On Trial: Lee Harvey Oswald, the 1986 TV Trial He Never Got

Lee Harvey Oswald never stood trial for killing President Kennedy. Jack Ruby shot him dead in a Dallas police basement two days after the assassination, and the Warren Commission's conclusion that Oswald acted alone was delivered without ever being tested in front of a jury. In July 1986, a British TV production company decided to fix that, twenty-three years late, in a courtroom built on a London soundstage. On Trial: Lee Harvey Oswald flew a real Dallas jury, a real federal judge, and two...