As we learned from his son, Michael Parenti has just passed away. He had kept a relatively low profile in the past several years. But he was an important scholar, intellectual, and a true rebel against the system. Please read this essay; it is him at his best. Unlike Noam Chomsky, honest enough to tell the truth about President Kennedy.
Congresswoman Anna Luna has now held a second phase of hearings. Following her opening two hearings on the JFK case, she has now held one on the further release of the Martin Luther King files.
The memory of Patrice Lumumba lives on and may be featured at the World Cup. Read here.
Lisa Pease's excellent book on the murder of Bobby Kennedy in 1968 has now been reissued. She has attached a 20-page afterword to the original text. If you have not read it, do so now. It is a classic in that field.
Jim DiEugenio discusses his Substack articles on President Kennedy's reformist foreign policy, and how it differed from John Foster Dulles and Dwight Eisenhower's before him and how it became a problem between him and the CIA and the Pentagon, and may have led to his demise.
Robert Tanenbaum, a professional prosecutor who was once in charge of a congressional investigation of the murder of JFK, has now passed on. Jim DiEugenio pays his last respects to someone who really wanted to solve the JFK murder.
Former HSCA Deputy Chief Counsel during its first phase, Robert K Tanenbaum, has passed on. He and his superior Richard Sprague really tried to find out the facts of the JFK case. Read here.
CAPAis offering highlights from past conferences and also is enlisting nominations for new Board members. Read here.
Mark Shaw continues the Dorothy Kilgallen part of his writing career with his fifth book in nine years. He continues with his Mob-did-it theories and his anti-Kennedys slant. And he now goes after the Luna Committee.
Paul Bleau has a suggestion for ABC executive producer Eileen Murphy in the wake of that network's very poor Truth and Lies special on the JFK case, a program that was utterly obsolete on arrival.
Jim DiEugenio makes a very much belated reply to Tony Summers about his many problems with the book Goddess
Don McGovern reviews best-selling author James Patterson's apparent answer to Joyce Carol Oates, a new novel about Monroe.
Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele, are the fatal victims of an apparent domestic tragedy. Jim DiEugenio's eulogy recounts Reiner's career and his own association with both of them on the proposed mini-series, which turned into the podcast Who Killed JFK?
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