John Washburn concludes his essay on when the police arrived at 1026 Beckley, why they covered up the early time of arrival, and how they knew Oswald was there.

John Washburn explores the evidence that the authorities knew who Oswald was and that he was at the Beckley Street rooming house way before the official story says they knew it. In addition, they were there much earlier also.

In his latest, the redoubtable Don McGovern exposes Maureen Callahan, Shirley MacLaine, and how a pernicious quote and incident were manufactured about Marilyn Monroe and Bobby Kennedy.

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Jim DiEugenio takes Fredrik Logevall to task for his role in both the current Turning Point series on Vietnam and his prior role in the Ken Burns/Lynn Novick series on the subject.

Luminat Media finishes their disappointing series on the Vietnam War by underplaying the evil done by Nixon and Kissinger in Cambodia and Laos, and in dragging on a conflict that could have ended in 1969. All because of the figurehead of Thieu.

Richard Nixon's honorable peace includes invading two other countries, dropping more bomb tonnage on Indochina than Johnson, condoning My Lai, and prosecuting Daniel Ellsberg for releasing the Pentagon Papers.

The following excerpt is from John Avery Emison's newest book on the King case. It shows how the transcript of the James Earl Ray hearing, where he was represented by Houston lawyer Percy Foreman, was altered. And it was altered to exonerate Foreman from his unethical influence in forcing him to plead guilty.

LBJ's reversal of Kennedy's policy leads to a rudderless war effort by General William Westmoreland.  As the war becomes hopeless, dissent begins to mushroom.  LBJ gives up, MLK and RFK are killed, and this leads to Nixon.

Turning Point continues with one of the most startling omissions ever in a documentary on the Vietnam War.  By jumping from 1956 to 1965, the film misses the monumental events of 1964, when Johnson broke from JFK and decided America would go to war with North Vietnam. Evidently, the filmmakers did not think this was important.

Netflix is now showing a five part series on the Vietnam War that is just as poor as the PBS series by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick of 8 years ago. If we are to understand history, this  kind of programming is precisely what is not needed at this time.