Frank Whaley, who plays one of the Oswald impostors in this film, plays Lee Harvey Oswald in Fatal Deception: Mrs. Lee Harvey Oswald (1993) (TV).
Perry R. Russo, who was a key witness to conversations taking place between David Ferrie, Clay Shaw (aka Clay Bertrand), and Lee Harvey Oswald, plays a man in the bar at the beginning of the film, where Garrison and Lou are watching the TV coverage on the shooting. Mr. Russo yells about how they should give the shooter a medal for shooting Kennedy.
Gary Oldman also voiced Lee Harvey Oswald in the mini series "Who Was Lee Harvey Oswald?" (1992) (mini).
In Bull Durham (1988), Kevin Costner's character stated "...I believe Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone...".
The real Jim Garrison plays Earl Warren.
During the conversation between Garrison and X, there is a close-up of a desktop nameplate which is partially obscured. It reads "M/Gen. E.G....nsd...e", and is a reference to Edward G. Lansdale of the United States Air Force. Lansdale is the subject of the book "JFK and Vietnam" by John M. Newman, one of the film's technical advisors.
Director Cameo: [Oliver Stone] Oliver Stone can be seen very briefly in the assassination re-enactment. Look very close for him as the Secret Service agent who runs towards the back of the limo after the fatal headshot.
Director Oliver Stone's favorite film of his own.
In preparation for her portrayal of Marina Oswald, Beata Pozniak studied the 26 volumes of Warren Commission Report, read every single Time and Newsweek magazine article about her character, and then lived with Marina Oswald, wife of the alleged assassin of President John F. Kennedy.
Every detail concerning the set for the Oval Office was meticulously reconstructed based on archival footage of the White House during President Kennedy's term. The set cost about $70,000 to complete, yet it only appears in about eight seconds of film and is in black and white.
Harrison Ford was originally offered the role of Jim Garrison but he turned it down due to the political aspects of the project.
The film generated intense controversy upon its release with many accusing Oliver Stone of making up many of the facts. In fact, Stone published an annotated version of his screenplay, in which he justifies and attributes every claim made in the film. Stone later addressed the controversy in his TV movie "Wild Palms" (1993) (mini) in which he has a cameo. That film takes place in the 21st Century and has Stone appearing on a talk show discussing how all his conspiracy theories surrounding JFK had been proven true.
"The bigger the lie, the more people will believe it" was a Nazi quote, but it did not belong to Adolf Hitler; it was spoken by Josef Goebbels.
Is the only film that stars both Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau without the two of them sharing a scene
No one on Jim Garrison's team was called Bill Broussard, but Garrison did frequently visit a restaurant in New Orleans called "Broussard's" (as told in his book "On the Trail of the Assassins").
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