On Christmas Day, the "Los Angeles Times" ran a critical article entitled "Suppression of the Facts Grants Stone a Broad Brush." "New York Newsday" followed suit the next day with two articles – "The Blurred Vision of "JFK"" and "The Many Theories of a Jolly Green Giant." A few days later, the "Chicago Sun-Times" followed suit with "Stone's Film Trashes Facts, Dishonors J.F.K." Jack Valenti, then president and chief executive of the Motion Picture Association of America, denounced Stone's film in a seven-page statement. He wrote: "In much the same way, young German boys and girls in 1941 were mesmerized by Leni Riefenstahl's "Triumph of the Will", in which Adolf Hitler was depicted as a newborn God. Both "JFK" and "Triumph of the Will" are equally a propaganda masterpiece and equally a hoax. Mr. Stone and Leni Riefenstahl have another genetic linkage: neither of them carried a disclaimer on their film that its contents were mostly pure fiction." Stone recalls in an interview, "I can't even remember all the threats, there were so many of them."