My friend Nick Nalli was kind to post my oral history project on X. But here is Chad Nagle's response. Chad is a major contributor to Jefferson Morley's Substack and has never taken kindly to my debunking efforts. Have a look at my analysis of a Chad Nagle article. Nagle has also argued there was an assassination plot against JFK in Chicago in early November 1963: There was NO Assassination Plot in Chicago Chad Nagle claims there was an assassination plot against JFK in Chica

Here is a link to Steve Roe's oral history interview with Stephen Fagin. Steve donated a copy of True Adventures Magazine to the Museum which contained the ad that Oswald used to order his Smith & Wesson revolver. Here is a link to Steve Roe's first oral history interview. Steve Roe is a terrific researcher on the JFK assassination and he is an expert on the attempted murder of General Edwin Walker: Steve Roe Posts on the Walker Shooting On the Trail of Delusion, Episode 5,

Here is a link to my second oral history interview for the Sixth Floor Museum in Dallas. Here is a transcript: Video Record2025.001.0102 - full.mp4 Curatorial Commentary Prior to this 2025 interview, Fred Litwin recorded an oral history with the Museum in March 2020. In that recording, he discusses his first book, I Was a Teenage JFK Conspiracy Freak (2018). The interview may be watched in the Museum's online collections database: Fred Litwin Oral History – Works – The Sixth

I am joined by Dr. Robert Vitt to discuss how Sylvia Meagher treats the evidence against Oswald. Vincent Bugliosi lists 53 pieces of evidence in his 2007 book, Reclaiming History, against Lee Harvey Oswald. I wrote a document which lists them and shows how Meagher discussed this evidence in her 1967 book, Accessories After the Fact. In some cases, Bugliosi listed evidence that was not included in the twenty-six volumes, and I have noted that since Meagher's book is largely li

National security attorney Mark Zaid tweeted out my post on Professor Pearcy's Bad History Lesson yesterday. Gerald Posner then commented on Mark's post: And then Chad Nagle, one of the senior contributors to Jefferson Morley's JFK Facts Substack chimed in. Once again, I am accused of being "paid to pump out tired articles." And I guess it's a bad thing that my blog is free, as opposed to JFK Facts. Over the past couple of years, Jefferson Morley has accused me of being the C

Dr. Thomas Pearcy gave a speech on Monday night in Indiana on "Plausible Deniability." The people who came to hear an esteemed historian lecture on a fairly important topic instead heard a conspiracy theorist spouting a bunch of recycled speculations and factoids. He doesn't get around to discussing his supposed important document finds for over an hour, until my point ten below. And thus, the conspiracist part of his lecture helps us assess the credibility and reliability of

I want to thank Robert Reynolds for his research in finding all the relevant documents below. I strongly urge people to have a look at his excellent website on the JFK documents. Professor Thomas Pearcy was on Indiana radio on July 28th to help promote a major event on August 3rd. If you remember, Pearcy is the person who claimed to have seen a secret CIA document in which they bragged about keeping G. Robert Blakey in the dark. I wrote a blog post about this in December of 2

Jack Martin Aaron Kohn was the head of the Metropolitan Crime Commission of New Orleans which was a private organization studying crime in the city. Here is a link to Merriman Smith's article on Garrison's cast of characters which included Jack Martin. Here is what Carlos Quiroga told Aaron Kohn about the threat from Jack Martin: Previous Relevant Blog Posts on Jack Martin Steve Roe's Portrait of Jack Martin Steve Roe wrote an in-depth look at Jack Martin. Exclusive: Jim Garr

Paul Bleau's two-part series on "Assassination Inc." sets a new low standard for JFK assassination research. Oliver Stone, Vincent Salandria, and Jim Garrison thought that by ascertaining the motives of the people who wanted JFK dead, that you could deduce the conspiracy. And thus was born the CIA/Military Industrial Complex conspiracy theory. "The Way It Wasn't" -- George Lardner on Oliver Stone's "JFK" Monika Wiesak's Dreadful History Paul Bleau has now gone one step furthe

After two ridiculous hearings on the JFK assassination and a silly hearing on MK-Ultra, Anna Paulina Luna is ready to strike again. Luna's Ridiculous Hearing Luna's second hearing -- I don't know what was worse - the silly testimony of the witnesses or the brainless questions of the committee members. Jefferson Morley's Congressional NothingBurger An analysis of Congresswoman Luna's Congressional Hearings. MK-Ultra -- Once Again An examination of Luna's hearings on MK-Ultra.

This scene from Oliver Stone's JFK inadvertently supports the single-bullet theory. Here is a frame showing the limousine from the sixth floor window of the TSBD: (from 3:07 in the above clip) Of course, this doesn't prove the single-bullet theory. There are all sorts of issues with the frame number, the position of Kennedy and Connally -- but, it's amazingly close. Certainly this should have suggested to Oliver Stone that the single-bullet theory was quite possible. Update B

A year ago, we were all discussing the release of the George Joannides' personnel file. SpyTalk on the Joannides' File, Part Two SpyTalk replies to Jefferson Morley. The Illusion of a Smoking Gun Gerald Posner on the Joannides file. Fact Checking Morley's Fact Check Morley's Fact Check on SpyTalk needs a fact check. SpyTalk on Morley's Nothingburger Gus Russo and Michael Isikoff on the Joannides personnel file. Jefferson Morley's Unbearable Lightness of Being Now that the ent

She always had the same M.O. -- claim to have information to get people to do something or take her places. Here is a report from 1965 about Rose Cherami getting the FBI to take her to Galveston in 1963, where her information proved useless: By the time this memo was written, Cherami was dead. Photo by Fred Litwin Rose Cherami did the same thing in 1957. She never provided meaningful information on drug smuggling. The above report was written in response to this report, of th

Anne Dischler The first person to investigate the Rose Cherami story for Jim Garrison was Anne Dischler, who then teamed up with Lt. Francis Fruge. Her first notes are from February, 1967: Here are some notes from March, 1967: As you can see, there is nothing here about any foreknowledge of the JFK assassination, although there is mention of her supposed connection to Jack Ruby (on p. 2 of the March 1967 notes) . Previous Relevant Blog Posts on Rose Cherami Did Rose Cherami E

It was an honor to speak with Judge Burt Griffin about his work on the Warren Commission. At 39:00 minutes in, I asked Burt one of the most important questions about the JFK assassination. I strongly suggest that everybody buy a copy of his excellent book, JFK, Oswald, Ruby: Politics, Prejudice and Truth. Previous Episodes of On the Trail of Delusion: Episode 1 My first guest was Robert Reynolds who is an expert on the JFK assassination files. Episode 2 Robert A. Wagner discu

Monika Wiesak's book, Echoes of a Lost America, is a living testament to bad research. If you have ever wondered what is wrong with JFK assassination literature, this book is Exhibit One. The book is almost totally based upon secondary sources. Not that there is anything wrong with that, except the fact that Wiesak relies upon some really bad secondary sources. Right from the start, you can see her unfortunate biases. In her first chapter, Cui Bono, she starts, much like Oliv

David Ferrie on the right with an unidentified person. I have visited the Sixth Floor Museum twice to examine the papers of Patricia Lambert, author of False Witness, one of the best books on the Garrison fiasco. She spoke to many people in New Orleans and her notes provide a wealth of information. For the first time ever, here are her notes from a conversation with Dr. Ronald Welsh, the pathologist who performed David Ferrie's autopsy. Frank Minyard was elected coroner of N

Anna Paulina Luna held hearings on MK-Ultra last week, and Stephen Kinzer, author of the 2019 Poisoner In Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control, and Tom O'Neill, author of the 2019 Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, & Secret History of the Sixties, testified on the program. Kinzer made the sensible suggestion that the CIA unredact all the current documents on MK-Ultra. But O'Neill continued with the conspiracy nonsense from his book Chaos. Here is an excerpt

Richard Dudman Richard Dudman was a reporter for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Here is what he wrote in The New Republic in December 1963: A few of us noticed the hole in the windshield when the limousine was standing at the emergency entrance after the President had been carried inside. I could not approach close enough to see on which side was the cup-shaped spot that indicates a bullet had pierced the glass from the opposite side. Note that he couldn't get that close. Here

This file was written before it was known that Garrison was investigating the JFK assassination. Money Quotes: JUDGE MACHAUER said that he is convinced that District Attorney JIM GARRISON is psychotic, and that his ability for clever political acting is concealing this reality from popular public consumption. ... MACHAUER stated that it is GARRISON'S completely immoral public accusations against other public officials using cleverly contrived charges without any regard for su