Rep. Lauren Boebert confused Hollywood filmmaker Oliver Stone for Trump consultant Roger Stone during a House hearing Tuesday on “the JFK Files.”
“You wrote a book accusing LBJ [President Lyndon B. Johnson] of being involved in the killing of President [John F.] Kennedy. Did these most recent releases confirm or negate your initial charge?” the Colorado Republican asked Oliver Stone, the writer and director of the 1991 film “JFK,” who was testifying before the Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets, an offshoot of the House Oversight Committee.
The acclaimed filmmaker looked confused, and began whispering with fellow witness Jefferson Morley, an author and independent journalist.
“No, I didn’t,” Stone eventually responded.
“Yes, sir,” Boebert interjected.
“If you look closely at the film, there’s no — it accuses President Johnson of being part of a complicit in a cover-up of the case, but not in the assassination itself, which I don’t know,” Stone said.
“I think you’re confusing Mr. Oliver Stone with Mr. Roger Stone,” Morley chimed in after some back and forth between Boebert and Stone.
“I may have misstated it, yeah. Sorry,” Boebert said.
“It’s Roger Stone who implicated LBJ in the assassination of the president. It’s not my friend Oliver Stone,” Morley added.
“I may have misinterpreted that, and I apologize for that,” Boebert replied.
“But there seems to be some alluding of, like you said, incompetence or some sort of involvement there on the backend,” Boebert tried to continue, to no response.
“Sorry, I’m going to move on,” she acquiesced.
