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Conspiracy Fever -- Letters to the Editor
Jacob Cohen speaking at a public event on the Brandeis campus in 1994. I posted Jacob Cohen's article "Conspiracy Fever" yesterday. Here...
Fred Litwin
Apr 19, 202431 min read
Is Josiah Thompson a CIA agent? Part Two
On May 27, 2023, I posted a letter from Vincent Salandria to Josiah Thompson accusing him of being a CIA agent. Here is a letter that...
Fred Litwin
Jul 15, 20231 min read
Josiah Thompson on Jim Garrison's Shot from the Sewer
Headline from the front page of the Los Angeles Free Press of Dec 22 - 28, 1967 At the end of 1967, Jim Garrison went public with allegations that JFK was shot from a sewer on Elm Street. Here are my three previous blog posts on this topic: Was JFK Shot From a Sewer? Jim Garrison sent Stephen Jaffe to Dallas to investigate the possibility of a shot from the sewer on Elm Street. Jim Garrison on the Shot from the Sewer Garrison is interviewed about the shot from the Sewer. Ji
Fred Litwin
May 27, 20234 min read
Is Josiah Thompson a CIA Agent?
Conspiracy theorist Vincent Salandria once accused Josiah Thompson of being a CIA agent: Raymond Marcus wrote a scathing letter to...
Fred Litwin
May 27, 20231 min read
Paul Hoch and Josiah Thompson on Oliver Stone's "JFK"
The San Jose Mercury News asked Paul Hoch and Josiah Thompson to review Oliver Stone's JFK right after it opened: Some important quotes:...
Fred Litwin
Nov 12, 20222 min read
Jim Garrison Blows His Top
Washington Evening Star, May 29, 1967 An apt cartoon illustrating the damage Garrison was doing to critics of the Warren Report. Sylvia Meagher wrote about this in a letter to Harold Weisberg: Josiah Thompson also mentioned the damage Jim Garrison did to the critics in his 2021 book Last Second in Dallas : (page 112)
Fred Litwin
Oct 20, 20211 min read
A Reminder - Read Nick Nalli's Important Review of Josiah Thompson's book, Last Second In Dallas
I spent the weekend reading Nick Nalli's brilliant review of Josiah Thompson's new book, Last Second In Dallas. I know Nick, and I know...
Fred Litwin
Jun 7, 20212 min read
Nick Nalli Reviews Josiah Thompson's Last Second in Dallas
We interrupt our regularly scheduled program to bring you some breaking news. Nick Nalli is a brilliant man. I met him a few years ago in...
Fred Litwin
Jun 3, 20211 min read
Did The Umbrella Man Have Links to Clay Shaw?
The Michele Metta book, On the Trail of Clay Shaw: The Italian Undercover CIA and Mossad Station and the Assassination of JFK, has a...
Fred Litwin
Feb 26, 20214 min read
Josiah Thompson on Jim Garrison
My copy of Josiah Thompson's new book, Last Second in Dallas , finally arrived from Amazon. Glad to see he agrees with my views on Garrison (page 112): There is another mention of Garrison on page 135: "As for the assassination underground, what in the 1960s had been a selfless community of inquiry became in the 1970s a swamp of competing conspiracy theories and warring factions. Sylvia Meagher and I remained friends, but I drifted away from the others. The collapse of the G
Fred Litwin
Feb 20, 20211 min read
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