By Katherine Tinsley
1:52am PDT, Apr 3, 2025
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Oliver Stone, who directed the 1991 thriller JFK, spoke to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee's Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets on Tuesday, April 1, to push for a reinvestigation into John F. Kennedy's assassination.
"You wrote a book accusing [Lyndon B. Johnson] of being involved in the killing of President Kennedy. Do these most recent releases confirm or negate your initial charge?" Lauren Boebert asked, referencing recently declassified Kennedy documents.
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Oliver Stone quickly corrected Lauren Boebert.
"No, I didn't," he fired back. "If you look closely at the film, there's no — it accuses President [Lyndon B. Johnson] of being part of — complicit in a cover-up of the case, but not in the assassination itself, which I don't know."
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John F. Kennedy expert Jefferson Morley realized Lauren Boebert thought she was speaking to one of Donald Trump's former political allies and not to an Oscar-winning film director.
"I think you're confusing Mr. Oliver Stone with Mr. Roger Stone. It's Roger Stone who implicated [Lyndon B. Johnson] in the assassination of the president. It's not my friend Oliver Stone," Morley corrected the Republican politician.
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Lauren Boebert acknowledged her embarrassing mistake but doubled down on her point.
"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 said. "Sorry, I'm going to move on."
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X users advocated for Colorado voters to elect someone new after seeing Lauren Boebert's blunder.
"Why does Colorado keep electing this clueless person to represent them," one person wrote.
"Lauren Boebert, embarrassing Colorado one statement at a time," another said.
