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Episode 24: JFK - The Garrison Tapes, Part 2

Episode 24

In 2017, John Barbour released a sequel episode to his film The Garrison Tapes. I covered Part 1 in a previous episode and will discuss the sequel no…

2 years, 2 months ago

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Episode 23: The Son(s) of Sam?

Episode 23

Was David Berkowitz really the Son of Sam, singular? Or was there a group of Sons of Sam, plural? Regardless of the Satanic Panic that author Maury T…

2 years, 3 months ago

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Episode 22: JFK - The Garrison Tapes, Part 1

Episode 22

In 1992, John Barbour made a film about Jim Garrison's investigation of JFK's murder and an interview that Garrison gave him to discuss the details f…

2 years, 3 months ago

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Bonus Episode: "This economy is worse than the 70s..."

I endeavored to survey older adults who were at or above working age in 1970. What do they remember about 1970s stagflation? What do they remember ab…

2 years, 3 months ago

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Episode 21: "Alex's War"

Episode 21

"Who is Alex Jones? Looking past caricature to a human character study, Alex's War uses unprecedented access to examine the rollercoaster career of A…

2 years, 3 months ago

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Episode 20: JFK - "Executive Action"

Episode 20

The film Executive Action was released on November 7, 1973. In his interview with author Brent Holland, Mark Lane describes writing the screenplay wi…

2 years, 3 months ago

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Episode 19: ThinThread, Spying Before 9-11, and The Shadow Factory

Episode 19

A subtitle of this episode could be: Welcome to Hell.

We tend to think domestic spying was a post- 9 1 1 knee jerk reaction. The facts don't show tha…

2 years, 4 months ago

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Bonus Episode: JFK - The Pleasure of His Company ☘️

Tomorrow, May 29th, is JFK's birthday. Given the efforts over the years to recast him as everything from a closet Communist to a right-wing neocon to…

2 years, 4 months ago

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Episode 18: JFK - "Seven Days in May"

Episode 18

Seven Days in May  is based on a novel of the same name by Fletcher Knebel and Charles W. Bailey II. It was published in September of 1962. Kennedy r…

2 years, 4 months ago

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Episode 17: T.W.E.P. Programs - Fact or Fiction?

Episode 17

Are T.W.E.P. programs real? Have people watched too many Bond movies and seen too many Q Branch gadgets? Well,  not exactly. We know about the existe…

2 years, 4 months ago

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