Beyond the Classroom

DR. MICHAEL MARCADES is the son of Rose Cherami, aka Melba Christine Youngblood Marcades. You have seen an incident in the early stages of Oliver Stone’s film, JFK, with a delirious woman in a hospital bed sharing information about the impending assassination attempt on President Kennedy, BEFORE it happened. Dr. Michael Marcades heard of the JFK assassination at school and all students were sent h...

The Green Mountain Boys band from Putney, Vermont had formed in 1969 and performed in Craftsbury Common, Vermont on March 14, 1970. Banjo player, Bruce Stockwell, 14 years old, won the banjo contest that day.   Within a short time, news spread of the Green Mountain Boys and they caught the attention of Windham College students who were part of an early 1970s college funded Student Activities group...

Thirteen seconds of gunfire on the campus of Kent State University in northeastern Ohio ended the lives of four young people, and permanently altered the lives of countless others. The victims' families, injured survivors, guardsmen, eyewitnesses, and politicians were immediately and directly affected. Many Americans, shocked by the shooting, began to see domestic turmoil in a different light. Ame...

In this inaugural edition of Beyond the Classroom, Bill and G discuss Bill’s book, Beyond the Classroom, and the life-changing opportunities found when learners step outside the confines of their school building and go to where history happens. They also discuss the history of Northern Ireland’s “Troubles” and the challenge of readying students for travel in one of the world’s most politically con...

J. Gary Shaw and Brian Edwards recently published, Admitted Assassin: Roscoe White and the Murder of President Kennedy. This podcast discusses the results of their research. Brian Edwards has been researching the JFK assassination since 1969 and has interviewed many of the Dealey Plaza eyewitnesses; Dallas police and sheriff’s officers; Parkland doctors and medical personnel who were on duty at Be...

In this edition of Beyond the Classroom we talk about how an announcement from the Junior High middle school intercom and a sans-textbook curriculum led to a lifelong search for truth that spurred Bill to Dallas’ Dealey Plaza by way of the Putney School. Along the way, he spoke with witnesses to a seminal moment in American history and chronicled those stories in a new book: The JFK Assassination:...

How to explain history when the officialdom disavows events and its agents? How do you explain history when history is composed of events that never happened carried out by people who never existed? You talk to their kids. This is the story of Clandestine America, where a German teenager is impregnated by Fidel Castro and subsequently tortured psychologically by the CIA in a successful effort to r...

On his 18th birthday Robert Groden was playing hooky from high school when a blockbuster news story hit NBC TV News: President John F. Kennedy had been shot from a hill along the parade route during a campaign stop in Dallas, Texas.  In this episode of Beyond the Classroom, Robert Groden tells Bill the unlikely story of a New York teenager who, some 12 years after the events of November 22, 1963,...

Monica Mercedes Pérez Jiménez has a lineage of power. She is the daughter of Marco Jimenez, dictator of Venezuela in the 1950s, and Marita Lorentz, one-time girlfriend of Fidel Castro who later became a CIA spy. This recording is a conversation between Bill Holiday and Monica at the JFK Lancer Convention in Dallas, Texas in November of 2023. Monica tells the story of growing up the daughter of a C...

An outtake from our Kent State episode: Bill Holiday gives prospective Kent State students an unscheduled tour addendum.

An outtake from our podcast about the killing of 4 students at Kent State University in 1970. G relates an anecdote from Robert Giles book When Truth Mattered, when a careless photo editor cost his newspaper a Pulitzer Prize.