Tag Archive for David Talbot

What’s the best recent book about the JFK assassination?

By recent I mean published for the first time in the last 10 years.

Q & A with Jeff Greenfield: ‘I have revisited my revisionism’

After writing up the news of Jeff Greenfield’s forthcoming book, “What If JFK Had Lived?” I contacted him to see if he would answer some questions about the book’s scope and purpose. He responded right away by email. Read more

Is Max Holland right about JFK and Cuba?

Max Holland unearths a JFK-related document recently found in Bobby Kennedy’s papers. The story it tells provides a granular look at the workings of President Kennedy’s Cuba policy on the eve of the disaster in Dallas. Read more

RFK Jr. resets the JFK debate with his remarks in Dallas

RFK Jr. (with sister Rory) speaks candidly about Dallas

You know how the conventional wisdom about gay marriage went from icky controversy to cuddly wisdom over the last four years?

You know how cannabis legalization went from stoner madness to sensible libertarianism in the past eighteen months?

Something like that is about to happen with  the JFK assassination story. The elite media Washington consensus about the JFK story is evolving from the fringe to the mainstream, propelled by this straightforward report from the Dallas Morning News. Read more

COPA conference 2013: ‘Fifty years is enough’

John Judge’s Coalition on Political Assassinations has opened registration for its conference in Dallas on the 50th anniversary of JFK’s assassination. Among the confirmed speakers,  Read more

The Yuma Sun hearts O’Reilly’s JFK yarn

But editor John Vaughn says there’s nothing new in the TV talk show host’s “Killing Kennedy.”

Which is unfortunately true. Read more