JFK files hearing: Oliver Stone calls for release of film that could prove Oswald innocent

During a US House panel hearing on the release of roughly 80,000 pages of records related to the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy, three prominent JFK historians testified before Congress including Oliver Stone – the director of the controversial 'JFK' (1991) film. Journalist and author Jefferson Morley and author James DiEugenio also testified. Morley testified that the newly-released materials showed that members of the CIA lied about what they knew about Lee Harvey Oswald before the assassination. "The first was Deputy Director Richard Helms. He lied to the Warren Commission in May 1964 when he said, under oath the CIA had only, quote, minimal information about Oswald before JFK was killed. 198 pages of information cannot be truthfully described as minimal." During his testimony, Stone called on the task force to subpoena NBC to release a film he says both he and DiEugenio saw that appeared to show Oswald watching the motorcade during the assassination. "They have the original film. They've refused it twice," Stone said. And DiEugenio claimed "very few people know there were three attempts on JFK life in November...