The JFK Facts Podcast

Thanks for reading JFK Facts! This post is public so feel free to share it. The drop of 65,000 pages and 17 audio files related to Sen. Robert F. Kennedy’s June 1968 assassination happened too soon for JFK Facts’ team to read and analyze them. Remember, the documents are not searchable on the National Archives page highlighting the RFK collection. But if you enter “mp3” into the search box, you ca...

Thanks for reading JFK Facts! This post is public so feel free to share it. The story of the most explosive JFK file still withheld by the CIA is the story of the personnel file of undercover officer George Joannides. His paid agents generated propaganda about Lee Harvey Oswald before and after JFK was killed, and he obstructed Congress’s JFK investigation in 1978. It’s been 100 days since Preside...

Thanks for reading JFK Facts! This post is public so feel free to share it. Does full JFK disclosure important because it advances President Trump’s ambition to tame the so-called “deep state?” Does Trump’s advocacy of full JFK disclosure serve his authoritarian agenda? Or does full JFK disclosure matter because it holds the CIA accountable for abuses of power related to November 22, 1963, and hig...

Thanks for reading JFK Facts! This post is public so feel free to share it. JFK Live hosts, Jefferson Morley and Larry Schnapf’s live discussion of the latest developments in the JFK story—including the just-announced JFK hearing on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, May 20, featuring living witnesses to the JFK story. JFK Facts is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, cons...

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JFK Facts is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jfkfacts.substack.com/subscribe

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Fernand Amandi, pollster and MSNBC news analyst, joined us for a conversation about President Trump's order on JFK assassination files. What does the order say? What doesn't it say? Will the rest of the records become public? And what's in them? This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jfkfacts.substack.com/subscribe

Podcaster and historian Christopher Tidmore gave an utterly fascinating talk about the JFK characters of New Orleans: Jim Garrison, David Ferrie, Clay Shaw, and Lee Oswald, as well as the character of city at the heart of the JFK story. JFK Facts is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If yo...

Rami Smatt, JFK Facts Helsinki Correspondent, joined our weekly live call to discuss his recent piece, The Finland File: How Did Oswald Get to the Soviet Union? The declassified file that Rami discovered sheds new light on young Lee Harvey Oswald and how he got to the Soviet Union. Further study of the file begs the question: how did Oswald get to Finland? JFK Facts is a reader-supported publicati...

In our first episode of 2025, author and podcaster Aaron Good joins our show to talk about how the JFK assassination fits into the broader story of empire and covert power in the 21th century. You can follow Aaron’s unique work on his podcast , American Exception. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jfkfacts.substack...

We return with a live show from earlier this month. Co-host Jefferson Morley spoke with listeners in a freewheeling discussion about The Oswald File, a new course that begins Wednesday, Oct 23rd. The group also discussed Dr. Jolly West and his strange place in the JFK assassination story. If you would like to join the live call-in show, it is recorded each Thursday at 8 p.m. EST. JFK Facts emails...

Steven Grant, creator of critically acclaimed comic books like Whisper , joins the JFK Facts Podcast to talk about “Badlands,” his fictionalized comic book series centered around the JFK assassination and its aftermath. Grant has many intriguing things to say about the mileu in which JFK was killed and the power of fiction to tell the truth. You can read Grant’s insightful Afterword to the “Badlan...

[note: the original audio posted stated the date of LBJ and Hoover’s phone call incorrectly, this audio has been corrected. The correct date of the conversation was November 23rd, 1963.] On today’s podcast, we play the entire 14-minute erased phone conversation between President Lyndon Johnson and FBI Director J Edgar Hoover, while host Jefferson Morley puts the deleted recording in context. This...

JFK Facts and the Mary Ferrell Foundation are currently exploring ways in which Artificial Intelligence (AI) might be deployed to search, sort, and analyze the vast record of President Kennedy’s assassination. With its incredible capacity to synthesize information, AI chatbots seem to have great potential for historical research, especially in the JFK story where many questions remain about how a...

[ Note : An earlier version of this post mistakenly contained a different group discussion, which will be re-published at a later date] Each set of circumstances surrounding the destruction of JFK assassination-related records — whether by a government agency or an individual — tells its own story. Taken together, these stories (as told in Chad Nagle’s ongoing series “Trail of Destruction" ) illum...

Fingeroth, the biographer of Marvel Comics mastermind Stan Lee, excavates the life and times and troubled mind of the man who committed murder on national television. JFK Facts is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus...

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On this week’s episode, I talk with James DiEugenio, author of five books on John F. Kennedy’s assassination, about a lesser-known aspect of the JFK story: Kennedy’s principled support for nationalist movements that threw off colonial rule after World War II. From Vietnam to Laos to Algeria to Congo to Cuba, Kennedy spoke eloquently for a new approach that supported the aspirations of colonized pe...

In tonight’s episode, host Jefferson Morley chats with Dick Russell, the prolific author and maverick political activist who is leading and shaping the public conversation about JFK’s assassination in 2024. Russell’s book, “The Man Who Knew Too Much” was among the first JFK books to document the CIA’s hand in events leading to JFK’s assassination in clear and convincing detail. His research and co...

As co-host of the “Who Killed JFK?” podcast with Rob Reiner, former TV anchor Soledad O’Brien is now at the forefront of the assassination story. How’d she get there? Have a listen above. JFK Facts is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers o...

Marina Oswald Porter, the widow of Lee Harvey Oswald, believes that her husband did not kill the president of the United States. She is one of the most important witnesses in the JFK saga. Yet her story is largely unknown. For reasons that will become clear, Marina has not given an interview in three decades. But soon, you will be able to listen to an in-depth conversation that has not previously...

Join JFK Facts Live hosts, Jefferson Morley and Larry Schnapf, for a discussion of the latest developments related to the JFK assassination story. If you can’t do that, click on the player at the top of this post to listen to last week’s conversation above. JFK Live is held every Thursday night at 8 pm ET. JFK Live is really just a big Zoom call, open to all. Comments and questions from people who...

Eric Hamburg is an old friend who has been involved in the JFK assassination story since forever. In the 1980s he was a Capitol Hill aide who helped put together the legislation that became the JFK Records Act. In the 1990s he was a movie prodcuer who helped Oliver Stone put together the movie “Nixon.” Eric was friends with Howard Hunt, the Watergate burglar with JFK secrets. He is pals with John...