This is a montage of different images from the JFK, Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy triumphs and assassinations, all three events being observed by Lyndon Johnson as the dark figure who is plotting the anti-black rights movement.
Editing
Santiago Álvarez's rapid-fire montage technique is genuinely revolutionary.
Direction
Relentless visual rhythm builds devastating political argument.
Director
Santiago Álvarez
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Álvarez was Cuba's most celebrated documentary filmmaker, working for the ICAIC and creating agit-prop that influenced everyone from Michael Moore to experimental filmmakers.
The film's explicit accusation that Johnson orchestrated the assassinations reflects broader Black Power and New Left suspicions of the era, not established historical consensus.
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