JFK Assassination Update - New Deathbed Confession Made By Ex-Government Agent to Oliver Stone
EXCLUSIVE - 'JFK assassination was an inside job': Ex-government agent claimed 'someone from his team' killed the president in remarkable deathbed confession to director Oliver Stone
An ex-presidential guard contacted Oliver Stone, who directed JFK biopic
He claimed 'somebody from his team' assassinated the president in 1963
Stone said he was convinced by his 'military jargon' and intricate details
Lee Harvey Oswald was accused of shooting JFK from a nearby building
By Dalya Alberge For Mailonline
Published: 16:40 EST, 28 August 2016 | Updated: 17:56 EST, 28 August 2016
The
assassination of John F Kennedy in 1963 was an inside job, according to a
deathbed confession given to the veteran film director Oliver Stone.
After
making his acclaimed film JFK - which was sympathetic to conspiracy
theories about the murder - Stone was contacted by a man claiming to
have been a former member of the presidential security team.
Dying
of cancer, the man wanted to share a secret that he had until then only
told his son – that 'somebody from his own team… had fired on the
President'.
He gave only a code name 'Ron', in reaching out through a series of mysterious letters before the two men eventually met.
Stone
said he was naturally skeptical about such a claim, as there have been
so many conspiracy theories since Kennedy was killed by two rifle
bullets while travelling in an open limousine through Dallas in November
1963.
Lee
Harvey Oswald was accused of shooting the president from the sixth
floor of the Texas School Book Depository, only to be shot dead himself
two days later by a local nightclub owner with connections to the
criminal underworld.
Since
then there have been question marks over whether Lee Harvey Oswald
fired the shots or - if he did it - who was he working for?
There have also been suggestions that at least one of the fatal shots was fired from a nearby grassy knoll.
Stone, 69,
said his doubts about 'Ron' were dispelled. As a former marine in
Vietnam, the film-maker was convinced by the 'military jargon' and
intricate details within an account that he describes as 'plausible' and
'very authentic'.
He
decided to reveal the man's confession for the first time to Matt
Zoller Seitz, who is the author of a forthcoming book on Stone, the
Oscar–winning screenwriter and director whose classics include Platoon,
about the trauma of the Vietnam War.
Asked
why Stone waited until now, Seitz says: 'I think it was because he
trusted me, and also because both the father and the son have been dead
for a while.
'Nobody has ever heard this story. I'm the first person.'
Stone's
co-operated with the book by making himself available for interview
giving Seitz free access to his extensive archive without any editorial
control.