".Are you supporting the John Birch Society theory (picked up by Oliver Stone) that Kennedy was killed by a conspiracy of the military industrial complex and that Jack Ruby was part of the vast plot when he killed Oswald?"
REPLY: Didn't Oliver Stone first get the idea for the JFK movie after one of editors at William Schaap and Ellen Ray's left-wing Sheridan Press gave Stone a copy of Jim Garrison's book (which they had published) when Stone was visiting Cuba? Mark Lane told an interviewer at the anti-war East Village Other newspaper in 1969 that "Robert Kennedy sent two emissaries to see Jim Garrison at two different times after he had declared for the presidency...Robert Kennedy wanted Jim to know that if he were elected President, he would apprehend and prosecute those responsible for killing his brother. He also wanted Jim to know that he supported the New Orleans investigation." Granma also reported in its September 13, 1995 issue that "General Fabian Escalante, director for the Cuban Center for National Security Studies stated that `according to Lopez Estrada, an expert on the CIA, the Dallas assassination must have been committed by approximately 30 persons.'" Actually, the first articles which questioned the validity of the Warren Commission theory on the JFK assassination appeared in the European and U.S. left-wing press.
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