Tag Archive for Max Holland

A medal for stonewalling: one JFK secret the CIA plans to keep

February 18, 2018Assassination, Morley v. CIA, News3 comments
Joannides medal

Retired CIA officer George Joannides (left) received the Career Intelligence Medal in 1981, two years after misleading House investigators about what he knew about Lee Oswald. (Photo credit: CIA)

One of the most important documents uncovered by my lawsuit Morley v. CIA  is this photograph showing the previously unknown fact that CIA officer George Joannides received a medal after stonewalling JFK investigators about his assassination-related actions in 1963 and 1978.

I’ll talking about this photographs in oral arguments before a federal appellate court in Washington on March 19.

Along with the photo, the CIA was forced to disclose the citation on the Career Intelligence Medal, which commended Joannides for his performance in “diverse assignments of increasing responsibility at Headquarters, the domestic field, and overseas.” Read more

Correcting some mistakes in the Weekly Standard

December 12, 2017Angleton, Assassination, Best of, News5 comments

In response to Max Holland’s piece on the new JFK files in the Weekly Standard, I sent the following letter: Read more

The Woodstein Tapes

June 17, 2017Assassination, NewsOne comment

Pakula had Goldman’s script in hand. But the obsessive filmmaker desperately wanted more detail and color about key events as well as a complete change of tone in the screenplay. So in February 1975, he sat down with Woodward (then 32 years old) and Bernstein (then 31) for the first of several sessions, taping their recollections for reference.

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Finding strange bedfellows among JFK conspiracy fans

May 18, 2017Assassination, NewsNo comments

Santa Rosa’s Ruth Paine spoke of her experience living with Lee Harvey Oswald and his wife to a group in Rincon Valley Wednesday.

Source: Smith: Finding strange bedfellows among JFK conspiracy fans | The Press Democrat

JFK Facts Podcast: How to watch ‘JFK Declassified’ and retain your sanity

May 8, 2017PodcastNo comments

This week Alan and I pick up where we left off in our ongoing discussion about Bob Baer and History Channel’s six-part docu-series, “JFK Declassified.” Read more

Daily Beast goes for an unfounded JFK theory

May 4, 2017Assassination, Best of, ReviewNo comments

In a piece for the Daily Beast, How the KGB Duped Oliver Stone, Max Holland argues that an article published in an Italian newspaper in 1967 was a KGB disinformation operation that convinced the American people and Oliver Stone that JFK was killed by a CIA conspiracy.

There are many problems with this claim. I’ll just mention four. Read more

Dale Myers v. Max Holland on the first shot

December 5, 2016Assassination, Experts5 comments

In JFK Files: Holland’s Magic Bullet, Dale Myers critiques Max Holland’s recent writing on the first gunshot fired President Kennedy’s motorcade. Holland has argued that the first shot grazed the arm of a lamp post and missed the motorcade, hit a curb and injured bystander James Tague.

In characteristically sharp language, Meyers finds Holland’s version wanting in evidence and logic. Myers argues for the Warren Commission’s version of the gunfire.

JFK Facts contributor Pat Speer responded to Holland’s theory last week.

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JFK: the truth about the first shot

November 26, 2016AssassinationNo comments

While single-assassin theorists Max Holland and Luke Haag have an ongoing feud over whether the first shot fired at President Kennedy hit a street light mast, or simply hit the street, the strong probability is that both are wrong.

The vast majority of witnesses who saw President Kennedy’s reaction to this shot described a reaction consistent with his being hit by this shot.

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What about the first shot fired at JFK?

November 16, 2016Assassination, Poll, Question, Review18 comments

That was the question raised by a 2015 article by Lucien C. Haag entitled “The Missing Bullet in the JFK Assassination,” which appeared in the publication of the Association of Firearm and Tool Mark Examiners (AFTE).

Max Holland has responded in the journal’s Fall 2016 issue and his blog Washington Decoded

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A technical investigation into the first shot fired in JFK’s assassination 

June 3, 2016Assassination, Experts246 comments

Max Holland has a theory that the first shot first at President Kennedy came from the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository, grazed the arm of a street sign, and missed the limousine altogether. Read more

Max Holland rewinds the Zapruder film

December 16, 2015Assassination, Video95 comments

In a recent presentation at New York’s Hunter College, independent scholar Max argued the Zapruder film is not only the most famous, but also the most misunderstood, piece of evidence about the John F. Kennedy assassination. Read more

If you don’t know much about the JFK story, try ‘Before History Dies’

November 13, 2015Assassination, Best of Web, Review9 comments

Before History DiesJacob Carter, millennial author, wants his generation to know and care about the JFK assassination story. The result is  “Before History Dies,”  an introduction to the debate over the causes of JFK’s death via interviews with thoughtful people who hold diverse opinions on the subject.

They include: Anthony Summers, David Talbot, Dan Hardway, Marie Fonzi, Dale K. Myers, Max Holland, Judge John R. Tunheim, and Gerald Posner.

I’m not unbiased because I am interviewed too, and because Carter is the social media manager for JFK Facts and a friend. Nonetheless, I have to say this is not just an excellent introduction to the JFK story. Its a model for people of any age for how to think about the JFK story: with humility, tranquility, and courage.

Ideological politics and the JFK conspiracy question

August 7, 2015Assassination, News7 comments

This 2014 Daily Caller piece about Jack Ruby, like the death of Richard Schweicker, reminds me that one of the lamest memes in the discussion of the causes of the assassination of President Kennedy is the claim that the question of conspiracy is actually a left-wing plot to undermine America.

The facts say otherwise. Read more

’11 seconds in Dallas’: The details of the theory

June 17, 2015Assassination, ExpertsNo comments

Max Holland comments on my post about Dale Myers and Todd Vaughan’s criticism of his 6th Floor Museum presentation on the gunfire in Dallas..

I wrote: Read more

Max Holland responds to Myers and Vaughan about Dealey Plaza

June 13, 2015Assassination, Experts3 comments

I asked Max Holland if he wanted to respond to the critique of his recent 6th Floor Museum presentation made by Dale K Myers and Todd W. Vaughan. Holland replied:

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