Reclaiming Parkland

[Magda Hassan]

Posted for Jim D.

James DiEugenio
RECLAIMING PARKLAND
Tom Hanks, Vincent Bugliosi, and the JFK Assassination in the New Hollywood


A hard-hitting, one-of-a-kind look at how Hollywood and the mainstream
media are getting the Kennedy assassination all wrong!


Reclaiming Parkland details the failed attempt of Tom Hanksand Gary Goetzmancofounder of the production company
Playtoneto make Vincent Bugliosi's mammoth book about the
Kennedy assassination, Reclaiming History, into a miniseries. It
exposes the questionable origins of Reclaiming History in a dubious
mock trial for cable television, in which Bugliosi played the role of
an attorney prosecuting Lee Harvey Oswald for murder, and how
this formed the basis for the epic tome. Author James DiEugenio
details the myriad problems with Bugliosi's book, and explores the
cooperation of the mainstream press in concealing these many
faults during the publicity campaign for the book and how this lack
of scrutiny led Hanks and Goetzman to purchase the film rights.
DiEugenio then shows how the film eventually adapted from that
book, entitled Parkland, does not even resemble Reclaiming History,
though the script for that film displays the same imbalance that
Reclaiming History does.
Reclaiming Parkland also includes extended looks at the littleknown
aspects of the lives and careers of Bugliosi, Hanks, and
Goetzmanincluding Bugliosi's three attempts at political office
and a review of the Tate-LaBianca murders in the light of today's
knowledge of that case. DiEugenio also looks at the connections
between Washington and Hollywood, as well as the CIA influence
in the film colony today. Reclaiming Parkland is a truly unique book
that delves into the Kennedy assassination, the New Hollywood,
and the political influence on how films are made today.



James DiEugenio is cofounder of two organizations, the Citizens
for Truth about the Kennedy Assassination and the Coalition on
Political Assassinations. He was coeditor of The Assassinations, a
book on the deaths of JFK, Martin Luther King Jr., Robert Kennedy,
and Malcolm X, and is the author of Destiny Betrayed: JFK, Cuba,
and the Garrison Case. He lives near Long Beach, California.

$26.95 hardcover (Can. $29.95)
World (E) CQ 30
ISBN 978-1-62636-533-9
6" x 9" 496 pages
History
NOVEMBER