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Bob Herzberg is the author of scholarly books and western novels, in particular "FBI And the Movies: A History of the Bureau on Screen And Behind the Scenes in Hollywood". On June 29, 1908, U.S. Attorney General Charles Bonaparte ordered the creation of a special force within the Department of Justice. Consisting of 28 agents and eight former Treasury Department investigators, it was designed to s...

Daniel S. Chard is a historian and author of the book "Nixon's War at Home: The FBI, Leftist Guerrillas, and the Origins of Counterterrorism (Justice, Power, and Politics)". During the presidency of Richard Nixon, homegrown leftist guerrilla groups like the Weather Underground and the Black Liberation Army carried out hundreds of attacks in the United States. The FBI had a long history of infiltra...

Cody Morris is the director of the graduate program in behavior analysis and the chair of the Institutional Review Board at Salve Regina. The overarching goal of his research and clinical focus is improving the practice of behavior analysis. To this end, Cody's research has two major concentrations. The first and primary concentration is improving assessment and treatment methodologies for severel...

Frederick F. Anscombe is a Senior Lecturer in Contemporary History at Birkbeck, University of London. Fred's research interest lie in the history of the Ottoman empire and post-Ottoman territories, ranging from the late seventeenth to twentieth centuries and from the Middle East to the Balkans. While having a strong interest in Ottoman imperial history, Fred found it helpful to break away from the...

Mal Hyman has taught for 40 years in public schools, a medium security men’s prison, and at Coker College as a professor of sociology. Mal has done human rights work in eight countries, monitored two foreign elections with the UN, and is a Democratic candidate for the US Congress SC 7th. Mal's book "Burying the Lead:  The Media and the JFK Assassination" explores how the power elite worked with th...

Michael W. Cook is the Founder of Cook Cryptid Research and SossSquatch BBQ & Hot Sauce, 20 years researching Bigfoot and other phenomena stemming from a face-to-face encounter with a Bigfoot on a riverbank in Southeast Kentucky when he was 16. Cook has dedicated his life to cryptozoology and pursuit of answers through scientific means. Described as one of the most open-minded researchers out ther...

Cecil is the host of "Where In The Folk" which is a global conspiracy, paranormal, true crime, cryptid and parapsychology podcast from the mountains of Appalachia. Cecil explores the history in which these various myths and folklore begin, learning the evolution of these tales that still are talked about today.

Jason Lamproe is the host of "Mixed Media Forest" a podcast that looks through the forest of media to pick out good and maybe lesser known media content. Jason created a substack to blog some of his rants and daily encounters in his city and many interests, which we talk about a bit on this episode.

Randolph Benson is an award-winning filmmaker and a university-level instructor who made The Searchers, a feature documentary portrait of researchers of the JFK assassination, has screened at numerous film festivals and was awarded the Orson Welles Prize at the Tiburon International Film Festival. Randy joins me to talk about some ideas for a second film and also some behind the scenes on some of...

Jim Butkiewicz is a professor in the Economics department at University of Delaware, who specializes in policy analysis and determinants of economic growth. Jim's historical areas of expertise include monetary theory and history and the economics of the Great Depression. Jim joins me to talk about the hardship and times of the 1920's to mid 30's while also talking about a side project he is involv...

Mikey Bowser is a documentarian and paranormal investigator for "Bump In The Night Society" where he and his team go to haunted locations like insane asylums and castles that have a dark history. Mikey explains some of the history and footage on the show and his new documentary called "The Awakening Of Greenville Manor" where he picked up some interesting footage and a heck of a story.

Dylan Thomas is the host of a podcast called "In Search Of Reality Podcast" that looks at reality from a variety of different angles;  that include but not limited to scientific, psychological, and paranormal experience. Dylan has tried to understand others experience after having some of his own and realizing that its something more than just science fiction.

Dr. Kaminski is a professor at the University of Delaware in the Department of Kinesiology and Applied Physiology, as well as the director of the athletic training program at the university. Dr. Kaminski is a leading expert on issues related to purposeful headers in interscholastic and intercollegiate soccer and whose research interests include concussions, sports-related mild traumatic brain inju...

Daniel Golden is a senior editor at ProPublica, a non-profit website for investigative reporting. His latest book "Spy Schools": How The CIA, FBI, and Foreign Intelligence Secretly Exploit America's Universities, the book reveals that globalization—the influx of foreign students and professors and the outflow of Americans for study, teaching, and conferences abroad—has transformed U.S. higher educ...

Matt is the creator of "Suburban Phoodie" a food review page based in Philly where he highlights local eats and tries to get them more highlighted in todays corporate marketed world. Matt has been on the show many times and always a interesting range of topics a little on history and a few personal experiences in life, all while enjoying some laughs.

Rob is the host of a podcast called "Smoke And Mirrors" where he and his brothers run through weekly movie, TV and entertainment news. The Brothers review films, give their takes on the news as they work their way through the line up of cinema and TV in a fun and lighthearted chat format - all while vaping up a storm.

Dr Greg Poulgrain is a historian and lecturer on Southeast Asian history and author of JFK vs. Allen Dulles: Battleground Indonesia. In 1936, an Allen Dulles-established company discovered the world's largest gold deposit in remote Netherlands New Guinea. In 1962, President Kennedy intervened, and Netherlands New Guinea was added to President Sukarno's Indonesia. Neither Sukarno nor JFK was aware...

Larry Hancock has been involved in the study of cold war history and the assassination of John F. Kennedy for approximately 14 years. He is co-author of November Patriots, a docufiction novel and author of Someone Would Have Talked a factual analysis of both the conspiracy and cover-up, published in November of 2003. Larry has researched and published several collections of CIA, FBI and military d...

Stephen Kinzer is an American author, journalist, and academic. A former New York Times correspondent, he has published several books, and writes for several newspapers and news agencies. Stephen discusses his book "Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control" about The visionary chemist Sidney Gottlieb was the CIA’s master magician and gentlehearted torturer―the agency’...

Mike is the creator of Sith Talkers a star wars podcast that has turned into a more reaction video channel on YouTube. Mike has been on the show many of times and we tend to cover the wide range of topics in our conversations and this episode is no different.

Rob Clark is the host of "The Lone Gunman Podcast" a JFK assassination research podcast that interviews experts from both the LN and CT side only examining the available evidence and testimonies. The amount of research and information when looking through the documents can paint all sorts of interesting stories and give context to a new perspective on the events not only in the administration of J...

Valerie is a classicist researching the points of contact between Ancient Greek and Bedouin poetry. Having a Ph. D. in Ancient Greek from the University of Bergen, Norway in 2016. Since then has been working on different ways to connect ancient poetry with modern people. Valerie has been on a few times over the years and in this episode talking about history and the evolution and connection to mod...

Dr. Thomas is the author of Hear No Evil in which he explains the acoustics evidence in detail, placing it in the context of an analysis of all the scientific evidence in the Kennedy assassination. Revering no sacred cows, he demolishes myths promulgated by both Warren Commission adherents and conspiracy advocates, and presents a novel and compelling re-interpretation of the “single bullet theory....

Steve is the host of "Spartan History Podcast" that takes a deeper look into  a chronological history of the ancient Spartan peoples. Beginning with their earliest mentions in the epics of Homer, the Iliad and Odyssey. The conflict on the historical record and its interpretation in the ancient community whether Achilles and his friend Patroclus were more than friends or a modern thought in a time...

John Koerner is an author of several historical books which focus on conspiracies and the paranormal. One title in particular is "Why The CIA Killed JFK and Malcolm X" in which John argues that the CIA’s secret drug trade in Laos, and the president’s effort to end it, provided the primary motive that the CIA needed to assassinate the president. A lot of effort has been made to examine the presiden...