Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone, whose 1991 film JFK portrayed President John F Kennedy's assassination as the work of a shadowy government conspiracy, is set to testify to US Congress on Tuesday about thousands of newly released documents surrounding the killing.
Experts say the files that US President Donald Trump ordered to be released showed nothing undercutting the conclusion that a lone gunman killed Kennedy.
Many documents were previously released but contained newly removed redactions, including social security numbers, angering people whose personal information was disclosed.
The first hearing of the House Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets comes five decades after the Warren Commission investigation concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald, a 24-year-old former Marine, acted alone in fatally shooting Kennedy as his motorcade finished a parade route in downtown Dallas on November 22 1963.
Anna Paulina Luna of Florida, who chairs the task force, said last month that she wants to work with writers and researchers to help solve "one of the biggest cold case files in US history".
Experts and historians have not viewed the assassination as a cold case, viewing the evidence for Oswald as a lone gunman as strong.
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.
Source: Press Association
