US President John F Kennedy’s 1963 assassination was an inside job according to an astounding deathbed confession made by a member of his own security team to film director Oliver Stone.
The former agent, who was a member of the president’s protection staff, is said to have contacted Stone after he had finished making his 1991 film JFK, reports The Daily Mail.
US President John F Kennedy. PHOTO: Getty.
The man, who was dying of cancer, reportedly wanted to disclose the secret that he had until then only told his son – that “somebody from his own team… had fired on the President”.
Stone, who gives the ex-agent the code name of ‘Ron’, said the man first reached out with “a series of weird letters through post office boxes”. And while he was initially sceptical, the former marine’s ‘military jargon’ and complex recall of the event made the story seem what he said was ‘plausible’ and ‘very authentic’.
JFK director, Oliver Stone. PHOTO: Getty.
The 69-year-old director, who is famous for his military classics such as Platoon and Born on the Fourth of July, revealed Ron’s confession to Matt Zoller Seitz, who is penning a forthcoming book, The Oliver Stone Experience, about the Oscar-winner.
“The scenario he [Ron] laid out was very practical,” Stone reportedly says in the book. “It’s the way I would do it, if [I] were going to do something like that.”
“You kill the president, and your cover is security, and if the sniper or snipers who kill the president are hidden in with the guys who are supposed to protect him, guys who have no knowledge of this plot… It makes a lot of sense.”
Stone has reportedly given Seitz for several interviews for the book and when the author was asked why he thought the director has waited until now to go public with the information Seitz told the Daily Mail: “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.”
The book details that the fact that Ron didn’t want anything in exchange for his confession made his claims even more plausible.
“He didn’t want money or recognition,” said Stone. “He said something like, ‘I want you to know this is from my conscience’.”
Lee Harvey Oswald mugshot. PHOTO: Supplied.
The man suspected of killing the president, American sniper Lee Harvey Oswald was shot to death by Jack Ruby, a Dallas nightclub owner, two days after the president was killed.
