Earl Caldwell, lone reporter on scene when Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, reflects on murder of civil rights icon
by Earl Caldwell, at: The New York Daily News
For the Love of Money: Brother Against Brother in the King Case
Written by Mike VinsonTennessean Mike Vinson interviews Jerry Ray and discusses with him the allegations of brother John Ray. Included is an interesting episode involving Conrad Baetz of the HSCA.
Once again, the factual basis of Chomsky's statements is allowed to go unchecked by his interviewers, as Jim DiEugenio demonstrates in yet another critique of his praxis of historical elision and distortion.
Michael Le Flem elucidates the terrible power play that engulfed Congo and took the life of Patrice Lumumba with it. With the newest information, he shows us how a democratically elected, constitutional government was wrecked by Belgium and the CIA before it got off the ground.
Who killed Martin Luther King Jr.? His family believes James Earl Ray was framed
by Tom Jackman, at: The Washington Post
Jefferson Morley, The Ghost: The Secret Life of CIA Spymaster James Jesus Angleton
Written by James DiEugenio
The strength of the book lies in the tracing of the Oswald files through the CIA under Angleton’s dominion. No book on Angleton has done this before. And that is certainly a commendable achievement. Hopefully, this will become a staple of future Angleton scholarship, writes Jim DiEugenio.
Mort Sahl Interview with Elliot Mintz
In this remarkable Pacifica interview from the Sixties, Mort Sahl reveals how his career was ruined, as he lost two broadcast programs in Los Angeles and he was blackballed—not due to ratings, which were good, but because he would not be quiet about the JFK assassination.
Thanks to David Giglio at Our Hidden History for this transcript, which reveals more of the censorship of the JFK case by the media.
44 out of 102 districts in upcoming primaries have Democratic candidates with military-intelligence backgrounds
Read the 3-part article by Patrick Martin at the World Socialist Web Site
Michael Paine dies at 89
by Chris Smith, At: The Press Democrat
Dowdle brothers developing Dorothy Kilgallen Project
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Canadian Archives sued over release of Louis Mortimer Bloomfield papers
Written by John KowalskiLibrary and Archives Canada (LAC) has once again barred the public from accessing the personal documents of this assassination suspect.
Milicent Cranor addresses the question of JFK's throat incision, bringing to light the fact that it was, and is, standard procedure to make a fairly wide incision when penetrating trauma to the throat is observed. She also reports a very interesting lie Commander James Humes told to JAMA—and its significance.
During this, the 50th anniversary of Senator Robert Kennedy's assassination, we wish to raise awareness of his life and death. We thus follow our posting of Joseph Palermo's interview with a link to Ted Charach's The Second Gun.
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Alec Cockburn Lives: Matt Stevenson, JFK and CounterPunch
Written by James DiEugenio
CounterPunch is at times a valuable journal. But apparently they cannot outgrow the legacy of Alec Cockburn. What he represented on Kennedy and Vietnam was a gross distortion of historical fact, which is a shame when it’s done by the Left as well as the Right, laments Jim DiEugenio.
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