The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald is an American two-part television film shown on ABC in September 1977.

[4] The hypothesis is what might have happened if Lee Harvey Oswald had not been killed by Jack Ruby and had stood trial for the murder of President John F.

[5] The film opens sometime in 1964 and Oswald is in a maximum security cage as a radio announcer tells how he has been on trial for the last 43 days as the eyes of the entire world watch.

However, the picture only grows darker as flashbacks show Oswald defecting to the Soviet Union, returning to the US and in the company of various shady individuals.

Oswald stubbornly refuses to cooperate when Weldon urges him to open up and tell the truth, as it might help save him from the electric chair.

Roberts begins his cross-examination by asking Oswald why there is a picture of him with a rifle, a palmprint of his on the murder weapon and a money order buying the Mannlicher-Carcano which killed Kennedy.

Roberts demands "Isn't that why you decided to kill President John F. Kennedy, because Marina wanted to watch him on TV?"

In a critical review for The Washington Post, Tom Shales wrote that the film "is beyond reprehensible as a piece of entertainment" and called it a "sorry charade".