“There’s a memory hole about Kennedy”

Oliver Stone speaks out in the Hollywood Reporter about the Cannes premiere of JFK Revisited, his new Kennedy assassination documentary. Stone deserves a medal for compelling Congress to pass the JFK Records Act after the premiere of his explosive feature "JFK" in 1991. As he points out, despite the flood of government documents following passage of this law, 30 years after "JFK," "There's a memory hole about Kennedy." Mainstream historians STILL studiously ignore the government documents released under the JFK Act. (I was one of the independent historians who heavily used them, for my books "Brothers" and "The Devil's Chessboard.") President Trump was set to release more JFK documents in 2017, including thousands of pages still locked away by the CIA, but he wimped out at the last minute. Here's Oliver on why he needed to make a new documentary about the Kennedy assassination -- a documentary that scandalously STILL can't find U.S. distribution:

"There was a motive to kill Kennedy. He was changing things too much. He was a reformer. He was going to break up the CIA into a thousand pieces. Kennedy was pulling out of Vietnam and was looking for detente with Russia, making peace with Cuba. These things were denied by many historians. Not all the serious historians are really looking [now] at the documentation. And there’s plenty of it. We don’t have time to go into everything. But we’re going to release a four-hour version of [the documentary] as well."