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{{quote|"To sin by silence when we should protest makes cowards of men." |'''Ella Wheeler Wilcox'''}}
''[[JFK (film)|JFK]]'' is a 1991 film written and directed by [[Oliver Stone]] about the assassination of [[John F. Kennedy]] and its aftermath, based around the investigation by New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison ([[Kevin Costner]]). After reading the Warren Report and finding it unsatisfactory, Garrison decides to launch an investigation on his own. After reviewing witness reports and interviewing some people on his own, Garrison becomes convinced Kennedy was killed by a conspiracy, and that all of the suspicious events seem to be circling a Texas Businessman named Clay Shaw ([[Tommy Lee Jones]]) who goes by the alias Clay Bertrand. Shaw has connections to Lee Harvey Oswald ([[Gary Oldman]]), the CIA, the FBI, and others.
After his case gains publicity, Garrison is invited to Washington, D.C. for a confidential meeting. The man (Donald Sutherland), who goes only by the name "X", says that Garrison is closer to the truth than he thinks, and gives him background information regarding his suspicions that JFK was killed by a conspiracy involving the CIA, the military, and business interests (the "Military-Industrial Complex") in order to, among other things, stop him from bringing [[The Vietnam War]] and the [[Cold War]] to an end.
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