
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: TUESDAY, April 9, 1991                   TAG: 9104090314
SECTION: EXTRA                    PAGE: 2   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: DALLAS                                LENGTH: Short

DIRECTOR TO USE DEPOSITORY IN UPCOMING KENNEDY FILM

The Dallas County Commission has agreed to let director Oliver Stone use the sixth floor of the former Texas School Book Depository for filming of his movie "JFK."

County commissioners, on a 3-2 vote, reversed their decision of a week ago to deny access to the Dallas landmark, now an assassination exhibit managed by the Dallas County Historical Foundation.

Stone will be allowed to use the window perch of Lee Harvey Oswald, determined by the Warren Commission to be the lone gunman who killed President Kennedy on Nov. 22, 1963.

Stone's film, to be shot in Dallas this month, is about the investigation into the Kennedy assassination.

"I think it's time we stop using Oliver Stone as a guinea pig," said Commissioner John Wiley Price. "The movie industry and the community need to be partners."

Some commissioners objected to the movie crew's use of the building, where county administrative offices are housed, citing increased traffic and crowded conditions.

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