Oswald's
Ghost
The
Mortal Wound in the Body Politic An interview with Robert Stone,
director of Oswald’s Ghost
By Jay Blotcher
ROBERT
STONE: I had collected a bunch of stuff just in the course of doing
this other project in the early 90's. I had sold my € lm Guerilla
to [PBS’s] American Experience, and they were thrilled with
that and asked me if I wanted to do another €lm for them. I said,
well, this is something I always wanted to do. And Mark Samels,
the exec producer there, who’s a huge fan of mine, said, “This
sounds great; you got the connection to 9/11” and they backed
it to the hilt. Also Nick Frazier at the BBC. Nick was actually
the €rst person I approached. He got it. It was the quickest pitch
I ever gave: half a sentence.
ROLL:
Did the British media examine the assassination differently from
US media?
ROBERT
STONE: No, I think it’s actually quite similar: you had the
establishment media basically supporting the Warren Commission and
you had everybody else trashing it. Look
- it’s one of those things. If you say you agree with the
Warren Commission, you sound dumb. Like, Oh, you’ll believe
anything anybody tells you. You say you believe in a conspiracy,
it makes you feel kind of smart: I’m a free-thinking individual;
I come to my own conclusions about stuff. There’s that. Well,
in fact, the reality is that if you ask most people, their only
source of information about the assassination has come from conspiracy
theories. So, the idea that people come to their own conclusions
about these kind of things is not true. But it does make you sound
like a dimwit if you say, well, I believe the Warren Commission...
CONTINUE....
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