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Billboard Women in Music 2025 Oliver Stone called for the reopening of the investigation into the assassination of John F. Kennedy , as the director noted the impact that his 1991 movie JFK had on the release of records. “I ask the committee to reopen what the Warren Commission failed miserably to complete,” Stone told lawmakers as he testified before a House Oversight Committee task force.
“I ask you, in good faith, outside all political considerations, to reinvestigate the assassination of this President Kennedy from the scene of the crime to the courtroom, which never happened, but which means the chain of custody on the rifle, the bullets, the fingerprints, the autopsy that defies belief, and that if it were a murder, we’d have given the poorest man dying in the gutter. Let us reinvestigate the fingerprints of intelligence all over Lee Harvey Oswald from 1959 to his violent death in 1963. And most importantly, this CIA, whose muddy footprints are all over this case.
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S. Select Committee on Assassinations concluded in 1979 that Kennedy “was probably assassinated as a result of a conspiracy,” but the committee was unable to identify another gunman “or the extent of the conspiracy.” Stone noted that he testified in 1992 about his movie JFK .
He said that half of the lawmakers present “were wondering what all the fuss was about. It was just a movie. And the other half were responding to the cries of their constituents that demanded no more national security reasons preventing this from getting clarity on our president’s assassination.
” Congress then passed the JFK Records Act, which gave 25 years for the release of assassination records unless the president identified a potential hard to national security. Among other things, the most recent release of records last month gave new details of the CIA’s surveillance of Oswald when he was in Mexico..
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