Oliver Stone to testify on JFK assassination files

Film director Oliver Stone will testify at a U.S. House of Representatives hearing on Tuesday on thousands of pages of documents related to the 1963 assassination of John F. Kennedy, which will be released this month at the direction of President Donald Trump.

Representative Anna Paulina Luna, chair of the Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets, said Sunday that lawmakers will hear from witnesses about the documents' value.

"By investigating the newly released JFK files, consulting experts, and tracking down surviving staff of various investigative committees, our task force will get to the bottom of this mystery and share our findings with the American people," Luna said.

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Shortly after taking office for his second term in January, Trump signed an executive order directing national intelligence and other officials to come up with a plan for the full and complete release of all records related to President Kennedy's assassination.

The archives' Kennedy assassination collection has over six million pages of records, most of which had been declassified and made public before Trump's order. Kennedy's murder has been attributed to a sole gunman, Lee Harvey Oswald.

Stone's 1991 film "JFK" faced harsh criticism from historians for its suggestions that Kennedy's death was the result of high-level conspiracies. Stone has said a lone assassin did not kill Kennedy and believes some aspects within the U.S intelligence community were involved.

The Justice Department and other federal government bodies have reaffirmed the conclusion in the intervening decades that Oswald acted alone. But polls show many Americans still believe his death was a result of a conspiracy.

Also testifying on Tuesday are journalist and author Jefferson Morley and James DiEugenio. Morley said on social media that he would focus on the CIA's complete pre-assassination file on Oswald during the hearing.

Trump promised on the campaign trail to provide more transparency about Kennedy's death.