American filmmaker Oliver Stone said Tuesday that the assassination of former President John F. Kennedy is “a cold case with a lot of clues” after he testified before Congress earlier in the day.
“Let's start with what happened today, and what do you think the significance of the hearing was, and where we are in terms of the transparency we should get on the issue of what happened to JFK?” NewsNation’s Chris Cuomo asked on his show, referencing the Tuesday hearing regarding the release of new documents related to the assassination of Kennedy.
“Well, we’re working on it,” Stone, who directed the political thriller film titled “JFK,” replied. “I was here in 1992 in one of these hearing rooms, going over this material and trying to explain the film.”
“And I’m back 30 years later … And, you know, the point is you got to sometimes stick to something, you got to build up the case. It’s a cold case with a lot of clues,” the Academy Award winner added.
Last month, the National Archives released close to 2,200 files connected to Kennedy’s assassination. The release of the files came after President Trump vowed on the campaign trail and in office to make the remaining documents publicly available.
Trump signed an executive order at the beginning of his second term to release the remaining documents from the federal government about Kennedy, former Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassinations.
“We don’t have what they call a smoking gun that is going to make everybody sensationally happy,” Stone said of former President Kennedy’s assassination Tuesday. “That doesn’t exist, it doesn’t exist in real life for the most part. You need to work at this thing.”
