The American director Oliver Stone, author of the film "John F. Kennedy: Dallas Shootings" has called on the US Congress to reopen the investigation into the assassination of the 35th US President John F. Kennedy.
“I ask the committee to resume what the special commission on the Kennedy assassination, led by then-Supreme Court Judge Earl Warren, failed to achieve”, he said during a hearing in the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on the release of declassified documents on the Kennedy assassination.
“I ask you to reinvestigate the assassination of President Kennedy in good faith, without any political considerations“, the director added.
In 1991, Oliver Stone directed the film “John F. Kennedy: Dallas Shootings”, which won a number of awards, including an Oscar. The film presents a conspiracy theory about the assassination of the American president, which caused an angry reaction in the press, but the film became popular with viewers. Against this background, in 1992, the US Congress passed a law that obliged the authorities to publish all secret documents about the assassination by 2017. However, some of the materials were not disclosed by that deadline for reasons of national security.
On March 18, in accordance with the executive order of US President Donald Trump dated January 23, the US National Archives and Records Administration published declassified materials on the case of the assassination of John F. Kennedy. To date, according to the agency, 99% of the approximately 5 million pages of the archive dedicated to this crime have been declassified.
Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas on November 22, 1963, while on a campaign trip to Texas. An official commission formed to investigate the crime concluded that the murder was the work of Lee Harvey Oswald, who acted alone and that there was no large-scale conspiracy. The shot, according to the commission's conclusion, was fired from the sixth floor of a textbook warehouse located in the city's central square. A rifle with an optical sight and spent cartridges were found there.