LONDON TV PROGRAM TO FEATURE MOCK LEE HARVEY OSWALD TRIAL
A British television company plans to broadcast a mock trial of Lee Harvey Oswald in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. The production will feature some people actually involved in the case.
Andy Jackson, a spokesman for London Weekend Television, said negotiations were under way with some witnesses who testified before the Warren Commission, which investigated the 1963 assassination in Dallas.
He said Oswald will be represented by an empty chair. Oswald never was tried, having been shot dead two days after his arrest while being moved from one prison to another. The Warren Commission said Oswald was Kennedy’s lone assassin.
Jackson said the program would be “a documentary exercise, not a dramatized reconstruction.”
He said the program would be modeled on the company’s recent mock trial of England’s King Richard III, who is suspected of ordering the murders of his two young nephews in the 15th century.
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