JFK Facts Podcast: Investigator Josiah Thompson on the gunfire in Dallas

May 17, 2021 Assassination No comments

Grassy knoll aftermath
A cop runs toward the grassy knoll moments after President Kennedy was shot.

Josiah “Tink” Thompson, retired private investigator and pioneering JFK researcher, speaks with Alan Dale, host of the JFK Facts podcast. Thompson had a long career as a private investigator working on major criminal and financial fraud cases, giving him unparalleled experience in unravelling complex conspiracies. The author of 1967’s “Six Second in Dallas,” Thompson has now updated that classic with new research, corrections, and his revised conclusions about the crossfire that killed President Kennedy.

When it comes to new books about JFK’s assassination, Dale says, “Unquestionably the biggest news is the publication of “Last Second in Dallas.”

You can buy Last Second in Dallas, published by the University Press of Kansas here.

 

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Federal Declassification Board Calls for JFK Disclosure

May 14, 2021 Action, Assassination, Best of, Full Disclosure, News No comments

The Public Interest Declassification Board is an office in the U.S. government that advises the White House on declassification of government records with the goal of “the fullest possible public access to a thorough, accurate, and reliable documentary record of significant U.S. national security decisions.”

In recent post on the PIDB’s blog, Transforming Classification, the nine-member board signaled its support for maximum disclosure of the still-secret JFK assassination files.

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How the CIA plotted the ‘accidental’ death of Raul Castro

April 26, 2021 Assassination, Best of, Documents, News No comments

One of blackest of the black arts of espionage is the assassination operation designed to disguise who was reallly responsible.

Case in point: a newly-disclosed CIA plot to kill Raul Castro, commander of the Cuban armed forces, by making it look like he died in a plane crash.

From Peter Kornbluh, a leading Cuba scholar, in SpyTalk:

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Only 15,834 Secrets Block Full JFK Assassination Disclosure

April 21, 2021 Action, Assassination, Full Disclosure, News No comments

Federal Agencies Face April Deadline on Secret JFK Files

‘Last Second in Dallas’: Debate and Agreement

April 13, 2021 Assassination, Best of, Experts, Review No comments

The publication of Tink Thompson’s “Last Second in Dallas,” and a favorable review from San Francisco Chronicle movie critic Mick LaSalle, has triggered a debate about the forensic evidence in the case.

Dr. Randy Robertson has published a critique of Thompson’s work on the Kennedys and Kings web site. On the the Assassination Archives and Research Center, Drs. Gary Aguilar, Dr. Doug DeSalles, and attorney Bill Simpich say Robertson’s critique is based on five factual mistakes.

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Josiah Thompson on how to think about November 22

April 9, 2021 Assassination, Best of, Review One comment

Josiah Thompson, known to friends as Tink, is the JFK researcher emeritus. As a philosophy graduate student in 1966, he was the first person (outside the CIA) to make a serious forensic analysis of Abraham Zapruder’s film of the assassination of President Kennedy. As a private investigator, he had a fascinating 30 year career.

Now Thompson is back with a new book, “Last Second in Dallas,” revising his findings in his classic “Six Seconds In Dallas.” I haven’t read the new book but this review is good and it highlights something I, and many other learned from him: how to think about the JFK story.

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What is the JFK end game?

April 6, 2021 Assassination, Best of 3 comments

Charles asks a good question:

Q. How do we define and effect justice for JFK and the untold millions of collaterally damaged victims of the Dealey Plaza attack? What is to be gained by the seemingly endless search for proof of conspiracy that in fact we have long possessed in abundance? Have we learned so little from our decades of labor in the morass of deep event studies that we continue to petition the deep state for relief from the oppression for which it is responsible?

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What did we learn from the 2017 JFK releases?

March 29, 2021 Assassination, Best of, Podcast One comment

“There’s a lot of noise around the Kennedy assassination,” I observe in the JFK Facts Podcast #2. With host Alan Dale, I try to cut though that noise and talk about what we learned about the assassination from the last round of JFK releases in 2017 and 2018?

Spoiler alert: one thing we learned about was the surveillance of Lee Harvey Oswald.

To download the podcast as an MP3: Click HERE Place cursor on file; RIGHT click and select “Save Audio As.”

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A question about the grassy knoll

March 29, 2021 Assassination No comments

MIke writes:

People keep putting stock into people who said the shot came from the knoll. Yeah I know those days were chaotic they might’ve thought it came from the mall but I look at it in the context of 911. There were there were reports that there was a sniper at the Lincoln Memorial, bomb exploded outside the state department all witness accounts turned out to be totally ridiculous. I think the silence is probably shot came from behind. What’s your response?

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Talking about JFK and the law

March 22, 2021 Assassination No comments
kavanaugh trump

The Future of Freedom Foundation has sponsoring series on the national security state and the assassination of JFK. This Wednesday, I’ll be talking about Morley v. CIA, my new eBook about how the CIA and the federal courts (with help from Brett Kavanaugh) my thwarted JFK investigation.

Buy the book here. (It’ll only cost you a buck.) Sign up for the talk here. It’s free.

The state of the still-classified JFK files

March 21, 2021 Assassination, Best of No comments

Rex Bradford and I assess the State of JFK Releases 2021 at Mary Ferrell Foundation web site.

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JFK Facts Podcast # 1 (17 March, 2021)

March 21, 2021 Assassination, Podcast No comments
JFK and LBJ

Transcript:

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What will Biden do about the last of the JFK files?

March 21, 2021 Assassination, Best of, News, Podcast One comment
Bill Burns CIA

Come October 26, 2021, President BIden is going to have to make a decision about the last of the U.S. government’s secret JFK files. There’s more than 15,000 of them. Accompanied by jazz drummer, Alan Dale, host of the JFK Facts podcast, I explain what’s going to happen and when.

To download the podcast as an MP3: Click HERE Place cursor on file; RIGHT click and select “Save Audio As.”

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Woolsey is not the first CIA man to reject the Warren Commission

February 26, 2021 Assassination, Best of, News, Review No comments

Two former intelligence chiefs have written a book about the assassination of President Kennedy that is being hyped by the not-always reliable Daily Mail.

The internet is piling on. I’m reserving judgment.

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JFK in the eyes of the law

February 25, 2021 Assassination, eBook, Morley v. CIA One comment
Jefferson Morley

Today, I talked about ebook Morley v. CIA: My Unfinished JFK investigation with William Ramsey. Listen to our conversation here.

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