With his film, "JFK," Oliver Stone stood up to the powers-that-be, practically alone. The nation's corporate media were unified in opposition to him:
Who Killed JFK?
The Media Whitewash By Carl Oglesby
Lies Of Our Times
September, 1991
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THE IGNORANT CRITICS The first out of his corner was Jon Margolis, a syndicated Chicago Tribune columnist who assured his readers in May, when Stone had barely begun filming in Dallas, that JFK would prove "an insult to the intelligence" and "decency" ("JFK Movie and Book Attempt to Rewrite History," May 14, p. 19). Margolis had not seen one page of the first-draft screenplay (now in its sixth draft), but even so he felt qualified to warn his readers that Stone was making not just a bad movie but an evil one. "There is a point," Margolis fumed, "at which intellectual myopia becomes morally repugnant. Mr Stone's new movie proves that he has passed that point. But then so has
Time-Warner and so will anyone who pays American money to see the film."
What bothered Margolis so much about JFK is that it is based on Garrison, whom Margolis described as "bizarre" for having "in 1969 (1967 actually) claimed that the assassination of President Kennedy was a conspiracy by some officials of the Central Intelligence Agency."
Since Margolis and other critics of the JFK project are getting their backs up about facts, it is important to note here that this is not at all what Garrison said. In two books and countless interviews, Garrison has argued that the most likely incubator of an anti-JFK conspiracy was the cesspool of Mafia hit men assembled by the CIA in its now-infamous Operation Mongoose, its JFK-era program to murder Fidel Castro.
But Garrison also rejects the theory that the Mafia did it by itself, a theory promoted mainly by G. Robert Blakey, chief counsel of the House Assassinations Committee (HAC) of 1978 and co-author (with HAC writer Richard Billings) of The Plot to Kill the President (New York: Times Books, 1981). "If the Mafia did it," Garrison told LOOT, "why did the government so hastily abandon the investigation? Why did it become so eagerly the chief artist of the cover-up?"
More important, Garrison's investigation of Oswald established that this presumed leftwing loner was associated in the period just before the assassination with three individuals who had clear ties to the CIA and its anti-Castro operations, namely, Clay Shaw, David Ferrie, and Guy Banister.
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As a private citizen, I have grown to understand the vital roles the news media, modern communications and public relations play in advancing democracy. That is why I appreciate Oliver Stone. He was willing to create a "counter-myth" to the Big Lie that is the Warren Commission report. For that, the nation's "mainstream press" vilified him and continue to smear his name. Remember, the owners of the corporate press are the same gang of liars who sold America the idea that Saddam had WMDs ready to attack and had somehow supported 9-11 and that invading and occupying Afghanistan for a decade made strategic sense.
PS: Stone said he was wrong when he made a comparison between The Holocaust and what the Soviets endured in World War II and apologized. Based on his works and public statements, I believe, in his heart, Stone considers every death in war a tragedy of infinite proportion.