Boebert appears to confuse Oliver Stone with Roger Stone during JFK records hearing

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) appeared to confuse Oliver Stone, an American filmmaker and a witness before House lawmakers on Tuesday, with political strategist Roger Stone during a hearing on the release of new documents related to the assassination of John F. Kennedy.

“You wrote a book accusing LBJ of being involved in the killing of President Kennedy. Do these most recent releases confirm or negate your initial charge?” Boebert asked.

“No, I didn’t,” Oliver Stone said. “If you look closely at the film, there’s no — it accuses the President Johnson of part, being part of, complicit in a cover-up of the case, but not in the assassination itself, which I don’t know.”

Jefferson Morley, editor of the JFK Facts blog and another witness before the House task force, stepped in to suggest that Boebert had mistaken the witness.

“I think you’re confusing Mr. Oliver Stone with Mr. Roger Stone. It’s Roger Stone who implicated LBJ in the assassination of the president. It’s not my friend Oliver Stone,” Morley corrected the Colorado Republican.

“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,” Boebert responded. “Sorry, I’m going to move on.”

Roger Stone, a longtime political operative and Trump ally, authored the 2013 book “The Man Who Killed Kennedy: The Case Against LBJ.” Oliver Stone, a director, worked on the controversial 1991 political thriller “JFK,” which stoked conspiracy questions surrounding Kennedy’s death.

Oliver Stone was speaking on Tuesday before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee’s Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets, in an inaugural hearing related to the so-called JFK files that comes a few weeks after the National Archives last month released more than 2,000 files related to the Kennedy assassination. The move followed an executive order from President Trump.

Experts have said the latest release does not contradict the Warren Commission’s conclusion that Lee Harvey Oswald was the lone gunman in the assassination. But multiple witnesses on Tuesday raised questions about the investigations and long-held conclusions about the case.

“I ask the committee to reopen what the Warren Commission failed miserably to complete. I ask you … to reinvestigate the assassination of this President Kennedy from the scene of the crime to the courtroom,” Oliver Stone told lawmakers in his opening statement, contending that the CIA’s “muddy footprints are all over this case.”

Task force Chair Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) said in a release announcing the hearing that lawmakers “will get to the bottom of this mystery.”