Audibly Speaking: Listening to History

Audibly Speaking: Listening to History


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“Into the Mind of the Assassin: Oswald’s Last Month, October-November 1963”
December 21, 2023

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
December 14, 2023

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
December 06, 2023

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
December 03, 2023

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
December 01, 2023

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
November 29, 2023

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?
November 20, 2023

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!”
October 31, 2023

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
October 21, 2023

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!”
September 30, 2023

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