「オバマ氏は暗殺恐れていた」　Ｏ・ストーン監督、カンヌで持論展開

【カンヌＡＦＰ＝時事】米国のオリヴァー・ストーン監督は１３日、仏カンヌ国際映画祭の記者会見で、バラク・オバマ元米大統領は暗殺を恐れていたと思うと述べた。（写真は第７４回カンヌ国際映画祭で記者会見するオリヴァー・ストーン監督）
　ストーン監督は、ジョン・Ｆ・ケネディ元米大統領暗殺をテーマとする新作ドキュメンタリーのプレミア上映に当たり記者会見し、ケネディ氏は米軍に抵抗したために米中央情報局（ＣＩＡ）に暗殺されたとする持論を展開した。
　さらに、オバマ氏が在任中、軍や情報機関に異を唱えなかったのは殺害されるのを恐れていたからだと思うと述べた。「オバマ氏が大統領在任中、最も懸念していたことの一つは、黒人初の大統領であるために暗殺されることだった」
　「彼は恐怖を抱いていたと思う。行動からの推測にすぎないが、『誰も怒らせてはいけない、何事にも穏健でなければならない』ように思えた」とストーン氏は主張した。
　ストーン氏の新作『ＪＦＫ　Ｒｅｖｉｓｉｔｅｄ：　Ｔｈｒｏｕｇｈ　ｔｈｅ　Ｌｏｏｋｉｎｇ　Ｇｌａｓｓ（原題）』は、同監督のヒット作『ＪＦＫ』以降３０年の間に集められた証拠をまとめたドキュメンタリー。登場する証拠の多くは、『ＪＦＫ』が話題となったことで公開されたものだ。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2021/07/15-14:09）

US director Oliver Stone returned to one of his favourite themes as he presented his latest movie at Cannes on Tuesday, claiming that president John F Kennedy was assassinated by the CIA because he stood up to the American military.
Stone, whose new documentary on the killing was premiering at the Cannes film festival, also told reporters that he thought it was fear of being bumped off that kept Barack Obama from challenging the military and intelligence agencies during his time in office.
Obama, one of his biggest concerns when he was president, was being assassinated because he was the first black president, Stone told reporters.
I think he had fears. I don't know this, I'm just assuming this from his behaviour: don't offend anybody, be moderate in all things.
Stone's new documentary, JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass, pulls together evidence gathered in the three decades since his classic drama JFK -- much of it released because of the furore triggered by that film.
The 74-year-old director, who has spent his career challenging accepted wisdom about US foreign policy, said it was now known for sure that accused gunman Lee Harvey Oswald was not present in the book depository where he was supposed to have fired the killer shots.
He said Oswald was highly involved with the CIA.
We know that the original evidence the Warren Commission presented us with -- the bullets, the trajectories, the rifle, the autopsy -- are fraudulent, Stone said.
The motive was change. Kennedy was changing things too much. Since Kennedy, no American president has come close to making these moves. We now have a military sector that consumes 50 percent of our budget. It's outrageous. We can't touch the military, we can't touch the intelligence agencies.
- 'Things changed' -
Kennedy was the last American president who really struggled for peace in the world, he added. We are where we are because of that. Things changed on November 22 1963.
Clinton, Obama -- they seemed to start with these intentions but they never completed them, Stone insisted.
He bemoaned the fact that US financiers had refused to back his new documentary, forcing him to look for funding in Europe -- just as he did when making Snowden, his 2016 movie about whistleblower Edward Snowden.
It's depressing that we have to go to Britain to get money to tell this story that's intrinsically American, said the documentary's producer Robert Wilson.
Not everyone was convinced by the documentary, however, with Variety offering a long take-down of its arguments.
In 'JFK Revisited', Oliver Stone leads us through the looking glass, all right, but the real question is whether he's found the truth or an even more hypnotically spectacular lie, it wrote.
The Hollywood Reporter said Stone had put together a handsome technical package but feared he lacked credibility.
This is not a director known for his balanced, nuanced approach to geopolitical matters, after all, it wrote.
Can anyone take him seriously again after those fawning documentary bromances with Castro and Putin?
The maverick director was accused this week of glorifying Kazakhstan's dictatorial former president Nursultan Nazarbayev in another new documentary, Qazaq: History of the Golden Man.
Call #Nazarbayev what you want -- dictator, strongman, tyrant, founder, Stone tweeted in reply to his critics. You'll find him to be a modest man explaining the #Soviet empire's demise and his important country's transition to an independent nation.