- CNN retelecasts the documentary series American Dynasties: The Kennedys
- Article: CNN Disservices History –– American Dynasties: The Kennedys by Jim DiEugenio
- Listen to Jim’s interview with David Giglio (Our Hidden History) here
- The documentary series does not mention Edmund Gullion, JFK’s Algeria Speech or NSAM 263
- Kennedy wanted to back nationlist forces in third world countries
- Article: The Tragic ‘Years of Lead’ by Rob Couteau
- Book: Puppetmasters: The Political Use of Terrorism in Italy by Philip Willan: Paperback, Hardcover, Kindle
- Rob Couteau interviews Philip Willan for his article
- Philip Willan compares the JFK assassination to that of Aldo Moro
- Thomas D. Herman’s article about his documentary Dateline Saigon
- Herman makes journalistic heroes out of Neil Sheehan and David Halberstam
- Herman says that Sheehan and Halberstam exposed America’s growing involvement in the Indochina conflict
- He further adds that this upset President Kennedy
- Book: Lessons in Disaster by Gordon Goldstein: Paperback, Hardcover, Kindle
- Book: Virtual JFK: Vietnam If Kennedy Had Lived by James Blight, et al: Paperback, Hardcover, Kindle
- FREE BORROWABLE EBOOK: American Tragedy: Kennedy, Johnson & Origins of the Vietnam War by David Kaiser
- Book: JFK & Vietnam: Deception, Intrigue & Struggle for Power (2nd ed) by John Newman: Paperback, Kindle
- Book: Death of a Generation by Howard Jones: Paperback, Hardcover, Kindle
- FREE BORROWABLE EBOOK: JFK and the Unspeakable: Why he Died and Why it Matters by James Douglass
- These six books prove that by 1963 Kennedy had decided that he wouldn’t escalate the Vietnam conflict
- There were no American combat troops in Vietnam under Kennedy
- Kennedy turned down eleven requests for inserting American combat troops in Vietnam
- Halberstam and Sheehan agreed with the escalation
- Halberstam and Sheehan wanted Kennedy to commit more firepower and troops
- Halberstam and Sheehan were acolytes of Col. John Paul Vann
- Vann understood that the ARVN could not win the war on their own
- In the early 60s, Halberstam criticized every aspect of the Vietnam war as Kennedy did not commit more firepower
- Halberstam recommends Col. John Paul Vann to supervise the war in Vietnam
- “Bombers and helicopters and napalm are a help, but they are not enough”
– David Halberstam in his book The Making of a Quagmire (1965, Random House) - “The lesson to be learned from Vietnam is that we must get in earlier, be shrewder,
and force the other side to practice the self-deception” (ibid) - Book: Conversations with Americans by Mark Lane: Paperback, Kindle
- Neil Sheehan attacked Mark Lane for his book Conversations with Americans in his article (NYT, Dec 27, 1970)
- Sheehan called the My Lai Massacre a rumor
- Not one statement in Halberstam’s The Best and the Brightest is footnoted
- “McNamara became the principal desk officer on Vietnam in 1962 because he felt that the President needed his help”
– David Halberstam in his book The Best and the Brightest - The living-room war
- Embedded journalism
- Edwin Lee McGehee, a town barber in Jackson, Louisiana, met Oswald at his shop
- Jim spoke to McGehee a few days ago
- Listener questions answered
- No evidence of a shot fired around Zapruder film frame 160
- Jim saw Oswald’s photograph at Russo’s place
- The photo shows Oswald in Florida in 1960 when he was supposed to be in Russia
- 8mm video taken in summer of 1963 shows Oswald at a training camp
- Ex post facto laws and Tu quoque
- Documentary on RFK Assassination: The Second Gun by Ted Charach and Gerard Alcan
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