Jim DiEugenio revisits the TFX affair, in light of current research, and gets to the bottom of the smear campaign led by Henry Jackson and others against the procurement reforms being instituted by Robert McNamara and JFK.
Peer reviewed forensics journal publishes decaying disinformation, and new fraud, all to sell the lone nut theory, at any cost. Apparently they didn’t even verify the most basic facts. Have they no shame?
The irony of Newsmax posting an article entitled “Conspiracy Theories Merit Only Undivided Suspicion” is “too rich to be ignored,” writes Jim DiEugenio, because its CEO and founder, Chris Ruddy, was responsible for propagating one of the wildest and most rudderless conspiracy theories of recent decades: that Vince Foster was murdered by sinister forces employed by Bill and Hillary Clinton.
Mike Kilroy surveys the historical timeline of public relations and the JFK case, emphasizing the publicity surrounding Lee Harvey Oswald before and after the assassination and the role of the CIA and Operation Mockingbird in framing the story in both the mainstream media and the governmental investigations from 1963 to the present day.
Arnaldo Fernandez answers Pedro Roig's recent article from the Cuban Studies Institute, in order to set the record straight regarding Castro's involvement in the JFK assassination.
Paul Bleau reveals the scorching hot potato that is Oswald's last letter to the Soviet Embassy and how the Warren Commission and HSCA attempted to sweep it under the rug.
Jim DiEugenio reviews Mad Brugger’s new film Cold Case Hammarskjold in light of the political struggle in Congo and the recurrence of European imperialism there.
Jim DiEugenio critiques Dennis Breo’s printed letter to the New York Times and revisits Breo’s history of spreading incomplete nonsense and denying facts about the JFK autopsy and the doctors who conducted it.
Jeff Carter revisits Gerald Posner’s book on the MLK assassination, Killing the Dream, in light of a recent New Yorker Magazine article which rehashes many of Posner’s narratives and specious conclusions.
Jim DiEugenio reviews Martin Scorsese and Robert DeNiro’s long and expensive new film, The Irishman, which propagates many of the myths surrounding Frank Sheeran found in Brandt’s book.
After reviewing the recently released JFK assassination records, Mark Adamczyk outlines his frustration and outrage at the government's failure to comply with the JFK Act.
Jim DiEugenio discusses Mark Zaid's connection to the whistleblower investigation against Trump and his earlier role in spreading misinformation about the JFK assassination.
We publish here two FBI documents from the week of the JFK assassination that demonstrate FBI knowlege of David Ferrie and his association with Lee Harvey Oswald through the Civil Air Patrol (CAP).
Jim DiEugenio critiques Thomas Herman's recent Boston Globe editorial for its ignorance of contemporary research and perpetuation of false narratives concerning JFK and Vietnam.
Could it be that the terrible things that occurred in Italy in the postwar era were the result of the people responsible for running the show having cut their teeth on the real war, where it was clear that “anything went” in order to win?
We publish here a noteworthy interview Jim Garrison gave to a European publication on May 27, 1969, in which he draws attention to, among other things, the connection between the assassinations of JFK, MLK and RFK.