#1105 – Jim DiEugenio

 

  • Book: JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass by Jim DiEugenio: Hardcover, Kindle
  • The BluRay and DVD version of both the documentaries were released on July 19, 2022
  • You can order it here
  • Bonus content includes audio Commentary for JFK Revisited by both Oliver Stone and Jim DiEugenio
  • The documentary is the best-selling bluray/dvd on amazon for three weeks now !!
  • Jim DiEugenio to speak about the making of the film at the CAPA conference
  • Get an autographed copy of the book JFK Revisited for just $35
  • You can also get autographed copies of Jim’s two other books for just $25 each!!
  • Jim’s address: P.O. Box 4354, Burbank, CA 91503
  • At Kennedys and King
  • Article: Fletcher Prouty vs. the ARRB by Jim DiEugenio
  • Article: Fletcher Prouty vs Edward Epstein by Jim DiEugenio
  • Smearing Col. Prouty is a way to get back at Oliver Stone’s movie JFK
  • FREE Borrowable Ebook: Report from Iron Mountain by Leonard C. Lewin
  • New York Times Book Review: Report from Iron Mountain: The Guest Word by Leonard Lewin
  • Report from Iron Mountain is a satirical novel
  • John Kenneth Galbraith and Victor Navasky were consultants for Lewin’s book
  • Video: Jim Garrison meets Mr. X (Oliver Stone’s JFK)
  • “The organizing principle of any society is for war” – Mr. X
  • Articles: Oliver Stone in Quebec City by Paul Bleau: Part 1, Part 2
  • Paul Bleau’s upcoming articles based on the Jim Garrison files
  • Please email Len at osanic@prouty.org if you would like to access the Garrison files
  • Articles: Exposing the FPCC by Paul Bleau: Part 1, Part 2
  • Part 3 of the series to be posted soon
  • Clay Shaw was a con artist, probably one of the greatest
  • Pseudo experts in the critical community were preaching that Garrison had nothing
  • Operation Mongoose
  • Listener questions answered
  • Order the JFK Revisited: The Complete Collection with an exclusive autographed poster by Oliver Stone!!
  • Book: Kill Anything that Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam by Nick Turse: Paperback, Kindle, Audiobook
  • Book: The Paradox of our National Security Complex by Richard Otto: Paperback, Kindle
  • Book: Rethinking America by Richard Otto: Paperback, Kindle
  • Lisa Pease tweets about Allen Dulles’ calendar for 1963 that has gone missing
  • When Jim spoke to Marina Oswald, she didn’t want to talk about Ruth Paine
  • June 10 1963, JFK’s American University commencement address titled ‘A Strategy of Peace’: Audio, Video, Text
  • June 11 1963, JFK’s landmark Civil Rights Speech: Video, Text
  • There has been a systematic effort to diminish Kennedy’s achievements
  • The Kennedys and Civil Rights: How the MSM Continues to Distort History by Jim – Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4
  • Hack historians like Larry Sabato claim that JFK did nothing for civil rights until 1963
  • FREE Borrowable Ebook: Of Kennedys and Kings: Making Sense of the Sixties by Harris Wofford
  • Documentary: Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment (1963): iTunes, Prime, Google Play, Vudu
  • Book: Two Days in June: John F. Kennedy and the 48 Hours that Made History
    by Andrew Cohen: Paperback, Hardcover, Kindle
  • Book: The Bill of the Century: The Epic Battle for the Civil Rights Act by Clay Risen:
    Hardcover, Paperback, Kindle, Audiobook
  • FREE Borrowable Ebook: Promises Kept by Irving Bernstein

 

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#1104 – Scott Renyard, Tim Smith

 

 

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#1103 – Col. L. Fletcher Prouty

 

  • The censorship exercised by the newspaper editors
  • The advantages of hemp
  • Tungsten mining in Vietnam
  • The garden of eden in the world was Southeast Asia
  • Saigon was called the Paris of the Orion
  • It was mindless to destroy a beautiful place like Vietnam
  • Most likely one of the reasons for the Vietnam war was to get American businesses to replace the French
  • Is petroleum a fossil fuel?
  • Generally, no fossils are found below 16,000 feet
  • The oil depletion allowance
  • Video: President Kennedy calls out the steel companies (1962)
  • “It has long been a Kennedy tradition: not to get mad but to get even. I fully realize that
    I shall not be able to get even during my first term in office. But during my second term,
    you are going to see some important changes” – President Kennedy
  • Why was Governor Connally in the same car as the President?
  • Lansdale and Col. Prouty knew each other since 1952
  • Lansdale was sent to the Philippines in 1952 to overthrow President Elpidio Quirino
  • And replace him with the new President Ramon Magsaysay
  • Col. Napoleon Valeriano trained Cuban exiles before the bay of pigs invasion
  • Valeriano became an American citizen
  • A million Vietnamese migrated from the North to the South before the war
  • The US Navy transported 660,000 Vietnamese from the North to the South
  • 330,000 were moved by CIA’s airline Civil Air Transport (CAT)
  • On September 2, 1953, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles said “In Indochina, a desperate
    struggle is in its eighth year….We are already contributing largely in matériel and money to the
    combined efforts of the French and of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia.”
  • Chiang Kai-Shek’s presence at the Tehran conference
  • Article from Parade Magazine, Feb 1986:
    Why Stalin Never Forgave Eleanor Roosevelt by Elliott Roosevelt: Page 1, Page 2
  • The cold war really began before the second world war ended
  • Our governments do not know how to operate without the threat of war
  • FREE Borrowable Ebook: Report from Iron Mountain by Leonard C. Lewin
  • New York Times Book Review: Report from Iron Mountain: The Guest Word by Leonard Lewin
  • The degradation of the infrastructure in the US

 

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#1102 – Jim DiEugenio

 

 

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#1101 – Col. L. Fletcher Prouty

 

  • Lawerence Patterson’s National Bankruptcy Seminar Sept 1993
  • An Insiders View: “The Last Word on the Assassination”
  • Something more serious than the death of just one man happened on Nov 22, 1963
  • Kennedy was not going in the direction that certain very powerful groups wanted
  • Kennedy sent Col. Prouty’s boss Gen. Viktor Krulak to South Vietnam to get as much data as possible
  • Gen. Krulak served as special assistant for counter insurgency activities, Organization of the JCS
  • Col. Prouty was offered the assignment of Chief of Intelligence in Vietnam which he declined
  • The Mcnamara-Taylor report was actually written by Gen. Krulak and Col. Prouty
  • National Security Action Memorandum 263
  • NSAM 263 mentioned in Oliver Stone’s movie JFK
  • Media attacked Stone’s JFK even before the film had a final script
  • The second death of President Kennedy
  • Lawlessness is being accepted at the highest levels
  • Lawlessness is abided when it’s approved of by the people in power today
  • Col. Prouty’s unexpected meet with George Patton
  • The 2600 US soldiers that went “missing in action” in Sicily, 1943
  • PT-109 (JFK’s patrol boat)
  • The CIA was created under the National Security Act of 1947
  • The law contained no provision whatsoever for the colleciton of intelligence or clandestine activities
  • National Security Council Directive 5412: HTML, PDF, Ratical
  • NSC 5412 defined ‘Covert Operations’ for the first time
  • NSC 5412: The overt foreign activities of the U.S. Government should be supplemented by covert operations
  • NSC 5412: “Covert Operations” shall be understood to be all activities conducted pursuant to this directive which
    are so planned and executed that any U.S. Government responsibility for them is not evident to unauthorized
    persons and that if uncovered the U.S. Government can plausibly disclaim any responsibility for them.
  • President Eisenhower believed that the CIA should not become a fourth force
  • The CIA supported more than 42,000 Indonesians during their rebellion against President Sukarno
  • US Marine named Lee Harvey Oswald took part in the CIA’s operation against President Sukarno
  • By mid 1959, Vice President Richard Nixon declared Fidel Castro a communist
  • In March 1960, the NSC approved covert operations against Castro
  • Eisenhower’s Crusade for peace
  • Video: Fletcher Prouty explains how and why the Gary Powers’ U2 flight was sabotaged
  • Allen Dulles’s testimony to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on 31 May 1960
    about the Gary Powers’ incident: Read online, Scanned PDF, Searchable PDF
  • President Eisenhower’s farewell address on Jan 17, 1961: Video, Text
  • “It has long been a Kennedy tradition: not to get mad but to get even. I fully realize that
    I shall not be able to get even during my first term in office. But during my second term,
    you are going to see some important changes” – President Kennedy
  • The CIA by itself changed the plans for the anti-Castro operations
    from the Eisenhower-approved small unit attacks to a major over-the-beach invasion
  • By 1960, the Vietnam war preparations were in their fifteenth year
  • The Bay of Pigs operation in April 1961
  • McGeorge Bundy’s call to the Deputy Director of the CIA Charles P. Cabell cancelling the air strikes
  • General Walter Bedell Smith was the key to the whole Kennedy study plan (Bay of Pigs)
  • Gen. Smith was the Director of Central Intelligence from 1950-53
  • Letter From the Chairman of the Cuba Study Group (Taylor) to President Kennedy (FRUS)
  • “In closing, may I express our view of the great importance of a prompt implementation of our first recommendation
    to establish a Strategic Resources Group supported by a Cold War Indications Center which will allow our
    government readily to focus its resources on the objectives which you set in the so-called Cold War.”
  • “The Joint Chiefs of Staff have a responsibility for the defense of the nation in the Cold War
    similar to that which they have in conventional hostilities”
  • NSAM 55 (FRUS)
  • NSAMs 55, 56 and 57
  • 2.7 million Americans served in Vietnam
  • From 1945-65, almost all US military personnel in Vietnam served under the
    operational authority of the CIA and not under military command
  • CIA’s Siagon Military Mission
  • During the entire Kennedy period, there was no conventional military activity in Vietnam
  • “The first thing I’ll do when I’m re-elected, I’m gonna get Americans out of Vietnam” – JFK
  • Foreign Relations of the United States, 1961–1963, Volume IV, Vietnam, August–December 1963
    Download this Ebook in EPUB or MOBI format
  • “The United States’ objective in South Vietnam is to bring Americans home” – JFK on Nov 14, 1963
  • Video: JFK’s last press conference on Nov 14, 1963: “that is our object – to bring Americans home”
  • Oct 30 1963, there were 16,730 military personnel in Vietnam
  • FREE Borrowable Ebook: In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam by Robert S. McNamara
  • Leslie Gelb, director of the Pentagon Papers project, became the President of the CFR in 1993
  • The CFR mourns the passing of Dr. Leslie H. Gelb, CFR’s president emeritus and a dedicated member for 46 years
  • FREE Download Ebooks: The Pentagon Papers (The Senator Gravel Edition): Vol 1, Vol 2, Vol 3, Vol 4, Vol 5
  • Page 223 of Vol 2: “…US intention to withdraw 1,000 troops by the end of the year”
  • On the same page, it talks about NSAM 273 on Nov 23, 1963
  • But NSAM 273 DID NOT exist on Nov 23, 1963; it was signed on the 26th
  • McGeorge Bundy’s draft of NSAM 273 written on Nov 21, 1963
  • The Christchurch Star: Nov 23, 1963
  • Historically assassinations take place when the usual high degree of protection of the leader
    of any state is not provided. That condition alone invites planned murder
  • The Secret Service protocols for protecting the President were not followed in Dallas
  • Man with the umbrella, open windows
  • “I never believed that Oswald acted alone” – LBJ, Atlantic, July 1973
  • “We had been operating a damned Murder Inc. in the Caribbean” – LBJ (same source as above)
  • FBI Director Hoover informed LBJ that the shots were fired from the FIFTH floor
  • A tree blocked the view from the fifth floor making it impossible to shoot Kennedy
  • It was then changed to the SIXTH floor
  • Arlen Specter deviced the The Single Bullet Theory (aka The Magic Bullet)

 

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#1100 – Larry Schnapf, Paul Bleau & Jim DiEugenio

 

  • The release of the remaining JFK files postponed by Biden
  • Larry filed a complaint with the help of Mark Zaid and Bill Simpich
  • They sought the underlying correspondence generated about the remaining JFK files
  • About 7500 pages were found to be relevant to their request
  • These pages are to be released at the rate of 250 pages a month
  • The FBI has resisted releasing approximately 6400 pages about the mafia
  • The ARRB could overrule the FBI and the CIA but the National Archives cannot
  • Documents concerning George Joannides are still being withheld
  • Larry can be reached at larry@schnapflaw.com
  • Part B: Paul Bleau & Jim DiEugenio; beginning at 27:09
  • The Quebec City event
  • The historic Chateau Frontenac hotel was a partner of the event
  • Book: Chasing the Light by Oliver Stone: Hardcover, Paperback, Kindle, Audiobook
  • News: Abraham Bolden: Ex-Secret Service agent pardoned by Biden
  • Abraham Bolden’s special video produced by Len and Paul for Oliver Stone
  • Paul and Jim recall the events and the public’s reaction
  • Stream/buy JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass: Showtime, Prime, iTunes, Vudu, Microsoft
  • Stream/buy the documentary series JFK: Destiny Betrayed: Amazon Prime, iTunes, Vudu
  • Paul McCartney in Quebec City (2008)

 

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#1099 – Jeffrey L. Meek

 

 

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#1098 – Randy Benson, Max Good

 

  • Randy Benson is a documentarian and a filmmaker
  • Documentary: The Searchers by Randolph Benson (vimeo on demand)
  • The website of the documentary: www.thesearchersfilm.com
  • Randy’s website: www.rbensonfilm.com
  • John Judge’s research and activism
  • Starting in 1999, John Judge and Bill Kelly started holding a remembrance for JFK’s 1963 Peace Speech
  • June 10 1963, JFK’s American University commencement address titled ‘A Strategy of Peace’: Audio, Video, Text
  • Join Randy at the American University Peace Speech Memorial on June 10th (Friday) at 12 noon
  • Address: 4400 Massachusetts Ave NW, Washington, DC 20016; Google Maps location
  • President Eisenhower’s farewell address on Jan 17, 1961: Video, Text
  • National Security Action Memorandum 263
  • Randy is currently working on part 2 of the documentary The Searchers
  • Dreyfus affair
  • Video: Oswald stunned to learn that he’s charged with killing JFK (press conference)
  • Max Good’s new documentary The Assassination and Mrs. Paine
  • Trailer: The Assassination and Mrs. Paine
  • Part B: Max Good; beginning at 18:36
  • Max Good is a filmmaker
  • Max Good’s new documentary The Assassination and Mrs. Paine
  • Trailer: The Assassination and Mrs. Paine
  • Website of the documentary: www.jfkpaine.com
  • Twitter handle and facebook page of the documentary
  • Max’s website: www.maxgoodfilm.com
  • Max worked as assistant producer on the documentary
    The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers
  • Stream/buy The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers here
  • FREE Borrowable Ebook: JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why it Matters by James Douglass
  • “In this week’s episode, WC supporters are gonna feel the pain. That’s right. Ruth and Michael Paine”
  • Watch episode 19 of 50 Reasons for 50 Years here
  • “In this episode, we investigate the gift that keeps on giving; namely the Paines’ garage”
  • Watch episode 31 of 50 Reasons for 50 Years here
  • Episode 31 titled Evidence On Demand
  • Watch all 50 episodes of 50 Reasons for 50 Years
  • Marina Oswald lived with Ruth Paine for the two months leading up to the assassination
  • A lot of the key evidence against Oswald was found at Ruth’s house
  • The minox spy camera and Oswald’s Kostin letter
  • Ruth Paine’s sister worked for the CIA
  • Ruth’s father was recruited by the CIA in Vietnam
  • Her brother-in-law applied to work for the CIA
  • Vincent Salandria features in the documentary
  • Michael Paine had a job at Bell Helicopters and had a security clearance
  • Why would a supposed communist like Oswald be allowed to stay at the Paines’ house?
  • The story of Priscilla Johnson McMillan
  • McMillian was referred to as a witting collaborator in the declassified documents
  • She applied to work for the CIA in 1952 but was turned down
  • FREE Borrowable Ebook: Marina and Lee by Priscilla Johnson McMillan
  • Stream/buy JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass: Showtime, Prime, iTunes, Vudu, Microsoft
  • Stream/buy the documentary series JFK: Destiny Betrayed: Amazon Prime, iTunes, Vudu
  • “We both know who’s behind this” – Paines talking to each other
  • The HSCA never interviewed Ruth Paine
  • Ruth was the main witness of the WC; she answered more than 5000 questions

 

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#1097 – Dr. Shane O’sullivan, Paul Bleau

 

 

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#1096 – Jim DiEugenio, Paul Bleau

 

 

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