Nov 18, 2007 8:49 pm US/Central
"Oswald's Ghost" Makes Debut At Texas Theatre
DALLAS (CBS 11 / TXA 21) ―
The 44th anniversary of John F. Kennedy's assassination is Thursday, November 22.
To mark the occasion, Texas Theater in north Oak Cliff will screen a new piece of history. The documentary "Oswald's Ghost" will play to a sold out audience Monday night.
Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested at the Texas Theater after the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
"It's the greatest unsolved murder mystery of all time," said Robert Stone, the director of the PBS film.
Instead of trying to solve the murder or debunk conspiracy theories, Stone said he decided to take a different approach.
"There hasn't been any film that has taken a look at the whole thing as a social and cultural phenomenon," said Stone. "Why, after all these years, are we still talking about who killed JFK? What has that debate and conversation done to this country, and how does that affect our world view?"
The documentary also focuses on Lee Harvey Oswald, who he was and what drove him to pull the trigger.
The screening will be the theater's first major event in nine years.
"Nine years is a long time, and it's all about money," said the theater's general manager Ben Perrin. "It took that long to raise the funds."
That money went into renovating the theater, which was built in 1936.
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