The Majority Report: “The Lone Gunman theory …. has gotten less credible over time.”
jeffmorley
December 22, 2021
Here’s my best take. I spoke to CSPAN on December 20, with my comments smartly excerpted and discussed here by @MattLech and @EmmaVigeland.
JFK on KMUD’s Heroes and Patriots
jeffmorley
December 19, 2021
I recently spoke about the latest in JFK news with John Sakowicz and Mary Massey, hosts of Heroes and Patriots, a biweekly show about politics and policy, broadcast on KMUD Radio in northern California.
…JFK Is Not a Culture War
jeffmorley
December 17, 2021
One thing I like about the JFK assassination story: it’s a place where left and right (and center) can all agree. My friend James Rosen and I have very different politics and we still have illuminating conversations about JFK. For example:
…A Documentary Does Justice to Tink Thompson, the First Scholar of JFK’s Assassination
jeffmorley
December 9, 2021
Don’t let the dumb subtitle put you off. This is not a documentary about “conspiracy.” ” Produced by the ABC News affiliate in the Bay Area, JFK Unsolved is a quality production that explores and explains Last Second in Dallas, the new book by Josiah (“Tink”) Thompson that sums up his 50 years of investigation of the death of John F. Kennedy. Thompson’s work is, in a word, rigorous.
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JFK Redacted: Operation Northwoods Was Approved and Never Cancelled
jeffmorley
December 3, 2021
In a thoughtful interview on the David Pakman Show, the host and I differed on the last of the JFK assassination files to be released in the next year by order of President Biden.
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Rex Bradford, Electronic Archivist, on Biden and the Last of the JFK Files
jeffmorley
November 9, 2021
Rex Bradford, founder of the Mary Ferrell Foundation explains how he built built the largest online archive of JFK files.
JFK Redacted: CIA Counterintelligence and the Failure of Dallas
jeffmorley
October 31, 2021
The CIA now has until December 15, 2021 to produce the last of its JFK assassination files. As I told the Washington Post, I suspect this second delay in the legally-mandated release of the files is a “ruse.” I hope the CIA proves me wrong. In any case, we will learn more about the Agency’s intentions in six weeks.
Meanwhile, although BIden’s JFK records embargo is an important development, what we have learned in recent years is just as important as what we might learn. Case in point: this new video from Vince Palamara, the JFK research community’s leading expert on the Secret Service. The video illuminates one aspect of the JFK story that the CIA is still hiding 58 years after the fact.
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RIP Mort Sahl: Comedian and Warren Commission Critic Ahead of its Time
jeffmorley
October 27, 2021
John Simkin writes:
Mort Sahl died yesterday aged 94. Younger people might be unaware of Sahl’s connection with the JFK assassination. …
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Geraldo Rivera on the historic first broadcast of the Zapruder film
jeffmorley
August 19, 2021
This excellent video comes from the Sixth Floor Museum in Dallas.
Rivera, a veteran TV correspondent, made history when he broadcast Abraham Zapruder’s home movie of JFK’s assassination on national television for the first time in March 1975.
Rivera reveals he took a big risk personally.
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RIP: Trevor Moore, Satirist of Assassination
jeffmorley
August 11, 2021
Comedian Trevor Moore has died at age 41. As this bit shows, Moore was a satirist of assassination, depicting ominous events as buffoonery, to make fun of the powerful and our media obsessions.
Moore is correct that George H.W. Bush was social friends with the family of John Hinckley, the man who shot and wounded President Ronald Reagan in 1981. As Moore says in one of this thought bubbles, “Awkward!”
Moore makes one factual mistake. George H. Bush was in Dallas on November 22, 1963 and he had a friendly cooperative relationship with the CIA. But it’s not accurate to say Bush was “working for the CIA” that day. He was not employed by the CIA at the time.
Also: there’s no evidence that Bush was complicit or involved in Kennedy’s assassination.
Japan’s NHK TV: Oswald in the Eyes of the CIA
jeffmorley
July 13, 2020
Along with Rolf Mowatt-Larsen, John Newman and Dick Russell, I was interviewed extensively for this two-part show on NHK Prime, a prime-time magazine show on Japan’s public television network.
Here’s how NHK presents its latest JFK story.
…What were JFK’s two greatest speeches?
jeffmorley
June 11, 2020
President Kennedy gave two speeches, on June 10 and June 11, 1963 that changed the course of American history, says historian Andrew Cohen, author of “Two Days in June.” Cohen explained what JFK wrought in a recent interview with CBC TV host Peter Mansbridge.
June 10, 1963: A profile in courage with lethal consequences
jeffmorley
June 10, 2020
President Kennedy’s speech to the graduating class of American University in Washington DC on June 10, 1963, represented the beginning of his “strategy for peace” to wind down the Cold War. His bold proposal for a joint U.S.-Soviet moon flight was part of this strategy.
Kennedy’s vigorous style and clear mind never had a more important goal — or more powerful enemies.