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Robert Fantina is an author and journalist, working for peace and social justice. He writes extensively about U.S. foreign policy and the Middle East, with a focus on Palestine. He serves on the boards of Canadian Voices for Palestinian Rights (CVPR) and Canadians for Peace and Justice in Kashmir (CPJK). Robert is the author of "Propaganda, Lies and False Flags: How the U.S. Justifies Its Wars" Fa...

H. Bruce Franklin is an American cultural historian and scholar. He is notable for receiving top awards for his lifetime scholarship in fields as diverse as American studies, science fiction, prison literature and marine ecology. Bruce is the author of "MIA, or Mythmaking in America" in which this book shows two decades after the Vietnam War, most Americans remain convinced that U.S. prisoners are...

Amy Milne-Smith is an Associate Professor of History at Wilfrid Laurier University. Amy recently completed a monograph entitled "Out of his Mind: Masculinity and mental illness in Victorian Britain" which interrogates how Victorians made sense of the madman as both a social reality and a cultural representation. Even at the height of enthusiasm for the curative powers of nineteenth-century psychia...

Benjamin Cunningham is a journalist, writer and PhD candidate at the Universitat de Barcelona. His book “The Liar: How a Double Agent in the CIA Became the Last Honest Man of the Cold War” during the mid-1970s, the CIA and KGB watched Karel Koecher closely—they were both convinced he was working for the enemy. And they were both right. Traveling with his wife, Hana, Koecher posed as a Czechoslovak...

Edward Alwood is a former CNN correspondent who reported on the White House, Congress and various federal agencies. Prior to that, he reported for WTTG-TV (Channel 5) in Washington, D.C. Alwood is published in several academic journals and has written two books, including “Dark Days in the Newsroom: McCarthyism Aimed at the Press,” traces how journalists became radicalized during the Depression er...

Christopher Ferguson holds a PhD in clinical psychology from the University of Central Florida. He has clinical experience particularly in working with offender and juvenile justice populations as well as conducting evaluations for child protective services. Chris is the author of "How Madness Shaped History: An Eccentric Array of Maniacal Rulers, Raving Narcissists, and Psychotic Visionaries" con...

Eric Wilson is a senior lecturer of law at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. Eric is the editor of a series of works on critical criminology, the first volume of which was published by Pluto Press in 2009 as Government of the Shadows: Parapolitics and Criminal Sovereignty. The second volume in the series, The Dual State: Parapolitics, Carl Schmitt and the National Security State Complex,...

J. Michael Springmann was the head of the American visa bureau in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, in the Reagan and former Bush administrations, from September 1987 through March 1989. While stationed in Saudi Arabia, Springmann was "ordered by high level State Dept officials to issue visas to unqualified applicants". Springmann states that these applicants were terrorist recruits of Osama Bin Laden, who we...

This episode features Larry Hancock and Campbell Moreira where we discuss the Kennedy assassination after much of the public saw the recent trend after new documents were released. Larry is a distinguished historian, lecturer and researcher; author of essential and acclaimed works on America’s hidden histories. Campbell is the owner of UAPstudy.com a site dedicated to documented information of int...

Jon Lewis is the University Distinguished Professor of Film Studies and a University Honors College Eminent Professor in the School of Writing, Literature, and Film at Oregon State University where he has taught film and cultural studies since 1983. Jon is the author of many books but this episode focus is on "Hard-Boiled Hollywood: Crime and Punishment in Postwar Los Angeles" focuses on the lives...

John J. Geoghegan is an editor, journalist and author of three non-fiction books including, “Operation Storm” and the memoir, “Hear Today, Gone Tomorrow. In his book "Operation Storm: Japan's Top Secret Submarines and Its Plan to Change the Course of World War II" the architects of Japan's sneak attack on Pearl Harbor planned a bold follow-up: a potentially devastating air raid—this time against N...

Kieron Connolly studied history at the University of Edinburgh and screenwriting at the National Film & Television School, where he co-wrote two multi-award-winning short films. As an author, his books include "Dark History of Hollywood" from the setting up of the studios by the movie moguls to the corporations that run them today, from drug addictions to McCarthy-era witch-hunts to the Mob, Dark...

Andrew Scull a sociologist who researches the social history of medicine and the history of psychiatry. He is a distinguished professor of sociology and science studies at University of California, San Diego, and recipient of the Roy Porter Medal for lifetime contributions to the history of medicine. His books include Madhouse: A Tragic Tale of Megalomania and Modern Medicine, Madness in Civilizat...

Charles "C.J." Plogger is a pastor of the Ash Avenue Church of God in Moundsville, West Virginia. C.J. is the author of various works such as "Pronounced Dead: The Executions at the West Virginia Penitentiary" about ninety-four executions at the West Virginia Penitentiary. Ninety-four souls that crossed the threshold separating life and death. Ninety-four men whose actions brought upon themselves...

Donald Jeffries has been researching the JFK assassination since the mid-1970s, when he was a student volunteer with Mark Lane's Citizens' Committee of Inquiry. Don joins me again to talk about the new documents release and the media coverage while also breaking down some past history of intelligence operations.

Thomas Schwartz is the Distinguished Professor of History, Professor of Political Science, and Professor of European Studies at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. He teaches courses in the history of American foreign relations, as well as the history of America’s role in the Middle East and America and the Vietnam War. Tom is the author of "Lyndon Johnson and Europe: In the Shadow of V...

Dirk Cameron Gibson has long been a national expert on product recalls. With the publication of six books on serial murderers he also has become an expert source for print and broadcast media on the rhetorical and mass communication dimensions of serial killers. Dirk is the author of "The Most Feared Man In America" a biography of J. Edgar Hoover which documents the existence of two political myth...

Ben Cort spent a decade inside the drug and alcohol addiction treatment field and is now a consultant to the industry. Ben is the author of "Weed, Inc.: The Truth About the Pot Lobby, THC, and the Commercial Marijuana Industry" about the THC industry has no federal oversight and has grown at a pace that’s made building and enforcing responsible regulation totally impossible, with adverse impacts t...

Peter Elkind, an award-winning investigative reporter, is the co-author of the national bestseller, The Smartest Guys in the Room, about the collapse of Enron. Peter is the author of "The Death Shift" about one of the most shocking and insidious cases in the history of medicine: the crimes of one nurse were hidden by a hospital for years. In 1980 Genene Jones is working the 3 to 11 PM shift in the...

This episode is a panel that consists of a few JFK researchers who have interviewed and documented various issues in the medical and investigative purposes of the assassination. Donald Jeffries has been researching the JFK assassination since the mid-1970s, when he was a student volunteer with Mark Lane's Citizens' Committee of Inquiry. William Law is the author of In the Eye of History: Bethesda...

This episode consists of two JFK researchers who have done extensive work into educating the public on the assassination, throughout our chat we talk about the recent lancer conference and other instances related to the assassination. Joseph E. Green is a political researcher and playwright. He currently serves on the board of directors of the Hidden History Center and is the author of the collect...

John T. Orr is the author of "Analysis of Gunshots in Dealey Plaza." Orr's independent research convinced the FBI to conduct additional testing on JFK evidence as late as 1997. Results were inconclusive, but he suggests that even more testing should be done. John became one of the few private citizens ever allowed by the Archives to examine in person original pieces of evidence in the case--the pr...

James Danckert is a professor in the Department of Psychology and the Cognitive Neuroscience Area Head at the University of Waterloo. An expert on the psychology of boredom, he also studies the neuroscience of attention and the consequences of strokes. James is the author of "Out of My Skull: The Psychology of Boredom" which combines scientific findings with everyday observations to explain an exp...

Luke Nichter is an associate professor of history at Texas A&M University–Central Texas. His area of specialty is the Cold War, the modern presidency, and U.S. political and diplomatic history, with a focus on the "long 1960s" from John F. Kennedy through Watergate. Luke is a noted expert on Richard Nixon's 3,432 hours of secret White House tapes.

Dave O’Brien has researched the JFK assassination since age 13 in 1965. In 1968, he formed a 'pen-pal' relationship with Dr. Malcolm Perry, the first doctor to treat JFK. He is one of few researchers ever granted access to the 'Oswald' window when it was locked and sealed to the public. As a reporter, he covered the HSCA hearings and owns and operates www.throughtheoswaldwindow.com. Dave is the au...