Episodes
[Editor Jefferson Morley is on vacation this week, so we are reposting his interview with Allison McClelland, daughter of Dr. Robert McClelland, from last October.] In this week’s episode, Jefferson Morley talks to Alison McClelland about her father’s extraordinary story from his boyood in East Texas to his medical education to his central role of a lifetime in the JFK assassination story that began on November 22, 1963 and continued through his testimony to the Warren Commission, his...
Published 10/22/23
Larry and I speak with James Robenalt, corporate litigator and popular historian, about his friend Paul Landis, the Secret Service man whose story about his actions on November 22, 1963 has raised more doubts of the official “lone gunman” theory of JFK’s assassination. Landis book, FInal Witness, will be publicly available tomorrow October 11. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jfkfacts.substack.com/subscribe
Published 10/18/23
Instead of our usual open Zoom call, the JFK Facts Podcast this week comes in a different format: a pre-recorded conversation with editor Jefferson Morley about how to bypass conspiracy theories will pursuing the truth about November 22, 1963. We will return to the open discussion format next week. Meanwhile, go here to listen to previous JFK Facts Podcast episodes. JFK Facts is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid...
Published 10/06/23
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Published 09/25/23
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Published 08/31/23
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Published 08/17/23
In this week’s podcast, we talked about Israeli media reports on Reuben Efron, the CIA man who read Lee Harvey Oswald’s mail. Listen to all the JFK Facts podcast here. JFK Facts is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jfkfacts.substack.com/subscribe
Published 08/09/23
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Published 08/06/23
You can listen here to past JFK Facts podcasts. JFK Facts is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jfkfacts.substack.com/subscribe
Published 06/27/23
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Published 06/21/23
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Published 06/14/23
We talked about Chad Nagle's article "Tale of Two Defectors" and what it means for the JFK assassination story. JFK Facts is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jfkfacts.substack.com/subscribe
Published 06/01/23
This week’s JFK Facts podcast is a pre-recorded conversation with Jim Risen, author of “The Last Honest Man,” which is both a biography of Senator Frank Church and a history of his great achievement, the Church Committee, the Senate select committee which investigated CIA abuses of power in 1975-76 and issued a powerful, credible report that led to fundamental reform of the U.S. intelligence community. This episode takes the place of the regularly scheduled Zoom conference call on Thursday...
Published 05/25/23
Listen now to last week’s podcast when we talked about about the credibility of the maverick Democratic candidate. Join us tonight, Thursday May 18, at 8 pm ET for this week’s discussion about the latest JFK developments. Click here here to participate. (Meeting ID: 884 9319 4600.) This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jfkfacts.substack.com/subscribe
Published 05/18/23
Here’s last week’s conversation where we talked about the government’s response to the Mary Ferrell lawsuit and the Citizen Archivist plan. Tonight you can join co-host Larry Schnapf and I for this week’s JFK chat. Click here to join the call. This week we’ll be talking about my story on James Angleton, a special offer for fans of Seymour Hersh and allegations from RFK Jr.—plus any other developments in the ever-evolving JFK assassination story that you might know of. We convene every...
Published 05/11/23
Join co-host Larry Schnapf for a discussion of the latest news and developments related to the JFK assassination story. Tonight (and every Thursday night) at 8 pm ET. The podcast is really just a big Zoom, open to all. Comments and questions are welcome. Go here to join the call. (Meeting ID: 884 9319 4600.) You can also listen at your convenience. The podcast will also be published on the site (and podcasting platforms) next week. JFK Facts is a reader-supported publication. To receive new...
Published 04/27/23
Listen to last week’s conversation (above) and join us tonight for another conversation (below). Co-host Larry Schnapf and I will host another discussion of the latest news and developments related to the JFK assassination story. Tonight (and every Thursday night) at 8 pm ET. The podcast is really just a big Zoom, open to all. Comments and questions are welcome. Click here to join the call. (Meeting ID: 884 9319 4600.) You can also listen at your convenience. The podcast willbe published on...
Published 04/20/23
In last week’s conversation we discussed these two pieces: New Light on the Shooting of General Walker and Target Practice With Lee Harvey Oswald. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jfkfacts.substack.com/subscribe
Published 04/05/23
This is last week’s show. For next week’s show, join us tonight, Thursday Feb. 23 at 8pm Eastern Time for the latest in JFK news and clues. We’ll talk about the late Richard Belzer, Rep. David Schweikert’s bill to free the JFK files, and the lawsuit filed by the family of Malcolm X. Co-host Larry Schnapf will provide expert commentary on developments on Capitol Hill and in the courts. Your comments and questions are welcome. We are no longer using the Riverside studio. Join us on Zoom by...
Published 02/24/23
If you haven’t read the story behind this conversation, go here: Declassified Memo Reveals CIA Investigated Cuban Exiles in JFK’s Assassination. Read the Heath Memo. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jfkfacts.substack.com/subscribe
Published 02/08/23
In which I explain the significance of a newly-declassified CIA memo about the assassination of JFK. In a four-page letter to congressional investigators, written in March 1977, Donald Heath Jr., an officer in the Agency’s Miami station in 1963, shared what he knew of the CIA’s secret investigation of JFK’s assassination. In the podcast, I explain, among other things, how the Heath memo illuminates the story of George Joannides and the CIA’s pre-assassination interest in Oswald. I first...
Published 02/01/23
You can listen here to my extraordinary conversation with Ernst Titovets, a scientist who was close friends with Lee Harvey Oswald from September 1960 to November 1963. When these two young men met long ago, they shared ambitions to make something of themselves. Titovets was an aspiring medical student who spoke rudimentary English. Oswald was an ex-Marine living in a foreign county who sought to forge a new life. Titovets first told the story in his 2010 book “Oswald Russian Episode,”...
Published 01/07/23
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Published 11/23/22
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Published 11/17/22
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Published 11/09/22