In 1991 Director Oliver Stone made a movie entitled "JFK" based upon a skewed account of Garrison's 1960's persecution of New Orleans businessman Clay Shaw. While Stone endorsed almost every conspiracy there is regarding the sad event in November 1963 he was inspired to make the film after having read Garrison's flagarantly dishonest account of the investigation he conducted while DA. It is that book, more than any other, that made Stone embrace a big c conspiracy attitude towards Kennedy's death. What if Stone had never been given or come across that book? What kind of film would take its place? I think that there are certain themes Stone was intent on exploring at the time, namely what he saw as the culpability of the higher levels of American government for the tragedy that was Vietnam. Yes the idea of a conspiracy designed to cause that war was a convenient aha moment for Stone both personally and in terms of cinema, but given his past work, Stone will probably still make some sort of film that implicates the powerful in Vietnam, even if it has absolutely nothing to do with Dallas. Maybe I am grossley misreading Stone at that time, but Vietnam seems to have been something he would have continued to focus on regardless of ever having come across Garrison's book. But I do not know what film would have been made.Conceivably, this could impact scholarship on the Kennedy era because there is not going to be the "release the files" movement Stone lead