The way that Sutherland delivers that final line—“That is a coup d’etat”—right as LBJ looks directly into the camera—still gives me something just short of chills.

Nice. I went looking online for it and couldn’t find it in its entirety. It sucks that the whole monologue isn’t on YouTube or somewhere else. There are great moments in it before this starts.

When I was a kid I became obsessed with the JFK assassination, largely as a result of Stone’s film. As I got a little older and a little wiser and realized most of the film is bullshit, I still kept coming back to Sutherland’s Mr. X monologue. It, too, is largely bullshit, but Sutherland is just so damn good…

Pardon me, I was off by one. Courtesy of, you know, google: Mia Farrow’s fourteen children were Matthew Previn (b. February 26, 1970), Sascha Previn (b. February 26, 1970), Soon-Yi Previn (b. circa October 8, 1970; adopted 1977), Lark Previn (b. February 15, 1973; adopted 1973; died December 25, 2008), Fletcher Previn…