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The Katie Halper Show

Oliver Stone On JFK Files, Alec Karakatsanis On 'Copaganda'

The Katie Halper Show

Katie Halper

News

4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2025

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Summary

Katie talks to the Academy-Award winning director Oliver Stone and JFK researcher and author Jim Di Eugenio about the JFK files which they testified about in Congress. Then Katie talks to Civil Rights Lawyer Alec Karakatsanis about his book Copaganda and the way the media lies about crime. Oliver Stone is an Award-winning director, producer, screenwriter whose films include , Snowden, Savages, Untold History, Platoon, Wall Street, JFK and the documentary JFK Revisited. He is the author of Chasing the Light. Jim DiEugenio is a researcher and writer who focuses on the political assassinations of the 1960s, including the killing of JFK. He is the author of two books, Destiny Betrayed (1992/2012) and The JFK Assassination: The Evidence Today (2018), co-author of The Assassinations, and co-edited Probe Magazine (1993-2000). Alec Karakatsanis is a Civil Rights lawyer and the founder of Civil RIghts Corps. He is the author of Usual Cruelty: The Complicity of Lawyers in the Criminal Injustice System (2019) and Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News (2025) ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Get your Katie Halper Show Merch here! https://katiehalper.myspreadshop.com/all Follow Katie on Twitter: https://x.com/kthalps Follow Katie on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/kthalps/

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0:00.0

Hello, everyone. You're listening to The Katie Helper Show, and I'm your host, Katie Helper. If you like the show, please leave us a five-star review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. And as always, we remind you that this show could not happen without the support of our listeners. To support the show, visit patreon.com slash the Katie Helper Show, where for just $1 a month,

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And for $5 a month, you get great bonus content, including extended interviews, bonus episodes,

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sneak peeks at my upcoming documentary feature film and more.

0:40.6

Hello and welcome to the Katie Helper Show. So excited to be here with you tonight.

0:46.2

Lovely, lovely weather out where I am right now. And we have a great show for you today.

0:51.9

This is, by the way, I think the first time I've ever introed a show and mentioned the weather, so a historic moment. But we have a great show for

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you today. We will be talking to none other than Oliver Stone, who really requires no intro,

1:06.2

but in case you don't know, Oliver Stone is an award-winning director, producer, screenwriter, whose films include Snowden, Savage's Untold History, Platoon, Wall Street, JFK, and the documentary JFK revisited through the looking glass.

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He's also the author of Chasing the Light, which is a really good memoir that I'm enjoying quite a bit.

1:25.0

We're also going to be talking to Jim D. Eugenio, who is a researcher and writer

1:29.1

who focuses on the political assassinations of the 1960s, including the killing of JFK.

1:34.9

He is the author of several books, including Destiny Betrayed and the JFK assassination, The Evidence

1:40.0

Today, and is the co-author of The Assassinations and co-editor of Probe Magazine. And they're going to be

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talking about the JFK files and what they would like to see in terms of releasing the files,

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what they would like to see in terms of an investigation. And as I get into in the introduction

1:59.6

of this interview, you'll see that Oliver Stone has a very

2:03.0

interesting relationship when it comes to the JFK files, thanks to the amazing film he did in 1991

2:10.6

with Kevin Costner. And that's a great film. It's called JFK. I saw it in the theaters, I think.

2:16.7

I must have been really young, and I just rewatched it the other day. And the cast is amazing. There's called JFK. I saw it in the theaters, I think. I must have been really young,

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and I just rewatched it the other day, and the cast is amazing. There's Sissy Space Six in it,

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Joe Pesci, Kevin Bacon, Tomily Jones. It seems like every actor, working actor, was in that film.

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