[Bobby] needs some solid legal experience and this job should provide it. --President John F. Kennedy joking to Department of Justice official Ronald Goldfarb about why he appointed his brot… Read More

By now, it's become a bit of cliche:  everyone seems to remember exactly where they were and what they were doing when learning of the JFK assassination.Everyone includes a guy named Mi… Read More

Below is the recollection of JFK assassination witness Linda Willis, interviewed in 1991 and posted by Encyclopedia Britannica.  Read More

 I'm a bit delayed in posting the next real item here due to meatspace circumstances.  We're dealing with the illness of a close family member, and it's something that has literall… Read More

In July 2006, I posted a seven-part series chronicling an incident in my weird past. It was about a friend, referred to as Miss Texas, who mysteriously vanished amid a haze of intrigue invo… Read More

On 28 November 2017, an anonymous user posted an item on the /pol/ board of 4chan claiming to have top-level Q-clearance. In a thread titled “The Calm before the Storm,” he, she… Read More

You are kept apart that you may be separately fleeced of your earnings…You are made to hate each other because upon that hatred is rested the keystone of the arch of financial despo… Read More

The not-so-secret cabal of Wilmington, NC city fathers had put much work into guaranteeing the results of election held Tuesday, 8 November 1898. Their Red Shirt minions had already threate… Read More

The incubus, in Christian mythology of yore, was a demon that raped chaste or virtuous women as they slept. Sometimes this resulted in pregnancy, with the little devils (so to speak) produ… Read More

 I'm ending this blog effective this date.Happy AFD Read More

In 2000, North Carolina lawmakers Luther Jordan and Thomas Wright introduced Senate Bill 787 to the state legislature.  After its passage, the new law established a fact-finding commiss… Read More

(Sigh!)I leave cyberspace for a year, and look what happens: a contentious US Presidential and Senate election, violence in the street, economic hardship, a seriously inept coup attempt, and… Read More

As you’re probably aware, I haven’t spent that much time lately on this little corner of cyberspace I call home.  Meatspace concerns have weighted down my time for research… Read More

I hope you had a good, or at least tolerable holiday season.  If you're like me, then cheer up.  It's almost over Read More

Here’s a video that’s about as accurate as the Warren Commission findings.In case you’re wondering, this came from ClickHole, a website operated by that famed satirical rag… Read More

Forensic pathologist Dr. Peter Cummings works for the Massachusetts Office of the Medical Examiner. He’s a bonafide expert.  So is Dr. Cyril Wecht, former president of the America… Read More

By now, you’re most certainly familiar with the Zapruder film.  But there were other home movie makers in Dealy Plaza on that fateful day Read More

You probably have come across a bizillion articles and videos on BuzzFeed, Cracked, Business Insider, Popular Mechanics and elsewhere mocking the idea of conspiracy.  In fact, the terms… Read More

In a post dated 14 June 2011, I confessed to a weird aspect of my writing.  It’s something that has haunted me since graduate school.  As I said then:For whatever reason, whe… Read More

The fishing was too good.  I'll post soon, though Read More

I have been a fan of his since I was a snot-nosed kid, and his words have been a driving force and influence on my life. If you have read his work before, you know the joys that you are in f… Read More

As mentioned in an earlier post, Americans have seen numerous attacks on institutional knowledge during the past three years.  There are some who claim that academia, especially science… Read More

I’m interrupting the current series to bring you one dedicated to our friend Ray of Ray’s X, who has (rightfully) been kicking me in the tail to comment on this issue.When you se… Read More

April Fools Day is here again, and I’ve been looking for historical pranks that fit the theme of this blog.  You’d think that conspiracy stories would provide endless fodder… Read More

On 1 December 1955, Rosa Parks, a seamstress by trade, rode in the front row of the “Colored” section of a packed Montgomery, AL city bus.  When a white male passenger enter… Read More

For most people, the number thirteen is unlucky.  Not for me.  Usually.  But this year might be somewhat as unproductive as the previous few, blogwise.  Thank you for sto… Read More

... if I were standing at the beginning of time, with the possibility of taking a kind of general and panoramic view of the whole of human history up to now, and the Almighty said to me, &ls&hell…Read More

They talk about Lincoln freeing the slaves.  John Kennedy freed me.–Comedienne Moms Mabley (rn, Loretta Aiken), stand-up routine.In the wake of the RFK assassination, hit songwrit… Read More

This past year, I listened to the entirety of a short podcast series titled The RFK Tapes, in which host Zac Stuart-Pontier examined some little-known evidence of the Robert Kennedy assassin… Read More

I’m still posting on the Martin Luther King assassination, and have been taking my sweet time doing it.  For those of you have read and commented, thank you.  Really, thank y… Read More

James Ray plead guilty to the charge of assassinating Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., but without allocution.  If pleading guilty to a crime, the accused should have the opportunity t… Read More

Sixteen days ere this posting, pioneering culture-jammer Alan Abel (left) passed away from cancer complications.*  Most of his activities centered on hoaxing media with such stunts as p… Read More

The previous posts summarize the common popular knowledge of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King assassination.   James Ray, an escaped convict, purchased a rifle at a local sporting g… Read More

In his memoir, James Ray explained why he fired Arthur Hanes and son as his attorneys.  Ray insisted that he had to give his version of events on the stand; how he was duped by a myster… Read More

My apologies to Stendhal, but I couldn’t resist.Despite his (ahem!) vigorous defense of James Ray during the extradition, Michael Eugene lacked the credentials to represent him in the… Read More

You play around you lose your wife.You play too long you lose your life.Some gotta win, some gotta lose.Good Time Charlie’s got the blues. –Danny O’Keefe (1967)Out of… Read More

A lie can travel halfway ‘round the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.  –Rev.  Charles Spurgeon, 1865 sermon*The point of April Fools Day was to set aside a… Read More

After his arrest, James Ray faced an extradition hearing to the United States.  As mentioned earlier, The US Department of Justice could have easily won for his prison escape in 1967.&n&hell…Read More

I said I wouldn’t do it again, but I got greedy and took on two assignments simultaneously.  As you can see, I’ve been kind of a ghost in the blogsophere as of late.It&rsquo&hell…Read More

A belated happy 2018 to you all.  As of late, I've been having technical difficulties responding to your comments, and commenting on Blogger to begin with.  Trust me, I'm working o… Read More

Because of the historical focus of this site, I don’t often cover or comment on news events.  But as most of you probably know, federal authorities recently released 27,968 docume… Read More

Below, Washington Post journalist Ian Shapira lists three items that have emerged from the recent JFK assassination document release Read More

Below is a list of some of the more reported upon items found in the recent JFK assassination records release, with a little trivia mixed in.(1) The President John F. Kennedy Assassination R… Read More

Only seconds after a rifle round mortally fell Dr. Martin Luther King, a man exited the second-floor bathroom of Bessie Brewer’s boarding house.  The bathroom faced Mulberry Stree… Read More

Solomon Jones might have gotten the best view of the lone shot’s effect.  Standing directly in front of and below Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, he witnessed the civil rights leader… Read More

Leading the Memphis sanitation workers’ march was the last thing that Rev. Martin King wanted to do.   His workload, and stress had increased since his open condemnation of t… Read More

On 1 February 1968 Echol Cole and Robert Walker worked the early morning hours collecting the refuse of Memphis, TN residents.*  As sanitation employees, their pay wasn’t much, le… Read More

A week consists of 168 hours.  You’d know this if you’ve ever worked over 100 of them during a seven-day stretch.My own fault, really.  Just couldn’t say no to an… Read More

HappyApril FoolsDay! Read More

Last November, I posted about a woman named Claire Conner, and her experiences in Dallas on that fateful November day when President Kennedy died.   Conner’s observations abo… Read More

Thanks for dropping by.  As you can tell by my last post, I didn't have much time.  It's a good-news/bad-news kinda thing.  I thought I'd try to kickstart an ambitious series… Read More

If you check out the time-stamp of this post, you'll see that it went up just before the close of January 2017.  I just got home from the office(s). And that's my January, so far… Read More

2016 was a trying year, perhaps for all of us.  For me personally, it was marked by two health crises within my family that had me in and out of emergency rooms and ICUs.  The offi… Read More

Mark Lane, a man whose name figures into a lot of conspiracy tales, passed away on 10 May this year.  He left behind a wife, three daughters, four grandchildren, and a checkered legacy… Read More

The above video briefly touches upon the hatred of President John Kennedy within extremist right-wing circles, and the concentration of such circles in Dallas Read More

Imagine that you’re a young undergraduate student playing hooky so that you can watch President Kennedy’s Dallas motorcade come by on 22 November 1963.  Imagine that you&rsq&hell…Read More

I know some of you have had problems accessing the site and leaving comments.  I'm hoping that everything has been worked out.  If it hasn't, well, time for Plan B.If you're wonder… Read More

In a Smithsonian piece published three days after his death (27 February 2008), conservative author and commentator William F. Buckley recalled a 1962 conversation with Arizona Senator Barry… Read More

In this strange election of 2016, we’ve been hearing about all sorts of historical firsts and historical parallels.  One that keeps coming up is the comparison between current Rep… Read More

On the night of 21 June 1964, three men, James Chaney, Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman, disappeared just outside of Philadelphia, MS.  They represented the Congress on Racial Equal… Read More

On 21 March 1965, Viola Gregg Liuzzo, a white Detroit homemaker, political activist and NAACP member, drove her late-model Oldsmobile to Selma, AL so that she could participate in a series o… Read More

As mentioned earlier, I have found a certain profundity in the remarks of researcher Lisa Pease when she says that many good people simply “cannot wrap their heads” around the id… Read More

Although I cannot neatly catagorize it, I have gained insight from Malcolm Gladwell’s sparkling podcast, Revisionist History.  Gladwell, a writer who stoked tremendous controversy… Read More

We mostly deal with history on this page.  While most people think of history as simply the past -- something done with, over, with no legitimate impact on the present – I would s… Read More

The health crisis I suffered back in September of 2014 forced me into a few lifestyle changes.  For whatever reason, I’ve more or less stuck with them since.  Call it habit.A… Read More

We’ve explored here a number of parapolitcal topics over the past ten years.   In each, the purpose wasn’t so much to prove, or disprove the specific conspiracy explana… Read More

I haven’t done a good old-fashioned series for the past three years.The reasons for this are numerous.  It’s not that I’ve run out of things to write about.  In f… Read More

I alluded to this story back in 2013.  It dealt with the extension of the Hollywood casting couch to child actors, some of whom became household names.  Most of them will most like… Read More

Ten years ago today, I correctly identified the late-rock star Robert Palmer as Linus Van Pelt, of Peanuts fame.  But within the past twenty-four hours, I've come across solid evidence… Read More

A month ago, I was set to type my usual state-of-the blog anniversary post when a set of issues invaded my personal life. Specifically, two people close to me faced serious health cris… Read More

On 21 November 1963, only hours before the assassination of President John F. Kennedy set off a firestorm of conspiracy accusations, one professor kick-started a rapidly growing anti-conspir… Read More

Hard to believe that it's been ten years to the day since the first post.  Truth was, I thought I'd have the blog five years or so.As I've slowed down the rate of posts over the past tw… Read More

Haven’t had much time lately, to research and write.  So this month I’m posting a few humorous observations on the subject of conspiracy.I hate conspiracy theorists. I'm sur… Read More

So this is Christmas,And what have you done?Another year over,And a new one just begun.–John Lennon, “Happy Xmas (War Is Over)”I know this is gonna sound like a refrain as… Read More

In “Conspiracy Theories,” Profs. Adrian Vermeule and Cass Sunstein concede that parapolitical hypotheses need not be unfounded.  Yet, the context in which they find innocuou… Read More

Seven years ago today, I posted the following passage in my first list of JFK Assassination casualties.14, Dorothy Kilgallen (1913-1965)Who the hell is she? Gossip columnist, journalist, tel… Read More

Below is part one of five brief YouTube videos documenting Mark Lane’s interview with former Dallas police officer Roger Craig.  Craig had a fascinating story to tell.  And h… Read More

I have often said, and oftener think, that this world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.–Horace Walpole, letter dated 16 August 1776 to Countess Anne of Oss… Read More

“Conspiracy Theories,” a 2008 paper by Profs. Adam Vermeule and Cass Sunstein, proposed that the government engage parapolitical researchers in “counterspeach.” … Read More

In their 2008 paper “Conspiracy Theories,” law professors Cass Sunstein and Adrian Vermeule delineated what they felt are the causes of conspiracy beliefs and their dissemination… Read More

A man thought his wife was having an affair, but he couldn’t prove it.  So he took off work one day, to follow her around.  He tailed her leaving the house mid-morning. … Read More

I've been meaning to get out a new blog before the month ended, but the 30th came up before I realized.  I'll be back to work soon Read More

Jim Bunting, a former reporter for one of Cincinnati's thriving local papers, The Knottinhaur Times, has now given up all pretense of journalism and embarked upon a new career writing clickb… Read More

Scroll up, or click here to read the first part of this post. I might say that the evidence exonerating Oswald is so complete that had he lived they could not have had a trial.  They wo… Read More

What in the world you thinking of?Laughing in the face of Love?What on Earth you trying to do?It’s up to you.Yeah, you....Who on Earth do you think you are?A superstar?Well, right you… Read More

What would you think if I sang out of tune?Would you stand up and walk out on me?Lend me your ears and I'll sing you a song,And I'll try not to sing out of key.Oh, I get by with a little hel… Read More

Love, love me do.You know I love you.I’ll always be true.So pleaseLove me do.–John Lennon and Paul McCartney, "Love Me Do" (1962)As anyone casually acquainted with Beatles&r&hell…Read More

I'm a loser,And I've lost someone who's near to me.I'm a loser,And I'm not what I appear to be.”--John Lennon and Paul McCartney, “I'm a Loser,” Beatles for Sale (1964)We c… Read More

I used to drive an old friend of mine –and by old, I mean someone who was actually a beatnik – to the Veteran’s Administration in South Orange, NJ.  He (let’s ca… Read More

I had a hard time getting the words out of my mouth.  The sentiment I had to convey was crude and filthy, not to mention incredibly stupid.  “They didn’t hire you, Q… Read More

The LaRouchite office I mentioned working for in the series about Jeremiah Duggan had as its cover an executive head-hunting firm.  Ostensibly, we were in business to help corporate tit… Read More

'Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the house, everyone stirred. Consequently, I didn't sleep a wink.So I'm up this Eve posting comics to the site. Happy Merry, or as the Fa… Read More

You know, I started this blog by accident. Then I said I'd only do it for five years. And as the rest of the modern world has turned to Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and other more civili… Read More

‘Occam's Razor’ which suggests that in the absence of evidence to the contrary, the simplest explanation is most likely to be correct. Conspiracy theorists hate Occam's razor.&nd&hell…Read More

Don’t worry.  This isn’t another post on the Fab Four. First off, thank you all for your support and company during the weeks of my recovery.  I can’t tell you ho… Read More

James Tague, the last surviving victim of the JFK assassination, died this past February.  Tague, at the time heading for a lunch date with his girlfriend (and future-wife), had to stop… Read More

Cyberpal Deanna Meske (left) has just posted the third episode of her Web series Government Lies. She not only conceived of the show, but produces and stars in it as well. I'm quite excit… Read More

As I was saying....Expert, textpert choking smokersDon't you think the Joker laughs at you?--John Lennon and Paul McCartney, “I Am the Walrus,” Magical Mystery Tour(1967)The YouT… Read More

You're a good man, Akhenaten.You're the kind of reminder we need.You have humility, nobility and a sense of honorThat is very rare indeed.You're a good man, Akhenaten,And we know you will go… Read More

Well, here I am, in the eighth year of my five-year blogging plan. Still haven't gotten everything out that I wanted. But we'll get there. So what if it takes another five years.I don't… Read More