This is one of Joan Mellen's last interviews before her recent death, with journalist Jeff Meek. Although she wrote about cinema early in her career, she later wrote significant books about Jim Garrison, George DeMohrenshildt and Lyndon Johnson. Her revelations about Clay Shaw and his work for the CIA helped expose his perjury at his trial.

HSCA Deputy Counsel Robert Tanenbaum took a long time to write his book about the John F. Kennedy murder. But, in Jim DiEugenio's opinion, the author chose the wrong path to follow in that regard.

At an exclusive conference in San Francisco, Jim DiEugenio lectures about why the JFK case is relevant today. One reason is because President Kennedy's ideas about the Middle East were visionary and objective, and tried to be fair to both sides. President Johnson, with help from Mathilde Krim, altered that policy beyond recognition, thus leading to the mess we have today.

John Washburn concludes his essay on when the police arrived at 1026 Beckley, why they covered up the early time of arrival, and how they knew Oswald was there.

The following excerpt is from John Avery Emison's newest book on the King case. It shows how the transcript of the James Earl Ray hearing, where he was represented by Houston lawyer Percy Foreman, was altered. And it was altered to exonerate Foreman from his unethical influence in forcing him to plead guilty.

Luminat Media finishes their disappointing series on the Vietnam War by underplaying the evil done by Nixon and Kissinger in Cambodia and Laos, and in dragging on a conflict that could have ended in 1969. All because of the figurehead of Thieu.

LBJ's reversal of Kennedy's policy leads to a rudderless war effort by General William Westmoreland.  As the war becomes hopeless, dissent begins to mushroom.  LBJ gives up, MLK and RFK are killed, and this leads to Nixon.

Netflix is now showing a five part series on the Vietnam War that is just as poor as the PBS series by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick of 8 years ago. If we are to understand history, this  kind of programming is precisely what is not needed at this time.

In part 2, Johnny Cairns examines the Hancock/Boylan book and its treatment of Oswald in the Marines, his discharge, his journey to Russia and his entry into Moscow. He also studies the many laws that were broken by Oswald along the way.