Audibly Speaking: Listening to History

Audibly Speaking: Listening to History


Latest Episodes

NEW! Summary of Chapter Six of “The Warren Report:” “Investigation Into Possible Conspiracy”
May 28, 2024

This chapter may be seen as the Big Enchilada of the Report. Did the Warren Commission provide a credible investigation of the possibility of conspiracy in the crime? The staff wracked its collectiv

NEW! CHAPTER FIVE of “The Warren Report:” Detention and Death of Oswald
May 22, 2024

Continuing our summary of The Warren Report investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, we come to Chapter Five. The whole tenor of the investigation changed with the subject o

NEW! CHAPTER FOUR of The Warren Report: “The Assassin”
May 16, 2024

In Chapter Four we have an overview of the evidence against Oswald. Here I summarize the chapter.

A Question for Gerald Posner and Fred Litwin: Can Informed Speculation Equal Evidence?
May 11, 2024

A recent podcast episode by the excellent historians of the JFK assassination, Gerald Posner and Fred Litwin, prompted this podcast episode of mine. Given the need to speculate about so much that is i

NEW! Summary of “The Warren Report’s” CHAPTER THREE: “The Shots from the Texas School Book Depository”
May 05, 2024

Its core findings remain untouched. Its conclusions have stood the test of time. In this episode we see the tour de force that lies at the foundation of this seminal chapter in The Warren Report: Ch

NEW! Warren Report Summary, CHAPTER TWO, “The Assassination”
May 03, 2024

Today I summarize the Warren Reports Chapter Two, The Assassination. It is a chapter that promises much but really delivers less than meets the eye. Focusing on the details that form the backgroun

NEW Series: Chapter Summaries of “The Warren Report:” Chapter 1, “Summary and Conclusions”
April 28, 2024

The Warren Commissions Warren Report, at 888 pages, is a long slog. For those for whom it is too long, I begin here a series of summaries of each of the chapters in the Report. Each chapter exhibit

A Personal View of the JFK Assassination, 61 Years On
April 22, 2024

We have an intermission episode in this series on the JFK assassination, with a personal view of the memories of the host on the assassination and why he was not taken in by conspiracy theories, in co

The Book that Destroyed the JFK Conspiracy Theories: Vincent Bugliosi’s “Reclaiming History” (2007)
April 17, 2024

Today, Audibly Speaking reviews the magisterial book by famed prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi, Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy. We revisit the things that make it uniqu

Why is the JFK Assassination Still Relevant? And Why is the Warren Commission’s Still Strong? Listen to One of My Best
April 05, 2024

In this sidebar episode tracing the movements of Lee Harvey Oswald and we step back from the forest to examine the trees of the story. In this politically portentous year of 2024, learn what the consp

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