#1213 – Joan Mellen

 

  • Mark Lane compared investigating the JFK assassination like Frankenstein unleashed the monster.
  • Joan learned about the MOSSAD researching the attack on the USS Liberty by Israel.
  • In time, Joan was befriended by New Orleans Police Intelligence Police Officer, Robert Buras
  • Robert Buras denied permission to interview Psychiatrist Dr. Frank Silva & Patricia Orr in Baton Rouge.
  • Because of Joan’s tenacity & unbiased researching, Burriss nicknamed Joan ‘Sherlock’.
  • Robert Kennedy & Walter Sheridan tried to hamper Jim Garrison’s investigation.
  • Joan developed pneumonia walking the rainy streets of New Orleans with Robert Buras
  • Explains the current & historic definition of Catfished after being hoodwinked on Facebook.
  • These people with fake profiles are looking to take advantage of people financially.
  • Joan’s bank refused to transfer $15,000 US over the phone to someone she’d never met.
  • If you’ve been Catfished, the FBI has an online for you to fill out to explain the particulars.
  • Do not give MONEY to ANYONE you meet online. Do not become EMOTIONALLY invested.
  • Older women are targeted because they tend to be lonely & have more money than younger women.
  • The person trying to take advantage of Joan was plagiarizing text from an article in Atlantic magazine.
  • One of Joan’s students once plagiarized the film Fight Club. His classmates quickly exposed his lies.
  • The life of a writer is hard, dealing with bad reviews & many rejections.
  • It disturbs Joan that RFK Jr. hasn’t contacted her about RFK’s involvement in Garrison’s investigation.
  • Joan was threatened with bodily harm by Roger Stone if Joan attended the conference in Louisiana.
  • Joan contacted the FBI about Roger Stone’s threat of bodily harm, so it would be documented.
  • Despite threats, Joan presented at the Jim Garrison conference, with Garrison’s sons in attendance.
  • Joan notes the lack of footnotes in Stone’s The Man Who Killed Kennedy, The Case Against LBJ.
  • Luckily for Joan, the FBI sent her an unredacted copy of their file on Mac Wallace.
  • Mac Wallace’s FBI file was the foundation for Joan’s book Faustian Bargains.
  • Joan talks about the time she went to interview Gerald Patrick Hemming.
  • Hemming told Joan that the only person he was afraid of was Bernie. Who is Bernie?