An incredible puff piece which included this:
I haven’t gone down the rabbit hole on JFK’s assassination, but friends who have will tell me: The conspiracies are fun, but at the end of the day, it’s just a lone gunman. They often cite Vincent Bugliosi’s book. What are your thoughts on Reclaiming History?
It’s ridiculous. It’s like citing Gerald Posner’s book [Case Closed]. The best refutation is from Jim DiEugenio, who went into Bugliosi’s book detail by detail [Reclaiming Parkland]. It’s sad that people don’t bother to read the rebuttals.
I went back to all this material in 2021 with the documentary JFK Revisited. It’s very clear that Oswald was known to the CIA. I don’t want to get into all the arguments here, but that documentary is worth seeing.
Of course, Oliver Stone does not want to "get into all the arguments" because he not capable of defending his position.
At the JFK event at the Texas Theater, Oliver Stone was interviewed by Matt Zoller Seitz, who was the author of The Oliver Stone Experience.
You can see the interview here:
It's a horrible mess and Seitz just fawns all over Stone.
This stood out: (9:20)
Oliver Stone: And we, and I made another film called JFK Revisited about three years ago, was it? Four years ago? For those of you who are interested see it, because we did two versions, a two-hour and a four-hour version. But in there we go into much more detail, and we update the information that we have, which is very important, because there was quite a lot more evidence now, of the Oswald connection to the CIA, there's more evidence on the autopsies, more doctors, more people talked over time. We found out a lot, and it's all in that documentary, which I hope you can see. It's been a lifetime journey on this. I didn't realize I get hooked by it, but yeah, I feel very strongly that Garrison was correct. He was on the right trail.
Oliver Stone: I also put the argument in, and I hope it got through that Garrison had a weak case, and that was ... it was very evident he didn't, he didn't really have the evidence on Shaw, but Shaw was lying, and he did have a record, and he was ... the more we know about Shaw ... certainly, there's a New Orleans branch. There's a Dallas branch to this, and there's a Miami branch, which was the Cuban operation. I don't know how it all came together, but my sense is that it comes from the highest level. It had to, because even Alan Dulles and James Angleton, who were the two key guys at the CIA, could not go ahead without some approval, some agreement that Kennedy was dangerous to the whole structure of the United States, that a second term would be the most difficult period of all. He would really rock the boat, and he was already rocking it a little too much by the first withdrawal of 1,000 but so much more was going on, so much more. That's why you have to look at the new film.
Someone was giving orders to Allen Dulles and James Angleton? Tell me more, please.
Stone then goes after the Sixth Floor Museum: (32:57)
Oliver Stone: It [Dealey Plaza] should be a national monument and should be preserved. But there are people in this town who want to bury the past and cover it all up, so they put up a museum which pretends to pay homage to the truth, but we know is not accurate at all.
I don't have time to go into Stone's crazy geopolitical theories, but he once again claims that the world could be at peace if not for the United States.
As for a question I wish that Seitz would have asked, well, have a look at page 457 from the Oliver Stone Experience.
Might Seitz have followed up about this ridiculous story? And does Stone still find this story credible? What does this say about Stone's intuition about evaluating evidence?
Perhaps Seitz forgot what was in his own book. What a missed opportunity.
Of course, Jefferson Morley thinks Seitz is 'fair to Oliver':
Previous Relevant Blog Posts on Oliver Stone's JFK
Stone was interested in the White story.
A very good opinion piece published in the Washington Post.
An important article from The Atlantic by Edward Jay Epstein on Oliver Stone's JFK.
Wrone was a friend of Harold Weisberg's and was also very critical of JFK.
More inane comments on the JFK assassination.
An excerpt from an interview with Chris Wallace.
A good opinion piece from the Boston Globe.
Two letters from Weisberg to Stone.
A good review of Stone's JFK.
Two JFK researchers watch Stone's JFK.
An interesting look back.
Wicker reviews JFK for the New York Times and Weisberg responds.
Even this counterculture newspaper knew the truth about JFK.
David Lifton gave me permission to post this letter.
The Deputy Chief Counsel of the HSCA offers up some opinions.
Garrison instructed Tommy Lee Jones on how to play Clay Shaw.
The Advocate writes about Oliver Stone and Jim Garrison.
This post has a large Robert Sam Anson article on the film JFK from Esquire magazine.
Pershing Gervais, Garrison's first chief investigator, and reporter Rosemary James report back on the film JFK.
Lardner writes a memo to his editors about Oliver Stone.