Did the CIA kill JFK? Oliver Stone on his explosive new film

Red Lines host Anya Parampil speaks with award-winning filmmaker and screenwriter Oliver Stone about his new film "JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass," which was recently released on SHOWTIME. Stone explores misconceptions regarding JFK's legacy and discusses why he believes the US government refuses declassify documents related to the assassination even 58 years since it took place.

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[capslock]

During the sixties, the CIA had more hits than the Beatles.

[peterstone]

"The rights of all men are diminished, when the rights of one man, are threatened!" ¬JFK #FREEJULIANASSANGE

[LetsGoGetThem]

Oliver Stone could have cruised easily, being another of the mid 20th century directors like George Lucas and Spielberg, enshrined in that hall with great wealth. He chose the other direction, and he is alone on that. Full respect.

[tiggtiggs]

"The American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it" - George Carlin.

[gbossaboy]

At least some of us old enough to remember JFK's assassination came to some rather sober realizations at an early age about the complete criminality of our system.

[watershedbarbie]

"Let them see what they have done." Jackie Kennedy, upon refusing to change out of her blood stained suit after the murder.

[sandite]

Every American needs to see this film. As well as Stone's "The Untold History of the United States" documentary series."

[RobinByron]

Anya is a superb journalist and always very well prepared to interview her guests. Good to see her on Grayzone.

[CinCee-]

Stone is the best documentarian of all time

[guymerritt]

Funny - today is Thanksgiving and this came up. Strange, sometimes, how life works, . On Thanksgiving 1978 I had dinner at a ranch in Maryland...my female boss's father's home. He was a Special Agent of the FBI and friends with Hoover (that's what his daughter had told me, bragging). Over drinks, in the guy's den, I asked him what he thought really happened to JFK. I was 26 and just curious as to his take on the whole thing. The guy's face turned red and he lapsed into something of a tirade - called JFK a "fucking whore monger" and a "god damned communist" - said JFK and RFK "got what they deserved". It was a super angry rant. It's like that happened yesterday - never forgot that guy's hatred and anger, his words, etc. I'd never heard anything this hateful directed at JFK - it really caught me off guard and was pretty shocking. I dropped that subject, fast. Believe me, there were people in the US government that wanted ALL of the Kennedy's dead. The Kennedy's were not dead enough for this guy, believe me. If anyone thinks elements of the US government couldn't have been involved, they're nuts.

[nedludd]

Don't overlook Eisenhower, he was a warrior who sounded the alarm at least twice. Everyone knows about his farewell address, but few know about an address at the beginning of his first term where he explained military spending in terms of schools not being built, hospitals not being built, etc. It was known as "The Cross Of Iron Speech". He knew about generals.

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." Who has said that since?

[RamMohammadJosephKaur]

Absolutely pathetic how the rollingstones website tries to discredit him with their latest article.
Thank you Grayzone for giving him a rightful spot to convey his perspective.

[itzenormous]

This is an issue that far more people on the Left should show an interest in, but SO many of us only wish to critique the empire within safe and acceptable boundaries, rather than use blatant state crimes such as the Malcolm X, JFK, RFK, and MLK assassinations to expose the criminal nature OF the state.

[theauspicious]

I remember hearing a WW2 veteran in a documentary who said: "When I came back from the war I voted for JFK and not Nixon because he had seen the war."

[jamescolyn]

JFK was undoubtedly an anti-imperialist -- courageously so. As early as 1954, when he was a young senator, he spoke out against US imperial tendencies and designs. He continue to do so at various times through the 1950s, culminating in the 1963 speech at American University, where he vowed not to pursue a path in which the militaristic US hegemon dominated the world with its war machinery.
A few months later, that courage got him killed.

[malcolmmarzo]

The day of the coup I was in high school. My ticket to the hell of Vietnam was made that day. Something I realized years later after learning that JFK's Vietnam withdrawal order was reversed by Lyndon Johnson a few days after his murder .

[thebigskyguy]

How can so many still believe the official narrative regarding 9-11?

[juslisen]

Anya is such a gem. Glad she has a forum to speak truth. <3

[tatatata]

Oliver Stone - a great man, a really honest man. Honesty is so hard to find in filmmakers or journalists these days.

[Danny-hjqg]

I watched it on Showtime. The background information on Lee Harvey Oswald was mind blowing. All of the medical/autopsy footage of JFK was also tough to get through, it honestly made me squeamish.