{"id":13545,"date":"2011-11-22T14:36:40","date_gmt":"2011-11-22T14:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=13545"},"modified":"2011-11-22T14:45:38","modified_gmt":"2011-11-22T14:45:38","slug":"the-umbrella-man-errol-morris-jfk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2011\/11\/22\/the-umbrella-man-errol-morris-jfk\/","title":{"rendered":"The Umbrella Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/The-Umbrella-Man.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13546\" title=\"The Umbrella Man\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/The-Umbrella-Man.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"280\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new short film by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Errol_Morris\">Errol Morris<\/a> explores why a man was holding an umbrella just a few feet from where <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_F._Kennedy\">President Kennedy<\/a> was shot in November 1963.<\/p>\n<p>Like his friend Werner Herzog, the famed director has long been fascinated by the events surrounding\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Assassination_of_John_F._Kennedy\">the JFK assassination<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/11\/22\/opinion\/the-umbrella-man.html?_r=1\">Morris has written an accompanying piece<\/a> for the New York Times, in which he says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For years, I\u2019ve wanted to make a movie about the John F. Kennedy assassination.<\/p>\n<p>Not because I thought I could prove that it was a conspiracy, or that I could prove it was a lone gunman, but because I believe that by looking at the assassination, we can learn a lot about the nature of investigation and evidence.<\/p>\n<p>Why, after 48 years, are people still quarreling and quibbling about this case? What is it about this case that has led not to a solution, but to the endless proliferation of possible solutions?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The only thing I can recommend is that you <a href=\"http:\/\/video.nytimes.com\/video\/2011\/11\/21\/opinion\/100000001183275\/the-umbrella-man.html\">click here to watch the video<\/a> as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<p>&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/11\/22\/opinion\/the-umbrella-man.html?_r=1\">NY Times directors statement<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/video.nytimes.com\/video\/2011\/11\/21\/opinion\/100000001183275\/the-umbrella-man.html\">video<\/a><br \/>\n&gt; More on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Errol_Morris\">Errol Morris<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Assassination_of_John_F._Kennedy\">the JFK assassination<\/a> at Wikipedia<br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2010\/10\/19\/lff-2010-tabloid-errol-morris\/\">Thoughts on his nw film Tabloid<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new short film by Errol Morris explores why a man was holding an umbrella just a few feet from where President Kennedy was shot in November 1963.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13546,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,16,31],"tags":[60,2339],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13545"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}