Deliberate mistake: The eyewitness testimony that placed Oswald in the lunchroom at the book despository didn't come to light until the House Select Committee on Assassination in 1978, many years after the Shaw trial.
JFK (1991)
1 deliberate mistake - chronological order
Directed by: Oliver Stone
Starring: Gary Oldman, Tommy Lee Jones, Kevin Costner, Kevin Bacon, Vincent D'Onofrio, John Candy, Walter Matthau, Jack Lemmon, Sissy Spacek, Joe Pesci, Sally Kirkland, Anthony Ramirez, Ray LePere, Steve Reed
Factual error: In the aerial shot where they are driving over the Lake Pontchartrain Bridge two spans are depicted. In 1963 there was only one span. I know this to be true because I lived in New Orleans/Mandeville at the time. Anybody in NOLA could verify this.
Jim Garrison: About as subtle as a cockroach crawlin' across a white rug.
Trivia: In the scene where an FBI agent is harassing one of Garrison's investigators, Bill Brousard, the FBI agent bears a striking resemblance to the real police officer who was also "assassinated" on the same day in Dallas as JFK, Dallas Police Officer J. D. Tippet. It turns out that the actor is Tippet's brother in real life.
Question: Why does Gary Oldman speak with a Russian accent when Lee Harvey Oswald was from New Orleans?
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Answer: Lee Harvey Oswald was very sympathetic to the communist ideal, and lived in Russia for a while. He probably adopted the accent as an affectation towards that end.
Grumpy Scot