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It wasn’t Lee Harvey Oswald: The movie ‘JFK’ and Oliver Stone’s conspiracy theory about who killed Kennedy
Many people actually don’t believe that Lee Harvey Oswald killed John F. Kennedy in 1963.
Oliver Stone is probably most famous for his film Platoon, a fascinating Vietnam war action thriller that documents the horrors of the southeast Asian conflict through the eyes of U.S. Army volunteer Chris Taylor.
It’s a harrowing portrayal of life in the war-torn nation in the late 60s, and one of modern film’s marvels. However, not all of his works have been so iconic for the right reason.
An upcoming documentary JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass, is set to hit Showtime on November 22 and it retells the story first theorised in the 30-year-old Oliver Stone project JFK, that claims the 35th President of the United States was killed by ‘the deep state’.
JFK film made by ‘a ’tinfoil-hatted fabricator'
Rolling Stone Magazine pulls no punches, calling Stone a “tinfoil-hatted fabricator" while the Washington Post labels the director a “dollar-store Leni Riefenstahl“, adding that JFK is "quite possibly the most deceitful film ever produced by a major Hollywood studio."
Both outlets explain that the people who believe that the CIA and the military-industrial complex‘s ’murdered' Kennedy are victims of a Russian propaganda effort to destabilise the country.
The argument from both Stone and JFK (the film) say that Allen Dulles, CIA director during this period who was fired by JFK after the failed Bay of Pigs incident, was the evil genius behind JFK’s (the President) death.
Stone himself told chief stirrer Joe Rogan on ‘Joe Rogan Experience’ podcast that “I think Dulles needs looking at more closely... it could have even been people in the Pentagon, too. A lot of strange things happened.”
The documentary also, rather ludicrously, adds that Dulles and the CIA backed a military coup aimed at assassinating President Charles de Gaulle of France. This was a lie published in Russian propaganda newsletter Pravda before making its way across the Atlantic to the U.S.
The film from Stone, it must be said, did lead to such a rumble that documents on the shooting are still being declassified until this day. However, despite the best efforts of those who wear satchel bags and would be better off standing at the traffic lights selling pencils from a paper cup, no new information has been uncovered by the declassification that suggests it was not lone wolf Lee Harvey Oswald who shot JFK.