The ‘JFK’ Wake-Up

Wake-up calls tend to be jarring, intrusive and unpleasant. This would explain the critical reaction to Oliver Stone’s film “JFK,” typified by Kenneth Turan’s spectacular exercise in intellectual dishonesty (“ ‘JFK’: Conspiracy in the Cross Hairs,” Dec. 20).

Perhaps Turan should ponder how much comfort he derives from clinging to his belief that nothing changed in this country Nov. 22, 1963, and his refusal to consider that possibility amid overwhelming evidence Stone brilliantly and devastatingly assembled.

ANDREW CHRISTIE

Los Angeles