I think it's absolutely important to raise what happened to John F. Kennedy, he says. And the key one for that is the 1991 film JFK, which starred Kevin Costner, Tommy Lee Jones, Kevin Bacon. It dramatizes a conspiracy theory that the CIA was behind the assassination of JFK. Walter Kankai, who actually broke the news of JFK's assassination, said the film was a mishmash of fabrications and paranoid fantasies.
After a quick rundown of the summer’s hottest films, Nayeema and Kara turn to our guest today: acclaimed (and controversial) filmmaker Oliver Stone. The man behind classics like “Wall Street” and “JFK” has turned his lens to climate change solutions in a new documentary, “Nuclear Now.” We discuss the good question of why there isn’t more nuclear energy in the United States, the roots of Stone’s distrust in convention, and the challenge of a world where distrust can turn into conspiracy theory.
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