Oliver Stone: This Bombshell Question Surrounds Lee Harvey Oswald's Rifle Used In JFK Assassination

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At Tuesday's House Oversight Committee hearing on the JFK files, Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) spoke to Oliver Stone and other witnesses about the JFK assassination.

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00:00Chair would like to now recognize Mr. Burchett. Thank you, Chairlady. For over 50 years,

00:04the assassination of President Kennedy has been shrouded in secrecy and corruption.

00:09The American people have been lied to repeatedly by this federal government.

00:13President Trump's executive orders declassified the critical documents,

00:18I think, is a step in the right direction. But Congress must ensure that the bureaucrats in

00:22Washington, D.C. don't get away with what they've done and they don't get in the way of transparency.

00:29Mr. Stone, I know you've talked about chain of custody, and I'd like to hear your thoughts on

00:34some of the NBC videos. And I know that you, since you've already talked about your service

00:39to our great country from 67 to 68, you're twice wounded in action. You received a bronze star,

00:46a Purple Heart, an Air Medal, and the Combat Infantry Badge. And we salute you for your

00:50service, sir. Today is the 80th anniversary of the invasion of Okinawa, and that's an island

00:56my dad was on. And he told me, he said the Purple Heart was one medal he was glad he never got.

01:01Mr. Stone, I'm going to ask for the indulgence of the chairlady and the members if I could just

01:06yield my time to you and you to discuss anything you would like pertaining to this subject and to

01:12ask any of the other men up here on the dais with you any questions you would like.

01:18Well, I'd like to point out that in our film, JFK revisited 2021, which is an important,

01:26I hope members of the committee have a chance to look at it, because it is a follow-up to the

01:32original film, and it's a documentary made with Mr. DiEugenio as a writer, in which we

01:39take the evidence from the AARB and we examine as much of it as we can. Included in that

01:45is the concept of chain of custody. We interviewed Henry Lee, who is one of the

01:52country's leading, what would you call it? He's the leading criminalist in America.

01:58Okay, a criminalist, whatever that, okay. He was saying to us repeatedly, and he's on camera,

02:03a chain of custody has to go from the scene of the crime to the courtroom. Otherwise,

02:09you cannot bring the charge on Oswald or anybody. Well, that doesn't exist in this case. We went

02:16through this in the documentary. The rifle itself is not the one that is described in the film.

02:25It was shown of a man, a detective walking out with a rifle in his arms raised. That rifle does

02:31not resemble the one that was bought by Oswald out of the Chicago, supposedly bought by Oswald.

02:36Hiddell was his name? The one held up was a Mauser and the one he allegedly shot him with

02:41was a Mannlicher Italian carbine. No, the difference is that the one in evidence is longer.

02:47It's about four inches longer. It has a sling to it and it has a screw in the butt of the rifle,

02:53which I consulted with some rifle experts and they said Oswald could not have done that

02:59at the butt by himself. All right. So those are the differences between the one that the

03:05Warren Commission says Oswald actually purchased versus the one that they put into evidence.

03:12No rifle and no bullets, I said. Now, the bullets is even more ridiculous.

03:17As you know, there's been a long amount of controversy about the CE-399, the magic,

03:22so-called magic bullet, which came out apparently undamaged after wounding seven or eight

03:29wounds. We don't have a chain of custody proving that those bullets were ever used.

03:37So those are not, they do not match the ones at the sixth floor that were

03:43pictured. And that's the bullet that was found on the gurney, correct?

03:46Well, yes, except we don't know which gurney it was found on. Okay. And then if you go to the

03:53chain of custody from, well, let me use this as an example. According to the evidence,

04:00all right, that bullet was turned over to the FBI at 920 that night.

04:07Okay. Well, here's the problem. Frazier, who was the FBI ballistics expert,

04:14had the bullet at 735. How on earth can you have a bullet that hasn't been delivered

04:20into the White House? Because that's where the exchange took place. So that's one of the big

04:26problems. And I could go on for two hours on what's wrong with CE-399 as a piece of evidence.

04:33I don't think any district attorney in the United States would even try and submit CE-399 because

04:41it would blow up in your face. Concerning the medical that he mentioned, in the House Select

04:52Committee volumes, volume seven, page 37, you will see a quote saying that the witnesses at Bethesda

05:03did not see this blown out back of the skull, which the witnesses at Parkland Hospital saw,

05:09which is strongly indicative of a shot from the front. All right. Well, this is what happened.

05:14When the ARB declassified all the medical files from the House Select Committee on assassinations,

05:20that turned out to be a lie. Because as many people at Bethesda saw this blown out back of

05:28the skull as saw it at Parkland. There's, I think, 21 and 21. So you have a grand total of 42 people.

05:35Can 42 people all be wrong, you know? I mean, that just defies imagination.

05:43435 people are often wrong, but that's Congress.

05:49Thank you, Mr. Burchett. Ms. Lee, you're now recognized for five minutes.

Oliver Stone: This Bombshell Question Surrounds Lee Harvey Oswald's Rifle Used In JFK Assassination

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