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Netflix is re-running this 8 part series starting Wednesday, starring James Franco and Chris Cooper. Franco stars as Jake Epping, divorced high school teacher and Cooper as Al Templeton, diner owner. The diner's rear door opens to 1960 Maine. Al is dying but convinces Jake to go back in time and prevent the assassination of John Kennedy. One of Stephen King's best novels, Jake quickly learns that the past does NOT like being messed with.

Is this the one that takes Oswald being a lone shooter as its starting premise? Is so that would be the unintentionally most fantastical thing King has ever written.

3dender wrote: ↑06 Jan 2026 05:29 am Is this the one that takes Oswald being a lone shooter as its starting premise? Is so that would be the unintentionally most fantastical thing King has ever written.

Well, with thousands of people poring over all the known information, over 63 years, and no other shooter identified, I'll stick with King's premise.

edwin drood wrote: ↑06 Jan 2026 17:58 pm

3dender wrote: ↑06 Jan 2026 05:29 am Is this the one that takes Oswald being a lone shooter as its starting premise? Is so that would be the unintentionally most fantastical thing King has ever written.

Well, with thousands of people poring over all the known information, over 63 years, and no other shooter identified, I'll stick with King's premise.

And I'll believe that the guy who's head snapped backwards with a piece of his skull from the exit wound needing to be retrieved by his wife from the trunk of the car was most likely not shot from behind and above.

Just found this out :

Edward Kennedy was the first to break the news in the US that the Germans had surrendered. Because Stalin wanted his own surrender ceremony, US tried to impose a 36 hour blackout (can you imagine that today ? or even then ?). The news had already leaked in Germany, so EK said the heck with it and published, and got fired :

https://militaryhistorynow.com/2025/05/ ... rrender-2/

A back story to this is that the poor Russian representative Suslaparov couldn't raise Stalin (probably passed-out after his nightly debauch) and had to sign without authority in order to prevent the Americans from getting all the glory. He paid for his impudence, though that had to be the right move in the situation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hjioEl7DWQ&t=629s

3dender wrote: ↑06 Jan 2026 18:31 pm

edwin drood wrote: ↑06 Jan 2026 17:58 pm

3dender wrote: ↑06 Jan 2026 05:29 am Is this the one that takes Oswald being a lone shooter as its starting premise? Is so that would be the unintentionally most fantastical thing King has ever written.

Well, with thousands of people poring over all the known information, over 63 years, and no other shooter identified, I'll stick with King's premise.

And I'll believe that the guy who's head snapped backwards with a piece of his skull from the exit wound needing to be retrieved by his wife from the trunk of the car was most likely not shot from behind and above.

You might have noticed that the brain came out of his right temple, not out of the back of his head, the debris with a strong forward vector. His bodily motion/rearward spasm reaction is accounted for neurologically, was so in the original Warren report. There is a fundamental/natural reaction of aversion to having so momentous an event effected by such an otherwise oddball nebulous person grasping for importance, absent any of the requisites. Sort of an inversion of the 'great man theory of history'. LHO also took a shot at the crazy rightwing general caught giving headers in the park, and killed the Dallas LEO after, unequivocally.

When you put all that together..... yeah, lone shooter. Extraordinary, but true.
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https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5934694/

I watched this when it originally came out on Hulu years ago and enjoyed it. I'd previously read the book which I also thoroughly enjoyed.

I read this last year on a recommendation and it absolutely measures up to the hype. Instantly my favorite novel of all time. I was about to buy the mini series on Amazon when I noticed it was coming to Netflix. I haven't started it, but will soon and very much looking forward to it. Based on trailers and what I have seen online it looks like there are quite a few changes from the book, but it still looks quite good.