Exactly 30 years ago, Oliver Stoneâs original political thriller âJFKâ stirred up controversy and public outcry over the dubious circumstances surrounding the assassination of the former president. Though the U.S. governmentâs Warren Commission charged Lee Harvey Oswald with the murder, many elements about the case shed doubt on the governmentâs official portrait of Oswald as an individual firebrand who assassinated Kennedy with no outside help. âJFKâ not only helped to bring those arguments to light, but made an even bolder accusation â alleging that the plot involved the CIA and even then-Vice President Johnson himself. Due in part to the cultural impact of Stoneâs original film, the U.S. government passed the âJFK Act,â pledging to release a wealth of sealed records to the public by 2017. Drawing on those newly-released records as well as James DiEugenioâs 1992 nonfiction book âDestiny Betrayed: JFK, Cuba, and the Ga