Oliver Stone's "JFK".
. . .there was no mention in the reviews of a strange phenomenon threaded largely
unnoticed by audiences into the movie - the use of subliminal, near subliminal, and
symbolic images that might suggest either a Masonic involvement in the Kennedy slaying, or
a series of strange Masonic messages intended for higher initiates of the secretive
orders. . .
Subliminal
JFK
There have been countless books,
movies and documentaries about the assassination in 1963 of President John F. Kennedy.
Arguably, the one movie that endorsed the conspiracy theory surrounding the assassination
more than any other was Oliver Stone's "JFK", © 1991 Warner Bros. In it, New
Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison is depicted investigating the assassination,
meeting institutional resistance at every stage, and embarking on the only trial ever
conducted in connection with the slaying. A vital piece of evidence - a statement made by
the accused Clay Shaw to his arresting officer - is adjudged inadmissible by the court.
The prosecution case, revolving around a conspiracy by a rogue element in the military and
intelligence communities of America, is doomed. As in real life, Shaw is found not guilty
of involvement.
Stone's award winning movie had both
pundits and detractors. The detractors saw it as pure fantasy and the distortion of
history. Amongst the pundits, and apart from pro-conspiracists, there was genuine
admiration for Stone's uncanny touch, and his well rounded and evocative drama.
But there was no mention in the
immediate reviews of a strange phenomenon threaded largely unnoticed by audiences into the
movie - the use of subliminal, near subliminal, and symbolic images that might suggest
either a Masonic involvement in the Kennedy slaying, or a series of strange Masonic
messages intended for higher initiates of the secret societies.
Watch the movie in the normal way,
and most people will not notice the hidden imagery. A true subliminal image lasts for only
one frame, near subliminal for a few frames. The appearance of "morphed"
faces is also noted, as are examples of Masonic symbolism. The following has been compiled
from a frame by frame study of the movie on a video player. It is not exhaustive and many
of the subliminal images are not present in editions of the movie cut for TV.
Curioser &
Curioser.
Subliminal Images in Oliver Stone's Movie, "JFK"
The trickery starts when Garrison is
told about the Dallas shooting and there is a close up shot of a clock; it is ticking; it
is 12:36. A near subliminal ghostly image moves right to left across the clock face,
materializing into a small image of a skull with its jaws open at the centre of the clock.
The first true subliminal image is a
close-up of New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison, played by alleged Freemason Kevin
Costner. This image of Costner's face is seen at least three times in the movie. In the
early scene where Garrison and his staff are watching the televised funeral, with
intercuts to scenes of senior military officers having meetings, the TV reporter describes
discussions about Vietnam. Costner's head is seen from behind his left ear. His head
rotates left 90° towards camera. This can only be seen using frame by frame
progress.
Garrison sits on an airliner
alongside a character played by Walter Mathau. The figure of a man passes quickly in front
of camera. Frame by frame, the face of this man in profile appears to "morph"
from that of Kennedy's, to Nixon, to Reagan.
In a scene where Oswald is being
questioned by F.B.I. agents after his arrest for fighting with anti-Castro demonstrators,
he appears capable of "bi-location". Oswald's white shirt seems to glow in these
black and white images. One moment he is sitting in a chair being questioned by an F.B.I.
agent across a desk. Advancing the scene frame by frame, Oswald is seen sitting in a chair
facing his questioner then instantly standing against a wall facing the opposite
direction. This scene reappears later.
Garrison questions convict O'Keef
outdoors at Angola Prison. In the flashback homosexual party scene there is a full screen
subliminal skull, a rat in a cage, and an image of a skull in the background over Clay
Shaw's hand. These items can be clearly detected by progressing frame by frame through the
scene.
A man in a dark suit passes three
hoboes being taken into custody by police. The man gives the hoboes a secret hand sign.
This happens again in the film in more detail.
A white ghost figure in a picture on
the wall watches Garrison and his staff meeting in his home.
During a carnival parade, an
American flag is lowered to reveal a huge human skull. One of the revelers, wearing
Masonic style garb, face partially masked, appears to be Costner. During one intercut here
there is a subliminal frame showing a pastiche of faces.
At the end of the parade scene,
there is a cut to a small ship passing under a bridge, then to a cloud-scape. During the
brief cloudscape sequence there is a subliminal frame depicting a UFO-like object.
Garrison questions Clay Shaw in
Garrison's office. There are flashback homosexual situations and a near subliminal black
and white scene where a projector shows film of a dark-skinned man crawling between the
legs of a line of semi-naked white men.
After David Ferrie's death, the
easily-seen images in Ferrie's apartment are a skull, rats, and religious figurines. A
Crucifix is depicted in front of a painting of two male characters embracing a man, the
two males have horns on their heads.
Garrison goes to Washington, D.C. to
meet with a former intelligence agent named "X" who seems to know everything.
Leaving the Lincoln Memorial, Garrison opens an umbrella and raises it over his head.
Garrison becomes an "Umbrella Man." Agent "X" instantly recognizes
this JFK assassination signal and their talk begins. Passersby have raised
umbrellas, but it is not raining. "X" has been identified as Col. L. Fletcher
Prouty, who has confirmed in his writings his flight from Antarctica and his investigation
of newspaper photographs of Oswald in papers around the world only hours after Oswald is
arrested - with the implication the photographs had been distributed internationally prior
to the assassination.
A dark-suited man passes three
tramps and gives a clear hand signal. The secret hand signals, signs, and other symbols
suggest the involvement of Masonic forces.
Garrison's young daughter answers
the phone to a stranger who tells her that she has just been entered into a beauty
contest. On the wall behind, again, the picture frame contains a curious white ghost-like
figure, which appears to talk.
Willy O'Keef testifies on the
witness stand. There are flashes to a meeting between Shaw and O'Keef. Above Shaw's left
hand in the upper right corner of the screen is the image of a human skull.
Frame-by-frame, the skull opens its mouth into a horrific expression.
Kennedy's car passes through Dealy
Plaza. There is a close-up of a man's face wearing glasses. The image of an animal
moves right to left across a further close-up of the left lens of the glasses. A gun shot
is heard. A doctor puts the remains of Kennedy's brain onto a weighing scale.
In Garrison's final summation to the
court, Garrison says, "So what really happened that day?" There are intercuts to
a scene just before the shooting in Dealey Plaza. A man in a black suit and white shirt
slowly raises an open umbrella in front of another man wearing a jacket with the word
"RIPLEY" emblazoned on its back. We could speculate that this is either a
reference to Robert Ripley of "Ripley's Believe it or Not." or to the Ripley
character in Alien and Aliens. It might instead refer to the Ripley Scroll, which is of
arcane, esoteric importance to the occult.
During the trial scene there are
also cut-aways to actual black and white footage of the Presidential motorcade. In one
scene the camera appears to be travelling along a line of people watching and waving from
the sidewalk. The faces of George and Barbara Bush have been morphed onto two of the
figures - George Bush has a very long neck, whilst his wife appears to have no neck at
all. At the end of the line: morphed faces of the Reagans.
A man aims a scoped rifle at
Kennedy. The camera zooms into the telescopic sight. A reflection of a face in
freeze-frame can be seen in the lens of the sight. This face then metamorphosizes into
another face with an evil grin. The face disappears and light begins to emanate from
within the telescopic sight.
After James Tague is nicked by a
stray bullet, the scene changes to Clay Shaw holding an umbrella over his head. Several
frames later, a younger dark-haired man is holding an umbrella over his own head.
Immediately after the shooting in Dealy Plaza, patrolman Joe Smith stops and questions a
man. The man produces a Secret Service badge. The questioning stops and the man moves off.
The scene cuts back to the courtroom where patrolman Smith is testifying. "Afterward,
it didn't ring true," he says, "but at the time we were so pressed for
time." Immediately the scene cuts to a tall man wearing a suit. He has his left hand
to his ear as if listening. He turns towards camera and gives a Masonic sign of distress.
He holds the palm of the left hand up and crosses it with the right hand palm down. This
is done several times at waist level with the hands held at about 12 inches from the body.
It is the sign of distress from the rite of the Entered-Apprentice, first degree of
Freemasonry. A similar sign is also given by a courtroom bailiff during a critical part of
examination by Garrison. Defense counsel immediately objects and the judge rules Garrison
out of order.
During the court scene, footage of
the Zapruder film is shown, close-cropped so that the bullet hit to Kennedy's head can be
seen. During this sequence, a subliminal frame shows the same UFO-like object in front of
Kennedy shown in the cloudscape mentioned earlier.
What does it all
Mean?
Having first
established that these peculiar items in the movie do in fact exist, we are obviously
moved to the question, why? If there is a suggestion of Masonic involvement in the
assassination, why not come out with it overtly? The main text of the movie suggests a
Military Coup-d'etat, the sub-text suggests something much more mysterious, and leads to
the impression Stone is privy to deeper information about autonomous elements within
Government that are beyond the reach of democratic processes; forces that either use
Freemasonry as their modus, or are themselves controlled by it. Indeed "X" -
real life Colonel L. Fletcher Prouty, played by Donald Sutherland - suggests in the movie
that while Garrison is on track in his investigation, the real truth is something much
bigger, much deeper.
There is also a
suggestion that Garrison had become a pawn in the game of concealment. The failure of the
trial of Clay Shaw at that time scuppered any ideas of bringing other persons to trial for
the assassination. The official line is that Oswald assassinated Kennedy. The majority of
Americans believe there was a conspiracy along the lines of the main text of Stone's
movie. But the sub-text suggests that there is more. Is Stone suggesting with his sub-text
that the classic conspiracy theory is just another cover story to disguise what really
happened at Dealy Plaza that day in 1963?
Is the real truth
wrapped in secrets that only a few "illuminated" individuals are aware of, and
which are as old as humanity itself, or older? Why is the Zapruder footage of the
assassination cropped so that Kennedy's driver is not visible at the time of the fatal
shot? And who or what are the Ghosts in Stone's movie?
The one thing that
all accounts seem to want us to believe is that President John F. Kennedy was killed...
The best place to
hide something is in open sight.
M. (Please see
below).
The analysis of
Stone's movie JFK here is far from exhaustive. There is much more that is disguised within
it than is listed in this article. It should be noted that many of the subliminal frames
are not present in editions of the movie cut for TV. If you would like to add anything you
might have noticed, or further explanation of the symbolism or images, please e-mail us here. Bookmark this page and
visit again to see more on this. If you have seen this stuff and have obviously used the
frame by frame approach, try it out on other stuff, particularly WW2 historical videos
about the Nazis. You can usually spot the oddities if you are watching the videos with
alertness. Stone's "JFK" could be looked upon as a sort of "training
exercise". It's a bit like putting on special sunglasses that filter out the
concealment. There is a lot of this stuff out there.
The following is recommended
viewing, click on the link to order from amazon.com:
Confession of an
Assassin: VHS (US & Canada)
