Even mandatory retirement couldn’t stop spymaster James Angleton’s influence
By Michael Best, At: Muckrock
Charles Bartlett, Pulitzer-winning journalist and Kennedy loyalist, dies at 95
By Adam Bernstein, At: The Washington Post
Alexandra Zapruder, Twenty-Six Seconds: A Personal History of the Zapruder Film (Part 1)
Written by Jeff Carter
The first in a two-part installment in which Jeff Carter reviews a book that "reveals some new – albeit not earth-shattering – information", but is also "imbued with a certain partisanship, not limited to family interests, which dulls the author’s critical thinking in some key areas."
Douglas Valentine’s CIA vs. Donald Trump’s CIA
By , At: Huffington Post
Fidel Castro's First Speech on the JFK Assassination, 11/23/1963
Written by Kennedys&King
Fidel Castro's speech, broadcast on Cuban radio and television on Saturday evening, November 23, 1963, concerning the assassination of President Kennedy, reprinted here thanks to David Giglio at Our Hidden History.
Was Dorothy Kilgallen Murdered over the JFK Case?
Written by James DiEugenio
If Shaw had restrained himself, or if he had had an editor to point out the problems with his design, then this would have been a good and valuable book about Dorothy Kilgallen: who she really was, what we know and do not know about her death. But such was not the case. I would actually recommend Sara Jordan’s informative and objective essay instead, concludes Jim DiEugenio.
On the occasion of the 52nd anniversary of the assassination of Malcolm X, we thought it fitting to reflect upon the significance of his life and death by offering to our readers three wonderfully written and penetrating essays.
Jim Douglass's magisterial and moving essay on Malcolm X's final year, the threat that his new vision and mission posed to the Establishment, and the forces which arrayed themselves to bring about his murder.
The following two affidavits are essentially confessions by the only assassin in the Malcolm X case to be apprehended. Talmadge Hayer, AKA Thomas Hagan, made these statements in 1977 and 1978 under the supervision of famed defense attorney William Kunstler who was handling the Malcolm X case at the time.
Milicent Cranor refutes John Canal's claim that the back-of-the-head JFK autopsy photo was taken after the morticians reconstructed the head, supposedly moving the scalp from the back to the front, dragging with it the entrance wound, and covering up bone damage.
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Larry Tye, Bobby Kennedy: The Making of a Liberal Icon
Written by James DiEugenio
Because of its innumerable textual and sourcing problems, Tye's book is neither worth reading nor buying, concludes Jim DiEugenio, who is prompted to muse: "Why did the author write the book? Only he can answer that question".
Mary Ferrell Foundation posts addendum to 2017 documents listing
At: maryferrell.org
Coretta Scott King letter opposed Jeff Sessions’s 1986 federal nomination
Read the letter at: The Washington Post
The Hidden History Center has moved to York, PA
See "Our Plans", At: The Hidden History Center
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