Zachary Sklar
Writing
Biography
Zachary Sklar is a screenwriter, journalist, author, and editor. He is best known as co-author, with Oliver Stone, of the Academy Award-nominated screenplay for the film JFK. His other screen credits include La Fiesta del Chivo (Feast of the Goat) and Hanyut (Almayer's Folly). He leads the screenwriting section of the Harlem Dramatic Writing Workshop and has served as a creative adviser for Sundance Screenwriting Labs around the world, from Utah to Mexico, Jordan, Turkey, Greece, Australia, Brazil, Ecuador, and Cuba. He also taught magazine writing at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism for a decade. As a journalist, he has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Nation, and Huffington Post, among others. He has edited numerous non- fiction books, including the number-one-bestselling On the Trail of the Assassins by Jim Garrison, Moving the Bar: My Life as a Radical Lawyer by Michael Ratner, Profits of War by Ari Ben-Menashe, and Deadly Deceits: My 25 Years in the CIA by Ralph McGehee. He lives in Olivebridge, New York.
Known For
Follows the investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy led by New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison.
JFK
This spellbinding documentary re-examines the issues raised by Oliver Stone's JFK, and explores the late Jim Garrison's contention that there was a "second conspiracy" to cover up the truth, including attempts to ruin his own reputation.
Beyond JFK: The Question of Conspiracy
Urania Cabral returns to Santo Domingo, after several years, and remembers her and her family's relationship to Rafael Trujillo, the Dominican dictator, as well as the events surrounding his assassination.