assassination. Table Of Contents; St. Cecilia's Day; 1. Jack Kennedy And Family: Early Exemplary History, Military And Political Career; 2. Lee Harvey Oswald And Family: His Dubious Youth, Military Service, And Defection; 3. 1960: Election Year; 4. 1961: Washington And Minsk; 5. Aside: Political Violence In The United States; 6. 1962: More Crises, And A Change Of Scene; 7. 1963: Year Of The Patsy; 8. November 22, 1963: St. Cecilia's Day; 9. November 23/24, 1963: The Passion Of Lee Harvey Oswald; 10. Aftermath; From The Historic Diary Of Lee Harvey Oswald; Bibliography; Acronyms; Index. Alex Cox. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.