Oliver Stone presents new Kennedy documentary in Barcelona: American media 'censored' it

US filmmaker Oliver Stone was in the Catalan capital on Monday for the Spanish premiere of JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass as part of the 6th edition of the BCN Film Fest.

Over 30 years after first releasing JFK, a documentary about the US president's assassination, Stone re-examines conspiracy theories, arguing that they are in fact "conspiracy facts." 

"This was never properly investigated because the government did not want it to be investigated."

Kennedy was officially shot by former Marine Lee Harvey Oswald, but Stone believes he was targeted because of his pacifism. 

"He was the first American president to say to Africans 'I know what colonialism does' because he was Irish. He knew what the English had done with Ireland and it was in his bones."

Trump, Putin, and media "censorship"

According to Stone, JFK Revisited has not been successful in the US due to "censorship."

"None of the American major media covered it. They ignored it," Stone told the Catalan News Agency of his new documentary narrated by Whoopi Goldberg and Donald Sutherland.

"This is what is going on in the world. Ukraine, they certainly censored the Russian point of view as we know, and they censor things that Trump has been saying," Stone argued.

"They treat him like he's Hitler or something, the same way that they've created Putin as a Hitler," he went on. "They make these people into dictators and fascists. But no, it's because they're outside the American sphere of interest. America wants a unipolar world."

Tickets to see JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass at Barcelona's Cines Verdi movie theater on Tuesday and Wednesday morning are on sale for €3.90.