Monika Wiesak has followed up her fine volume on the presidency of John F. Kennedy with a book about JFK's murder.  But it also includes a look at the RFK case and a glimpse into the psyche of John Kennedy Jr.

Prolific author on world cinema, the John Kennedy assassination, and particularly Jim Garrison, and professor of English at Temple, Joan Mellen, has passed away. Here is a notice from the AARC.

The latest discovery of the Luna Committee made at the request of Jefferson Morley has made the MSM. Take a look.

At an exclusive conference in San Francisco, Jim DiEugenio lectures about why the JFK case is relevant today. One reason is because President Kennedy's ideas about the Middle East were visionary and objective, and tried to be fair to both sides. President Johnson, with help from Mathilde Krim, altered that policy beyond recognition, thus leading to the mess we have today.

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.

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.