Long Strange Trip: On the Death of Kennedy and Huxley
Reading Time: 5 minutes Aldous Huxley died on the same day as John F. Kennedy. It’s an interesting factoid, but does it mean anything? Here’s one take on the possible significance.
What Could Have Been — JFK in His Own Words
Reading Time: 14 minutes On the anniversary of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination, let’s not forget the man who was lost that day and think about how much he could have changed the world.
The Murder of John Kennedy’s Mistress, Part 3
Reading Time: 16 minutes In the third and last installment of this series, the case against the black laborer continues to build. To make matters worse, a new witness comes forward. But something is quite wrong with his story about what he allegedly saw — and, it turns out later, about his own background. Who was he really?
Classic Who: JFK in His Own Words
Reading Time: 13 minutes John F. Kennedy would have turned 100 today and we can only imagine how he would feel about the current president. There might be a few clues in the following excerpts, which display Kennedy’s wit, perception, and originality.
What Fidel Castro Said When JFK Died, Part 3: Did Right Wing Cubans Know of Assassination Plot?
Reading Time: 6 minutes Part 3. Castro focuses on the smoldering rage Cuban exiles felt because of President Kennedy’s unforgivable desire for a peaceful co-existence with Cuba.
What Fidel Castro Said When JFK Died, Part 2
Reading Time: 3 minutes Part 2. Castro talks about the initial reactions in the US to the assassination, and how reactionary forces took advantage of the event to unleash a state of anti-Soviet and anti-Cuban hysteria.
What Fidel Castro Said When JFK Died, Part 1
Reading Time: 6 minutes Part 1: Castro describes the ultra-right wing, imperialist forces he believed were behind the Kennedy assassination.
JFK: The Never-Ending Wait for Answers
Reading Time: 2 minutes Tens of thousands of documents related to the assassination of John F. Kennedy remain locked up and classified at the National Archives. Now, more than 50 years after the President’s tragic death, one activist is trying a new approach to prying them loose.
JFK in His Own Words: A Selective Sampler from Speeches by John F. Kennedy
Reading Time: 13 minutes Excerpts of some JFK speeches you may not have heard, showing his wit and his perception.
Bush and the JFK Hit, Part 7: Empire Strikes Back
Reading Time: 17 minutes What possible connection could there have been between George H.W. Bush and the assassination of John F. Kennedy? Or between the C.I.A. and the assassination? Or between Bush and the C.I.A.? For some people, apparently, making such connections was as dangerous as letting one live wire touch another. Here, in anticipation of the 50th anniversary of the JFK assassination in November, is the seventh part of a ten-part series of excerpts from WhoWhatWhy editor Russ Baker’s bestseller, Family of Secrets: The Bush Dynasty, America’s Invisible Government and the Hidden History of the Last Fifty Years. The story is a real-life thriller.
Is US Effort to Block Oswald Friend and his “Revelations” Another Deception?
Reading Time: 9 minutes Ernst Titovets, a Soviet-era friend of Lee Harvey Oswald, is being blocked by the US government from visiting Dallas for a lecture on the 50th anniversary of JFK’s death. Strange, because what the man has to say fundamentally supports the US establishment’s preferred line on Oswald—that he was just a man on his own—hence not working for intelligence service. So why block such a cooperative figure? Is it crazy to wonder whether this is actually designed to draw further attention to what Titovets has to say?
UK Documentary: “The Men Who Killed Kennedy” Part 5
Reading Time: 1 minute Part Five of a UK documentary series on the JFK assassination. 46 minutes long. Stunning—settle in and watch the entire thing. It gets more chilling as it goes, including claims of a former military man that he was ordered by a CIA agent to kill a witness to the assassination cover-up. Another of many “someones” who “would have talked” – and did.
The Right Thing: The Abe Bolden Petition
Reading Time: 1 minute If people had listened to Abe Bolden in 1963, John F. Kennedy might not have died in Dallas. Bolden suffered terribly for his candor. Now we have a chance to do something for Bolden.
What They Don’t Tell You About Oil Industry Tax Breaks
Reading Time: 11 minutes Wonder why the Senate couldn’t bring itself to clamp down on oil industry freebies? Because the “black gold” outfits can be one scary bunch. How scary? You have no idea….
Comedy and Reality Break: Bill Hicks on 11/22/63
Reading Time: 1 minute Sometimes, comedy can make you laugh and shudder at the same time. This is one of those. The inimitable Bill Hicks talks about JFK, Oswald, and the biggest mystery of our time. View with caution.
Unanswered Questions as Obama Anoints HW Bush
Reading Time: 5 minutes On February 15, President Obama bestowed the Medal of Freedom, the United States’ highest award, to a group of people which includes former president George H.W. Bush. Having spent five years researching the elder Bush and discovering a staggering array of secrets to the man’s life—none of them favorable, I was curious why Obama gave Bush the medal.