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02-04-2025
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WATCH: Lauren Boebert Suffers Embarrassing Mix-Up During House Hearing
Lauren Boebert faced an embarrassing moment during a House hearing Tuesday when it became clear she had confused filmmaker Oliver Stone with the longtime Republican strategist Roger Stone. Oliver Stone—the director of JFK, a political thriller about President John F. Kennedy's assassination—was testifying to the House's Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets about newly released assassination records, when Boebert asked a perplexing question. 'Mr. Stone, you wrote a book accusing LBJ of being involved in the killing of President Kennedy. Do these most recent releases confirm or negate your initial charge?' the Colorado congresswoman asked. Stone, appearing confused, turned to another witness at the hearing, author Jefferson Morley, before telling Boebert, 'No I didn't,' explaining that his film implicated President Lyndon B. Johnson in a potential coverup of the case, but not in the assassination itself. Morley, an independent journalist who has written extensively on the subject, then delivered a brutal fact check. 'I think you're confusing Mr. Oliver Stone with Mr. Roger Stone,' he said, referring to President Donald Trump's former political strategiest and a self-described 'dirty trickster.' A clearly flustered Boebert replied, 'I may have misstated it, yeah,' before adding, 'Sorry.' 'It's Roger Stone who implicated LBJ in the assassination of the president, it's not my friend Oliver Stone,' Morley repeated as Boebert apologized again. Roger Stone indeed released The Man Who Killed Kennedy: The Case Against LBJ in 2013, accusing Johnson of orchestrating Kennedy's assassination in 1963. Oliver Stone, on the other hand, is an Oscar-winning filmmaker. He too has dabbled in conspiratorial works, portraying Kennedy's assassination as a CIA conspiracy in 1991's JFK, which was nominated for eight Oscars, winning two. At the hearing, he called for Congress to reopen the investigation, and disparaged the CIA as an agency that 'arrogantly believes it is outside our laws.' 'Can we return to a world where we can trust our government to level with us, the people for which this government exists?' Stone said. 'This is our democracy. This is our presidency. It belongs to us.' The hearing comes after Trump ordered thousands of government documents related to Kennedy's assassination to be released in March. In the thousands of pages of documents, however, scholars have not found new evidence refuting the Warren Commission's conclusion that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone when he shot the president in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963.
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02-04-2025
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Lauren Boebert Confuses Oliver Stone for Roger Stone at JFK Files Hearing
Lauren Boebert had an embarrassing flub on the House floor Tuesday while questioning director Oliver Stone during a House Oversight Committee hearing on the JFK files released last month. Her first misstep? Mistaking the famed director behind 1991's Kevin Costner vehicle, 'JFK,' for Trump ally and 'The Man Who Killed Kennedy: The Case Against LBJ' author Roger Stone. 'Mr. Stone, you wrote a book accusing LBJ of being involved in the killing of President Kennedy,' Boebert questioned, a clip of which you can watch below. 'Do these most recent releases confirm or negate your initial charge?' Oliver Stone, looking visibly confused, then turned to journalist and author Jefferson Morley, who also sat on the hearing panel. Whispers ensued until Stone responded, decidedly: 'No I didn't.' The filmmaker then spoke about the piece of Kennedy-related media he did create, 'JFK.' 'If you look closely at the film, there's no — it accuses President Johnson of being in part complicit in a cover-up of the case, but not in the assassination itself, which I don't know.' 'What do you think he was complicit in?' Boebert asked, before addressing Morley, who apparently tried to interrupt to correct the mistake. 'Yes sir, I'll get to you,' she responded. 'The cover-up, well, how about for starters appointing Allen 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, Allen Dulles. That's part of the evidence that points to President Johnson's either incompetence or involvement,' Stone answered, humoring the congresswoman's line of questioning. 'Mr. Morley, I think you had something to add on that?' Boebert then asked. 'I think you're confusing Mr. Oliver Stone with Mr. Roger Stone,' he journalist said over the congresswoman dismissing the mistake: 'I may have made a misstated it, yeah. Sorry.' 'It's Roger Stone who implicated LBJ in the assassination of the president, it's not my friend Oliver Stone,' Morley said. 'Is that what all the whispers were there?' Boebert asked. 'I may have, I may have misinterpreted that and I apologize for that.' Watch the full exchange below: The 1991 political conspiracy thriller 'JFK' grossed over $200 million in theaters and was nominated for eight Oscars, including best picture, and won two. Stone was nominated for Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay. On March 18, President Donald Trump made thousands of classified documents related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy public. The post Lauren Boebert Confuses Oliver Stone for Roger Stone at JFK Files Hearing | Video appeared first on TheWrap.
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01-04-2025
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Boebert appears to confuse Oliver Stone with Roger Stone during JFK records hearing
Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) appeared to confuse Oliver Stone, an American filmmaker and a witness before House lawmakers on Tuesday, with political strategist Roger Stone during a hearing on the release of new documents related to the assassination of John F. Kennedy. 'You wrote a book accusing LBJ of being involved in the killing of President Kennedy. Do these most recent releases confirm or negate your initial charge?' Boebert asked. 'No, I didn't,' Oliver Stone said. 'If you look closely at the film, there's no — it accuses the President Johnson of part, being part of, complicit in a cover-up of the case, but not in the assassination itself, which I don't know.' Jefferson Morley, editor of the JFK Facts blog and another witness before the House task force, stepped in to suggest that Boebert had mistaken the witness. 'I think you're confusing Mr. Oliver Stone with Mr. Roger Stone. It's Roger Stone who implicated LBJ in the assassination of the president. It's not my friend Oliver Stone,' Morley corrected the Colorado Republican. 'I may have misinterpreted that and I apologize for that. But there seems to be some alluding of, like you said, incompetence or some sort of involvement there on the back end,' Boebert responded. 'Sorry, I'm going to move on.' Roger Stone, a longtime political operative and Trump ally, authored the 2013 book 'The Man Who Killed Kennedy: The Case Against LBJ.' Oliver Stone, a director, worked on the controversial 1991 political thriller 'JFK,' which stoked conspiracy questions surrounding Kennedy's death. Oliver Stone was speaking on Tuesday before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee's Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets, in an inaugural hearing related to the so-called JFK files that comes a few weeks after the National Archives last month released more than 2,000 files related to the Kennedy assassination. The move followed an executive order from President Trump. Experts have said the latest release does not contradict the Warren Commission's conclusion that Lee Harvey Oswald was the lone gunman in the assassination. But multiple witnesses on Tuesday raised questions about the investigations and long-held conclusions about the case. 'I ask the committee to reopen what the Warren Commission failed miserably to complete. I ask you … to reinvestigate the assassination of this President Kennedy from the scene of the crime to the courtroom,' Oliver Stone told lawmakers in his opening statement, contending that the CIA's 'muddy footprints are all over this case.' Task force Chair Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) said in a release announcing the hearing that lawmakers 'will get to the bottom of this mystery.' Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
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01-04-2025
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Lauren Boebert Mistakes Oliver Stone For Roger Stone At JFK Hearing
Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) ended up with egg on her face Tuesday during a hearing where she confused film director Oliver Stone with GOP operative and adviser Roger Stone. During a hearing about the recently released files regarding the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Boebert asked the director for his thoughts on the recent document dump. But while Oliver Stone laid out his own JFK assassination theory in his 1991 film 'JFK,' Boebert was apparently unaware of this. Instead, she asked him about a book she claimed he wrote about the assassination and President Lyndon B. Johnson. 'Mr. Stone, you wrote a book accusing LBJ of being involved in the killing of President Kennedy,' Boebert asked the director. 'Did these most recent releases confirm or negate your initial charge?' Stone was understandably confused by the question. 'Being involved in the assassination of President Kennedy? No, I didn't,' he said, before discussing his film. 'If you look closely at the film, it accuses President Johnson of being part of a complicit and a cover-up of the case, but not in the assassination itself, which I don't know,' Stone explained. Jefferson Morley, a journalist and author who was sitting next to the director, realized what had happened and quickly clarified the situation to the congresswoman. He suggested that Boebert had confused Oliver Stone, the director who she was speaking to on Tuesday, with Roger Stone, the GOP dirty trickster and author of the 2013 book, 'The Man Who Killed Kennedy: The Case Against LBJ.' 'I think you're confusing Mr. Oliver Stone with Mr. Roger Stone,' Morley told Boebert. 'It's Roger Stone who implicated LBJ in the assassination of the president. It's not my friend Oliver Stone.' Boebert's response was a bit out of character for a Republican politician: She actually admitted being incorrect. 'I may have misinterpreted that, and I apologize for that,' Boebert said. Not surprisingly, Boebert was mocked for the mistake. Unredacted JFK Assassination Files Released, Sending History Buffs Hunting For New Clues Trump Signs Order Declassifying JFK, RFK, MLK Jr. Assassination Documents JFK's Grandson Reacts To Donald Trump's Planned Release Of Assassination Files
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01-04-2025
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Oliver Stone, Testifying Before Congress, Is Confused for Roger Stone by GOP Rep. Lauren Boebert
Filmmaker Oliver Stone found himself confused with another man named Stone, who is also associated with the world of U.S. politics, while testifying before Congress about the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Stone, the director behind the controversial 1991 political thriller JFK, was appearing before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee's Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets on Tuesday to advocate for the reinvestigation of the assassination of President Kennedy. The annual meeting comes weeks after the National Archives released over 2,000 files related to the Kennedy assassination. More from The Hollywood Reporter Kid Rock Says Meeting He Brokered With President Trump and Bill Maher 'Could Not Have Been Better' Amber Ruffin Responds to Being Dropped from White House Correspondents' Dinner: "I Would Have Been So Terrifically Mean" White House Correspondents' Association Cancels Amber Ruffin Performance at Annual Gala Dinner But the lauded filmmaker was likely stumped when Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert asked him a question about a book he didn't write. 'You wrote a book accusing LBJ of being involved in the killing of President Kennedy. Do these most recent releases confirm or negate your initial charge?' Boebert asked, referring to the declassified Kennedy documents. 'No, I didn't,' Stone replied. 'If you look closely at the film, there's no — it accuses President Johnson of being part of — complicit in a cover-up of the case, but not in the assassination itself, which I don't know.' That's when Jefferson Morley, a JFK expert who was seated with Stone, chimed in with his expertise to see that the record was corrected. 'I think you're confusing Mr. Oliver Stone with Mr. Roger Stone. It's Roger Stone who implicated LBJ in the assassination of the president. It's not my friend Oliver Stone,' Morley corrected the Colorado Republican. A flummoxed Boebert seemed to realize she'd lost the thread and quickly apologized. 'I may have misinterpreted that and I apologize for that. But there seems to be some alluding of, like you said, incompetence or some sort of involvement there on the back end,' she replied. 'Sorry, I'm going to move on.' Roger Stone, a fixture in Washington, D.C. for decades, wrote a book in 2013 called The Man Who Killed Kennedy: The Case Against LBJ. Best of The Hollywood Reporter Most Anticipated Concert Tours of 2025: Beyoncé, Billie Eilish, Kendrick Lamar & SZA, Sabrina Carpenter and More Hollywood's Highest-Profile Harris Endorsements: Taylor Swift, George Clooney, Bruce Springsteen and More Most Anticipated Concert Tours of 2024: Taylor Swift, Bad Bunny, Olivia Rodrigo and More
