<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[On The Trail of Delusion]]></title><description><![CDATA[On The Trail of Delu]]></description><link>https://www.onthetrailofdelusion.com/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 13:39:29 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.onthetrailofdelusion.com/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Sylvia Meagher's Letter to Penn Jones about Jim Garrison]]></title><description><![CDATA[Here is text of the first part of the letter for those who find it hard to read: Dear Penn: This will reply to your letter of 21 October 1967 in which you say: "I didn't know until recently that you convinced Tom Bethell to give Jim's plans to Shaw's attorneys. If you care to I would love to have the story for The Continuing Inquiry." I have always felt proud that I was among the first of the critics to realize that Garrison was a dangerous charlatan and that I denounce him publicly at every...]]></description><link>https://www.onthetrailofdelusion.com/post/sylvia-meagher-s-letter-to-penn-jones-about-jim-garrison</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a178cbbe7ae03e6441f2175</guid><pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2026 16:08:10 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/325b1c_48d4c0c0b8034189b8036e004f7882b1~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_681,h_555,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Fred Litwin</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[On the Trail of Delusion, Episode 45, Fence Sitting with Jerry Dealey]]></title><description><![CDATA[Last week I spent an hour with Jerry Dealey, author of the book, JFK Assassination: Shades From The Fence. and who is one of the best tour guides of Dealey Plaza. This is just part one. Part Two will be taped this week and we will discuss the Texas School Book Depository and the movements of its various employees. 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 discusses his...]]></description><link>https://www.onthetrailofdelusion.com/post/on-the-trail-of-delusion-episode-45-fence-sitting-with-jerry-dealey</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a94a9ba7ba802b41b927524</guid><pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 16:48:34 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/325b1c_8e490b9e36ba4f34b9b22ba5a6a24032~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_702,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Fred Litwin</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[John Updike on the the Umbrella Man]]></title><description><![CDATA[Josiah Thompson, in his book Six Seconds in Dallas, discussed the umbrella man: (pages 227 - 228) John Updike mentioned the umbrella man in The New Yorker: The New Yorker, December 9, 1967 Money Quote: We wonder whether a genuine mystery is being concealed here or whether any similar scrutiny of a minute section of time and space would yield similar strangeness -- gaps, inconsistencies, warps and bubbles in the surface of circumstance. The psychologist Rob Brotherton’s book Suspicious Minds:...]]></description><link>https://www.onthetrailofdelusion.com/post/john-updike-on-the-the-umbrella-man</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a7a193cbb2b410376b988e0</guid><pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 14:30:29 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/325b1c_55afbb2207334b5ab5eecc068e855129~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_958,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Fred Litwin</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Was Oswald Incensed by this Article?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Did Lee Harvey Oswald see this story? He read yesterday's newspapers every day at the the Depository, so it is likely he saw this -- probably on Wednesday, November 20, 1963. I am sure he would have been incensed by this story. This was discussed in the Warren Report. Just as he was probably angry about this story in the  September 9, 1963, issue of the New Orleans Times-Picayune. Wesley Liebeler managed to get the Times-Picayune article into the 26 volumes, but not into the Warren Report...]]></description><link>https://www.onthetrailofdelusion.com/post/was-oswald-incensed-by-this-article</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a8c8a5427effade82b18937</guid><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 18:44:32 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/325b1c_4fdc2953bb5d4c1db107146153798ca0~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_597,h_830,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Fred Litwin</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[On the Trail of Delusion, Episode 44, Six Seconds in Dallas]]></title><description><![CDATA[Here is my book review of Josiah Thompson's Six Seconds in Dallas. You can download my presentation here: My review of Six Seconds in Dallas is not a comprehensive look at every part of Thompson's book. I didn't discuss witnesses like S. M. Holland and Lee Bowers because I have discussed them on blog posts about Lane's Rush to Judgment. I have tried to focus on what a critique from 1967 would look like -- and so I have not brought in newer evidence like the autopsy X-rays and photographs....]]></description><link>https://www.onthetrailofdelusion.com/post/on-the-trail-of-delusion-episode-44-six-seconds-in-dallas</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a8b71c64e12adafbf7dbd74</guid><pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 13:53:03 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="http://youtu.be/pD7mpVjxgK8?si=VH6WBrZXxhfG2TLl" length="0" type="video"/><dc:creator>Fred Litwin</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unmasking of phantom-fighter Lane]]></title><description><![CDATA[Boston Herald, November, 28, 1978 Money Quote: Mark Lane, for those of you mercifully spared any notice whatsoever of his addled ramblings, is a sort of vulture in a man suit who has done his feeding for the past several years off the cadavers of public figures killed by madmen. It is Lane's thesis that a whole bunch of folks were involved in the Kennedy and King assassinations. Lane has gone from campus to talk show to campus and back to talk show again, picking up lecture fees for...]]></description><link>https://www.onthetrailofdelusion.com/post/unmasking-of-phantom-fighter-lane</link><guid isPermaLink="false">652038e3ad99b0cb3f205b7f</guid><pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2026 15:41:10 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/325b1c_71295e30872b4c62be1d429042ee9de4~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_860,h_859,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Fred Litwin</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Saint Lee Harvey was Good with Kids!]]></title><description><![CDATA[A recent article, written by Mark Bujdos, on Jefferson Morley's JFK Facts Substack paints Lee Harvey Oswald as someone who was "kind and thoughtful." Subtracting the weekends that Oswald spent in Irving at the home of Ruth Paine, where his wife Marina was living at the time, leaves 29 days in total that he spent at the house of Gladys and Arthur Johnson. During this time, Hall and her brothers interacted on a daily basis — and not in any small manner — with the man who would be accused of...]]></description><link>https://www.onthetrailofdelusion.com/post/saint-lee-harvey-was-good-with-kids</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a870202a7e08d7870bcf84b</guid><pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 13:31:50 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/325b1c_4247b6c04e184100889f5fd6f7905bcf~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_724,h_715,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Fred Litwin</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Am I the Face of Evil?]]></title><description><![CDATA[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 Chicago in November...]]></description><link>https://www.onthetrailofdelusion.com/post/am-i-the-face-of-evil</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a83245f6bc412439de22f02</guid><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 13:40:50 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/325b1c_b4e47962c72d4956b5c5b51f3c6ea589~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_614,h_531,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Fred Litwin</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Steve Roe's Second Oral History Interview with the Sixth Floor Museum ]]></title><description><![CDATA[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 &#38; 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, Steve Roe on...]]></description><link>https://www.onthetrailofdelusion.com/post/steve-roe-s-second-oral-history-interview-with-the-sixth-floor-museum</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a831ce7e3a689bee821a572</guid><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 01:02:18 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/325b1c_b36187fe6dfd4a649bcb32ed313b8a24~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_928,h_633,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Fred Litwin</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[My Second Oral History Interview for the Sixth Floor Museum]]></title><description><![CDATA[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 Floor Museum at...]]></description><link>https://www.onthetrailofdelusion.com/post/my-second-oral-history-interview-for-the-sixth-floor-museum</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a811b41b5505642f0dfab7b</guid><pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 12:47:56 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/325b1c_16d35cfa09134181adc6334e3572742c~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_610,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Fred Litwin</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[On the Trail of Delusion, Episode 43, Bugliosi vs. Meagher]]></title><description><![CDATA[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 limited to those...]]></description><link>https://www.onthetrailofdelusion.com/post/on-the-trail-of-delusion-episode-43-bugliosi-vs-meagher</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a7b760260971ea08f8e42c8</guid><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 14:36:09 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="http://youtu.be/JtBBIgdcOGg?si=pDcEJSEXwoyADXz4" length="0" type="video"/><dc:creator>Fred Litwin</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Response to My Post on Professor Pearcy]]></title><description><![CDATA[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 CIA's pro bono...]]></description><link>https://www.onthetrailofdelusion.com/post/a-response-to-my-post-on-professor-pearcy</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a7b4342f1f88bc38bdaacd0</guid><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 17:17:17 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/325b1c_cc89b4ea02914df8bfc6d01dea239788~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Fred Litwin</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Professor Pearcy's Bad History Lesson]]></title><description><![CDATA[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 his personal...]]></description><link>https://www.onthetrailofdelusion.com/post/professor-pearcy-s-bad-history-lesson</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a733244277d47c355d33b4c</guid><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 22:39:13 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yUDLRQOOFY&amp;list=WL" length="0" type="video"/><dc:creator>Fred Litwin</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is Thomas Pearcy Just Another Buff?]]></title><description><![CDATA[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 2025. Here is an...]]></description><link>https://www.onthetrailofdelusion.com/post/is-thomas-pearcy-just-another-buff</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a709fe06449f8bac6ca7a4f</guid><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 13:08:54 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/325b1c_c1cfdd21c39d452e925ad38e4cf18727~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_648,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Fred Litwin</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aaron Kohn's Memo on Jack Martin]]></title><description><![CDATA[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 Garrison Talks to...]]></description><link>https://www.onthetrailofdelusion.com/post/aaron-kohn-s-memo-on-jack-martin</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a2ecbd900dbe48b1c7998d9</guid><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 16:18:40 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/325b1c_bd1615e010144316a438408de08ab427~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_371,h_241,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Fred Litwin</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death by Org Chart]]></title><description><![CDATA[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 further. He asks the...]]></description><link>https://www.onthetrailofdelusion.com/post/death-by-org-chart</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a68cb0ebd1f4328fbf5057f</guid><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 15:00:52 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/325b1c_1e53bee20933448aa3e483342e1e2a00~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_788,h_327,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Fred Litwin</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anna Paulina Luna Doubles Down on Mind Control]]></title><description><![CDATA[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. In September,...]]></description><link>https://www.onthetrailofdelusion.com/post/is-anna-paulina-luna-doubles-down-on-mind-control</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a66a1bfb59210289e92e990</guid><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 17:34:08 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/325b1c_7095caceba544810b0664dcfc63b712e~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_400,h_500,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Fred Litwin</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oliver Stone Proves the Single-Bullet Theory]]></title><description><![CDATA[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 Bill Roe points...]]></description><link>https://www.onthetrailofdelusion.com/post/oliver-stone-proves-the-single-bullet-theory</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69ffdb64ecab901137553933</guid><pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2026 15:29:20 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="http://youtu.be/2nmGS8rVuIM?si=-n29JDW0X0kuXlcH" length="0" type="video"/><dc:creator>Fred Litwin</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[HSCA Contact Reports with DRE Leaders]]></title><description><![CDATA[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 entire personnel...]]></description><link>https://www.onthetrailofdelusion.com/post/hsca-contact-reports-with-dre-leaders</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a5a4545b87e69d0daf18ca7</guid><pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 13:53:33 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/325b1c_39743935ae02484cb496e16d0ddae8d8~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_691,h_943,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Fred Litwin</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rose Cherami's Modus Operandi]]></title><description><![CDATA[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 this incident which...]]></description><link>https://www.onthetrailofdelusion.com/post/rose-cherami-s-modus-operandi</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a5f75126adee9ecb163f207</guid><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 14:09:31 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/325b1c_2b9d5eb8ce014f6f98bed21e2dcf10a7~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_979,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Fred Litwin</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>