Episode Transcript: #1759 - Oliver Stone
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So thank you all for thanks for being here man. I really appreciate it and I really enjoyed
your documentary. I like you well not as much as you but I am a conspiracy freak when it
comes to the JFK assassination and I've been fascinated by it for decades and but no one
is I don't think anybody is as fascinated by it as you and well I get the impression
that you have the impression I'm a full timer but no not a full time career well I know
you do listen I'm a huge fan of yours but it's kind of fascinating that your your film
the JFK film was approximately 30 years after the assassination yeah and then this is
approximately 30 years after that we're still going through this and they're still withholding
documents yeah it's really kind of amazing isn't it no it's not it's you know everybody's dead
from this from that era but it's all the more important that we understand our history because
it's it's fading but the reason we're in this kind of disbalanced situation in the United States
where we have no less and less trust is because of the past and if we go to this particular
incident in 63 it's a it's a demarcation point it's a turning point for the country and I that's
what's fascinating to me because I have a historical interest I've written and made the untold history
of the United States and yes I'm very interested in history and I just think we have to pay attention
because the roots of our problem are here and do you want me to talk about that or do you want
me to sure yeah please I you know I know I'm gonna I have to generalize because from the time he was
killed in 63 that November we think about it not one American president not one and you can name
them all have ever challenged the military or the national security state or the intelligence
agencies not one they haven't been successful they've cut the budgets occasionally but not by