On 5/13/10, longtime JFK researcher Lisa Pease gave a fascinating interview to Black Op Radio which is here (click on show #474, part two–Real Player required). In the talk, she addresses the ignorant and dangerous recommendations of Cass Sunstein, whom she took on in a letter reprinted here on her blog. Not only is infiltration/manipulation [...]
Continue reading...Friday, February 12, 2010
The assassinations of the 60s have been on my mind of late, thanks to these Beatle mysteries I’m writing (anybody interested in finding out when they’re coming out should email mikesnewbooks[at]gmail[dot]com). One of the most persistent canards about the JFK assassination is that it’s incredibly difficult to understand, and that one must do a ton [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, October 17, 2009
The CIA, that’s who. Today’s New York Times details Agency stonewalling over 295 documents relating to George Joannides, an agent working with anti-Castro Cubans out of JM/WAVE, their Miami station. Groups under Joannides’ direction “publicly clashed with” Lee Harvey Oswald. These clashes were some of the most significant ways that Oswald’s personal politics–in other words, [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, June 6, 2009
This is a talk by Jim Douglass, a peace activist and the author of the book “JFK and the Unspeakable.” Perhaps I will get a copy for my birthday. From everything I have read about “Unspeakable,” I think it gets closest to explaining why I’ve always been fascinated with the JFK assassination (from the age [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, June 6, 2009
For those (like my commenter) who desire a more conclusive discussion, one can be found in James K. Galbraith’s article here.
Continue reading...Monday, February 19, 2007
Podcast now available! The web site of a museum dedicated to the JFK assassination has unveiled new footage showing President Kennedy’s motorcade. The silent, 8 mm color film offers “the clearest, best film of Jackie in the motorcade,” said Gary Mack, curator of the Sixth Floor Museum. “You can clearly see that she has a [...]
Continue reading...Monday, June 5, 2006
Today is the 38th anniversary of the day Bobby Kennedy got shot–no, it wasn’t marked on my calendar, Slate reminded me. I thought I’d take a short break from revising Sophomore to share some thoughts. I come by my Kennedy assassination fetish honestly: My mother was raised Catholic, and my seldom-seen father died when I [...]
Continue reading...Friday, May 5, 2006
In the wake of Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen calling satirist Stephen Colbert “a bully,” Jon and I started wondering: is Colbert the biggest bully in history? Probably. But being believers in the democratic process, we decided to assemble a list and leave the choice to you. 1. Charlie Chaplin attacks a defenseless Hitler (1937)Anybody [...]
Continue reading...Monday, November 22, 2004
To mark the 41st anniversary of his assassination, I thought I’d pass along a quote from JFK. It struck me when I read it, how similar the battle lines were, then and now. “If by a ‘Liberal’ they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, November 18, 2003
…of the JFK assassination has begun, courtesy of The History Channel’s latest installment of the British documentary series, “The Men Who Killed Kennedy.” I only caught the last two of the three–the ones that could be boiled down to: 1) Don’t date Lee Harvey Oswald; and 2) Don’t fuck around with LBJ. Did anyone see [...]
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Thursday, May 20, 2010
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