Lauren Boebert confuses Oliver and Roger Stone

Lauren Boebert confuses Oliver and Roger Stone as she questions movie director about MAGA faithful’s book
Mike Bedigan
Tue, April 1, 2025 at 4:54 PM EDT·3 min read
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Lauren Boebert drew ridicule online with her latest public faux pas, after confusing acclaimed filmmaker Oliver Stone with MAGA ally Roger Stone.

The firebrand Colorado congresswoman made the slip while speaking at a congressional hearing on Tuesday to discuss the assassination of former president John F. Kennedy, and quickly walked back her remarks after being corrected by another witness.

“Mr. Stone you wrote a book accusing LBJ of being involved in the killing of president Kennedy. Do these most recent releases confirm or negate your initial charge... being involved in the assassination of president Kennedy,” she said, referring to the recent cache of files on the assassination that were released following an executive order by Donald Trump.

A somewhat confused Stone responded: “No I didn’t. If you look clearly at the film. It accuses president Johnson of being complicit in the cover up of the case but not in the assassination itself.”


Journalist Jefferson Morley later told Boebert: “I think you’re confusing Mr Oliver Stone with Mr Roger Stone. It’s Roger Stone that implicated LBJ in the assassination of the president, not my friend Oliver Stone.”

Lauren Boebert drew ridicule online with her latest public faux pas, after confusing acclaimed filmmaker Oliver Stone with MAGA ally Roger Stone. The congresswoman was quickly corrected by another witness at the congressional hearing (Getty Images)
Lauren Boebert drew ridicule online with her latest public faux pas, after confusing acclaimed filmmaker Oliver Stone with MAGA ally Roger Stone. The congresswoman was quickly corrected by another witness at the congressional hearing (Getty Images)
“I may have misinterpreted that. I apologize,” Boebert replied sheepishly.

Roger Stone, a political operative who served as a senior campaign aide to Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan, is the author of the The New York Times bestseller The Man Who Killed Kennedy: The Case Against LBJ.

Oliver Stone is an acclaimed director who has made movies across many genres, from political thrillers to musical biopics to crime dramas, including the 1991 conspiracy-minded film JFK.

The thriller 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.


Social media were quick to jump on Boebert’s mistake. “Such a disaster. This admin is like a highschool party of idiots,” wrote one user.

Oliver Stone is an acclaimed director who has directed movies on subjects ranging from the Vietnam War, and American politics to musical biopics and crime dramas – including the Oscar-winning 1991 film JFK (Getty Images)
Oliver Stone is an acclaimed director who has directed movies on subjects ranging from the Vietnam War, and American politics to musical biopics and crime dramas – including the Oscar-winning 1991 film JFK (Getty Images)
Roger Stone, a political operative who served as a senior campaign aide to Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, is the author of the The New York Times bestseller The Man Who Killed Kennedy: The Case Against LBJ (Getty Images for Latino Wall S)
Roger Stone, a political operative who served as a senior campaign aide to Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, is the author of the The New York Times bestseller The Man Who Killed Kennedy: The Case Against LBJ (Getty Images for Latino Wall S)
“This woman is almost too much of a moron for it to be true. She has to be a performance artist,” added another.

The first hearing of the House Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets comes five decades after the Warren Commission investigation concluded that 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.

Interest has ramped up again after Trump ordered all files related to the assassination to be released, however, experts have concluded that the files show nothing to undercut or disprove the previous conclusion.

Many documents were previously released but contained newly removed redactions, including Social Security numbers, angering people whose personal information was disclosed.

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Filmmaker Oliver Stone found himself confused with another man named Stone, who is also associated with the world of U.S. politics, while testifying before Congress about the assassination of John F. Kennedy.

Stone, the director behind the controversial 1991 political thriller JFK, was appearing before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee’s Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets on Tuesday to advocate for the reinvestigation of the assassination of President Kennedy. The annual meeting comes weeks after the National Archives released over 2,000 files related to the Kennedy assassination.

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But the lauded filmmaker was likely stumped when Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert asked him a question about a book he didn’t write.

“You wrote a book accusing LBJ of being involved in the killing of President Kennedy. Do these most recent releases confirm or negate your initial charge?” Boebert asked, referring to the declassified Kennedy documents.

“No, I didn’t,” Stone replied. “If you look closely at the film, there’s no — it accuses President Johnson of being part of — complicit in a cover-up of the case, but not in the assassination itself, which I don’t know.”

That’s when Jefferson Morley, a JFK expert who was seated with Stone, chimed in with his expertise to see that the record was corrected.

“I think you’re confusing Mr. Oliver Stone with Mr. Roger Stone. It’s Roger Stone who implicated LBJ in the assassination of the president. It’s not my friend Oliver Stone,” Morley corrected the Colorado Republican.


A flummoxed Boebert seemed to realize she’d lost the thread and quickly apologized.

“I may have misinterpreted that and I apologize for that. But there seems to be some alluding of, like you said, incompetence or some sort of involvement there on the back end,” she replied. “Sorry, I’m going to move on.”

Roger Stone, a fixture in Washington, D.C. for decades, wrote a book in 2013 called The Man Who Killed Kennedy: The Case Against LBJ.


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