RIP Donald Sutherland, JFK Truth Teller

The clueless New York Times and Washington Post are mystified by his scene stealing role as Colonel X.

Donald Sutherland, a sardonic and versatile actor who brought the insidious drama of the JFK assassination story to the movie screen, has died at age 88, according to his son Kiefer.

NPR says Sutherland is

probably most well known for his portrayal of off-kilter authority figures; over the years, he played doctors, sadistic prison wardens, and paranoid government figures, as in Oliver Stone's film JFK. A new generation of fans, including actress Jennifer Lawrence, embraced his bone-chilling portrayal of the tyrannical President Snow in The Hunger Games film franchise.

But the genius of Sutherland’s portrayal of Colonel X, a fictionalized version of Col. Fletcher Prouty, the chief of Pentagon special operations in 1963, was that he transmuted the harsh truths that timid NPR describes as “paranoia” into the common sense of a covert operator.