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