Lauren Boebert confuses Oliver Stone with Trump ally Roger Stone at JFK hearing: Watch
Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) confused director Oliver Stone with longtime Donald Trump adviser Roger Stone at a hearing about former President John F. Kennedy's death.
During a hearing before Rep. Anna Paulina Luna's (R-FL) task force on the declassification of federal secrets, Boebert claimed that Oliver Stone wrote a book that accused former President Lyndon B. Johnson of killing Kennedy.
"Mr. Stone, you wrote a book accusing LBJ of being involved in the killing of President Kennedy," Boebert told the filmmaker, who appeared as a witness at the hearing. "Did these most recent releases confirm or negate your initial charge?"
"Being involved in the assassination of President Kennedy?" a confused Oliver Stone replied. "No, I didn't."
"If you look closely at the film, it accuses President Johnson of being part of a complicit and a cover-up of the case, but not in the assassination itself, which I don't know," he added.
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Independent journalist and author Jefferson Morley attempted to clarify the situation.
"I think you're confusing Mr. Oliver Stone with Mr. Roger Stone," Morley told Boebert. "It's Roger Stone who implicated LBJ in the assassination of the president. It's not my friend Oliver Stone."
"I may have misinterpreted that, and I apologize for that," Boebert admitted.