Oliver Stone

Rip Van Winkle. I woke up after thirty years and here I am again, same thing basically. Frankly, my interpretation is that they never absorbed the facts of the Warren Commission. There are numerous things the Warren Commission said — we’re talking about a thousand different things. There are lots of different clues out there, they’re in different places. It takes a computer or a Sherlock Holmes to bring all those facts into one space. If that were done, by a language model for a gigantic computer to put all this together, then people could understand.

First, the lack of original evidence — the chain of custody was broken on rifles and bullets. Meaning, from the beginning there is no case. I added [in the 2021 documentary JFK Revisited] the three women who didn’t see Oswald [in the Texas School Book Depository Building from which he supposedly fired shots at President Kennedy], as well as the fingerprints of intelligence all over Oswald for so many years. It’s very disturbing to anybody who’s sane, who follows these things and knows how the government works. Why do you turn over Oswald’s 201 File [an Official Military Personnel File] to [CIA Counterintelligence Chief James Jesus] Angleton, and he sits on it forever? You tell me.

I think the most interesting piece of testimony I gave was actually anecdotal. At the end I mentioned the Angleton story, he was quoted as saying — he was a Catholic and apparently had some kind of sense of guilt — he said he was there with all the founders [of the CIA], he knew them very well, [Allen] Dulles and [Richard] Helms. He said, “They were all going to meet up in hell again.”

That’s not evidence, but my god, that’s something you’ve got to pay attention to. You know, it is solvable. An intelligent person can bring it together and show all the holes in the case. First of all, you’ve got to start with the fact that you have not convicted Oswald of the murder. Who did the murder there? There is no murderer. There’s nobody on the sixth floor [of the Texas School Book Depository Building] to take the murder rap.