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Jacob M. Carter is a author and social media manager, his work in which we discuss on this episode is about the JFK assassination. Jacob is the author of "Before History Dies" which features a series of interviews with key experts and researchers in the Kennedy assassination field, author Jacob Carter offers readers the unique opportunity to take a fresh look at one of the most pivotal moments in...

Claire Prentice is an award-winning journalist whose work has been published in the Washington Post, the London Times, the Guardian, the Sydney Morning Herald, BBC Online, Cosmopolitan, and Marie Claire. Claire joins me to speak about her book "Doctor Ice Pick" which is the bestselling true story of Walter Freeman, America’s most prolific lobotomist, and his state-sponsored 1950s campaign to empty...

Wesley Britton has had many lives as a writer. He’s been a scholar, poet, reviewer, interviewer, and contributor to many books and websites. He’s the author of four non-fiction books on espionage in film, television, history, and literature. In Wesley's book "Beyond Bond: Spies in Film and Fiction", Britton traces the history of espionage in literature, film, and other media, demonstrating how the...

Nick Bryant is a journalist and author whose writing career has wended through various incarnations over the last three decades, but often focused on the plight of lower-socioeconomic children in the United States. Nick has spent seven years investigating a child sex trafficking network that was covered up by state and federal authorities, culminating in "The Franklin Scandal: A Story of Powerbrok...

David Christopher has taught media studies at universities in China and Canada before joining the University of Leicester where he is now a lecturer in Popular Screen Cultures. David's research has covered the ideology and cultural studies of digital cinema, Canadian cinema, anarchist cinema, international science fiction and apocalypse cinema, horror video games and cinema, reception and percepti...

Scott Reid has been researching the assassination of John F. Kennedy and has published many articles on Dealey Plaza UK Echo and visited many of the sites that are mentioned in the assassination. Scott breaks down some information on the attempted walker shooting and a person by the name of William Duff a former militant roommate that Walker ordered to leave weeks prior to the shooting.

Richard Bartholomew is a co-founder and director of the Center for Deep Political Research and a prominent JFK assassination researcher. Rich joins me again to discuss some deep politics but also a few of his personal experiences with the newly branded UAP and his two encounters that have only been told through writing and for the first time in recorded video form.

Greg Poulgrain is a historian and lecturer on Southeast Asian history and author of JFK vs. Allen Dulles: Battleground Indonesia. Greg joins me once again to discuss Allen Dulles and also Dag Hammarskjöld who remains well regarded internationally as a capable diplomat and administrator, and his efforts to resolve various global crises led to him being the only posthumous recipient of the Nobel Pea...

Lauren Aguirre is an award-winning science journalist who has produced documentaries, short-form video series, podcasts, interactive games, and blogs for the PBS series NOVA. She has covered everything from asteroids to human origins to art restoration, but is particularly fascinated by the brain. Aguirre’s articles on memory and addiction have appeared in STAT, The Boston Globe Ideas Section, Und...

Ronald F. Levant is a psychologist, a professor, and a former president of the American Psychological Association. After earning an undergraduate degree at the University of California, Berkeley, Levant completed a Doctor of Education at Harvard University. Dr. Levant has authored, co-authored, edited or co-edited 19 books and over 250 peer-reviewed refereed journal articles and book chapters in t...

This episode is focused into the death of Fred Hampton and features two figures and past guests who have done extensive research into this young activists life and death. Jeffrey Haas is the author of The Assassination of Fred Hampton. He is an attorney and the cofounder of the People's Law Office, whose clients included the Black Panthers, Students for a Democratic Society, community activists, a...

Laurie Calhoun is a philosopher and cultural critic, is the author of "We Kill Because We Can: From Soldiering to Assassination in the Drone Age" which takes a scalpel to the dark heart of Western foreign policy in order to answer these and many other troubling questions. Laurie is also the author of "War and Delusion: A Critical Examination" about the centuries-old paradigm of just war theory to...

Douglas Thompson is the author of many non-fiction books covering an eclectic mix of subjects from major Hollywood biographies to revelatory collaborations about remarkable people and events. The author, broadcaster and international journalist, is a regular contributor to major newspapers and magazines worldwide. Douglas is thee author of Shadowland: How the Mafia Bet Britain in a Global Gamble"...

Armin Krishnan is an Assistant Professor and Director of the Security Studies Program at East Carolina University. He has studied political science and security studies at Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich and Salford University, U.K. He previously taught intellligence and security studies at the University of Texas at El Paso. He has written three books on new developments in contemporary wa...

Chiara Thumiger is a classicist and a science historian. In particular, her current interests focus on ancient medicine and mental health, patient history, history of psychiatry, (ancient) disability studies, and the history of the body. She has also worked on other areas of ancient literatures and culture (Greek tragedy, ancient animals, ancient emotions). Her present research project within ROOT...

Thomas E. Samoluk In the mid 1990’s served as the Deputy Director of the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Review Board, an independent federal agency that was responsible for the review and public release of classified records on the assassination, which are now housed at the National Archives.

Christopher Moran is an Associate Professor of U.S. National Security at the University of Warwick in England. He is the award-winning author of "Classified: Secrecy and the State in Modern Britain" and "Company Confessions: Secrets, Memoirs, and the CIA" that draws on interviews; the private correspondence of such legendary spies as Allen Dulles, William Colby, and Richard Helms; and declassified...

Walter Shaub is a government ethics expert who has advocated for integrity and accountability in government across a career in public service. He leads POGO’s Government Ethics Initiative, which focuses on preventing abuses of government power and resources, reforming government ethics systems, and holding government officials accountable to the public they serve. Shaub has testified before Congre...

Terry Allen Kupers is an award-winning psychiatrist and Professor Emeritus at The Wright Institute Graduate School of Psychology. As one of the nation’s foremost experts on the mental health effects of solitary confinement, he has testified in over two dozen class action lawsuits about jail and prison conditions, the quality of mental health care “inside” and the effects of sexual abuse behind bar...

Carla Joinson is a freelance writer who lives near Johnson City, Tennessee. Carla has a interest in the history of mental illness and its treatment inspired her to continue research into this topic and author books such as "Vanished in Hiawatha: The Story of the Canton Asylum for Insane Indians" the harrowing tale of the mistreatment of Native American patients at a notorious insane asylum whose h...

Chris Gavaler is an associate professor at W&L University, comics editor of SHENANDOAH, and series editor of Bloomsbury Critical Guides in Comics Studies. Chris has authored many books on the studies of superheroes such as "Superhero Thought Experiments: Comic Book Philosophy" which examines the deep philosophical topics addressed in superhero comics, authors Gavaler and Goldberg read plot lines f...

Kelley Blanchette completed her Doctorate in forensic psychology in 2005. Her area of research is focused primarily on women offenders. Dr. Blanchette developed and implemented a gender-informed security re-classification scale for federally sentenced women. It was implemented by Correctional Service Canada in 2005 and continues to be used at all federal women’s correctional facilities today. She...

Peter J. Kalliney is the William J. and Nina B. Tuggle Chair in English at the University of Kentucky. His books include Cities of Affluence and Anger, Commonwealth of Letters, and Modernism in a Global Context. Peter is the author of "The Aesthetic Cold War: Decolonization and Global Literature" looks at how the United States and the Soviet Union, in an effort to court writers, funded internation...

Ian McGlynn is the host of a podcast called Why Whiskey? a light-hearted show that aims to educate and inspire those on a journey through history and whiskey. It has been two years since Ian was last on the show so we catch up and dive into the prohibition era and the many possible causes of a turbulent time.

Peter Coogan is the director of the Institute for Comics Studies and co-founder and co-chair of the Comics Arts Conference, which runs during the San Diego Comic-Con International and San Francisco WonderCon. Coogan is the author of "Superhero: The Secret Origin of a Genre" an entertaining and exhaustive history, tracing the superhero's roots in mythology, science fiction, and pulps, which follows...