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(NewsNation) — Oscar-winning manager Oliver Stone tells NewsNation that investigating President John F. Kennedy's assassination requires persistence contempt the lack of a "smoking gun."
"You got to physique up the case. It's a acold lawsuit with a batch of clues," Stone said Tuesday connected NewsNation's "CUOMO" aft helium testified successful Congress earlier a task unit connected declassification of national secrets regarding the JFK files.
The hearing focused connected the continued withholding of cardinal documents related to the assassination contempt the Trump administration’s caller merchandise of 80,000 unredacted pages.
Stone urged Congress to reopen the investigation.
"I inquire the committee to reopen what the Warren Commission failed miserably to complete," Stone said during the hearing. "I inquire you, successful bully faith, extracurricular each governmental considerations, to reinvestigate the assassination of this President Kennedy from the country of the transgression to the courtroom."
Stone, who directed the 1991 movie "JFK" and the much caller 2021 documentary "JFK Revisited," appeared connected NewsNation alongside his accumulation spouse James DiEugenio, who has authored 4 books connected the assassination.
Information astir the assassinaion was "concealed due to the fact that they didn't privation to amusement the grounds that (presumed assassin Lee Harvey) Oswald could not person produced a changeable similar that," DiEugenio said.
The filmmakers besides questioned Oswald's movements instantly aft the shooting, citing grounds from women moving successful the Texas School Book Depository who saw colleagues unreserved downstairs wrong 40 seconds of the shooting.
"How the hellhole does helium get up of everybody and tally down, stash the rifle, tally down the stairs, bash everything and look successful the 2nd level luncheon country successful little than a infinitesimal and a half?" Stone asked.
DiEugenio called for implicit declassification of documents related to Oswald's activities successful Mexico City and New Orleans successful 1963, and urged the committee to interrogation surviving members of the Warren Commission, House Select Committee and Assassination Records Review Board.
