Jim DiEugenio exposes the myriad problems of Rick Perlstein's writings on both the presidency of John Kennedy and his assassination. He got it wrong in the beginning and he has gotten worse since.
Oliver Stone Interview Award
This interview with Oliver Stone by Ed Rampell was awarded second place at the National Arts and Entertainment Journalism Awards in the category of Personality Profiles. We post it here in case you missed it. Read more.
Max Arvo completes his milestone study of just what forces were shaping Jack Ruby after he was held in detention, stood trial, and especially after in order to neutralize him as a witness in the JFK case.
Review of The Plot to Kill President Kennedy in Chicago
Written by James DiEugenio
Secret Service expert Vince Palamara delivers new information about the attempts to kill JFK in Chicago and elsewhere. Kennedy was not getting out of 1963 alive.
Malcolm X lawsuit against FBI, CIA and NYPD filed
The family of murdered black civil rights activist Malcolm X is suing the FBI, the CIA and the New York police department. Read more.
Dr. Hubert Winston Smith, a new name, had an inordinate influence over Melvin Belli's defense team. In fact he chose all three psychiatrists who examined Ruby. And he entered the case before Belli and strongly influenced the defense strategy.
Max Arvo has done some extraordinary research in his reassessment and review of Oswald's killer, Jack Ruby. This is Part One of a remarkable three part, over thirty page series dealing with the life and death of a man who took his secrets to his grave. Did he wish to, or was he coerced?
In this two part essay, Mr. Washburn raises genuine questions about the movements of Oswald after the assassination. Was he on the McWatters' bus? Was he in the Whaley cab? There are serious holes in both stories. And the Commission itself wondered about an imposter.
In this two part essay, Mr. Washburn raises genuine questions about the movements of Oswald after the assassination. Was he on the McWatters' bus? Was he in the Whaley cab? There are serious holes in both stories. And the Commission itself wondered about an imposter.
LIbby Hndros and John Kirby continue their important series on the assassinations of the sixties, this installment is on JFK's attempts to break away from Cold War foreign policy in favor of nationalism and independence in the fifties.
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Incredibly, Wallace uses Judy Exner and Sy Hersh as crucial sources to create a mythology about the election of 1960. Apparently not knowing that Hersh's book and Exner had already been discredited.
Chris Wallace has assembled a truly awful book about the election of 1960 that uses very dubious sources in order to inflate Nixon and deflate Kennedy.
Ethel Kennedy Passes
Ethel Kennedy, widow of Robert F.Kennedy, has passed on at age 96 from the aftermath of a stroke. Read more.
Death to Justice: The Shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald - Part 1
Written by Paul Bleau
Paul Abbott's forthcoming book, Death to Justice: The Shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald provides the most in-depth analysis yet on the murder of the alleged assassin, Lee Oswald. Using witness statements, evidence and visual records, that are scrutinized for the first time in this book. New light is also shed on Oswald's actual shooting, proving that the the topic, largely seen as the most open-and-shut aspect of that weekend in November of 1963, is not. Below is the foreword by Paul Bleau:
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