The JFK 100

There's only one problem. As even Oliver Stone himself admits,⁽¹⁾ it's complete fiction.

No one -- not Jack Martin (as in Stone's film), not anyone -- ever witnessed such a get-together. There is no evidence whatsoever of any significant association between Clay Shaw and Guy Banister, assuming the two men ever met in the first place.

But without making that fictitious connection, there would be no link between Stone's primary villain, Clay Shaw, the man New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison indicted for conspiracy to assassinate John F. Kennedy; and Guy Banister, the man whose New Orleans private detective agency both Garrison and Stone portray as one of the keys of their conspiracy case.

In reality, of course, there was no such link; so Oliver Stone manufactures one.

NOTES:

1. Oliver Stone and Zachary Sklar, JFK: The Book of the Film (New York: Applause, 1992), p. 41.