The Ressurection of Oliver Stone

A Congressional Oversight Committee Follows Stone into the JFK Conspiracy Abyss

Oliver Stone is a very talented film maker. He is also a terrible historian. I have often said, only partly in jest, that the only thing he got right in his 1991 JFK was the date on which Kennedy was killed.

Stone used as the narrative spine of his film the discredited and byzantine conspiracy theories of Jim Garrison, the late New Orleans District Attorney. I wrote about the Garrison fiasco in “Black is White, and White is Black,” chapter 18 of Case Closed. The utter fraud of the Garrison probe has been explored subsequently in excellent books (Patricia Lambert’s False Witness and Fred Litwin’s On the Trail of Delusion).

I thought that Stone had been relegated to the trash heap of history when it came to the JFK assassination.

I was mistaken. Last week in Skeptic magazine’s newsletter, I wrote “How MAGA is Reviving JFK Conspiracies for Political Theater.” My criticism was d…