It was a ton of fun to present to Professor Robert Vitt's class at Long Beach City College. Professor Vitt was also a guest on Episode 30. Episode 30 Dr. Robert Vitt talks about conspiracy theories, the early JFK researchers, and how to evaluate evidence. 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 new book, JFK Assassinated. Episode 3 Gera

Tosh Plumlee being interviewed in 1991. Tosh Plumlee has long insisted that he was part of an abort team which was flown into Dallas on November 22nd to try and stop the JFK assassination. I have posted two videos from an interview conducted with Gus Russo in 1991. 1991 Tosh Plumlee Interview, Part One Part One of two parts. 1991 Tosh Plumlee Interview, Part Two Second of two parts. The whole story is ridiculous from start to finish, and it changes every time he tells it. So,

Page x of Tosh Plumlee's book, Deep Cover, Shallow Graves I think the above photograph is obscene. Like many people, I have visited Oswald's grave, but the last thing I would do is salute. After all, Oswald killed JFK, and he killed a policeman. So, here is what Plumlee has to say about Oswald in his book. In the spring of 1958, I was sent for training at the School of Illusionary Warfare in Nags Head, North Carolina, where I met a young Lee Harvey Oswald. [page 6] There are

I just received my copy of Tosh Plumlee's new book, Deep Cover, Shallow Graves. It's one of the finest pieces of fiction I've read in a long time, and for those of you who like fantasy, well, you can't go wrong. Kris Millegan wrote a publisher's foreword which immediately gives you a sense of the seriousness of this book: I heard about Tosh from the intrepid Jim Marrs. I was working on Judyth Vary Baker's book, Me & Lee: How I Came to Know, Love and Lose Lee Harvey Oswald, an

Penn Jillette, the talkative member of the magic act Penn & Teller, knows that people will find the duo’s new project a little surprising. It is a Supreme Court brief filed last month urging the justices to hear an appeal from Charles Don Flores, a death row inmate in Texas. A key piece of evidence in the case was tainted by a police officer’s “investigative hypnosis” of a witness, the brief said. Here is a summary of the case: The brief noted that there was no physical evide

John Corbett discusses the JFK assassination on the JFK assassination forum. You will find that his posts are intelligent and that he really knows the case. It was a pleasure to talk with him. 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 new book, JFK Assassinated. Episode 3 Gerald Posner discusses the JFK assassination and conspiracy theori

From an interview with Mark Lane on WVUE-TV, New Orleans on April 29, 1978. Aaron Kohn of the Metropolitan Crime Commission produced a transcript and here is an excerpt about the JFK assassination: (the rest of the interview was about the Martin Luther King assassination, Lane was in town to promote his book, Code Name Zorro , which was co-authored with Dick Gregory) Kohn sent copies of the transcript to the FBI and to Robert Blakey. He made the transcript from a video tape c

Houston Post, May 4, 1975 Money Quotes : "If I were a betting man," says trial lawyer Bernard J. Fensterwald, "I'd bet the full story will be known within a year." "A year? I'm surprised at Fensterwald," said Dr. Richard Popkin, a philosophy professor at Washington University in St. Louis. "I'd make in six months." Fensterwald's comment on Marina Oswald strikes me as fairly cruel: "Can you imagine what you could do with Marina (Oswald's Russian-born widow) in one morning if y

It was an honor to talk with Steve Barber who played a critical role in debunking the HSCA acoustics evidence. 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 new book, JFK Assassinated . Episode 3 Gerald Posner discusses the JFK assassination and conspiracy theories. Episode 4 Dr. Martin J. Kelly, Jr. discusses conspiracy theories and the me

Jefferson Morley seems to be a tad upset. My blog post on his Evelyn Lincoln article hit a nerve. When troll Fred Litwin starts croaking, you know something significant has turned up that worries the anxious and isolated defenders of the lone gunman theory. But what is revealing is that Morley now has a remarkable ability -- he can both honestly quote me and then distort the same quote in the same paragraph! Check this out: (Anyone that is except Fred Litwin. He writes of Li

Playwright Ernest Kearney stopped by to discuss conspiracy theories, and the influence of two books, Virtues of the Mind by Linda Zagzebski and The True Believer by Eric Hoffer, on his worldview. Others topics discussed are a critique of the documentary The Assassination and Mrs. Paine , The Jim Garrison/Clay Shaw case, and the books Rush to Judgement by Mark Lane and Vincent Bugliosi's Reclaiming History . This episode also contains never before seen footage of Fred Litw

It was great fun discussing the single-bullet theory with Dr. Martin Kelly, Fred James, Scott Maudsley, and Nick Nalli . 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 new book, JFK Assassinated . Episode 3 Gerald Posner discusses the JFK assassination and conspiracy theories. Episode 4 Dr. Martin J. Kelly, Jr. discusses conspiracy theories

Evelyn Lincoln, JFK, and his son. Jefferson Morley's latest Substack post is a complete nothingburger! Her unpublished memoir, entitled "I Was There,” was written in the 1980s. It recounts stories from the first two books with additional observations and informed opinions. The manuscript includes an 11-page “Addenda,” published here for the first time, summing up Lincoln’s responses about the two most frequent questions she fielded: about JFK’s private life and his public dea

J. C. Price and Mark Lane in a scene from Rush to Judgment. J. C. Price was a witness to the JFK assassination, and here is his affidavit to the Sheriff's department : Price heard a total of five shots, and then "as much as five minutes later another one." Note that Price was quite far away -- on the roof of the Terminal Annex Bldg. in Dealey Plaza, over two hundred yards away from the railroad yards. The Terminal Annex Federal Building is the white building on the far right.

Mark Lane with Charles Brehm Here is an article from the November 27, 1966 issue of the Dallas Morning News: Money Quote However, several of the persons quoted by Lane to support his premise -- that the panel was "blinded by the fear of what they might see" in a more thorough investigation -- think Lane might have rushed to publication to make "a dirty dollar" faster than he accuses the Warren panel of having rushed to judgment. Previous Relevant Blog Posts on Mark Lane Mark

Pauline Kael reviewed Executive Action and The French Connection in the New Yorker : THE other new assassination film—”Executive Action,” a fictionalization of how President Kennedy might have been the victim of a large-scale right-wing plot—is so graceless it’s beyond using even as a demonstration of ineptitude. The failures of “The French Conspiracy” are the result of commercialization and so are instructive; the failures of “Executive Action” might be the result of sleep

Leonard Maltin's review of Executive Action : Hat tip: Matthew Kordelski. Ad for Executive Action in the Boston Globe : March 27, 1974 Previous Relevant Blog Post Executive Action: "A Shabby Fiction about JFK" The New York Times reviews Executive Action. Previous Relevant Blog Posts on Mark Lane Mark Lane and Warren Reynolds Lane cuts out a few of Reynolds' answers. Mark Lane and Napoleon Daniels Sylvia Meagher was incensed at Lane's inclusion of this story in his film. Mark

My friend Eric Dezenhall has written a superb essay on conspiracy theories. Smart people believe conspiracy theories not because they suddenly become stupid but because the human brain is wired to process resonant plots. Neural pathways cannot accommodate randomness or mystery. It’s simply too distressing to believe we are hurtling through space, subject to forces beyond our control. This is why religion flourishes, not to mention Hollywood. Then there is the issue of pleasur

New York Times, November 25, 1973 Money Quotes: However, even to people who are prepared to accept some sort of conspiracy, including myself, this manner of fiction simply isn't good enough. In spite of the rather pious, unexciting, low-keyed professionalism with which "Executive Action" has been put together, it is fiction of a gross and shabby order. Because it cannot say that this is true, the only point of the film is to raise the question of possibility. Having done that

Still from Rush to Judgment with Warren Reynolds and Mark Lane. There is a segment in Rush to Judgment in which Penn Jones tells the story of Warren Reynolds. Here is an excerpt from a transcrip t: (1:52:59) Mark Lane : Can you give us one instance of a witness who died a strange death? Penn Jones : Well, let's take the case of Betty Mooney MacDonald, one of Jack Ruby's strippers, A fellow named Warren Reynolds saw a man running from the scene of the Tippit slaying. Shortly