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The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald (1964)

98 min · trial film

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2025-09 to 2026-08

Directors

Larry Buchanan

The story

The prosecution asserts that Oswald committed the crime for political reasons based in his Marxist beliefs, while his attorney presents an insanity defense, claiming that he had suffered from untreated paranoid schizophrenia since adolescence. As the viewer acts as a juror, with the judge and attorneys looking straight into the camera and talking directly to the unseen "jury" several times, no verdict is given. Dallas criminal defense attorney Charles W.

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trial film

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