President Donald Trump announced he would authorize the release of the U.S. government's remnants of "long blocked and classified" John F. Kennedy assassination documents, but The Washington Post's Avi Selk wrote Hollywood director Oliver Stone is the one to thank for this.
Stone directed and co-wrote the 1991 motion picture "JFK," which led to the passing of the 1992 Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act less than a year after the movie was released in theaters.
"If and when the last remaining government documents about President John F. Kennedy’s assassination are made public next week, historians may have to hold their noses and thank “JFK” — a 1991 blockbuster that conflated the historical record with conspiratorial fantasies," Selk wrote.
"Oliver Stone’s barely factual retelling of a prosecutor’s effort to prove the CIA killed Kennedy grossed hundreds of millions of dollars, and pushed Congress to order the release of nearly all assassination documents within 25 years, or by Thursday."
That act of Congress was signed by former President George H.W. Bush, in part, to give the public the true information amid myriad conspiracy theories, but government officials still might be forcing the withholding of information under the interest and protections of national security related to "sources and methods."
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