Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) appeared to confuse Oliver Stone, an American filmmaker and a witness earlier than Home lawmakers on Tuesday, with political strategist Roger Stone throughout a listening to on the discharge of recent paperwork associated to the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
“You wrote a book accusing LBJ of being involved in the killing of President Kennedy. Do these most recent releases confirm or negate your initial charge?” Boebert requested.
“No, I didn’t,” Oliver Stone mentioned. “If you look closely at the film, there’s no — it accuses the President Johnson of part, being part of, complicit in a cover-up of the case, but not in the assassination itself, which I don’t know.”
Jefferson Morley, editor of the JFK Information weblog and one other witness earlier than the Home process pressure, stepped in to recommend that Boebert had mistaken the witness.
“I think you’re confusing Mr. Oliver Stone with Mr. Roger Stone. It’s Roger Stone who implicated LBJ in the assassination of the president. It’s not my friend Oliver Stone,” Morley corrected the Colorado Republican.
“I could have misinterpreted that and I apologize for that. However there appears to be some alluding of, such as you mentioned, incompetence or some type of involvement there on the again finish,” Boebert responded. “Sorry, I’ll transfer on.”
Roger Stone, a longtime political operative and Trump ally, authored the 2013 guide “The Man Who Killed Kennedy: The Case Against LBJ.” Oliver Stone, a director, labored on the controversial 1991 political thriller “JFK,” which stoked conspiracy questions surrounding Kennedy’s dying.
Oliver Stone was talking on Tuesday earlier than the Home Oversight and Authorities Reform Committee’s Activity Drive on the Declassification of Federal Secrets and techniques, in an inaugural listening to associated to the so-called JFK information that comes a couple of weeks after the Nationwide Archives final month launched greater than 2,000 information associated to the Kennedy assassination. The transfer adopted an government order from President Trump.
Consultants have mentioned the most recent launch doesn’t contradict the Warren Fee’s conclusion that Lee Harvey Oswald was the lone gunman within the assassination. However a number of witnesses on Tuesday raised questions concerning the investigations and long-held conclusions concerning the case.
“I ask the committee to reopen what the Warren Commission failed miserably to complete. I ask you … to reinvestigate the assassination of this President Kennedy from the scene of the crime to the courtroom,” Oliver Stone instructed lawmakers in his opening assertion, contending that the CIA’s “muddy footprints are all over this case.”
Activity pressure Chair Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) mentioned in a launch saying the listening to that lawmakers “will get to the bottom of this mystery.”
