The hit man and the mobster: Jack Ruby and Santos Trafficante
Arnaldo M. Fernandez
August 31, 2014
Why did Jack Ruby kill Lee Oswald?
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Top 5 JFK Facts stories of the week: Counterintelligence rules
Jefferson Morley
June 14, 2014
While the story of Sven Christensen, the senior U.S. Air Force official who saw November 22 as ‘a military coup” remained popular, two stories about CIA Counterintelligence Staff and JFK’s assassination drew strong reader interest as well.
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Top 5 JFK Facts stories
Jefferson Morley
June 7, 2014
The very interesting story of U.S. Air Force officer Sven Christensen and his reaction to the events of November 1963 topped the best-read stories list this week. Thanks to helpful readers, I am now in touch with Jeff Christensen and hope to learn more. …
JFK Facts Top 5 for the month of May
Jefferson Morley
May 30, 2014
Usually, we recap the Top 5 JFK stories of the week on Friday, but as the end of the month nears, it’s time to take a look at the bigger picture: What are the best-read JFK stories in May?
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Top 5 JFK Facts stories: the GIF that keeps giving
Jefferson Morley
May 23, 2014
This week’s most popular JFK Facts stories confirm some enduring truths: …
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Top 5 JFK stories of the week
Jefferson Morley
May 16, 2014
This week brought a burst of interest in the tagged posts on George Hickey, the late Secret Service Man who was falsely accused of firing the fatal shot that killed President Kennedy. I was glad to see people are getting the true story.
The bogus “Secret Service Man Did It” conspiracy meme (it doesn’t deserve to be called a theory) has persisted since the publication of a foolish book called Mortal Error in the 1980s. The meme was revived for the 50th anniversary of JFK’s assassination by REELZ Channel and an Australian cop who should know better. And Malcolm Gladwell should definitely know better.
JFK Facts: setting the record straight since 2013.
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JFK Facts Top 5: Oswald’s wallet fascinates
Jefferson Morley
May 2, 2014
The runaway winner of the best-read JFK Facts story for the second week in a row is Bill Simpich’s investigation of Oswald’s wallet.
The Top 5: …
JFK Facts Top 5: Opening Oswald’s wallet
Jefferson Morley
April 25, 2014
The runaway winner of the best read story of the week was Bill Simpich’s inquiry into the curious case of Oswald’s wallet.
Readers also gravitated to three stories about the late John Judge, founder of Coalition on Political Assassinations.
The Top 5: …
JFK Facts Top 5: Oswald and the theologians
Jefferson Morley
April 18, 2014
The single most popular story on JFK Facts for the week of April 10-17 recounted how Lee Oswald apparently fired a rifle shot at Gen. Edwin Walker, a right-wing firebrand and critic of JFK, in April 1963. The second most popular story linked United Methodist minister Lance Moore and theologian James Douglass as a unique type of JFK author:
The top five:
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JFK Facts Top 5: Comments and recommendations
Jefferson Morley
April 4, 2014
While the site was under construction, readers flocked to Comment Editor Peter Voskamp’s directive to the commenting crowd, and perennially popular pages about Gail Raven’s memories of her friend Jack Ruby, about secret CIA files and about the best JFK websites.
These were the most-read stories from March 27 to April 3: …
JFK Facts Top 5: Stories with legs
Jefferson Morley
March 21, 2014
Readers responded to Sunshine Week in Washington by making our story about secrecy around JFK records the favorite story of the week. In self-referential twist, last week’s Top 5 Countdown was the second most popular story of the week thus landing in this week’s countdown. And for the 2nd week in a role the story of cops gravitating to the grassy knoll in the aftermath of JFK’s assassination came in at number 5. As we say in the journalism business, that story has legs.
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JFK Facts Top 5: Stories about evidence find favor
Jefferson Morley
March 14, 2014
The story of how the U.S. Attorney in Washington DC made a small but significant change to the government’s accounting of the whereabouts of undercover CIA officer George Joannides in 1963 was the most viewed JFK Facts story for the week of March 6-13.
That story, like popular stories about Douglas Horne’s take on the medical evidence and sound engineer Ed Primeau’s work on the Air Force One tapes, is based on granular examination of facts and their pattern.
It seems that readers want evidence, not theories.
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JFK Facts Top 5: Readers flock to unanswered NSA questions
Jefferson Morley
March 7, 2014
Last week’s post about the possibility of NSA targeting JFK Web sites for “cognitive infiltration”–and the NSA’s refusal to respond to questioning–was the most popular story of the week, followed closely by Rick Bauer’s recollections of his friend David Ferrie.
Gail Raven’s ever-popular recollections about her friend Jack Ruby fell to third place.
And the winners are:
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Most viewed JFK Facts stories of the week
Jefferson Morley
February 14, 2014
These were the best read JFK Facts stories in the week of Feb. 7-13
1) Ex-flame says Jack Ruby ‘had no choice’ but to kill Oswald (March 21, 2013)
2) Belzer misses the mark with ‘Hit List’ (Feb. 3, 2014)
3) Top 6 Washington insiders who suspected a JFK plot (Feb. 6, 2014)
4) Is ‘Badgeman’ for real? (Feb.9, 2014)
5) David Talbot’s top 7 JFK books (Feb. 11, 2014)
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Top 5 most popular JFK Facts stories in January
Jefferson Morley
January 31, 2014
Gail Raven’s timeless story about her admiring friend Jack Ruby stays in it perennial spot at #1, followed by a discussion of former White House information czar Cass Sunstein and the state of the case.
1) Ex-flame says Jack Ruby ‘had no choice’ but to kill Oswald (March 21, 2013)
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