The Impact of the Luna Hearing

by James DiEugenio

Oliver Stone, Jeff Morley and myself testified before congress last Tuesday before the committee helmed by Anna Paulina Luna, congresswoman from Florida.  Her committee is tasked with declassifying documents on several controversial cases from contemporary history: the murders of John Kennedy, Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy; plus the Jeffrey Epstein case, the origins of CV-19, files on 9-11 and UFO’s. 

The announcement of this committee, which she call a Task Force, met with several stories in the MSM, including one in Newsweek. (2/11/25) She stated that it would not make bold promises and then fade into irrelevance.  She continued, “This will be a relentless pursuit of truth and transparency, and we will not stop until the American people have the answers they deserve.” (ibid). Luna said she will be cooperating with people like Attorney General Pam Bondi and Secretary of State Marco Rubio.  She then said the following:

We will cut through the bureaucracy, challenge the stonewalling and ensure that the American people finally get the truth they have been denied for too long.  If we are to endure and thrive as a nation, we must restore trust, trust through transparency. (ibid)

On January 19^th, President Trump said that: 

In the coming days, we are going to make public remaining records related to the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, his brother Robert Kennedy, as well as Dr. Martin Luther King. (ibid)

On his third day in office, President Trump signed an executive order to that effect.  As he signed it, Trump said, “That’s a big one, huh? A lot of people are waiting for this for a long—for years, for decades.” (ibid). Luna added that, 

The American people must be trusted to think for themselves, to form their own judgments from the truth they are entitled to know. We’ve been treated like children for too long and kept in the dark by those we elected to serve us.

She then added that she would be calling her first hearing soon.  That first hearing was, wisely, on the JFK case.  And she managed to secure a large room with a five row gallery, that was almost full.  Oliver Stone, Jeff Morley and myself were on her first witness panel.  There were twice as many Republican in attendance as there were Democrats. And it was the GOP side which stayed longer, asked the most pertinent questions, and seemed the most interested in what happened to JFK.

The hearing was televised by CSPAN and taped by PBS.  (One can see it here posted at You Tube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WF6qlr3KLtI)  For the first time perhaps in congressional history, the viewer was allowed to hear about the disappearing hole in the rear of Kennedy’s skull, and the spurious chain of custody concerning the Magic Bullet, Commission Exhibit 399. Jeff Morley declared that the true authors of the plot to kill JFK were likely to be found in the ranks of the CIA and Pentagon. Oliver Stone ended his evocative opening statement by quoting a very high suspect in the case, namely James Angleton  about him being fated to end up in Hades. I tried to concentrate in my opening statement about how Kennedy’s murder and the failure of the Warren Commission resulted in a loss of trust and belief by the public in their institutions of the press and the government.  The entire hearing lasted over the 2.5 hours that Luna said it would. Afterwards, Oliver, Morley and myself addressed a press gaggle.

That was not the end of it.  Not even close.  It’s the after effects of this hearing that I wish to address here.  If one goes to You Tube you will see over thirty postings of the hearings, either in full or in part. I located most of them, for instance by Forbes, Fox, CSPAN, Global News, The Blaze and accumulated total was over 2.6 million views!  Even Joe Rogen posted a segment focusing on Oliver.

But  in addition to that, Oliver and myself, Morley and Matt Crumpton—a co-author of The JFK Assassination Chokeholds who attended—all did appearances on TV shows.  Oliver and myself did the Jesse Waters show on Fox and two spots on the News Nation network.  Morley did Waters and Glenn Greenwald.  Matt did a spot on Newsmax.  If one adds up all of these for their average viewership, that total is about 8.95 million.  So the rolling total would be about 11.55 million.  And since You Tube would be growing daily, it will probably be 12 million by the end of this week.  Which is remarkable for a 62 year old event.

But yet, I have not even included the newspaper and online new stories about the hearing.  It was covered by USA Today, Politico, AP and ABC among many others.  So we can add at least hundreds of thousands more.  As I said in my opening statement, the JFK case simply will not go away.

We all owe thanks to Congresswoman Luna and also to Oliver Stone for attending.  A lot of the publicity was caused by him.  We all await the next step in the Task Force’s inquiry.

(Click here for an inside view of the Washington experience https://jamesanthonydieugenio.substack.com/p/jim-and-oliver-meet-the-luna-commitee)