Chapo Trap House meets JFK
Jefferson Morley
July 4, 2022
In which we unravel the “whole Bay of Pigs thing,” and how Hollywood glamorizes the CIA
Talking about American power with Parallax Views
Jefferson Morley
June 8, 2022
…..the dual lives and “clandestine collaborative relationship” between CIA director Richard Helms and PresidentRichard Nixon ….
The Complicated Case of James Angleton
Jefferson Morley
December 17, 2021
I recently spoke with Justin Black, host of the the SpyCraft101 podcast, about The Ghost, my 2017 biography of the legendary counterintelligence chief.
JFK’s Assassination Explained For British History Channel
Jefferson Morley
December 2, 2021
When History Hit, a British history channel, asked me for an interview about the 58th anniversary of JFK’s assassination, I hastened to agree, especially when they said they’d throw in a hundred dollars for my trouble. “A hundred quid is always welcome,” I said to my new-found Cousins. Stateside news outlets are rarely so fair to free-lance talent. …
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Putting the JFK Story in Context for The Alarmist
Jefferson Morley
November 15, 2021
I got a nice from The Alarmist after we had this conversation last week:
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What did we learn from the 2017 JFK releases?
Jefferson Morley
March 29, 2021
“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.
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What will Biden do about the last of the JFK files?
Jefferson Morley
March 21, 2021
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.
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A Joint Statement on the Kennedy, King and Malcolm X Assassinations and Ongoing Cover-ups
Jefferson Morley
March 20, 2019
This letter was released in conjunction with the celebration of the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, January 21, 2019. It was signed by 50 people, including members of the Kennedy and King families as well as doctors, lawyers, activists, and scholars across the political spectrum (names attached.
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JFK Facts Podcast: How to watch ‘JFK Declassified’ and retain your sanity
Alan Dale
May 8, 2017
This week Alan and I pick up where we left off in our ongoing discussion about Bob Baer and History Channel’s six-part docu-series, “JFK Declassified.” …
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JFK Facts Podcast: What will the History Channel say about JFK and CIA?
Alan Dale
April 24, 2017
Alan and I talked about the upcoming History Channel’s JFK Declassified: Tracking Oswald, a six-part docu-series on Kennedy assassination story, which begins Tuesday, April 25th. Based on what I know, I have mixed feelings about the show.
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JFK Facts Podcast: On Antonio Veciana’s memoir, ‘Trained To Kill’
Alan Dale
April 18, 2017
This week Alan and I talk about the importance of Trained To Kill: The Inside Story of CIA Plots Against Castro, Kennedy, and Che, a new memoir written by former anti-Castro militant Antonio Veciana with Carlos Harrison.
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JFK Facts podcast: The trouble with conspiracy theories and their critics
Alan Dale
September 20, 2016
Jefferson Morley and Alan Dale discuss Cass Sunstein’s ideas concerning conspiracy theories and conspiracy theorists.
- Conspiracy theory as a political issue
- The US government and the Theory of Incompetence
- Sunstein and Vermeule: Conspiracy Theories (2008)
- Dr. Cyril H. Wecht’s Reply to Sunstein and Vermeule
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JFK Facts podcast: More about how to think (and not think) about the JFK story
Alan Dale
September 10, 2016
Jefferson Morley and Alan Dale continue their discussion about the challenge of acquiring reliable methods by which reason and objectivity may prevail over alleged facts and confirmation bias.
- Making sense of the JFK assassination 53 years later
- Thomas Jefferson’s secret and almost 200 years of faulty expertise
- Applying Thomas Kuhn’s “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions” to our understanding and methods
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Doctor’s prescription: how to think about the story of JFK assassination
Jefferson Morley
September 2, 2016
A doctor friend, a psychiatrist, writes:
“In listening to your latest JFK Facts podcast, I realized that many people cannot ‘see; the evidence that contradicts the standard interpretation of the Kennedy assassination because of a phenomenon described by Thomas Kuhn in “The Structure of Scientific Revolution.” This may be too theoretical for most people, but it was Kuhn who described the problems encountered with paradigm changes.” …
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JFK Facts podcast: 28 pages on 9/11, another Dallas nightmare, and more…
Alan Dale
July 15, 2016
Our 7th podcast. This week we discuss:
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