Read Garner's request to Stone, as well as letters to the History Channel from:

• Oliver Stone
• Zachary Sklar
• Jim DiEugenio

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August 16, 2000

Dear Ms. Garner,

Having glanced at Ms. Lambert's book, I don't see myself participating creatively in your enterprise. It is a shame because Jim Garrison once again will be pilloried--in spite of significant new information which has emerged in the last years through the work of William Davy, Jim DiEugenio, Zack Sklar, and the Assassination Record Review Board's findings.

You say "Stone's film JFK, as Stone himself has said, was not concerned so much with the facts but was made as a 'counter-myth' to the Warren Report," which is not my exact quote and which truly misrepresents my intention. I have always expressed a great concern for the facts, and where possible I have used them in great detail; and I have never deliberately distorted a fact for the purpose of destroying the truth as best we know it.

Now that you are embarking on this production, permit me to suggest that you do so with a proper concern for the truth and that you refrain from making any false or defamatory representations or statements about me or my professional efforts. I can assure you that I reserve the right to pursue all appropriate remedies available should you fail to do so.

Sincerely yours,

Oliver Stone