Roger Stone and Oliver Stone don’t appear to have much in common, aside from their common surname, their status as white men in their 70s, their histories of defending Vladimir Putin to various degrees, and their belief in conspiracies involving the John F. Kennedy assassination. Roger Stone famously has a tattoo on his back of Richard Nixon; Oliver Stone directed a movie called Nixon.
However, aside from that, Roger Stone is a longtime political operative who has been long associated with the Republican Party and Donald Trump. At the same time, Oliver Stone is a filmmaker, primarily associated with the political left throughout his career. However, his politics have gotten a bit more unpredictable in his older age. However, while Roger Stone is a longtime disciple of Richard Nixon, Oliver Stone’s 1995 film was much more critical of that president.
Rep. Lauren Boebert, however, appears to have confused the two Stones.
Oliver Stone testified before Congress Tuesday about the JFK assassination, the recent disclosures about it, and his hope for Congress to once again investigate. Stone’s 1991 film, JFK, tells the story of New Orleans prosecutor Jim Garrison’s investigation of the assassination in the late 1960s and assembles a wide variety of conspiracy theories that aim suspicion at everyone from the Mafia to the CIA to a group of gay men in New Orleans who supposedly associated with Lee Harvey Oswald.
Morley: I think you’re confusing Roger Stone with Oliver Stone
Boebert: I may have misinterpreted that. I apologize pic.twitter.com/88qWWhUKkX
— Acyn (@Acyn) April 1, 2025
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During Stone’s testimony, Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) appeared to get confused about the Stones, asking Oliver Stone about a book he had supposedly authored alleging that Lyndon Johnson was involved in Kennedy’s assassination. Stone answered that while the film “accuses President Johnson of being part of a complicit and a cover-up,” it does not allege he was directly involved in the assassination. In the film, Garrison (Kevin Costner) says, “This was a military-style ambush from start to finish… a coup d’etat with Lyndon Johnson waiting in the wings.”
During the hearing, another witness, Jefferson Morley, appeared to realize what had happened: Boebert had gotten confused and believed that “The Man Who Killed Kennedy: The Case Against LBJ,” a 2013 book authored by Roger Stone, had, in fact,
“I may have misinterpreted that, and I apologize for that,” the Congresswoman said. In Boebert’s defense, she was only five years old when JFK was released.
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