John F. Kennedy
- Review of Greg Poulgrain’s JFK vs Allen Dulles: Battleground IndonesiaWritten by Michael Le FlemWritten on Sunday, 28 November 2021 22:48 Read more...
Lauding its brilliant dramatic conceit along with copious and fresh source material and alluring insights, Michael LeFlem reviews Dr. Greg Poulgrain’s JFK vs Allen Dulles: Battleground Indonesia as one of the best reads in its genre.
- Alecia Long Lays an EggWritten by James DiEugenioWritten on Saturday, 30 October 2021 16:35 Read more...
Nearly 55 years after the New Orleans inquiry into the JFK assassination began, yet another character assassination of Jim Garrison has been published, Alecia Long’s Cruising for Conspirators, so Jim DiEugenio diligently documents how the LSU history professor ignores a preponderance of ARRB evidence released in the last 30 years and instead relies upon the outdated and biased Clay Shaw apologia, American Grotesque, to smear Garrison and his investigation.
- Into the Storm, by John NewmanWritten by James DiEugenioWritten on Wednesday, 22 September 2021 04:21 Read more...
Jim DiEugenio reviews John Newman’s latest volume on the JFK case, Into the Storm, finding it a bit uneven, but very well done in its analysis of how the CIA switched back their plots to kill Castro onto the Kennedy White House and how the military under Lemnitzer and Lansdale was proposing false flag operations to justify a war with Cuba.
Malcolm X
- Manning Marable, A Life of ReinventionWritten by Joseph E. GreenWritten on Wednesday, 28 August 2013 22:14 Read more...
As with other high-profile assassinations in the 1960s, the major media immediately began a propaganda campaign in support of the state-approved version of events, writes Joseph Green.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Cotton Coated Conspiracy, by John Roberts?Written by James DiEugenioWritten on Tuesday, 05 October 2021 04:26 Read more...
Jim DiEugenio reviews the pseudonymously-authored new book, Cotton Coated Conspiracy, exposing it as an accusatory and sensationalist volume that accepts dubious accounts with little scrutiny and subverts and hides prominent exculpatory evidence in the James Earl Ray case.
- Martin Hay Replies to the Authors of Killing KingWritten by Martin HayWritten on Friday, 11 May 2018 21:06 Read more...
Martin Hay scrutinizes the responses to his critical review of The Awful Grace of God which the authors have incorporated into their second book, written to bolster their original thesis concerning Ray and the King assassination.
Robert F. Kennedy
- Lisa Pease, A Lie Too Big to Fail: The Real History of the Robert Kennedy AssassinationWritten by Michael Le FlemWritten on Thursday, 21 February 2019 22:11 Read more...
The author’s narrative gifts are as pronounced as her investigative acumen. And with this book as her lifetime achievement on a case that still remains relatively obscure in light of the JFK assassination, she will likely establish herself as the preeminent authority on the subject for years to come, avers Michael Le Flem.
- Joseph Palermo, Robert F. Kennedy and the Death of American IdealismWritten by Kennedys&KingWritten on Monday, 29 January 2018 19:08
During this, the 50th anniversary of Senator Robert Kennedy's assassination, we wish to raise awareness of his life and death. Joseph Palermo is one of the better authors on RFK, and this interview concerning his 2007 book is one way to begin that commemoration.
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General Interest
- Collateral Damage: Mark Shaw’s Public Atrocity, Part 2Written by Donald McGovernWritten on Wednesday, 25 August 2021 18:00 Read more...
Donald McGovern continues his review of Mark Shaw’s Collateral Damage by examining Shaw’s odd photographic evidence and the many wrong depictions contained in the book, by analyzing Shaw’s contrived murder scenario using a bulb syringe as the weapon, and by summarizing Shaw’s scholarship and thesis, concluding that he not only engaged in rumor, opinion, gossip, and innuendo, but in the worst form of gross speculation and evidence creation.
- Collateral Damage: Mark Shaw’s Public Atrocity, Part 1Written by Donald McGovernWritten on Sunday, 22 August 2021 22:00 Read more...
Donald McGovern reviews Mark Shaw’s recent book Collateral Damage, largely about the deaths of Marilyn Monroe and Dorothy Kilgallen, and discovers that the author recklessly engaged in twisting the facts to suit his theories through the use of a fabricated friendship, peculiar and unreliable resources, discredited witnesses, and more in Part 1 of a two-part analysis.
