Oliver Stone's JFK Conspiracy: The Buzzanco-DiEugenio Debate (G&R 153)

Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy Radicals · Apr 7, 2022 · 1h 38m

Recently G&R co-host and award-winning historian Bob Buzzanco debated Oliver Stone's writer on his documentary "JFK Revisited," James DiEugenio, about Stone's theory that the "deep state" had JFK killed because he was going to withdraw from Vietnam, thaw relations with Castro, and end the Cold War.

They discussed Kennedy's actual policies as president, his aggressive actions in Vietnam and Cuba, his continued imperial approach to Latin America, his tough approach to the Soviet Union. They also discussed the minutae of Oswald and the Warren Report, the "scenery" and "parlor games," in Stone's…