Director Oliver Stone to testify at JFK assassination files hearing

Hearings are being held in Washington after the Trump administration released a trove of material related to the 1963 Kennedy assassination

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US President John F. Kennedy moments before he was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. File photo: Walt Cisco/Dallas Morning News via Reuters

Published: 7:48am, 31 Mar 2025Updated: 1:39pm, 31 Mar 2025

Film director Oliver Stone will testify at a US House of Representatives hearing on Tuesday on thousands of pages of documents related to the 1963 assassination of John F. Kennedy released this month at the direction of US President Donald Trump.

Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna, chairwoman of the Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets, said on Sunday lawmakers would hear from witnesses about the value of the documents.

“By investigating the newly released JFK files, consulting experts, and tracking down surviving staff of various investigative committees, our task force will get to the bottom of this mystery and share our findings with the American people,” Luna said.

Soon after taking office for his second term in January, Trump signed an executive order directing national intelligence and other officials to quickly come up with a plan for the full and complete release of all records relate to Kennedy’s assassination.

The archives’ Kennedy assassination collection has more than six million pages of records, the vast majority of which had been declassified and made public before Trump’s order. Kennedy’s murder has been attributed to a sole gunman, Lee Harvey Oswald.