Question everything. Now we're through the looking glass here people.

White is black and black is white.

You don't believe me?

I don't know. All this time you never believe me.

I just want to raise our children and live a normal life. I won't like life! You know, look this thing bigger than all of us.

Now, how many cops is it going to take for you lawyers to figure out what you want?

People got to know. People got to know why he was killed.

You know what you got to me? I'm a dead man!

Well, if they can kill the president, they can certainly get me.

Your mouse fighting a gorilla.

You're close.

You're closer than you think.

There's going to be an attempt to kill you somewhere between here and your arms.

I say let justice be done, though, the heaven's fall. The Welcome to Episode 14 of Unclear and Present Danger, a podcast about the political and military thrillers

of the 1990s and what they say about the politics of that decade.

I'm Jamel Bowie.

I'm a columnist for the New York Times opinion section.

I'm John Gans.

I write a newsletter called Unpopular Front, and I'm working on a book about American politics in the early 1990s.

Today, we are talking about Oliver Stone's JFK.

And we have a guest. We are joined by the historian Alexis Co.

Her most recent book is You Never Forget Your First, a biography of George Washington.

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