Connecting the dots in the Met Breuer’s show about conspiracy theories
Jefferson Morley
October 17, 2018
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How Jack Ruby got away with murder
Jefferson Morley
October 2, 2018
Fifty-two years ago this week, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, the state’s last resort for all criminal cases, reversed Ruby’s murder conviction and death sentence and ordered a new trial because of the trial judge’s egregious legal errors. Because Ruby died before he could be retried, in the eyes of the law, he will always be an innocent man.
New footage of Jack Ruby surfaces
Jefferson Morley
December 15, 2017
It’s from 1960, as D magazine explains.
Why did Ruby kill Lee Harvey Oswald? Here’s what a friend said.
Mark Shaw on Dorothy Kilgallen’s JFK investigation
Jefferson Morley
December 7, 2016
I was intrigued by advance notice of Mark Shaw’s new book, The Reporter Who Knew Too Much, both because its subject, pioneering journalist Dorothy Kilgallen, and the medi credentials of author Mark Shaw.
Shaw describes himself as a former criminal defense lawyer, legal analyst for USA Today, ESPN, and CNN, and the author of 25 books. I sent Shaw some questions and he responded thusly:
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Dorothy Kilgallen on Jack Ruby
Jefferson Morley
December 1, 2016
Dorothy Kilgallen was one of the first female syndicated columnist in U.S. newspapers after World War II. After JFK was killed she broke a big stories about Jack Ruby, the assassin of accused assassin Lee Harvey Oswald.
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Who was Dorothy Kilgallen?
Jefferson Morley
November 17, 2016
In the early 1960s, Dorothy Kilgallen was perhaps the most famous female news reporter in America. She was also an early critic of the Warren Commission report. Then she died, reportedly of a drug overdose. …
MKULTRA mystery: the CIA and Jack Ruby
Jefferson Morley
November 10, 2016
This incredible story of MKULTRA and Jack Ruby is, alas, well-documented.
Was the CIA manipulating Ruby mentally before or after he killed Oswald? It’s not a crazy question. Given what we now know, it’s a necessary question.
From Glomar Disclosure, a tale from the CIA’s own crypts.
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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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Comment of the week
Tom S.
December 29, 2015
Ronnie Wayne – December 28
Melba Christine Marcades, aka Rose Cheramie was found dead on the road in Big Sandy Texas in front of the property of Dallas billionare H L Hunt’ top security officer. Her head had been run over but a bullet wound in it was also found in her head. …
New Orleans mobster said Jack Ruby was a ‘goombah’
Jefferson Morley
December 10, 2015
From The Advocatee — Baton Rouge, Louisiana, a fun obituary of an unrepentant crook with a delicious name, Frenchy Brouillete.
Marcello’s name cropped up in various JFK assassination theories, and a House Select Committee report in 1979 mentioned “credible associations relating both Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Ruby to figures having a relationship, albeit tenuous, with Marcello’s crime family or organization.” In the Randazzo book published last year, Brouillette describes Ruby — who killed presumed Kennedy assassin Oswald — as “another Marcello family goombah.
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‘Assassination Theater’ probes a Mafia plot against JFK
Jefferson Morley
September 24, 2015
“I’m an investigative reporter but I’ve always loved plays,” says Hillel Levin. The result is “Assassination Theater,” Levin’s investigative drama about the murder of President John F. Kennedy, now playing at the Museum of Broadcast Communications in Chicago.
Focusing on Chicago FBI agent Zach Shelton, the four-man drama develops a “Mafia did it” interpretation of JFK’s assassination, along with excursions into the medical evidence and the life of Jack Ruby.
It is unusual territory for a stage drama.
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‘Assassination Theater’ brings JFK story to the stage
Jefferson Morley
August 4, 2015
The Museum of Broadcast Communications in Chicago will be the setting for a bold and provocative play about the assassination of our 35th president.”
Opening August 11, the play was written by editor/author Hillel Levin. He blames the Chicago organized crime figures for the Kennedy’s death. Levin says the play will bring new information to light proving his claim.
I’m most curious about what Levin has to say about Jack Ruby, the man who lived at the intersection of the JFK story and Chicago organized crime. …
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Hal Hendrix, journalist who collaborated with the CIA, dies at 92
Jefferson Morley
March 18, 2015
Hal Hendrix was one of those respectable figures who hovered on the edge of the JFK assassination story. He was a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist whose service to the CIA is well-documented (though blandly denied in his recent Miami Herald obituary). He died Feb. 12 in Vero Beach, Florida. He was 92 years old.
Who was Hal Hendrix and what was his role in the JFK story?
One version comes from the Spartacus Educational Forum. John Simkin writes:
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Why the Warren Commission got scared of Castro
Arnaldo M. Fernandez
September 27, 2014
The Warren Commission didn’t get scared if Fidel Castro because of Lyndon B. Johnson’s chilling warning to Chief Justice Earl Warren about rumors that “if not quenched, could conceivably lead the country into a war which could cost 40 million lives.” …
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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