President Ngô Đình Diệm of South Vietnam Chad Nagle makes it seem like JFK did not approve the coup that ended in the assassination of Diem. On Nov. 1, 1963, President Diem and his brother, a top advisor, would be overthrown and murdered by Vietnamese military officers. The members of the junta that replaced them had been in close contact with U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. and the CIA. JFK was aghast at the killings, having never wanted anything worse than exile for D

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

Conclusion Clay Shaw with his attorney Edward Wegmann at a press conference after his arrest for conspiring to kill President John. F. Kennedy. No one came to help Clay Shaw. The Department of Justice could have investigated the bribery allegations against Garrison and charged him with a variety of crimes. Perhaps that would have stopped the entire investigation and ended the prosecution of Clay Shaw. But President Johnson told Attorney General Ramsey Clark not to interfere,

Here is an excerpt from his 1993 book, Trust Your Mother, But Cut the Cards: This section of Zion's book appeared in an opinion piece in the New York Times right after the acquittal of Clay. Shaw. Money Quote: This is not to suggest that the plot theorists will close up shop, for they are missionaries with all that the word implies in terms of resiliency. It is not too much to expect that the world will soon be treated to a revisionist treatise or two on the Clay Shaw trial i

James DiEugenio’s afterword to Matt Douthit’s review of my book, Oliver Stone’s Film-Flam: The Demagogue of Dealey Plaza, proves that he is a master of deflection. He is so anxious to avoid addressing problems with JFK: Destiny Betrayed that he has come up with a novel excuse: that there are “fundamental doubts about who they [Steve Roe and Fred Litwin] are,” and thus no one should pay any attention to our work. So, unless I ‘answer,’ to DiEugenio’s satisfaction, questions ab

Was General Edward Lansdale in one of the pictures of the three tramps? Allegation #9: General Edward Lansdale was in Dealey Plaza on the afternoon of the assassination, and can be seen in one of the "tramp" photos. (Prouty has made this statement at several public conventions, and repeats it during the interview.) Here is the "tramp" photograph in question: The man with his back to us is supposedly General Edward Lansdale. Here is are some excerpts from Prouty's interview wi