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83-600: The final report of the act's Assassination Records Review Board (ARRB) partially credited the conclusions in Oliver Stone 's 1991 film JFK with the passage of the act. The ARRB stated that the film "popularized a version of President Kennedy's assassination that featured U.S. government agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and

166-680: A BAFTA Award , a Primetime Emmy Award , and five Golden Globe Awards . Stone was born in New York City and later briefly attended Yale University . In 1967, Stone enlisted in the United States Army during the Vietnam War . He then served from 1967 to 1968 in the 25th Infantry Division and was twice wounded in action. For his service, he received military honors such as the Bronze Star with "V" Device for valor,

249-942: A law clerk for Judge Earl R. Larson of the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota from 1980 to 1981, and was in private practice in St. Paul, Minnesota from 1981 to 1984. He was an attorney in the Office of the State Attorney General of Minnesota from 1984 to 1995, serving as an assistant state attorney general and the manager of the Public Affairs Litigation Division from 1984 to 1985, as Minnesota state solicitor general from 1985 to 1986, and as chief deputy state attorney general from 1986 to 1995. He

332-545: A "new English language documentary produced by Ukrainians". Two years later in 2016, Stone was executive producer for Ukrainian -born director Igor Lopatonok 's film Ukraine on Fire , interviewing pro-Russian figures surrounding the Revolution of Dignity such as Viktor Yanukovich and Vladimir Putin . The film was regarded by critics as presenting a "Kremlin-friendly version" of the 2014 Maidan Revolution in Kyiv. It

415-457: A Vietnamese village girl drastically affected by the war and who finds another life in the USA. Following the success of Platoon , Stone directed another hit, 1987's Wall Street , starring Charlie Sheen and Michael Douglas. Lead performer Michael Douglas received an Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as a ruthless Wall Street corporate raider. After Wall Street , he directed another movie

498-720: A big impact on his life—perhaps because of this, father-son relationships feature heavily in Stone's films. He often spent parts of his summer vacations with his maternal grandparents in France, both in Paris and La Ferté-sous-Jouarre in Seine-et-Marne. Stone also worked at 17 in the Paris mercantile exchange in sugar and cocoa – a job that proved inspirational to Stone for his film Wall Street . He speaks French fluently. Stone graduated from The Hill School in 1964. Stone

581-585: A child. Sean Stone has worked for the Russia state media company RT America since 2015. Oliver and Elizabeth divorced in 1993. Stone is now married to Sun-jung Jung from South Korea, and the couple have a daughter, Tara (b. 1995). Stone and Sun-jung live in Los Angeles. Stone is mentioned in Pulitzer Prize -winning American author Lawrence Wright 's book Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and

664-444: A consultant on the movie, in which she makes a cameo appearance, but she writes in her memoir Strange Days: My Life With and Without Jim Morrison (Dutton, 1992) that Stone ignored everything she told him and proceeded with his own version of events. From the moment the movie was released, she blasted it as untruthful and inaccurate. The other surviving former members of the band, John Densmore and Robby Krieger , also cooperated with

747-571: A memo ordering release of all records collected under section 5 of the JFK Records Act. He gave agencies wishing to appeal release of all information in these records until April 26, 2018, to do so. On the same day, the NARA released another 2,891 records. Most of the records in this second release were previously withheld in part. On November 3, the NARA released another 676 documents. Most of these were previously withheld in full. According to

830-427: A much wider audience. It also finally kickstarted a busy directing career, which saw him making nine films over the next decade. Platoon won many rave reviews ( Roger Ebert later called it the ninth best film of the 1980s), large audiences, and Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Director. In 2007, a film industry vote ranked it at number 83 in an American Film Institute " AFI's 100 Years ... 100 Movies " poll of

913-552: A new film every 1–2 years, Stone slowed his pace to 4 movies and 2 documentaries in the ensuing decade. First directing Alexander in 2004, then World Trade Center in 2006, followed by W. in 2008, and finally South of the Border (Documentary) 2009. Stone directed Alexander . He later re-edited his biographical film of Alexander the Great into a two-part, 3-hour 37-minute film Alexander Revisited: The Final Cut , which became one of

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996-457: A second time (in part due to working on an autobiographical novel, "A Child's Night Dream," published in 1997 by St. Martin's Press ). In April 1967, Stone enlisted in the United States Army and requested combat duty in Vietnam . From September 27, 1967, to February 23, 1968, he served in Vietnam with 2nd Platoon, B Company, 3rd Battalion, 22nd Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division and

1079-461: A small acting role in the comedy The Battle of Love's Return . Stone made a short, well received 12-minute film Last Year in Viet Nam . He worked as a taxi driver, film production assistant, messenger, and salesman before making his mark in film as a screenwriter in the late 1970s, in the period between his first two films as a director: horror films Seizure and The Hand . In 1979, Stone

1162-518: A writer-director in 1986. Like his contemporary Michael Mann, Stone is unusual in having written or co-written most of the films he has directed. In 1986, Stone directed two films back to back: the critically acclaimed but commercially unsuccessful Salvador , shot largely in Mexico, and his long in-development Vietnam project Platoon , shot in the Philippines. Platoon brought Stone's name to

1245-718: Is an American lawyer who serves as a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota . Tunheim was born in Thief River Falls, Minnesota in 1953. He attended Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota , and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1975. He obtained his legal education from the University of Minnesota Law School and received his Juris Doctor in 1980. Tunheim then became

1328-762: Is being discussed, except for nuclear... It has to be on the agenda." On September 15, 2008, Stone was named the artistic director of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts Asia in Singapore. Stone contributed a chapter to the 2012 book Last Word: My Indictment of the CIA in the Murder of JFK by Mark Lane and published by Skyhorse Publishing . Skyhorse has published numerous other books with forewords or an introduction by Stone, namely The JFK Assassination , Reclaiming Parkland: Tom Hanks, Vincent Bugliosi, and

1411-400: Is needed to fight climate change, as renewables alone will not be sufficient for the planet to obtain carbon neutrality before climate change becomes irreversible. Of the film, Stone stated, "People worry about nuclear waste and meanwhile the whole world is choking on fossil fuel waste. That’s silly. Trillions of dollars have been invested in solar and wind and hydropower. Everything possible

1494-841: Is the notion that the central conflict of the 20th century can be laid at the feet of a right-wing military conspiracy... Stone's second flawed assumption in Untold History is that capitalism coordinated the military-industrial complex's agenda." Amidst other criticisms of Stone's documentary series and accompanying book The Untold History of the United States , Daily Beast contributor Michael C. Moynihan accused him of using untrustworthy sources, such as Victor Marchetti , whom Moynihan described as an antisemitic conspiracy theorist published in Holocaust denial journals. Moynihan wrote that: "There are hints at dark forces throughout

1577-894: The Air Medal , the Army Commendation Medal , Sharpshooter Badge with Rifle Bar, Marksman Badge with Auto Rifle Bar, the National Defense Service Medal , the Vietnam Service Medal with one Silver Service Star, the Republic of Vietnam Gallantry Cross with Unit Citation with Palm, two Overseas Service Bars , the Vietnam Campaign Medal and the Combat Infantryman Badge . (while with

1660-548: The Balkans . On March 5, 2014, Stone and teleSUR premiered the documentary film Mi amigo Hugo ( My Friend Hugo ), a documentary about Venezuela's late president, Hugo Chávez, one year after his death. The film was described by Stone as a "spiritual answer" and tribute to Chávez. At the end of 2014 according to a Facebook post Stone said he had been in Moscow to interview (former Ukrainian president) Viktor Yanukovych , for

1743-477: The Mary Ferrell Foundation , which holds a large database of records on the assassination, the majority of the records in this third release were from the CIA. These files still contain a number of redactions, which remain subject to further review under President Trump's order. On November 9, the NARA released another 13,213 records. Most of these were previously withheld in part. According to

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1826-506: The Nazis ' oppression of Jews in the 1930s. In 2003, Stone was a signatory of the third Humanist Manifesto . In 1999, Stone was arrested and pleaded guilty to alcohol and drug charges. He was ordered into a rehabilitation program . He was arrested again on the night of May 27, 2005, in Los Angeles for possession of an undisclosed illegal drug. He was released the next day on a $ 15,000 bond. In August 2005, Stone pleaded no contest and

1909-741: The Palestine Liberation Organization . In 2009, Stone completed a feature-length documentary, South of the Border about the rise of leftist governments in Latin America, featuring seven presidents: Hugo Chávez of Venezuela, Bolivia's Evo Morales , Ecuador's Rafael Correa , Cuba's Raúl Castro , the Kirchners of Argentina, Brazil's Lula da Silva , and Paraguay's Fernando Lugo , all of whom are critical of US foreign policy in South America. Stone hoped

1992-537: The Purple Heart with Oak Leaf Cluster , the National Defense Service Medal , the Vietnam Service Medal with one Silver Service Star. His service in Vietnam would be the basis for his later career as a filmmaker in depicting the brutality of war. Stone started his film career writing the screenplays for Midnight Express (1978), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay ; Conan

2075-607: The Sitges Film Festival for his film, Snowden , starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt as whistleblower Edward Snowden . Snowden finished filming in May 2015 and was released on September 16, 2016. He received the 2017 Cinema for Peace Award for Justice for such film. On May 22, 2017, various industry papers reported that Stone was going to direct a television series about the Guantanamo detention camp . Daniel Voll

2158-442: The 1995 Richard Nixon biopic Nixon , which received multiple Oscar nominations for: the script, John Williams ' score, Joan Allen as Pat Nixon, and Anthony Hopkins ' portrait of the title role. Stone followed Nixon with the 1997 road movie/film noir, U Turn , then 1999's Any Given Sunday , a film about power struggles within an American football team. After a period spanning 13 years (1986 to 1999), where he released

2241-607: The ARRB is responsible for making decisions that determine relevance. The act established, as an independent agency, the Assassination Records Review Board (ARRB), to consider and render decisions when a U.S. government office sought to postpone the disclosure of assassination records. The board met for four years, from October 1, 1994 to September 30, 1998. When the act was passed in 1992, 98 percent of all Warren Commission documents had been released to

2324-600: The Agency's links with the anti-Castro group with whom Oswald had a public fight in mid-1963; nor had they told the United States House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA), of which Joannides was the CIA's liaison. Tunheim said in a separate interview that "It really was an example of treachery ... If [the CIA] fooled us on that, they may have fooled us on other things." On July 24, 2017,

2407-522: The Assassination Materials Disclosure Act of 1992. The Assassination Records Review Board (created by Congress to lessen, but not end the secrecy surrounding Kennedy's assassination) discussed the film, including Stone's observation at the end of the film, about the dangers inherent in government secrecy. Stone published an annotated version of the screenplay, in which he cites references for his claims, shortly after

2490-571: The Assassination Records Review Board as assassination records. While no more documents required to be released under section 5 remain withheld in full, some still remain withheld in part. In 2021, President Joe Biden postponed the release of remaining records, citing the COVID-19 pandemic as the reason. Future releases of documents were scheduled for December 15, 2021, and December 15, 2022. Agencies that object to releasing records before then will have to provide unclassified information detailing why

2573-800: The Barbarian (1982); and Scarface (1983). He then rose to prominence as writer and director of the Vietnam War film dramas Platoon (1986) and Born on the Fourth of July (1989), receiving Academy Awards for Best Director for both films, the former of which also won Best Picture . He also directed Salvador (1986), Wall Street (1987) and its sequel Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010), The Doors (1991), JFK (1991), Heaven & Earth (1993), Natural Born Killers (1994), Nixon (1995), Any Given Sunday (1999), W. (2008) and Snowden (2016). Many of Stone's films focus on controversial American political issues during

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2656-557: The FBI. Some of these records were redacted in part. These redactions remain subject to further review under President Trump's order. On December 15, the NARA released another 3,539 previously withheld documents, leaving a total of 86 still classified in full. On April 26, 2018, the NARA released another 19,045 documents in accordance with President Trump's order. These releases include FBI, CIA, and other agency documents (both formerly withheld in part and formerly withheld in full) identified by

2739-962: The February 20 killings of protesters during the Euromaidan demonstrations, a hypothesis Stone himself had earlier supported on Twitter. In June 2021, Stone's documentary JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass was selected to be shown in the Cannes Premiere section at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival . In 2021, he also produced and featured in Qazaq: History of the Golden Man , directed by Lopatonok, an eight-hour film consisting of Stone interviewing Kazakh politician and former leader Nursultan Nazarbayev . The movie has been criticized for its non-confrontational approach in

2822-789: The JFK Assassination in the New Hollywood , The Plot to Overthrow Venezuela: How the US is orchestrating a coup for oil , Snowden:The Official Motion Picture Edition , The Putin Interviews and JFK: The CIA, Vietnam, and the Plot to Assassinate John F. Kennedy which features a quote from Stone on the newest edition's cover: "Blows the lid right off our 'Official History. ' " In 2022, he appeared in Theaters of War , discussing

2905-685: The Light: Writing, Directing, and Surviving Platoon, Midnight Express, Scarface, Salvador, and the Movie Game , which chronicles his turbulent upbringing in New York City, volunteering for combat in Vietnam, and the trials and triumphs of moviemaking in the 1970s and '80s. The book, which ends on his Oscar-winning Platoon , was praised by The New York Times : "The Oliver Stone depicted in these pages — vulnerable, introspective, stubbornly tenacious and frequently heartbroken—may just be

2988-487: The Mary Ferrell Foundation, the records in this fourth release were from the CIA and NSA . Some of these records were redacted in part. These redactions remain subject to further review under President Trump's order. On November 17, the NARA released another 10,744 records, including 144 previously withheld in full and 10,600 previously withheld in part. All of the records in this fifth release were from

3071-467: The National Archives began to release the remaining documents previously withheld. The first release included 441 FBI and CIA records which had previously been withheld in full. These records had never previously been made available to the public. Another 3,369 records were also released which had previously been withheld in part, meaning that they had previously been made public, but parts of

3154-535: The New York Times, as of 2023, 4684 documents are still "fully or partially withheld" from the public. Oliver Stone William Oliver Stone (born ( 1946-09-15 ) September 15, 1946) is an American filmmaker. Stone is known as a controversial but acclaimed director, tackling subjects ranging from the Vietnam War , and American politics to musical biopics and crime dramas . He has received numerous accolades including three Academy Awards ,

3237-649: The Prison of Belief as having been a member of Scientology for about a month, saying "It was like going to college and reading Dale Carnegie , something you do to find yourself." In 1997, Stone was one of 34 celebrities to sign an open letter to then- German Chancellor Helmut Kohl , published as a newspaper advertisement in the International Herald Tribune , which protested against the treatment of Scientologists in Germany and compared it to

3320-589: The U.S. Army) On July 4, 2024, Stone was awarded the rank of Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters , the highest civilian honor in France, for cultural contributions to both the country and the film industry. He was previously awarded the rank of Chevalier in 1992. Stone graduated from New York University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in film in 1971, where his teachers included director and fellow NYU alumnus Martin Scorsese . The same year, he had

3403-436: The United States premiered on Showtime , Stone co-wrote, directed, produced, and narrated the series, having worked on it since 2008 with co-writers American University historian Peter J. Kuznick and British screenwriter Matt Graham . The 10-part series is supplemented by a 750-page companion book of the same name, also written by Stone and Kuznick, published on October 30, 2012, by Simon & Schuster . Stone described

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3486-553: The assassination of President John F. Kennedy and investigations of or inquiries into the assassination. This was supplemented with coverage of all government records relating to investigations of the assassination (including those specified in Section 3(2) of the act), as well as supplementary records required to clarify meanings of other documents (such as code names used). The ARRB determined that agencies could not object to disclosure "solely on grounds of non-relevance," stating that

3569-540: The book: business interests controlled by the Bush family that were (supposedly) linked to Nazi Germany, a dissenting officer in the CIA found murdered after disagreeing with a cabal of powerful neoconservatives, suggestions that CIA director Allen Dulles was a Nazi sympathizer." Stone was interviewed in Boris Malagurski 's documentary film The Weight of Chains 2 (2014), which deals with neoliberal reforms in

3652-524: The documentary and that the documentary was an attempt to right a balance of heavily negative coverage. He praised Chávez as a leader of the Bolivarian Revolution , a movement for social transformation in Latin America, and also praised the six other presidents in the film. The documentary was also released in several cities in the United States and Europe in the mid-2010. In 2012, the documentary miniseries Oliver Stone's Untold History of

3735-453: The enactment of the federal law that created the ARRB, the board collected a large number of documents and took testimony of those who had relevant information of the events. The Committee finished its work in 1998 and in its final report, the ARRB outlined the problems that government secrecy created regarding the murder of President Kennedy. Some of the information was gathered by way of testimony from witnesses that had eyewitness knowledge of

3818-606: The events. For example, the board interviewed the physicians who treated the president's massive head wound at Parkland Hospital in Dallas. This was a highly trained team of emergency care physicians, some of whom testified in secret before the Warren Commission. These transcripts have now also been made public. Other information consists of a large number of documents from the FBI and CIA that were required to cooperate with

3901-419: The film would get the rest of the Western world to rethink socialist policies in South America, particularly as it was being applied by Venezuela's Hugo Chávez. Chávez joined Stone for the premiere of the documentary at the Venice International Film Festival in September 2009. Stone defended his decision not to interview Chávez's opponents, stating that oppositional statements and TV clips were scattered through

3984-419: The film's release. He stated "I make my films like you're going to die if you miss the next minute. You better not go get popcorn." In 1994, Stone directed Natural Born Killers , a violent crime film intended to satirize the modern media. The film had originally been based on a screenplay by Quentin Tarantino , but it underwent significant rewriting by Stone, Richard Rutowski , and David Veloz. Before it

4067-484: The filming of The Doors , but Krieger distanced himself from the work before the film's release. However, Densmore thought highly of the film, and celebrated its DVD release on a panel with Oliver Stone. During this same period, Stone directed one of his most ambitious, controversial and successful films: JFK , depicting the assassination of John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963. In 1991, Stone showed JFK to Congress on Capitol Hill , which helped lead to passage of

4150-442: The following year: Talk Radio , based on Eric Bogosian 's Pulitzer-nominated play. The Doors , released in 1991, received criticism from former Doors keyboardist Ray Manzarek during a question-and-answer session at Indiana University East in 1997. During the discussion, Manzarek stated that he sat down with Stone about The Doors and Jim Morrison for over 12 hours. Patricia Kennealy-Morrison —a rock critic and author—was

4233-437: The former president's: childhood, relationship with his father, struggles with alcoholism, rediscovery of his Christian faith, and continues the rest of his life up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq . In 2010, Stone returned to the theme of Wall Street for the sequel Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps . In 2012, Stone directed Savages , based on a novel by Don Winslow . In 2015, he was presented with an honorific award at

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4316-425: The highest-selling catalog items from Warner Bros. He further refined the film and in 2014 released the two-part, 3-hour 26-minute Alexander: The Ultimate Cut . After Alexander , Stone went on to direct World Trade Center , based on the true story of two PAPD policemen who were trapped in the rubble and survived the September 11 attacks . Stone wrote and directed the George W. Bush biopic W. , chronicling

4399-551: The identifiable harm is of such gravity that it outweighs the public interest in disclosure. The definition of "assassination record" was left broad by the act and determined in practice by the ARRB; a final definition was published in the Federal Register on June 28, 1995. The basic definition was: An assassination record includes, but is not limited to, all records, public and private, regardless of how labeled or identified, that document, describe, report on, analyze, or interpret activities, persons, or events reasonably related to

4482-417: The information is withheld, and a date when the information might be declassified. The initial response to the 2021 release was that it provided little new information. On December 15, 2022, NARA released an additional 13,173 documents as ordered by President Biden. In June 2023, it was reported that NARA had completed the review of the documents with 99% of all documents having been made public. According to

4565-570: The interview and, because no opposition members were interviewed, according to some critics this resulted in a promotion of the authoritarian rule and cult of personality of Nazarbayev. The film received at least $ 5 million funding from Nazarbayev's own charitable foundation, Elbasy , via the country's State Center for Support of National Cinema, according to the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project . Stone and Lopatonok had denied any Kazakhstani government involvement. According to Rolling Stone , "What little attention Qazaq did receive

4648-524: The late 20th century, and as such were considered contentious at the times of their releases. Stone has been critical of American foreign policy , which he considers to be driven by nationalist and imperialist agendas. He has approved of politicians Hugo Chávez and Vladimir Putin , the latter of whom was the subject of The Putin Interviews (2017). Like his subject matter, Stone is a controversial figure in American filmmaking, with some critics accusing him of promoting conspiracy theories . Stone

4731-415: The mid-1990s, the Review Board decided that records related to a deceased CIA agent named George Joannides were not relevant to the assassination. Subsequent work by researchers, using other records that were released by the board, demonstrates that these records should be made public." Tunheim and Samoluk pointed out that the CIA had not told the Warren Commission that George Joannides was the CIA lead for

4814-502: The military as conspirators." The act requires that each assassination record be publicly disclosed in full and be made available in the collection no later than the date that is 25 years after the October 26, 1992 date of enactment (which was October 26, 2017), unless the President of the United States certifies that: (1) continued postponement is made necessary by an identifiable harm to the military defense, intelligence operations, law enforcement, or conduct of foreign relations; and (2)

4897-501: The most sympathetic character he's ever written... neatly sets the stage for the possibility of that rarest of Stone productions: a sequel." Stone made three documentaries on Fidel Castro : Comandante (2003), Looking for Fidel , and Castro in Winter (2012). He made Persona Non Grata , a documentary on Israeli-Palestinian relations, interviewing several notable figures of Israel, including Ehud Barak , Benjamin Netanyahu and Shimon Peres , as well as Yasser Arafat , leader of

4980-442: The others were Born on the Fourth of July and Heaven & Earth , each dealing with different aspects of the war. Platoon is a semi-autobiographical film about Stone's experience in combat; Born on the Fourth of July is based on the autobiography of US Marine turned peace campaigner Ron Kovic ; Heaven & Earth is based on the memoir When Heaven and Earth Changed Places , in which Le Ly Hayslip recalls her life as

5063-634: The photographic images showing no such defect, a number of witnesses, including at both the Autopsy and Parkland hospital, saw a large wound in the back of the president's head. The board and board member Jeremy Gunn have also stressed the problems with witness testimony, asking people to weigh all of the evidence, with due concern for human error, rather than take single statements as "proof" for one theory or another. By ARRB law (of 1998), all existing assassination-related documents were to be made public by October 2017. Prior to October 2017, over 35,000 documents were still not fully available (partially redacted) to

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5146-408: The previous century's best American movies. British TV channel Channel 4 voted Platoon as the sixth greatest war film ever made. In 2019, Platoon was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the United States National Film Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". Platoon was the first of three films Stone has made about the Vietnam War :

5229-412: The project as "the most ambitious thing I've ever done. Certainly in documentary form, and perhaps in fiction, feature form." The project received positive reviews from former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev , The Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald , and reviewers from IndieWire , San Francisco Chronicle , and Newsday . Hudson Institute adjunct fellow historian Ronald Radosh accused

5312-406: The public, and among them, 3,603 were at that time unseen by the public. In 2013, the ARRB's former chairman John R. Tunheim and former deputy director Thomas Samoluk wrote in the Boston Globe that after the ARRB had declassified 5 million documents, "There is a body of documents that the CIA is still protecting, which should be released. Relying on inaccurate representations made by the CIA in

5395-403: The public. By the time the board disbanded, all Warren Commission documents, except income tax returns , had been released to the public, with only minor redactions . The ARRB collected evidence starting in 1992, then produced its final report in 1998. The ARRB was not enacted to determine why or by whom the murder was committed but to collect and preserve the evidence for public scrutiny. After

5478-513: The records had been kept back for reasons of security or privacy. Records in the first release included 17 audio files of interviews of Yuri Nosenko , a KGB officer who claimed to have been the officer in charge of the KGB file on Lee Harvey Oswald during Oswald's stay in the Soviet Union. Nosenko defected to the U.S. in January 1964 and was extensively debriefed over a period of several years. On October 21, 2017, US President Donald Trump stated on his Twitter account that he would allow release of

5561-402: The remaining documents. He tweeted: "Subject to the receipt of further information, I will be allowing, as President, the long blocked and classified JFK FILES to be opened." His statement left open the possibility that some documents could still be withheld under the JFK Records Act if their release would harm military operations, law enforcement or foreign relations. On October 26, Trump signed

5644-555: The role of the military in Hollywood. Many of Stone's films focus on controversial American political issues during the late 20th century, and as such were considered contentious at the times of their releases. They often combine different camera and film formats within a single scene, as demonstrated in JFK (1991), Natural Born Killers (1994) and Nixon (1995). Stone listed Greek-French director Costa-Gavras as an early significant influence on his films. Stone mentioned that he "was certainly one of my earliest role models,...I

5727-431: The script, while standing by the film's stark depiction of the brutality of Turkish prisons. Stone wrote further features, including Brian De Palma 's drug lord epic Scarface , loosely inspired by his own addiction to cocaine , which he successfully kicked while working on the screenplay. He also penned Year of the Dragon (co-written with Michael Cimino ) featuring Mickey Rourke , before his career took off as

5810-675: The series of historical revisionism , while journalist Michael C. Moynihan accused the book of " moral equivalence " and said nothing within the book was "untold" previously. Stone defended the program's accuracy to TV host Tavis Smiley by saying: "This has been fact checked by corporate fact checkers, by our own fact checkers, and fact checkers [hired] by Showtime . It's been thoroughly vetted ... these are facts, our interpretation may be different than orthodox, but it definitely holds up." A review of Untold History at The Huffington Post by filmmaker Robert Orlando said there were "two flawed assumptions that underlie their master theory. First

5893-425: The turnover of relevant records held secret by these agencies. A staff report for the Assassinations Records Review Board contended that brain photographs in the Kennedy records are not of Kennedy's brain and show much less damage than Kennedy sustained. J. Thornton Boswell, who, along with James Humes did a secondary examination of Kennedy's brain, refuted these allegations. The board also found that, conflicting with

5976-602: Was a film student at NYU when Z came out, which we studied. Costa actually came over with Yves Montand for a screening and was such a hero to us. He was in the tradition of Gillo Pontecorvo 's The Battle of Algiers and was the man in that moment... it was a European moment." Stone has been married three times, first to Najwa Sarkis on May 22, 1971. They divorced in 1977. He then married Elizabeth Burkit Cox, an assistant in film production, on June 7, 1981. They had two sons, Sean Stone /Ali (b. 1984) and Michael Jack (b. 1991). Sean appeared in some of his father's films while

6059-698: Was admitted to Yale University , but left in June 1965 at age 18 to teach high school students English for six months in Saigon at the Free Pacific Institute in South Vietnam . Afterwards, he worked for a short while as a wiper on a United States Merchant Marine ship in 1966, traveling from Asia to the US across the rough Pacific Ocean in January. He returned to Yale, where he dropped out

6142-765: Was also criticized for advancing the Russian narrative about the revolution. Stone's series of interviews with Russian president Putin over the span of two years was released as The Putin Interviews , a four-night television event on Showtime on June 12, 2017. On June 13, Stone and Professor Stephen F. Cohen joined John Batchelor in New York to record an hour of commentary on The Putin Interviews . In 2019, he released Revealing Ukraine , another film produced by Stone, directed by Lopatonok and featuring Stone interviewing Putin. During these interviews, Putin made an unproven claim about Georgian snipers being responsible for

6225-539: Was an adjunct professor in the University of Minnesota Law School in 1994. Tunheim also served as chairman of the Assassination Records Review Board , which oversaw the collection of records relating to the assassination of John F. Kennedy , from 1994 to 1995. On July 10, 1995, Tunheim was nominated by President Bill Clinton to a seat on the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota vacated by Donald Alsop . Tunheim

6308-574: Was awarded his first Oscar, after adapting true-life prison story Midnight Express into the successful film of the same name for British director Alan Parker (the two men would later collaborate on the 1996 movie of stage musical Evita ). The original author, Billy Hayes , around whom the film is set, said the film's depiction of prison conditions was accurate. Hayes said that the "message of 'Midnight Express' isn't 'Don't go to Turkey. It's 'Don't be an idiot like I was, and try to smuggle drugs.' " Stone later apologized to Turkey for over-dramatizing

6391-542: Was born in New York City, the son of a French woman named Jacqueline (née Goddet) and Louis Stone (born Louis Silverstein), a stockbroker. He grew up in Manhattan and Stamford, Connecticut . His parents met during World War II , when his father was fighting as a part of the Allied force in France. Stone's American-born father was Jewish , whereas his French-born mother was Roman Catholic , both non-practicing. Stone

6474-532: Was credited with creating the series. Harvey Weinstein 's production company was reported as financing the series, with Stone scheduled to direct every episode of the first season . However, Stone announced he would quit the series after sexual misconduct allegations surfaced against Weinstein in October 2017. In July 2020, Stone teamed with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt to release his first memoir, titled Chasing

6557-707: Was fined $ 100. In 2017, former Playboy model Carrie Stevens alleged that in 1991, Stone had "walked past me and grabbed my boob as he waltzed out the front door of a party." The allegation Stevens made surfaced after Stone announced he would no longer direct the Weinstein Company 's television series Guantanamo following the revelation of the Harvey Weinstein sexual misconduct allegations . Stone also drew criticism for his comments on Harvey Weinstein himself, saying: John R. Tunheim John Raymond Tunheim (born September 30, 1953)

6640-465: Was largely negative, with critics decrying the film for its glowing depiction of Nazarbayev." In 2022, Stone directed and co-wrote Nuclear Now , a climate change documentary based on the book A Bright Future: How Some Countries Have Solved Climate Change and the Rest Can Follow written by the US scientists Joshua S. Goldstein and Staffan A. Qvist. The movie argues that nuclear energy

6723-535: Was raised in the Episcopal Church , and now practices Buddhism . Stone attended Trinity School in New York City before his parents sent him away to The Hill School , a college-preparatory school in Pottstown, Pennsylvania . His parents divorced abruptly while he was away at school (1962) and this, because he was an only child, marked him deeply. Stone's mother was often absent and his father made

6806-603: Was released, the MPAA gave the film a NC-17 rating; this caused Stone to cut four minutes of film footage in order to obtain an R rating (he eventually released the unrated version on VHS and DVD in 2001). The film was the recipient of the Grand Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival that year. He appeared in a cameo as himself in the presidential comedy Dave . Stone went on to direct

6889-401: Was twice wounded in action. He was then transferred to the 1st Cavalry Division participating in long-range reconnaissance patrols before being transferred again to drive for a motorized infantry unit of the division until November 1968. For his service, his military awards include the Bronze Star with "V" Device for valor, the Purple Heart with Oak Leaf Cluster to denote two awards,

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