Half-Assed Internet Research
Lead researcher; Mr. X source; Garrison cameo; Tommy Lee Jones's gold paint
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- Stone hired a lead researcher, named as Jane Riscone (as transcribed); Stone read two dozen assassination books and the researcher 100 to 200, a range mocked as imprecise.
- The hosts say Stone's source for X was Colonel Leroy-Fletcher Prouty (as transcribed), who once worked in the Pentagon, but that his stories have a lot of holes.
- The real Garrison appears in the film as Earl Warren.
- Tommy Lee Jones deciding to paint himself gold is the favorite research item; another participant had not come across it.