13-12-2011, 09:31 PM
Adele Edisen Wrote:When I first saw the movie, "JFK", I almost fell off my seat in the movie theater when the actress Lolita Davidson, playing the role of Beverly Oliver, said to Kevin Costrner, as Jim Garrison, 'If they can kill the President of the United States like that, they wouldn't think twice about killing a showgirl like me."
These words were almost identical to those I had said to the real Jim Garrison in October, 1974, when I told him of my experiences in April, 1963, when Jose Rivera spoke of the impending assassination of President Kennedy. I had said, "If they can kill the President of the United States like that, they wouldn't think twice about killing someone like me." I recall when I said these words to Garrison, he looked at me for the longest time, as if studying me for some reason, or memorizing my statement (?).
Jim Garrison, District Attorney in New Orleans, had brought Clay Shaw, Director of the International Trade Mart, to trial in 1969. He lost his case against Shaw because he lacked some critical evidence about Shaw that was not yet available at the time. Garrison was an advisor to Oliver Stone, and actually appeared in the film as Chief Justice Warren. I believe Garrison was the one who provided those words of mine to Stone and his script writers.
It must be a rare thing to be both on the sinister stage of the assassination itself and Stone's film stage.