Small Theaters Make Free-Speech Pitch for ‘The Interview’

The Texas Theatre, a one-screen movie house with a full bar in Dallas’s Oak Cliff neighborhood, has left its mark on U.S. history before. It was inside the theater, on Nov. 22, 1963, that presumed killer Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested following the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy.

On Christmas Day of this year, the theater in north Texas is joining about 300 other small, niche theaters to make history of a different kind, and one also linked also to an assassination, though of the imaginary kind: It is going to show the movie “The Interview,” a comedy about the assassination of North Korea’s ruler, Kim Jong Un.