Filmmaker Oliver Stone has called on the congress to fully re -management the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963 following the release of the Trump administration of the newly declassified JFK documents last month.
Stone, which directed the award -winning film of 1991 Jfkmade the remarks Tuesday while testing before the task force over the declassification of federal secrets in the House of Representatives.
He argued that efforts in the past like the Warren Commission did not do their job properly in 1964
“Unfortunately, reopening what the Warren Commission failed to complete,” Stone said. “I ask you too good faith, beyond all political consideration, to re -management the assassination of this President Kennedy.”
Stone demanded the commission, created by Kennedy’s successor Lyndon Johnson and chaired by the then head of the High Court Earl Warren, “we got to the second basis, with many unknowns.”
The 1964 attempt concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone to shoot the president and not involved in any conspiracy, a finding that has since been fiercely debated.
The director on Tuesday argued that there were contradictions and new facts that should be disclosed on issues such as Kennedy’s autopsy and the chain of conservation around Oswald, a 24-year-old former marine, who killed Jack Club Ruby, the owner of the nightclub, two days after his arrest.
Elsewhere in the trial, JFK researcher and former Washington Post Reporter Jefferson Morley said the release of the Trump administration of the documents, which did not contain about two-thirds of the retained documents that researchers hoped, would be made public, and nevertheless contained “disturbing new revelations” that top officers at the Central Intelligence Agency “were punishable or accomplished” in Kennedy’s death.
“I didn’t start with a conspiracy theory and I didn’t look for a smoke gun,” Morley testified. “I started with an open mind and searched for a fact pattern.”
Documents show that officials, including CIA’s then-director Richard Helms, counter-intelligence chief James Angleton, and Miami officer George Joannides, investigators, investigated on the extent of the agency’s awareness and contact with Oswald in the run-up to the murder.
“Three false statements by Top CIA officials about Kennedy’s accused killer. It’s a pattern,” Morley said. “It’s a pattern of misconduct. It is a pattern of malice. ‘
He called on the CIA to release Joannides’ full staff file, and asked the Congress Committee to ask the intelligence agency why it would “lie to the JFK investigators.”
The independent contacted the CIA for comment.
The Government has investigated the JFK Survival and Records around the murder several times, including the Warren Commission, the House Select Committee on Sapturs in the Late 1970s, and the Judgment Board of the assassination records in the 1990s.
