JFK The Enduring Secret

Episode 186 is the fourth  in a  multi-part series covering Richard Case Nagell.  This is our second bonus episode and it addresses the perspective that Nagell's trial lawyer Joe Calamia  had on his legal proceedings...and the strategy for  a defense at the second trial. Nagell's lawyers settled on a temporary insanity plea, after unsuccessfully arguing to both their client and to the co...

Episode 185 is the third  in a  multi-part series covering Richard Case Nagell.  This is our first bonus episode and it covers several important topics in a bit greater detail. Bonus episodes provide a deeper understanding of material already addressed. Today, we discuss the  horrific plane crash that handed him is life changing injuries, the letters he wrote to J. Edgar Hoover and some details re...

Episode 184 is the second  in a  multi-part series covering Richard Case Nagell.  This episode follows our opening overview in Episode 183 and  is comprehensive chronology of Nagell's life through the bank incident.  Nagell  was a highly decorated United States Army veteran, counterintelligence officer,  and former CIA Double Agent for a brief period  with ties to Russia. Nagell was arrested...

Episode 183 is the first in a  multi-part series covering Richard Case Nagell.   Nagell was a highly decorated United States Army veteran, counterintelligence officer,  and former CIA Double Agent for a brief period  with ties to Russia. Nagell was arrested on September 20, 1963 after he entered the State National Bank in El Paso, Texas and fired two shots into  a wall at the bank. After firing th...

Episode 181 is a placeholder for an upcoming Episode. Listen to this short two minute podcast and you will know the answer why...  Even as early as 1964, rumors and serious concerns over  the lone gunman theory and the evidence that might contravene it,  were becoming a major concern for the government and the commission. Conspiracy theories were contrary to the government's stated narrative...

Episode 182 tells the story of Gordon Novel. After winning Jim Garrison's confidence and becoming his security officer during the district attorney's investigation of the JFK assassination, it would soon become known that Novel was working for the CIA and had infiltrated Garrison's team. Garrison would eventually come to understand this double cross and seek to extradite Novel, who...

Episode 180 covers the The Houma bunker raid, of the Schlumberger  Wells Company munitions and arms cache, which took place in the late summer of 1961. Later it was found that  participants  in the raid included  some individuals who were also implicated in the assassination plot related to  President Kennedy. The participants in the raid included David Ferrie, Sergio Aracha Smith, Rancier Blaise...

Episode 179  is the second and last in  a two part series covering Charles I. Spiesel, the zany accountant from New York who testified at the Clay Shaw Trial. This is a classic story of a witness that began with all the potential to sink Clay Shaw.  Professional and articulate on the stand, his testimony for the prosecution was clear and convincing. But it only lasted for a few minutes, as he was...

Episode 178 is the first in a two part series covering Charles I. Spiesel, the zany accountant from New York who testified at the Clay Shaw Trial. This is a classic story of a witness that began with all the potential to sink Clay Shaw.  Professional and articulate on the stand, his testimony for the prosecution was clear and convincing. But it only lasted for a few minutes, as he was destroyed up...

Episode 177  is the third  in a mini series covering Dean A. Andrews, Jr. the flamboyant jive talking New Orleans attorney that is so aptly portrayed by John Candy in the movie JFK.  Today's Episode recreates his entire June 28th, 1967  testimony in front of the Orleans Grand Jury.  Testimony that flatly contradicted what he told the Warren Commission.  By this time,  Andrews had already been...

Episode 176 is the second  in a mini series covering Dean A. Andrews, Jr. the flamboyant jive talking New Orleans attorney that is so aptly portrayed by John Candy in the movie JFK.  Today's Episode recreates his entire Warren Commission testimony.  Andrews, sick in a hospital bed, received a phone call  the  day after President Kennedy was assassinated.  The mysterious caller who identified...

Episode 175 is the first in a mini series covering Dean A. Andrews, Jr. the flamboyant jive talking New Orleans attorney that is so aptly portrayed by John Candy in the movie JFK.   Andrews, sick in a hospital bed, received a phone call  the  day after President Kennedy was assassinated.  The mysterious caller who identified himself as Clay Bertrand asked Andrews if he would go to Dallas and repre...

Episode 174  is the story of the alleged attempted bribe of Al Beauboeuf by the Garrison investigators.  Beauboeuf was a close friend of David Ferrie who lived at Ferrie's apartment for a time and also  accompanied Ferrie on the night of the assassination on the famous trip to the Wonderland Skating Rink in Houston. Garrison was convinced that Ferrie was not telling them the  truth, and that...

Episode 173  is the story of the 2nd polygraph test taken by Perry Russo. Jim Garrison and his team, concerned that the results of the first polygraph test administered to Perry Russo would be made public on national television as part of Walter Sheridan's NBC White Paper documentary, scrambled to have a second polygraph administered that would reinforce the veracity and confirm the truth of...

Episode 172 is a recap by me  of our three part series which featured an interview of the author Joan Mellen on the Taking Aim Radio Program.  Our three part series bonus episodes (wanders, really)   supplements  our ongoing   story of the Garrison investigation in  New Orleans and the related trial of Clay Shaw.  Joan Mellen is the author of a well done  investigative book entitled  A Farewell to...

Episode 171 is  part 3 (and the final part)  in a  three part series of  bonus episodes (wanders, really)  which  supplement our  story of the Garrison investigation in  New Orleans and the related trial of Clay Shaw.  Joan Mellen is the author of a well done  investigative book entitled  A Farewell to Justice. In  a rare appearance to promote her book, Ms. Mellon  participated in a radio intervie...

Episode 170 is  part 2 in a  three part series of  bonus episodes which  supplement our  story of the Garrison investigation in  New Orleans and the related trial of Clay Shaw.  Joan Mellen is the author of a well done  investigative book entitled  A Farewell to Justice. In  a rare appearance to promote her book, Ms. Mellen  participated in a radio interview that was presented by radio station WBA...

Episode 169 is  part 1 in a series of  bonus episodes which  supplement our  story of the Garrison investigation in  New Orleans and the related trial of Clay Shaw.  Joan Mellen is the author of a well done  investigative book entitled  A Farewell to Justice. In  a rare appearance to promote her book, Ms. Mellen  participated in a radio interview that was presented by radio station WBAI in Brookly...

Join us today for a Memorial Day Tribute Episode.  A wander worth taking with me. Our regular programming will begin again later in the weekend.

Episode 167 is  the seventeenth in a new series of episodes that chronicle the story of the Garrison investigation in  New Orleans and the related trial of Clay Shaw.  Today's episode is the  second and last in two part multi-espisode mini series on Rose Cherami.  You may recall that the story of Rose Cherami dons the opening scene of the movie JFK. She was a stripper and a prostitute and a d...

Episode 166 is  the sixteenth in a new series of episodes that chronicle the story of the Garrison investigation in  New Orleans and the related trial of Clay Shaw.  Today's episode is the first in a  two part multi-espisode mini series on Rose Cherami.  You may recall that the story of Rose Cherami dons the opening scene of the movie JFK. She was a stripper and a prostitute and a drug mule a...

Episode 165 is  the fifteenth in a new series of episodes that chronicle the story of the Garrison investigation in  New Orleans and the related trial of Clay Shaw.  Today's episode features the audio from Jim Garrison's nationally televised rebuttal of the  NBC Whitepaper on the Garrison Investigation. While the NBC  White Paper shed some light on many controversial aspects of the inves...

Episode 164 is  the fourteenth  in a new series of episodes that chronicle the story of the Garrison investigation in  New Orleans and the related trial of Clay Shaw.   Today's episode features the audio from the  NBC Whitepaper on the Garrison Investigation, which aired on June 19th, 1967. It was a major blow to Garrison and his team.  On the surface, this prime  time television special  was...

Episode 163 is  the thirteenth in a new series of episodes that chronicle the story of the Garrison investigation in  New Orleans and the related trial of Clay Shaw.  Episode thirteen  is the  forth in a mini-series that addresses the star witness of the Clay Shaw trial, Perry Russo. In this forth episode, we  continue with a recreation of  Russo's sworn testimony under oath at the preliminar...

Episode 162 is  the twelfth  in a new series of episodes that chronicle the story of the Garrison investigation in  New Orleans and the related trial of Clay Shaw.  Episode twelve  is the third  in a mini-series that addresses the star witness of the Clay Shaw trial, Perry Russo. In this third episode covering Russo's sworn testimony under oath at the preliminary hearing which was his first d...