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On this episode, we look back at the President Ronald Reagan assassination attempt of March 1981 via clips from the late, great John Judge, Jason Bermas, and the legendary Mae Brussell. The John Judge clip is from Judge for Yourself , the Bermas clip is from his documentary Invisible Empire , and Mae Brussell looks at the comparisons between the Reagan and Kennedy shootings with Prof. Ray Fabrizio...

Donald Jeffries joined S.T. Patrick to discuss Jeffrey Epstein... but so much more. Unlike most episodes where there is a structure, Patrick and Jeffries came armed with one audio clip and one word: Epstein. That's where it started and they took off from there. In this discussion, they touch on Alex Acosta, Bill Clinton, Donald Trump, the Q theories, Ghislaine & Robert Maxwell, intelligence connec...

Author Ray Locker returns for part two of a discussion about his new book, Haig's Coup: How Richard Nixon's Closest Aide Forced Him From Office . In this episode, Locker and S.T Patrick take the story from July 1973 through the end of the Nixon presidency. included in tonight's episode are discussions on Alexander Butterfield, The White House Tapes, Bob Woodward, Deep Throat, Seymour Hersh, Larry...

Author Ray Locker joins S.T. Patrick to discuss the new book, Haig's Coup: How Richard Nixon's Closest Aide Forced Him From Office . Locker delves into the role of General Alexander Haig in the administration of Richard Nixon. In this episode, Locker and Patrick cover Haig's actions through the end of May 1973. Was Al Haig a major player in the downfall of Nixon? This is part one of a two-part epi...

Rob Clark guest hosts this episode of the Midnight Writer News Show to discuss Marina Oswald. Clark is the host of The Lone Gunman Podcast , and has served as the MWN quarterly guest host for over a year. In this stint, he has done JFK assassination-centric episodes that have focused on Guy Banister, Gen. Edwin Walker, Larry Crayfard, David Ferrie, and Buell Wesley Frazier. S.T. Patrick and Midnig...

Author, journalist, and podcast host Donald Jeffries joins S.T. Patrick to discuss his new work Crimes and Cover Ups, 1776-1963: The History They Didn't Teach You in School. In tonight's episode, Jeffries discusses his reasons for writing the book, why founder James Otis is largely forgotten, Americans' bout with historical illiteracy, the Thomas Jefferson controversies, Adam Weishaupt and the Ill...

Researcher David Knight of ProjectJFK.com joins S.T. Patrick to discuss the weaponry of Dealey Plaza. Knight presented the "A New Weapon, A New Theory" talk at JFK Lancer's November in Dallas and the JFK Historical Group Conference in Olney, both to positive reviews. Tonight, he discusses his entrance into the JFK assassination community, the trajectories of the frontal shots, the "hole in the win...

Author and researcher Brian Edwards joins S.T. Patrick to discuss Dealey Plaza as the site of a tactical operation, and then the witness testimony of Ed Hoffman. Edwards is singularly unique in discussing both topics. He was a former law enforcement officer and trainer, and he has over ten years of counter assault experience. When he looks at Dealey Plaza, he looks at it as more of a tactical oper...

Author and researcher Casey Quinlan joins S.T Patrick to discuss Otto Skorzeny and his recruitment by the American intelligence apparatus, NATO, Operation Gladio, Skorzeny's 1947 Trial, ZR/RIFLE, QJ/WIN, the witness testimony of Ed Hoffman, and the work being done at Project JFK. Quinlan describes the movement of Skorzeny's career from German commando to geopolitical operator and controller of "of...

Author, Film Historian, and JFK assassination researcher Joseph McBride joins S.T. Patrick to discuss his newest book, Frankly: Unmasking Frank Capra . The book is about the "Kafkaesque" journey McBride endured in trying to publish a truthful biography of director Frank Capra (1992's Frank Capra: The Catastrophe of Success ).  Its an illustrative story about what it's like to try to do truthful hi...

On April 4-8, 2019 researchers and attendees gathered in the small town of Olney, IL to discuss "Political Assassinations of the 1960s." Professor David Denton, Ed Tatro, Walt Boyce and the staff of Olney Central College served as the gracious hosts for what was a spectacular weekend of research, presentations, brainstorming, and planning. This is the recap of the 2019 JFK Historical Group Confere...

Walt Brown, PhD, the author of Treachery in Dallas , The People v Lee Harvey Oswald , The Warren Omission , and The Kennedy Execution , joins S.T. Patrick once again to discuss the JFK assassination. In tonight's episode, Brown discusses Dallas in 1963 as a "hostile environment," what Gov. John Connally screamed out in the car - and what it meant, the serious errors of the Dallas PD in the handlin...

Rob Clark, host of The Lone Gunman Podcast , sits in to discuss the man who drove Lee Harvey Oswald to work on November 22, 1963, Buell Wesley Frazier. Rob brings his dogged search for factual information on the JFK assassination to MWN once again to give us the absolute truths behind the story of Buell Wesley Frazier. Go to MidnightWriterNews.com for our FREE archives.  

Author and Filmmaker John Potash joins S.T. Patrick to discuss the ways in which the CIA has used drugs to de-radicalize musicians and activists. On this episode, Potash discusses the opium trade and how it influenced the Ivy League universities, the rise of secret societies, how and why the CIA got into the culture business, Acid Tests, Timothy Leary, Ken Kesey, Eldridge Cleaver, why Timothy Lear...

Author and researcher Larry Rivera joins S.T. Patrick to discuss the most controversial photographic evidence of the JFK assassination. Rivera, the author of The JFK Horsemen , describes his history in the JFK assassination field and how that merged with his interest in photography. Also addressed are the topics of Lee Harvey Oswald's backyard photo, Roscoe White, the Doorway Man controversy, Oswa...

In this, the current installment of the MWN Legends Series, we listen to excerpts of three Mae Brussell episodes from 1981. We begin with an amazing bit of foreshadowing, an episode Mae recorded days before the attempt on Reagan's life (March 30, 1981). Then we move to episodes recorded less than six weeks after the shooting. Mae talks about the history of Alexander Haig, including his far-right s...

TrineDay's Kris Millegan joins S.T. Patrick to discuss Edward Landsdale, CIA drug programs, Skull & Bones, and much more. Millegan is the owner of TrineDay Publishing, maybe the best alternative publisher existing today. Tonight, we discuss the origin of TrineDay (the company and the name), how the decision is made to publish controversial books, what it's like to deal with the critics who challen...

Professor David Denton of the JFK Historical Group and the Center for Deep Political research joins S.T. Patrick to discuss his entry into the JFK assassination community, the April 5-7, 2019 conference at Olney Central College, the origin of the JFK Historical Group, The Inheritance, the 2017-2018 JFK document releases, and teaching a class on the political assassinations of the 1960s. Go to Midn...

Author Geoff Shepard is back with S.T Patrick to continue their discussion of Watergate. In tonight's episode, Shepard covers, in depth, the problems of the Watergate-era biographies, how and why the Nixon tapes are misunderstood so often, the infamous 18 1/2-minute gap, the "smoking gun" tape, why Dean accused Nixon of stonewalling after Dean himself had encouraged Nixon to stonewall throughout t...

Douglas Horne joins S.T. Patrick on the first episode of 2019 to discuss the debate over Zapruder Film alteration. Horne is the author of the five-volume Inside the Assassination Records Review Board: The U.S. Government's Final Attempt to Reconcile the Conflicting Medical Evidence in the Assassination of JFK , JFK's War with the National Security Establishment: Why Kennedy Was Assassinated , and...

This is the 2018 theme song for the Midnight Writer News Show. There will be new clips in 2019, so stay tuned. For our free archives, go to www. MidnightWriterNews.com . See you all in 2019!  

Barbara Honegger joins S.T. Patrick to discuss her book The October Surprise: Did the Reagan-Bush Election Campaign Sabotage President Carter's Attempts to Free the American Hostages in Iran? Honegger discusses her work and associations within the 1980 Reagan-Bush campaign and her position at the White House from 1981-1983. Why is the October Surprise important today? Whom did she most admire in t...

Andrew Kreig, the director of the Justice Integrity Project and the author of Presidential Puppetry , joins S.T. Patrick to discuss presidential politics of the last 40 years. What should we have known about George H.W. Bush, Bill & Hillary Clinton, George W. Bush, John Kerry, John Edwards, and John McCain? Krieg takes a non-partisan approach to dissecting the pros, cons, misdeeds, and motivations...

Who was the real David Ferrie? Mythologized by Joe Pesci's hyper-paranoid portrayal in Olive Stone's JFK (1991), the real David Ferrie was more complex than we knew - that is, until the recent file releases provided more depth. Rob Clark, the host of The Lone Gunman Podcast, returns to guest host an in-depth study of the real David Ferrie. Rob Clark can be heard on The Lone Gunman Podcast archives...

Author and researcher Robert Groden joins S.T. Patrick to discuss the controversy over Zapruder film alteration. In this episode, Groden lays out his reasons for believing the Z-film has not been altered at any time. Also discussed is the chain of custody for the Zapruder film, the story of its recording, differentiating tampering from alteration, "jiggle analysis," the details regarding the speci...