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Oliver Stone on the assassination of JFK

In the video above, Joe Rogan implies that he's an expert on the JFK assassination, though he doesn't seem to know that, among other things, Oswald couldn't have made all the shots with that gun in the time alleged, since it's known that the bolt-action rifle took 2.3 seconds to operate between shots.

The interview with Oliver Stone last week in the NY Times Magazine is a good example of why the mainstream media annoys on important issues. 

Even though he's a major American movie director, the Times finds it necessary to footnote his remarks and in effect fact-check him on the assassination.

Stone:

I’m still keeping my hand in with documentaries. I am working on two right now. One is on J.F.K. Since the film came out in 1991, there’s been quite a bit of new material revealed that people have basically ignored. It’s a hell of a story.

Stone is asked by the witless interviewer: "Tell me more about your JFK documentary. Is there a big revelation in it that you can share?...Does it turn out that the bullet went back and to the right?"

Interviewer David Marchese is on record as believing that Oswald alone killed Kennedy. The "question" above is his cutesy preemptive strike on Stone's credibility.

The Times footnote after Stone's response:

This is a reference to the finding that a single bullet fired by Lee Harvey Oswald caused multiple wounds to the president as well as to Gov. John Connally of Texas, who was riding in the same car as Kennedy.

And who made the implausible "finding" about the path of the bullet that's illustrated below? The Warren Commission:

The assassination of JFK: Case Not Closed

The same month President Kennedy is assassinated, President Johnson appointed the Warren Commission---all Republicans and Southern Democrats. No potentially skeptical liberals are included. 

But the commission did include Allen Dulles, who was fired by JFK as CIA director in 1961 after the Bay of Pigs fiasco!

After a cursory, pro-forma investigation, the commission presented its bogus findings in less than a year, in September, 1964. President Johnson wanted to have the whitewash done before the 1964 election.

Stone on his new documentary:

We can make fun, but let me give you some quick points about what is in the documentary: There’s no chain of custody on the magic bullet. There’s also no chain of custody on this damn rifle, the Mannlicher-Carcano, which Lee Harvey Oswald was accused of shooting. I don’t want to go into the details, but we can’t account for who was in possession of the bullets and the rifle at various times. It’s a mess. 

Then we got more detail than ever showing that there was a huge back-of-the-head wound in Kennedy, which clearly indicates a shot from the front. It's also clear that the autopsy from Bethesda, Md., was completely fraudulent. 

And there’s Vietnam. No historian can now honestly say that the Vietnam War was Kennedy’s That’s crucial. The last thing is the C.I.A. connection to Oswald. We have a stronger case, not only for post-Russia but also for pre-Russia. In other words, he was working with the C.I.A. before he went and when he came back. Those are the main points. I don’t want to criticize your paper, but if it was honest, it would be doing this work instead of just saying, “It’s all settled.”

One last stupid question from Marchese:

"But on some level you must know that we’ll never be able to tie up all the loose ends of the Kennedy assassination. So what do you want people to take away from your new work on this?"

Stone:

Those who are interested will find it’s pretty clear that J.F.K. was murdered by forces that were powerful in our government. We point the finger at a couple of individuals. But I don’t want to get into that here. Now, why do I have to do this? I’m doing the documentary for the record so that you can see for yourself what the evidence is. That’s all.

Marchese isn't really interested. He's already made up his mind. He was just hoping for a clickable response from Stone.

See also JFK was getting us out of Vietnam and The assassination of JFK: Case not closed.

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