Oliver Stone calls on Congress to reopen JFK assassination investigation

Filmmaker Oliver Stone called for Congress to reopen the investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, based on more and more evidence that support the theories that the CIA was actually involved in the heinous act, more than six decades after the 1963 killing that shook the nation.

Stone, who raised the theories in his 1991 movie JFK, testified before a House Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets hearing on the release of recently declassified records of the investigation.

In March, the U.S. government released more than 2000 documents totalling approximately 80,000 pages on the JFK assassination investigation.

“I ask the committee to reopen what the Warren Commission failed miserably to complete. 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,” he said in his opening remarks.

Stone took aim at the Central Intelligence Agency. “Let us reinvestigate the fingerprints of intelligence all over Lee Harvey Oswald from 1959 to 1960 his violent death in 1963 and most importantly this CIA, whose muddy footprints are all over,” he said.

Stone’s film focused on the work of New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison, who conducted an independent investigation of the assassination, resulting in his failed prosecution of New Orleans businessman Clay Shaw, who Garrison alleged was involved in a CIA plan to kill the president.

The film was a commercial and critical success, grossing $205 million and winning two Academy Awards.

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April 5, 2025