Is Trump going to release the JFK files?
Jefferson Morley
April 22, 2018
Joan Mellen, professor and historian at Temple University, doubts it:
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Joan Mellen on the USS Liberty attack
Jefferson Morley
July 7, 2017
Joan Mellen sends word she is writing a book about the attack on the USS Liberty in 1967. I recently posted about James Angleton’s role in the incident. …
Attacking Trump’s JFK theories, the New York Times neglects the facts
Jefferson Morley
October 18, 2016
The disturbing shadow of John F. Kennedy’s assassination remains visible in American politics and journalism.
Witness the appearance of Roger Stone, adviser to Donald Trump, at a symposium on Lee Harvey Oswald in New Orleans, which drew the attention of the New York Times (and the pro-Clinton attack group Media Matters.)
“At a time when talk of having lost the country is very much in vogue, along with deep suspicions of a powerful and secretive elite, the symposium seemed remarkably of the moment,” writes reporter Campbell Robertson.
Of course, reporting on how fears of secret power are driving the discourse of the 2016 presidential election is an eminently timely and worthy subject. But reporting is what Robertson failed to do. Instead of learning the latest JFK facts, Times readers were served a birthday cake. …
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Joan Mellen on LBJ, Texas, and JFK
Jefferson Morley
October 17, 2016
Recommended: Alan Dale speaks with Joan Mellen about her new book “Faustian Bargains: Lyndon Johnson and Mac Wallace in the Robber Baron Culture of Texas.”
In a new look at LBJ, Joan Mellen debunks the Mac Wallace myth
Jefferson Morley
October 12, 2016
In her new book about Lyndon Johnson, Faustian Bargains, Joan Mellen does something all too rare in the world of JFK research. She checked an oft-asserted “fact,” and found it isn’t a fact at all, but a fiction.
But first, the book. Faustian Bargains is intended less as a biography of LBJ than a portrait of the “robber baron culture” of Texas” and corrective to Robert Caro’s magisterial multi-volume biography, which Mellen scorns for its favorable depiction of LBJ’s political skills and legislative accomplishments.
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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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Watch the trailer for JFK documentary, ‘Killing Oswald’
Jefferson Morley
April 8, 2016
The film is called Killing Oswald. I haven’t seen it but Mark Groubert has and here is what he said in his review for Crooks and Liars: …
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Comment of the week
Tom S.
February 16, 2016
Ronnie Wayne – February 11
…. I guess the other main theory of the thread is it means all of DiEugenio and Mellen’s work, as well as Garrison’s is junk?
In New Orleans, ‘Oswald’s Summer of Secrets’
Jefferson Morley
October 15, 2015
“Oswald’s Summer of Secrets: New Orleans and the JFK Assassination” is the topic of conference in the Crescent City starting tomorrow October 16. Some JFK writers whose work I admire will speak, including Joan Mellen, Russ Baker, and Jim Marrs.
I won’t be attending.
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JFK authors defend John McAdams as Marquette seeks to fire him
Jefferson Morley
February 10, 2015
John McAdams is a walking test of the First Amendment.
The Marquette political science professor is an obnoxious, persistent climate-change denier with a passion for attacking skeptics of the official theory of JFK’s assassination and smearing “liberals” for supposedly suppressing free speech. He is, in a word, an ass, an independent-minded donkey of a scholar with a thin skin and bad manners.
Once upon a time, he tried to accuse me (and this website) of supposedly suppressing his JFK opinions, an argument that he had to abandon when I welcomed his anti-conspiracist views on the site (within the capacious limits of the site’s comment policy).
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Pass or fail? The Warren Commission report reviewed 50 years later
Jefferson Morley
August 26, 2014
On the upcoming 50th anniversary of the publication of Warren Commission report in September 1964, not one but two conferences in the Washington DC area will take a close look at the report and its account of JFK’s assassination, which most Americans do not believe is accurate. …
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What we’ve learned since the Warren Commission report
Jefferson Morley
July 25, 2014
From the Assassination Archives and Research Center:
“The AARC is hosting a conference commemorating the 50th anniversary of the release of the Warren Commission Report on the Assassination of President Kennedy: “The Warren Report and the JFK Assassination: A Half Century of Significant Disclosures.” …
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Jim Garrison conference in Las Vegas
Jefferson Morley
January 29, 2014
Jim Marrs, Dick Russell, and Joan Mellen will be celebrating Jim Garrison at a conference to be held at the University of Las Vegas, Nevada, at 7 pm on Friday Jan. 31.
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Mellen defends Jim Garrison
Jefferson Morley
October 18, 2013
At the Duquesne JFK conference, Joan Mellen, a professor at Temple University and author of “Farewell to Justice,” sings the praises of the New Orleans District Attorney as depicted in Oliver Stone’s “JFK.”
“If it hadn’t been for Jim Garrison there would have been no Oliver Stone or ‘JFK,’ and if there was no ‘JFK,’ there would be no JFK Assassination Records Act,” Mellen said. “And if there was no JFK Records Collection at the National Archives, none of the books written about the Kennedy presidency in the past 20 years could have been written,” Mellen said.
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