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Lee Harvey Oswald at Thanksgiving, 11/22/62

A clip from a home movie of Lee Harvey Oswald with some of his family on Thanksgiving, 11/22/62. Exactly one year later, Oswald would assassinate JFK.

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My 60-second take on how James “Skitz” Sampsell become Aryan Brotherhood of Texas General

A new season - GANGSTERS: America's Most Evil - Harvey Hustlers

My only break from my Big Pharmabook project was a recent taping of a new season as an-air commentator for ReelzChannel "GANGSTERS: America's Most Evil" - The premier last month was New Orleans gang, Harvey Hustlers - More shows airing in July on Reelz

Jack Ruby's remarkable 1963 psychiatric evaluation - "I went crazy."

One of the most fascinating insights into 'who was Jack Ruby' and why he killed Lee Harvey Oswald on November 24, 1963 is his psychiatric evaluation done in the weeks after the murder.

It provides a remarkable glimpse of Ruby's life, everything from his long history of violence and aggression to his favorite TV shows (Palladin and Gunsmoke)  There are revelations about his amphetamine use for weight loss (he took Preludin on the morning he shot Oswald) and also of his "love" of the police...

A problem with the headline news about Jack Ruby and the JFK Files and an FBI informant

What follows is Jack Ruby’s movements from three hours before the assassination until an hour after the murder itself.   It is from pages 411-12 of Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK (Random House, 1993) and is based on contemporaneous FBI interviews of witnesses at the Dallas Morning News, as well as some of their subsequent testimony to the Warren Commission,  (all citations are listed in Case Closed)
The unequivocal conclusion: Jack Ruby was in the se...

Who Was Lee Harvey Oswald?

The real mystery in the JFK assassination, trying to understanding Oswald.

A trailer from an award winning 2003 film from ABC/Peter Jennings that tried answering that riddle.

This clip includes a preview of longer interviews with Lee's brother, Robert; author Gerald Posner, and ex-KGB officer Oleg Kalugin.

What Gerald Posner Hopes to Find in the JFK Assassination Files

JFK Foes - Roger Stone and Gerald Posner - Unite To Call For Release Of JFK Assassination Files

Finally something regarding the #JFKAssassination on which Roger Stone and I agree: if the government refuses to release the final batch of JFK docs on the upcoming Oct 26 deadline, then it's time for the president to FREE THE FILES
This is a 10-minute segment tonight with Roger on his show The War Room.  I come in at a little past the 5 minute mark - Roger gives a longwinded monologue before that :-)

Hasn't anyone at the Vatican read God's Bankers?

Evidently not.  The latest financial scandals continue to mount.  
Millions of dollars in fake invoices and double billing from favored contractorsA hospital sponsored by the Pope diverted money to a lavish remodeling of a top cardinal's apartmentPope Francis's handpicked auditor has thrown in the towel and abruptly resignedCardinal Pell, head of all financial reform, is back in Australia defending himself on sex abuse charges
There was so much hope when Francis became Pope in 2013 th...

Author Gerald Posner and KGB defector Yuri Nosenko

This very short video clip is me with KGB defector Yuri Nosenko back in 1993. It was part of an ABC 20/20 segment about my just published "CASE CLOSED: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK."
I was the first journalist to interview Nosenko. He was the Soviet intelligence officer in charge of the KGB file on Lee Harvey Oswald when Oswald lived in Russia. Nosenko's story - including the remarkable efforts by the CIA to break him during years of interrogations since they f...