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11/22/63: Stephen King and JJ Abrams Lay an Egg
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I read the book. I haven't seen the series. The one scene in the previews aired months ago of our hero James Franco running thru Dealy Plaza with his love interest didn't actually happen in the book.


As I believe I posted in the other DPF thread about this mini-series, the book isn't really about the Kennedy assassination. The hero has inherited a way to travel back in time to 1963 (which the previous user used merely to obtain an endless supply of cheap hamburger meat for his burger joint). He decides, at one point, that stopping the killing is a worthwhile goal. However, he falls in love with a 1963 woman, whose life he cannot save if he pursues Oswald. In the end, his repeated trips to the past, and attempts to change the past, threaten to destroy spacetime. The story is kind of a cross between Langoliers, The Butterfly Effect, Back to the Future, and the Warren Report.


It's no more a story about JFK than the rhetorical question "If you could go back in time and kill Hitler,...." is about Hitler. I find it a shame that people have used the opportunity to engage in renewed discussion about the actual event as an opportunity to push their pet theories, usually with some sort of commercial gain in mind, but I suppose that simply must be.
"All that is necessary for tyranny to succeed is for good men to do nothing." (unknown)

James Tracy: "There is sometimes an undue amount of paranoia among some conspiracy researchers that can contribute to flawed observations and analysis."

Gary Cornwell (Dept. Chief Counsel HSCA): "A fact merely marks the point at which we have agreed to let investigation cease."

Alan Ford: "Just because you believe it, that doesn't make it so."
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11/22/63: Stephen King and JJ Abrams Lay an Egg - by Drew Phipps - 24-05-2016, 11:38 PM

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