Lauren Boebert confuses Hollywood legend for longtime Trump supporter at JFK assassination hearing

U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., confused an Oscar-winning director with one of President Donald Trump’s closest supporters during a House hearing Thursday on records connecting to the John F. Kennedy assassination.

“JFK” director Oliver Stone testified before the House Oversight Committee’s Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets when Boebert mixed him up with Roger Stone, the former lobbyist and member of Trump’s inner circle.

“Mr. Stone, you wrote a book accusing LBJ [President Lyndon B. Johnson] of being involved in the killing of President Kennedy,” Boebert asked the director.

“Do these recent releases confirm or negate your initial charge? Being involved in the assassination of President Kennedy?”

Apparently confused, Stone then consulted with Jefferson Morley, author of “CIA & JFK: The Secret Assassination Files,” who also testified at Tuesday’s hearing.

“No, I didn’t — If you look closely at the film,” Stone said, “it accuses President Johnson of being part of and complicit in a coverup of the case but not in the assassination itself, which I don’t know.”

Stone then went on to detail why he believed Johnson covered up who was responsible for the assassination as Morley figured out why Boebert asked Stone that question.

“I think you’re confusing Mr. Oliver Stone with Mr. Roger Stone,” Morley told the congresswoman. “It’s Roger Stone who implicated LBJ in the assassination. It’s not my friend, Oliver Stone.”

“I may have misinterpreted that,” Boebert responded, “and I apologize for that.”

As part of his testimony, Oliver Stone urged Congress to reopen the investigation into Kennedy’s assassination.

Stone’s “JFK” was nominated for eight Oscars, including best picture, and won two. It grossed more than $200 million but was also dogged by questions about its factuality.

The last formal congressional investigation of Kennedy’s assassination ended in 1978, when a House committee issued a report concluding that the Soviet Union, Cuba, organized crime, the CIA and the FBI weren’t involved, but Kennedy “probably was assassinated as a result of a conspiracy.”

In 1976, a Senate committee said it had not uncovered enough evidence “to justify a conclusion that there was a conspiracy.”

The Warren Commission, appointed by Kennedy’s successor, President Lyndon B. Johnson, concluded that Oswald fired on Kennedy’s motorcade from a sniper’s perch on the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository, where Oswald worked.

Police arrested Oswald within 90 minutes, and two days later, Jack Ruby, a nightclub owner, shot Oswald during a jail transfer broadcast on live television.

For Tuesday’s hearing, the task force also invited Morley and James DiEugenio, who both have written books arguing for conspiracies behind the assassination.

Morley is editor of the JFK Facts blog and vice president of the Mary Ferrell Foundation, a repository for files related to the assassination.