Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone, whose 1991 film “JFK” portrayed the assassination of President John F. Kennedy as the result of a secret government conspiracy, is scheduled to testify to Congress on Tuesday about thousands of newly declassified government documents related to the incident.
Experts say there is nothing in the files, which were released on orders from President Donald Trump, to challenge the conclusion that Kennedy was killed by a lone gunman.
Many of the documents had already been made public, but they contained recently removed redactions, including Social Security numbers, prompting outrage among people whose personal information was exposed.
The first hearing of the House Select Panel on Declassification came fifty years after the Warren Commission investigation concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald, a 24-year-old ex-Marine, acted alone when he shot Kennedy as his motorcade completed its parade route in downtown Dallas on November 22, 1963.
Anna Paulina Luna of Florida, who leads the task force, said last month that she intends to work with the authors and researchers to help solve “one of the largest unsolved cases in U.S. history.”
Experts and historians do not consider the assassination unsolved, as they have compelling evidence to prove that Oswald acted alone.
Stone's JFK was nominated for eight Oscars, including Best Picture, and won two. It grossed over $200 million (£155 million) at the box office, but was also criticised for its authenticity.
The last formal congressional investigation into Kennedy's assassination ended in 1978, when a House committee issued a report finding that the Soviet Union, Cuba, organized crime, the CIA, and the FBI were not involved in the assassination, but that Kennedy “was probably killed as a result of a conspiracy.”
In 1976, a Senate committee said it found insufficient evidence “to establish a conspiracy.”
The Warren Commission, appointed by Kennedy's successor, President Lyndon B. Johnson, concluded that Oswald opened fire on Kennedy's motorcade from a sniper's position on the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository, where he worked.
Oswald was arrested by police within
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