The President and the Provocateur: The Parallel Lives of JFK and Lee Harvey Oswald

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Cox explores the parallel lives of John F. Kennedy, born into wealth and celebrity, destined for glory and a violent death and of Lee Harvey Oswald, born into poverty and obscurity, murdered in police custody and convicted, without a lawyer or a trial, of the killing of JFK. 50 years after both men were murdered, Alex Cox provides a chronological account of their lives' strange intersections, their shared interests and the increasing evidence which suggests that Oswald was working for a branch of the government, most likely the FBI or IRS, as an agent provocateur.

Maverick British filmmaker Alex Cox is responsible for directing a host of acclaimed films from Sleep is for Sissies, Repo Man, Sid and Nancy, Straight to Hell, Walker and Highway Patrolman to Death and the Compass, Three Businessmen, Revenger's Tragedy, Searchers 2.0 and more recently Tombstone Rashomon. From 1987 to 1994, he presented the acclaimed BBC TV series 'Moviedrome', bringing unknown or forgotten films to new audiences. He's also the author of X Films: True Confessions of a Radical Filmmaker, 10,000 Ways to Die, The President and the Provocateur and Alex Cox's Introduction to Film and has written on the subject of film for publications including Sight and Sound, The Guardian, The Independent and Film Comment.

Cox has done his best to unravel the tangled mess of information and weave it into something resembling coherency with an eye towards as an objective a view as possible -- Richard Marcus * Seattle PI via blogcritics.org * Alex Cox attacks official line on JFK assassination -- Adrian Mack * straight.com * compelling * Sabotage Times * an original treatment of over-familiar material, a fine book, nicely written -- Robin Ramsay * Lobster Magazine *