Raven Rock and the presidential succession of 1963

December 17, 2019Assassination, Review2 comments

Dan Alcorn illuminates an underappreciated aspect of November 22, 1963. President Kennedy and his government had been preparing for a succession emergency for some time.

When President Kennedy was shot in Dallas, our nuclear weapons system would have needed urgently to know who was in command, and when word of the President’s death came, the system would immediately switch command to the Vice President, now the successor commander-in-chief. The swearing-in ceremony is a mere formality– power would have passed when word of the President’s death was first received. Standby authority for military officers to use nuclear weapons existed if the President or designated successor

Source: Raven Rock by author Garrett Graff Reviewed by Dan Alcorn, AARC Board member

I was a middle-aged JFK lone-nutter (briefly)

December 12, 2019Assassination, Experts2 comments

Honest recollections from Vince Palamara, the Secret Service researcher extraordinaire. He bought the official JFK story for a while. Nothing wrong with that.  Millions did. Then he took a closer look and changed his mind. I like his candor about how it happened. He writes:

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Talking About Angleton, Philby, Oswald, and Israel

December 9, 2019Angleton, Assassination, VideoNo comments

The other day I talked about my book THE GHOST with Keenan Duffey, host the Thrill Is Gone podcast, about espionage, real and fictional.

I Explain the JFK Story to Canadian TV

December 2, 2019Assassination, Best ofOne comment

This 2017 Canadian Broadcasting Company show is a good example of how foreign news outlets have covered the JFK assassination story with more care, depth, and balance than American news organizations.

This interview enabled me to explain the current relevance of my research fully. A friend pointed out that its been seen by more than 2 million people. h/t Chris)

If you like me, check out my blog The Deep State, which covers secret intelligence agencies worldwide.

JFK: “A citizens movement that speaks up for historical truth”

November 22, 2019Action, Assassination, Best of, Video2 comments

On the 50th anniversary of JFK’s assassination in 2013, I gave this speech to a crowd of several hundred people in Dallas. It stands the test of time.

Fetzer Loses Sandy Hook Defamation Case

October 23, 2019Assassination, News10 comments

James Fetzer is an odious, obnoxious man. I met him via JFK assassination discussions and found him knowledgable about certain facts but rather unhinged. He thrived on picking fights. He impugned me as a CIA collaborator who was hiding the truth about deceased undercover operative George Joannides. I reminded him that the allegation was stupid because, if it wasn’t for my reporting, he wouldn’t know anything about Joannides.

I’m happy to report that the courts have punished Fetzer for his vile conspiracy theories about the Sandy Hook school shooting.

The focus of the Wisconsin lawsuit was a 455-page book, titled “Nobody Died at Sandy Hook: It Was a FEMA Drill to Promote Gun Control,” which claimed the massacre at Sandy Hook was staged by the federal government to promote tighter gun control measures. Among other things, the book claimed that the school had been abandoned years before a gunman killed 20 first graders and six staff members.

Source: Sandy Hook Father Is Awarded $450,000 in Defamation Case – The New York Times

RIP: Dr. Robert McClelland, the most important JFK witness

September 25, 2019Assassination, Best of, Experts, They Talked38 comments

Dr. Robert McClelland saw JFK’s wounds up close on November 22, 1963.

Dr. Robert McClelland, the surgeon who oversaw the effort to save President Kennedy’s life in 1963, died earlier this month at age 89.  In his interviews, you sense a man of considerable dignity, humility, and integrity. It comes as no surprise that he self-published an anthology of writings on surgery to which thousands of doctors subscribed. He was both a teacher and doctor, an instructor and  a healer. And it is those qualities that make McClelland one of the most important witnesses to JFK’s assassination.

In 1963, McClelland was 34 years old. He had just become the chief of surgery at Dallas’s Parkland Hospital. When the mortally wounded JFK was brought to Trauma Room One, McClelland stood over the dying president and participated in the efforts to save him. He observed the president’s fatal head wound for about 10 minutes from a distance of less than two feet.

“My God,” he recalled saying to his colleagues. “Have you seen the back of his head. There’s a wound in the back of his head that’s about five inches in diameter.”

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Inside the CIA, JFK suspicions turned to James Angleton

September 6, 2019Angleton, Assassination10 comments

William Colby, CIA
William Colby, CIA director 1973-75

A recent Daily Mail article on JFK’s assassination highlighted James Johnson’s new book, Murder Inc.: The CIA Under President John F. Kennedy which argues Cuba government may have been involved.

There are many reasons to doubt this conspiracy theory, which I detailed in this 2012 article for Salon. Those reasons still apply. But Johnson is right about one thing: The central role of James Angleton, CIA counterintelligence chief in obstructing the JFK investigation is highly suspicious. Those suspicions, in fact, reached the highest levels of the CIA itself.

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Seven Years Ago, We Launched a Blog Called JFK Facts. These Are 29 New Facts We Found

August 20, 2019Assassination, Best of25 comments

In the fall of 2012 my friend Rex Bradford and I bought the domain name “jfkfacts.org” and launched this web site. This post is about what we have learned since then.

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29) RIP Rep Walter Jones, Congressman who sought full JFK disclosure

August 13, 2019Assassination, Best of2 comments

Walter Jones
Rep. Walter Jones, Republican of North Carolina

“I want the truth to come out. The truth needs to come out,” Rep. Walter Jones told McClatchy’s Washington Bureau in October 2017.

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28) After Trump’s broken promise, 15,834 JFK files remain secret

August 12, 2019Assassination, Best of, News4 comments

On October 26, 2017, President Trump was a happy tweeter:

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27) Medal for stonewalling: one JFK secret the CIA plans to keep

August 11, 2019Assassination, Best of, Morley v. CIA, News5 comments

One of the most important JFK documents uncovered the Morley v. CIA  lawsuit is this photograph.

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26) Who was George Joannides and why is his story important?

August 10, 2019Assassination, Best of, Morley v. CIA, Question22 comments
Trinchera

George Joannides, now deceased, was an undercover CIA officer based in Miami and New Orleans in 1963.

His actions provides strong evidence that certain Agency personnel manipulated Lee Harvey Oswald for propaganda purposes before and after President Kennedy was shot dead in Dallas on November 22, 1963.

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25) Anatomy of a cover-up: G. Robert Blakey on how the CIA stonewalled the HSCA

August 9, 2019Assassination, Best of, Video7 comments
Blakey

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23) Bill Harvey’s widow talks about his hatred of JFK and his friendship with a gangster

August 8, 2019Assassination, Best of, Video150 comments


This world exclusive video, first published on JFK Facts in 2014, presents a fascinating interview with CG Harvey, the widow of legendary CIA officer William King Harvey.

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