Jim DiEugenio speaks with Jason on how Kennedy's foreign policy was changed immediately after his assassination, how Lyndon Johnson intimidated Earl Warren into the Lone Gunmen thesis, and who Oswald really was.

Monica Wiesak profiles RFK Jr. and his Israeli policy, and how they markedly differs from President Kennedy's problems with that country. Which were not resolved at the time of his murder.

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Were the threats to kill Oswald genuine, or were they part of a secret plan to get the Dallas Police to improve their protection of the defendant, who was loudly proclaiming his innocence?

Paul Abbott revisits a tangent from the first edition of his book, ‘Death to Justice – The Shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald’, involving the threats to kill Oswald before his eventual murder on Sunday, November 24^th, 1963.

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.

Jim DiEugenio takes Fredrik Logevall to task for his role in both the current Turning Point series on Vietnam and his prior role in the Ken Burns/Lynn Novick series on the subject.

In this volume, Fetter makes his case for a conspiracy, one featuring Lyndon Johnson and, of all people, the deceased House Speaker Sam Rayburn. To say that it does not work is being much too kind to the author.

The efforts by the mainstream media to malign the accomplishments and legacy of President Kennedy continue in force almost 60 years after his death, so Jim DiEugenio expands his new series thwarting the LBJ apologists and hagiographers by examining the background and work of Mark Updegrove as part of these efforts and correcting the many flaws in his historical comprehension.

Jim DiEugenio completes his review of this disappointing and less-than-candid four-part series about Johnson and his presidency, LBJ: Triumph and Tragedy, by reviewing the details of Johnson’s entrance into Vietnam and his escalation of the war that ultimately led to the fragmentation of the Democratic Party and a descent into militarism from which the nation has yet to recover.

Jim DiEugenio redresses the historical and academic dishonesty of Michael Kazin’s thinly veiled screed against President John F. Kennedy under the guise of a review of a biography that only covers his life through 1956 by meticulously articulating the facts of Kennedy's domestic and foreign policy positions.