Deliberate mistake: The eyewitness testimony that placed Oswald in the lunchroom at the book despository didn't come to light until the House Select Committee on Assassination in 1978, many years after the Shaw trial.
JFK (1991)
1 deliberate mistake
Directed by: Oliver Stone
Starring: Gary Oldman, Tommy Lee Jones, Kevin Costner, Kevin Bacon, Vincent D'Onofrio, John Candy, Walter Matthau, Jack Lemmon, Sissy Spacek, Joe Pesci, Sally Kirkland, Anthony Ramirez, Ray LePere, Steve Reed
Factual error: When Lee Bowers' accident scene is shown, a train is passing in the background. Unfortunately, the type of train passing did not come into being until after 1980 - the scene took place in the mid-1960's.
Jim Garrison: They killed Robert F. Kennedy. He won, and they killed him. They shot him down.
Liz Garrison: Oh God. Both of them? They got both brothers?
Trivia: In JFK Wayne Knight plays Numa Bertel. In Seinfeld Wayne Knight plays Newman. In JFK he was used in Jim Garrison's demonstration of the single bullet theory. In Seinfeld he and Kramer told Jerry a story exactly the same as the single bullet theory only that it was spit that hit them not a bullet. Jerry then does the same demonstration that Jim Garrison did in JFK to explain the story. The layout is also the same in both the film and Seinfeld.
Question: Was the head movement argument to the jury verbatim from the transcript of the actual trial of Clay Shaw?
Answer: No. The argument which mentions was the first closing argument by an assistant to Garrison and in it he mentions "back and to the left" once but not the multiple statements shown in the movie. The actual transcripts are available on line.