Audibly Speaking: Listening to History

Audibly Speaking: Listening to History


Latest Episodes

Evidence Against Oswald: 8:00 AM, November 21, to 12:30 PM CST, November 22
March 22, 2024

How to help students understand the overwhelming evidence against Lee Harvey Oswald (and Oswald alone)? Given the power of the evidence, no help ought be needed! Perhaps a concise run-through will do

Lee Harvey Oswald and Edwin Walker Redux: Resume Building and Plotting in New Orleans, April to October 1963
March 16, 2024

What was Lee Harvey Oswald up to in New Orleans between his failed assassination attempt against Retired General Edwin Walker in April 1963 and his trip to Mexico City in late September in pursuit of

Final Episode: Oswald’s Mind in the Assassination Weekend
February 09, 2024

In this final part of the three-part podcast series, we look at Oswalds interior concerns in the days and hours before 12:30 pm CST on November 22, 1963. In so doing we elucidate the most elusive of

Lee Harvey Oswald and the JFK Assassination: The Stories Not Told
February 01, 2024

In this three-part series, we go into the mind of the assassin and try to understand Oswalds motives. This helps us understand why conspiracy thinking about the assassination makes no sense. If you

Announcing a New Series on my YouTube Channel, “JFK Demystified”
January 16, 2024

This is your host, historian Rick Reiman. Go to my YouTube Channel, JFK Demystified, to view the first episode of a series of short videos called On Background: Seeking the Hidden JFK Assassinatio

“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