Gadfly director Oliver Stone is still obsessed with the "unsolved" murder of President John F. Kennedy. Stone is a chief conspiracy theorist who refuses to accept the official conclusion that the president was assassinated solely by Lee Harvey Oswald. His controversial film
JFK was a major hit but was criticized by academics for blatantly inventing and fictionalizing key elements of the investigation into the president's death. Now Stone is citing a new book as proof that Kennedy was actually murdered as part of a scheme by disgruntled members of the "military intelligence community". Stone says that President Kennedy was concerned about rebellion in the U.S. military because he refused to heed to the advice of hawkish generals to engage the Soviet Union in armed combat. According to Stone, JFK had been particularly affected by Fletcher Knebel's best-selling novel
Seven Days in May, which was made into an acclaimed film in 1963 by director John Frankenheimer. In the film, Burt Lancaster plays a charismatic general who orchestrates an attempted military coup of the U.S. government because he believes the president's determination to pursue detente will lead to Soviet world domination. For more
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