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Christina Ward is a Wisconsin Master Food Preserver and writer. She is a contributor to Edible Milwaukee, The Wall Street Journal, and The Milwaukee Journal/Sentinel. For Serious Eats, she wrote in-depth articles about the science and principles behind food preservation. Christina is the author of "American Advertising Cookbooks: How Corporations Taught Us to Love Bananas, Spam, and Jell-O" a deep...

Lillian Faderman is an American historian whose books on lesbian history and LGBT history have earned critical praise and awards. The New York Times named three of her books on its "Notable Books of the Year" list. Lillian is the author of "Harvey Milk: His Lives and Death" about Harvey Milk and his life who was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1977, but he had not even served...

Barry Krusch is an instructional designer with over 20 years experience. He has written several books, including Would the Real First Amendment Please Stand Up?, The 21st century Constitution, and his latest book, Impossible: The Case Against Lee Harvey Oswald. Mr. Krusch's latest book Impossible: The Case Against Lee Harvey Oswald, divided into three volumes. This extensive work, over 1000 pages,...

Renee Dufault is an American research scientist. A former Food and Drug Administration researcher and whistleblower, who brought media attention to three separate studies that discovered mercury contained within high fructose corn syrup. Dr. Dufault is recognized as a biomedical expert in the area of heavy metal toxicity. She is considered a leading researcher in the area of epigenetics (gene-envi...

Michael Rembis is an expert on disability history, including the history of madness. He is director of the Center for Disability Studies at UB and has worked with colleagues around the world to expand and solidify the fields of disability history and disability studies. Rembis’ research interests include the history of institutionalization, mad people's history, and the history of eugenics. He has...

Michael Rivero is the host of "What Really Happened" dedicated to real news and real talk with real people. Originally a child actor, Michael left film work after High School to follow a career in science, working for NASA on the Viking and Voyager projects, among others. Following the post-Apollo crash of the aerospace industry, Michael went back into film work arriving at the exact time Hollywoo...

Daniel Czitrom is Professor of History on the Ford Foundation at Mount Holyoke College, where his teaching focus is on American cultural and political history. Czitrom’s latest book is New York Exposed: The Gilded Age Police Scandal That Launched the Progressive Era. It tells the story of how a minister’s moral crusade to clean up New York City in the 1890s morphed into the first sensational polit...

Ryan Clement holds a PhD in English Language and Literature from the University of Waterloo where his research focused on the emergence of narrative from game mechanics. He also holds an MA in Communication and Culture from York University and Ryerson University where he completed a graphic novel project comparing the globalization of American comics versus Japanese manga. Ryan also designs games,...

Cory Hughes is the host of "Understanding Propaganda" which helps understand the history of propaganda and how it relates today. Cory joins the show to talk about his years of research into the JFK assassination in which he created works such as "The Man On The Grassy Knoll" and "A Warning From History".

Darren Dochuk is the Andrew V. Tackes College Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame. He is also a Faculty Fellow at Notre Dame's Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies. His research and teaching deal primarily with the United States in the long twentieth century, with emphasis on the intersections of religion, politics, energy, and environment. Dochuk has written widely on m...

Scott M. Deitche is an author specializing in organized crime and the Mafia. He has been featured on History Channel, A&E, Discovery Channel, AHC, C-Span, and Oxygen Network. In addition, he has also appeared on dozens of local and national news shows, as well as over 40 radio programs. Scott is the author of "The Silent Don: The Criminal Underworld of Santo Trafficante Jr." which exposes the life...

Gina Keating was a staff reporter for Reuters and United Press International for more than a decade. Her work has appeared in Variety, Southern Living, and Forbes. Gina is the author of "Netflixed: The Epic Battle for America's Eyeballs" about Netflix and their quest to become the world's portal for pre­mium video on demand will determine nothing less than the future of entertainment and the Inter...

Phil Zwerling an Associate Professor of Creative Writing and Director of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. He is the author of three books (Nicaragua: A New Kind of Revolution, 1985, After School Theatre Programs for At Risk Teenagers and The Theatre of Lee Blessing: A Critical Study of 44 Plays. Phil joins me to talk about his edited book, The CIA on Campu...

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 collections Dissenting Views and Dissenting Views II. Joe joins me again to talk about his new book "Tinfoil Hat Not Included: Conspiracy Theories in Art and Practice " which attempts to rationally unpack what is meant by conspiracy, why cons...

Joseph McBride is a film historian, biographer, screenwriter, and professor in the School of Cinema at San Francisco State University. His most recent work is Political Truth: The Media and the Assassination of President Kennedy (2021), a study of how the mainstream media have distorted the truth about the assassination since it happened in 1963, in contrast to the genuine investigative work of ma...

David E. Scheim is a director of management information systems. He is the author of several books on the murders of John F. Kennedy and Robert Kennedy. David is the author of "Contract on America: The Mafia Murder of President John F. Kennedy" which is a reexamination of the Mafia's role in the assassination of John F. Kennedy discusses Jack Ruby's criminal activities, his top-level Mafia ties, a...

Craig Ciccone is a independent historian and author of "Master List of Witnesses to the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy" which details the number of people in Dealey Plaza and gives us a clearer picture of who was where. Craig has also made a map to help visualize and give insight to some of the locations of the witnesses in precise detail. Craig has also looked into the killing of Fred...

Richard Mills is Programme Director and Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies and Screen Media at the School of Arts and Humanities at St Mary’s University, UK. Richard is the author of "The Beatles and Fandom: Sex, Death and Progressive Nostalgia" combines academic theory on fandom with compelling original research material to tell an alternative history of the Beatles phenomenon: a fans' history o...

Ellen Baumler an interpretive historian at the Montana Historical Society and host of the show "History on the Go" on Cherry Creek Radio. In my spare time, I've made a hobby out of investigating the history behind Montana's ghosts and haunted places. Ellen joins me to talk about some of the haunted locations and experiences and also her book "Montana Moments: History on the Go" which distills the...

David Giles is a Reader in Media Psychology. After working for several years as a freelance music journalist for publications such as NME and the Independent, David studied Psychology at the University of Manchester and did a PhD with the University of Bristol looking at children's spelling. David has areas of expertise in media influence on human behavior and the impact of fame and celebrity. Dav...

Michael Woodiwiss has been a Senior Lecturer at UWE since 1996 after lecturing in the Department of American Studies, at the University of Wales, Swansea. Dr Woodiwiss is one of the world's leading interdisciplinary historians in the conceptualization of organized crime and its control. His interdisciplinary research interests involve the study of organized crime, corporate crime, corruption and t...

Verne Lyon was a CIA agent in the 1960s and 1970s. While operating under deep cover Lyon engaged in domestic spying on antiwar Iowa State University students. Codenamed Operation CHAOS, the CIA launched the illegal program against U.S. citizens. Lyon was also involved in destabilizing operations in Cuba. Verne wrote about his operations at Iowa State in his book "Eyes on Havana: Memoir of an Ameri...

Joseph Oliver Boyd-Barrett is a Professor Emeritus in the field of international communication, national and international news agencies, and war propaganda. The art of propaganda has taken many forms in a modern society such as fake news or trolls but has always been a part of human society dating back to the earliest works of statues and scripture. This episode focusing more on media from film t...

Monika Wiesak is an IT professional and concerned citizen with an interest in history and the impact it has on our current world. She has spent years studying the presidency of John F. Kennedy, from the many books written, to declassified files, press conferences, and speeches, with much thought as to what it means for our world today. Monika is the author of America's Last President: What the Wor...

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, and a large number of those opposed to the Vietnam War. He has handled cases involving prisoners' rights, Puerto Rican nationalists, protesters opposed to human rights viol...