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Do you believe in God, and if you do you believe that God sees everything that we do.

Let’s take a step further. Do you believe God intervenes in our lives?

I do.

As such I wonder about the movie Charade.

It debuted in early 1964 but was filmed a year or two earlier.

The move was directed by Stanley Donen. Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn starred.

The movie is about a widow (Hepburn), her supposed money, and three men who are trying to get it. Her recently murdered husband stole loot that also belonged to the three men. Chasing the loot also is a “CIA” man (Walter Matthau) and another man (Grant) who is helping the widow. It is a story about intrigue, aliases and deception. People are not who they pretend to be.

Hmmm, does that sound like anyone we know?

I postulate that God saw what was done to JFK and in God’s own way moved through time and space to bring people together to write and produce Charade. God also caused the studio to mislabel the copyright on the movie thus forcing the movie into public domain where it can not be locked away in a vault Zapruder-style.

Of course, God likes a good laugh and so isn’t always explicit. Thus Charade is like a dream that you might have where elements and details from your life come together in a seemingly nonsensical disjointed way.

You can see a prior article on this blog to examine Charade more comprehensively.

Here I will list a few more tidbits about the movie.

Charles Lampert is thrown off a train and dies by the side of a railroad track. Likewise in real life, JFK dies beside a railroad track. True enough, he was pronounced dead at Parkland, but for the most part, he died on Elm Street.

George Kennedy plays Herman Scobie.

Walther Matthau plays a character named Hamilton Bartholomew. This is an unusual name, but not when you consider the following:

CIA operative E. Howard Hunt used the alias “Edward J. Hamilton” while working in Florida in 1961 .

Lee Oswald for a period of time in his early life lived in a house in New Orleans at 1010 Bartholomew Street.

Not convinced?

The 1984 movie, A Nightmare on Elm Street, directly references Charade . In a pivotal sequence, a villain terrorizes a character by perpetually lighting matches and dropping them onto her lap. When asked to stop, he chuckles and says, “An enjoyable little game, isn’t it? I saw it in a movie once. Very effective,” directly nodding to a similar match-lighting scene in Charade.

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So you think it’s a coincidence, huh? Or is it entirely explainable?

Wes Craven who directed the movie used Elm Street mainly because every town had an Elm Street and because JFK was murdered on Elm Street. But, did Wes Craven know at the time that Charade had many other strange links to the JFK assassination? Unlikely. Wes Craven could have selected any scene from any movie to make his point. But he didn’t.

Now, we know that the Princeton Professors don’t believe in God. They have smugly worked out God to be a series of complex mathematical equations worthy of Maxwell. And if you are like those Princeton Know-It-Alls, you need go no further.

But if you do believe in God, then consider this: Via the movie, Charade, God is telling us and the CIA: I saw what you did, and you can’t escape me.

I suppose you can (if you try) connect any movie to the JFK assassination, but can you do it to this degree? And did those movies come on the scene in early 1964 within a month of the assassination?

No and no.

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