Filmmaker Oliver Stone called on Congress to reopen an investigation into the assassination of former President John F. Kennedy during a novel House hearing Tuesday, which featured witnesses who cast doubt on whether Lee Harvey Oswald was responsible.
“I ask the Committee to reopen what the Warren Commission failed miserably to complete. I ask you in good faith … to reinvestigate the assassination of President Kennedy from the scene of the crime to the courtroom,” Stone, filmmaker of the 1991 movie JFK, told a House Oversight subcommittee examining newly declassified government documents on JFK’s death.
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Stone’s film helped expedite the 1992 JFK Records Act, which mandated the National Archives and Records Administration to collect all government records related to the assassination. His film reignited public skepticism of a government cover-up on details of the president’s death and whether the CIA may have played a role.
The committee’s Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets is chaired by Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) to push for government declassification. However, Stone called on Congress to do more with the information. This came five decades after the Warren Commission concluded Oswald acted alone when he shot JFK on Nov. 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas, while traveling in his presidential motorcade.
Stone called on Congress to subpoena NBC, saying the network would have the original film of the 1963 assassination. Luna said the task force plans to send a letter to request the film.
Witness Jefferson Morley, a journalist and author who has written on the CIA and JFK assassination, repeatedly said he did not come here to discuss partisan politics over the matters that unfolded while also noting he is a Democrat.
“Oswald was not the intellectual author of Kennedy’s death, even if he fired a gun that day,” Morley said.
When asked who was responsible, Morley said, “Kennedy’s enemies high in his own government,” noting it was “probably” the CIA and the Pentagon.
The hearing was held after President Donald Trump declassified thousands of pages of the JFK assassination files earlier this year through an executive order.
The files contained Social Security numbers of previous government employees, some of who are still alive, raising concerns over the privacy breach in the release. Democrats argued that the information was not declassified correctly.
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However, Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) said Americans deserve transparency.
“I’m not scared of the deep state,” Mace wrote on X. “I am going to keep exposing their corruption alongside @POTUS because this nation deserves better than their cover-ups.”