James DiEugenio is a veteran author and researcher lately focusing on JFK's foreign policy. He's the author of Reclaiming Parkland and Destiny Betrayed: JFK, Cuba, and the Garrison Case, now in its second edition. He's a regular guest on Len Osanic's Black Op Radio, he writes for Robert Parry's Consortium News, and he's the principal behind one of the most active and important assassination websites, www.KennedysAndKing.com, which is constantly updated with new articles, book reviews, and important news about the assassinations of both JFK, RFK, and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., among a lot of other interesting items.

We covered the ebb and flow of the public perception of the case as it played out in the media and in official investigations. It's a good look at the 50 years of the long-term cover up in the press and in officialdom, and on efforts of people such as the early researchers and others - like Jim Garrison, and Oliver Stone - to bring the facts of the case to light. We look too at what some of the official investigations uncovered - like the House Select Committee and the board created by the 1993 JFK Act - and assessed their impact, if any, on the story being put out by the US press. We end by seeing what the 2017 releases might mean and whether or not the press and official story will ever fully grapple with the facts of the murder of John F. Kennedy.

AUDIO CHAPTERS 00:00:00 Intro 00:01:35 Before the Warren Commission 00:09:18 The Warren Commission Evidence Examined: Early Dissenting Books 00:12:37 The Garrison Case and Early Attacks on It 00:17:20 Jim Garrison's Equal Time Response and Tonight Show Appearance 00:23:54 The US Government "Reassesses" JFK's Autopsy: Ramsey Clark Panel 00:30:25 CIA & FBI Efforts Against Garrison 00:33:23 The Clay Shaw Trial in the National Media 00:39:16 Faith in the Government Collapses: Watergate, The Rockefeller Commission, and the Church Committee 00:45:09 The House Select Committee on Assassinations - The Richard Sprague Era 00:48:52 Attacks on the HSCA and Sprague in the Press 00:56:34 The HSCA vs the CIA: David Atlee Phillips 00:59:29 Sprague is Out, Blakey Takes Over 01:03:55 Reaction to the HSCA's Conspiracy Determination and Blakey's "The Mob Did It" Book 01:09:30 Oliver Stone's 'JFK' and John Newman's 'JFK in Vietnam' 01:13:09 Stone's 'JFK' helps push the Assassination Records Review Board: New Info on Vietnam Withdrawal 01:17:29 Problems with the ARRB 01:18:47 The Establishment Responds to Stone's Film with Posner's 'Case Closed' 01:22:52 The Final ARRB Releases in 2017 - How Will the National Archives Handle It? 01:26:45 Failures and Successes of the ARRB 01:28:58 The ARRB's Damning Look at the Medical Evidence 01:32:24 Will The Official Story Ever Collapse? Hope for the Future 01:33:53 The Circus of the 50th Anniversary in Dealy Plaza and in the News 01:37:34 Upcoming Oswald Mock Trial in Houston END

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