MWN Episode 116 - A Weekend in Olney - 2019 JFK Historical Group Conference

04/17/19 • 46 min

On April 4-8, 2019 researchers and attendees gathered in the small town of Olney, IL to discuss "Political Assassinations of the 1960s." Professor David Denton, Ed Tatro, Walt Boyce and the staff of Olney Central College served as the gracious hosts for what was a spectacular weekend of research, presentations, brainstorming, and planning. This is the recap of the 2019 JFK Historical Group Conference in Olney. Go to MidnightWriterNews.com for our free archives!

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MWN Episode 115 - Treachery in Dallas with Walt Brown

Walt Brown, PhD, the author of Treachery in Dallas, The People v Lee Harvey Oswald, The Warren Omission, and The Kennedy Execution, joins S.T. Patrick once again to discuss the JFK assassination. In tonight's episode, Brown discusses Dallas in 1963 as a "hostile environment," what Gov. John Connally screamed out in the car - and what it meant, the serious errors of the Dallas PD in the handling of the presidential trip to Dallas and the case itself, mortality and where his own research may go thereafter, how one maintains their zeal for the case in a field in which researchers often flee for long periods of time, and the column he wrote for garrison, the journal. Brown also addresses emails regarding his first appearance on the show and the curious case of Jay Harrison's files, computer and hard drives. Did he ever ask for them back? Walt Brown answers that, and the result thereof, tonight. Go to MidnightWriterNews.com for our free archives!

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MWN Episode 117 - Joseph McBride on Unmasking Frank Capra (and Unearthing George Bush)

Author, Film Historian, and JFK assassination researcher Joseph McBride joins S.T. Patrick to discuss his newest book, Frankly: Unmasking Frank Capra. The book is about the "Kafkaesque" journey McBride endured in trying to publish a truthful biography of director Frank Capra (1992's Frank Capra: The Catastrophe of Success). Its an illustrative story about what it's like to try to do truthful history in a time where Americans still prefer a sterilized patriotic mythology to a more difficult truth. While working on the Capra bio in 1985, McBride also made an interesting discovery about George H.W. Bush. This discovery would lead to 35 pages of McBride's seminal work on the Kennedy assassination, Into the Nightmare, as well as the first chapter of Russ Baker's Family of Secrets. In this episode, McBride tells the story of that discovery and discusses its meaning. He also discusses his role as an actor in Orson Welles's The Other Side of the Wind, which is ow available on Netflix. Joseph McBride was an amazing guest and this is a story that everyone who cares about the future of non-fiction writing at all should hear!Go to MidnightWriterNews.com for our FREE archives!