Oliver Stone & Abby Martin: Down the JFK Rabbit Hole

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🗓️ 7 March 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone joins Abby to discuss his new film JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass, his journey into the case, the evidence of a CIA-orchestrated assassination and American foreign policy. Joint production with Aaron Good's 'American Exception' podcast: https://www.patreon.com/americanexcep... Get EXCLUSIVE Empire Files content, and keep us independent and ad-free, at https://www.patreon.com/empirefiles FOLLOW // https://twitter.com/EmpireFiles // https://twitter.com/AbbyMartin LIKE // https://www.facebook.com/TheEmpireFiles MERCH // https://empirefiles.store

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0:00.0	Oliver Stone is one of the most acclaimed filmmakers of our generation.
0:05.0	In 1991, Stone released the cinematic feature JFK,
0:10.0	which dismantled the government's official story of the Kennedy assassination.
0:15.0	The enormous public reception led to a major piece of legislation,
0:19.0	the JFK Records Act of 1993.
0:22.4	Through the release of these files, researchers have been able to piece together more of the story,
0:28.1	which only raises more questions.
0:30.7	This is the subject of Oliver Stone and James D. Eugenio's new documentary film,
0:35.6	called JFK Revisited Through the Looking Glass.
0:40.3	The flash apparently official President Kennedy died some 38 minutes ago.
0:49.3	Here is a suspect.
0:50.3	24-year-old, Lee H. Oswald.
0:53.3	I'm just a taxi. Who actually fired the shots that killed Kennedy?
0:58.0	Was there a conspiracy?
1:00.0	I sat down with Oliver Stone to talk about his JFK films, the historical significance of the
1:08.0	JFK assassination and American foreign policy today.
1:12.1	This episode was filmed for a special joint production with Aaron Good's American Exception podcast.
1:20.0	Oliver, thank you so much for sitting down with me today.
1:22.7	Well, it's an honor too for me.
1:25.1	Your entire filmmaking career has always hit on extremely important political issues.
1:30.3	You've chosen to do two films about the JFK assassination.
1:34.3	Why does JFK have the same political importance as these other topics?
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