J.F.K. does not focus on President John F. Kennedy, but on "Jim Garrison, the heroic, embattled, incorruptible investigator who wishes to make sense of J.F.K.'s assassination and its apparent cover-up" (Rosenstone, 124). Stone's interpretation of Garrison symbolically embodies all of the American public's speculations of what events actually occurred on the day of Kennedy's assassination. ... Stone was fascinated by Garrison's account of the search for truth regarding Kennedy's assassination. ...

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