Oliver Stone Talks to Jacobin About JFK’s Killing
The famed director explains why he thinks the national security state, including the CIA and FBI, killed John F. Kennedy — not a lone shooter.
Illustration by John Karborn
Jacobin
Your film JFK predates the declassification of documents regarding the president’s death, but what were the big revelations since you made that film in 1991?
Oliver Stone
They declassified a lot of files; among them, we find clear evidence that John F. Kennedy wanted to withdraw from Vietnam, from the Pacific “SecDef” meetings in early May ’63.
We find out that Lee Harvey Oswald has the fingerprints of intelligence all over him for years. They’ve been reading his mother’s mail for three, four years. He’s an agent — or he’s some kind of contact for the CIA. And he’s protected. Because he comes back from Russia, nobody talks to him, nobody debriefs him. But he’s sent on various assignments, in New Orleans, Fort Worth, and Dallas, until he can be used.
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