Has anyone seen this and does anyone think this is based on events about to happen? Was thinking of renting it if I can find it
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In the film "White Squall" the maritime hearing (final scene) to investigate the shipwreck of the Albatross takes place on October 1, 1961.
In the film, on the day before the hearing, the surviving boys are discussing what had happened, and one of the boys is reading a newspaper with a front page headline about the hearing and that newspaper is dated 30 September 1961.
An oddity, the actual article under the headline is discusses Robert McNamara's memoir, In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam (1995), which had just been released. The film was released in February of 1996, which put principle filming in 1995 when the book was released and the article was written (byline Lolita Huckaby). The headline and name of the newspaper were mocked up over the article (which has its own peculiarities... but that's for another day).