Audibly Speaking: Listening to History
Latest Episodes
“Into the Mind of the Assassin: Oswald’s Last Month, October-November 1963”
Continuing the series of JFK assassination episodes in this, the 60th year since the assassination, we look not at the thinking of the CIA, FBI, Warren Commission, Mob, Cuba, Russia or any of the othe
“Final Word: The Landis Claim,” by Rick Reiman
Today, your host on Audiblyspeaking, Dr. Rick Reiman narrates his assessment of this years surprising news in the JFK assassination folklore: the claim by former secret service agent Paul Landis that
Half-Story Hoaxes, 2023: A Critique of Rob Reiner’s JFK Conspiracy Theories
Most of the thousands of books on the JFK assassination are re-cyclings and re-spinnings of the foundational myths of the first generation of conspiracy fabulation tales. To hear Rob Reiners repetiti
Dum-Dum Bullets or Dum-Dum Fabulists? Half-Story Hoaxes in the JFK Assassination
One of the chief reasons why people still believe the nonsense of a conspiracy in the assassination of John F. Kennedy is because of the fiendishness of those, out of malice or effort at pecuniary gai
Chapter 2 of “The Great Gatsby,” by F. Scott Fitzgerald, an Audio Narration
Tom Buchanan moves his sad life from East Egg to New York City, and all those in his orbit pay the price in chapter two of this archetypal novel of the Jazz Age. The contrast between the glitter and t
“The Great Gatsby,” Chapter One
F. Scott Fitzgeralds novel, The Great Gatsby, was both a product of, and epitaph for, the Jazz Age of the Roaring 20s. Journey to West and East Egg again, as your host Rick Reiman narrates one of t
Revisiting the Warren Commission, Part One: Mistakes?
Today is November 20, 2023, two days before the 60th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. On the eve of this event, we look at the flagship government investigation of the c
NEW! The Annotated “Disappearance of the Lady Frances Carfax!”
You may have seen and heard the classic story of The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax here on History Revisited and Audibly Speaking before, but this is a new version, now with annotations inclu
Deja Vu History: The Biden Oval Office Speech on Israel and Ukraine of 2023 and the FDR “Arsenal of Democracy” Speech of 1940
No one has caught the similarities between the Biden Oval Office Speech on Israel and Ukraine of 2023 and the FDR Arsenal of Democracy Speech of 1940, other than the use of the phrase Arsenal of De
Fresh for Halloween! “The Adventure of the Cardboard Box!”
In the run up to Halloween, there no more terrifying, thrilling and horrifying story in the Sherlock Holmes canon than this, The Cardboard Box. Publishers were frightened to publish it and its auth