Dr. Jerry Fresia reappraises the Missile Crisis ideologically through the work of the late American Prometheus co-author Martin Sherwin, whose book was the basis for the Oscar winning film Oppenheimer.

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.

Paul Bleau traces in depth the history of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee, its monitoring and manipulation by the FBI and CIA, and Oswald’s connection to it from 1962 on, in this two part essay.

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.

Michael Le Flem reviews Stephen Kinzer’s Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control (Henry Holt and Co., 2019)

at: Havana Live

By Lucien S. Vandenbroucke, in Diplomatic History; at Penn State University (Paterno Lib), May 11, 2016

In my opinion, Newman offers one of the best medium-length treatments of the Congo crisis I have read, writes Jim DiEugenio.

By Tom Jackman, at:  The Washington Post