Lauren Boebert Thinks She’s Speaking to Roger Stone as She Asks Oliver Stone Wild Question About LBJ Killing JFK
Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) confused filmmaker Oliver Stone with Trump ally and election conspiracy theorist Roger Stone during a House hearing on Tuesday into the recent release of the JFK assassination files.
“Mr. Stone, you wrote a book accusing LBJ of being involved in the killing of President Kennedy. Did these most recent releases confirm or negate your initial charge of him being involved in the assassination of President Kennedy?” asked the Colorado Republican.
“No, I didn’t. No, no, I didn’t,” replied a confused Stone, as Boebert said, “Yes, sir.” Stone added:
If you look closely at the film, there’s no… It accuses the President Johnson of being part of a complicit in a cover-up of the case, but not in the assassination itself, which I don’t know.
“What do you think that he was complicit with?” Boebert followed up as independent journalist Jefferson Morley tried to clarify.
“Yes, sir, I’ll get to you,” Boebert told Morley.
Stone answered the question, saying, “To cover up, well, how about, for starters, appointing Alan Dulles, the head of the CIA, who was fired by Kennedy, to the commission itself, to the Warren Commission, and he goes to almost every meeting and he’s pretty much in charge of the Warren commission from the beginning, Alan Dulles. That’s part of the evidence that points to President Johnson’s either incompetence or involvement.”
“Mr. Morley, I think you had something to add on that,” Bobert asked.
“I think you’re confusing Mr. Oliver Stone with Mr. Roger Stone,” Morley explained, referring to Roger Stone’s 2013 book titled, “The Man Who Killed Kennedy: The Case Against LBJ.”
“It’s Roger Stone who implicated LBJ in the assassination of the president. It’s not my friend Oliver Stone,” Morley added.
“Is that what all the whispers were there? I may have misinterpreted that, and I apologize for that,” Boebert replied, noting the error.
Oliver Stone, the filmmaker behind movies like “Nixon” and “JFK,” appealed to the committee in his opening statement for Congress to reinvestigate the assassination.
“I ask the committee to reopen what the Warren Commission failed miserably to complete. I ask you in good faith outside all political considerations to reinvestigate the assassination of this President Kennedy from the scene of the crime to the courtroom, which means, which never happened, but which means the chain of custody on the rifle, the bullets, the fingerprints, the autopsy that defies belief and that if it were a murder, we’d have given to the poorest man dying in a gutter. Let us reinvestigate the fingerprints of intelligence all over Lee Harvey Oswald from 1959 to 1960, his violent death in 1963. And most importantly, this CIA, whose muddy footprints are all over this case, a true interrogation,” Stone said.
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