the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. and the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy. Shaw's trial takes place in 1969. Garrison presents the court with a dismissal of the single-bullet theory, proposing a scenario involving three assassins firing six shots and framing Oswald for the murders of Kennedy and Tippit, all for the purpose of installing Johnson as President so he could escalate the war in Vietnam and enrich the defense industry. However, the jury acquits Shaw after less than one hour of deliberation. While his prosecution has failed, Garrison wins his wife and children's respect for his determination, and so repairs his relationship with his family. Cast Kevin Costner as Jim Garrison Kevin Bacon as Willie O'Keefe Tommy Lee Jones as Clay Shaw / Clay Bertrand Laurie Metcalf as Susie Cox Gary Oldman as Lee Harvey Oswald Michael Rooker as Bill Broussard Jay O. Sanders as Lou Ivon Sissy Spacek as Liz Garrison Joe Pesci as David Ferrie Beata Poźniak as Marina Oswald Porter Jack Lemmon as Jack Martin Walter Matthau as Senator Russell B. Long Donald Sutherland as Mr. X Ed Asner as Guy Banister Brian Doyle-Murray as Jack Ruby John Candy as Dean Andrews Jr. Sally Kirkland as Rose Cheramie Wayne Knight as Numa Bertel Pruitt Taylor Vince as Lee Bowers Tony Plana as Carlos Bringuier Vincent D'Onofrio as Bill Newman Dale Dye as General Y Lolita Davidovich as Beverly Oliver Ellen McElduff as Jean Hill John Larroquette as Jerry Johnson Willem Oltmans as George de Mohrenschildt Tomas Milian as Leopoldo Gary Grubbs as Al Oser Ron Rifkin as Mr. Goldberg / Spiesel Peter Maloney as Colonel Finck John Finnegan as Judge Haggerty Wayne Tippit as FBI Agent Frank Jo Anderson as Julia Ann Mercer Bob Gunton as News Anchor Frank Whaley as Imposter Oswald Jim Garrison as Earl Warren Martin Sheen as Narrator Production Zachary Sklar, a journalist and a professor of journalism at the Columbia School of Journalism, met Garrison in 1987 and helped him rewrite a manuscript that he was working on about Kennedy's assassination. He changed it from a scholarly book in the third person to "a detective story – a whydunnit" in the first person. Sklar edited the book and it was published in 1988. While attending the Latin American Film Festival in Havana, Cuba, Stone met Sheridan Square Press publisher Ellen Ray on an elevator. She had published Jim Garrison's book