The JFK Facts Podcast

Jan 26 2025 57 ep. 56 mins 58

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The latest in news and analysis of JFK's assassination and the official secrecy that still obscures the full history of November 22.

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JFK Facts Live: The Politics of Trump's JFK Order

Jan 26 2025 74 mins

Fernand Amandi, pollster and MSNBC news analyst, joined us for a conversation about President Trump's order on JFK assassination files. What does the order say? What doesn't it say? Will the rest of the records become public? And what's in them? This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jfkfacts.substack

The JFK Facts Podcast: Christopher Tidmore on the Character(s) of New Orleans

Jan 25 2025 75 mins

Podcaster and historian Christopher Tidmore gave an utterly fascinating talk about the JFK characters of New Orleans: Jim Garrison, David Ferrie, Clay Shaw, and Lee Oswald, as well as the character of city at the heart of the JFK story. JFK Facts is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a publ

The JFK Facts Podcast: Rami Smatt on Oswald and Helsinki

Jan 14 2025 70 mins

Rami Smatt, JFK Facts Helsinki Correspondent, joined our weekly live call to discuss his recent piece, The Finland File: How Did Oswald Get to the Soviet Union?The declassified file that Rami discovered sheds new light on young Lee Harvey Oswald and how he got to the Soviet Union. Further study of the file begs the question: how did Oswald get to Finland?JFK Facts is a reader-suppo

The JFK Facts Podcast: Aaron Good on Empire and the JFK Assassination

Jan 07 2025 80 mins

In our first episode of 2025, author and podcaster Aaron Good joins our show to talk about how the JFK assassination fits into the broader story of empire and covert power in the 21th century. You can follow Aaron’s unique work on his podcast, American Exception. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visi

JFK Facts Live Oct. 3rd Discussion: The Oswald File, Dr. Jolly West

Oct 22 2024 70 mins

We return with a live show from earlier this month. Co-host Jefferson Morley spoke with listeners in a freewheeling discussion about The Oswald File, a new course that begins Wednesday, Oct 23rd. The group also discussed Dr. Jolly West and his strange place in the JFK assassination story.If you would like to join the live call-in show, it is recorded each Thursday at 8 p.m. EST. JF

JFK Facts Podcast: Steven Grant, Author of 'Badlands,' a Noir JFK Comic Book

Apr 23 2024 45 mins

Steven Grant, creator of critically acclaimed comic books like Whisper, joins the JFK Facts Podcast to talk about “Badlands,” his fictionalized comic book series centered around the JFK assassination and its aftermath. Grant has many intriguing things to say about the mileu in which JFK was killed and the power of fiction to tell the truth. You can read Grant’s insightful Aft

JFK Facts Podcast: The 14-Minute Gap

Apr 18 2024 14 mins

[note: the original audio posted stated the date of LBJ and Hoover’s phone call incorrectly, this audio has been corrected. The correct date of the conversation was November 23rd, 1963.]On today’s podcast, we play the entire 14-minute erased phone conversation between President Lyndon Johnson and FBI Director J Edgar Hoover, while host Jefferson Morley puts the deleted recordin

AI Robot Spouts Debunked Lone Gunman Theory

JFK Facts and the Mary Ferrell Foundation are currently exploring ways in which Artificial Intelligence (AI) might be deployed to search, sort, and analyze the vast record of President Kennedy’s assassination. With its incredible capacity to synthesize information, AI chatbots seem to have great potential for historical research, especially in the JFK story where many questions r

JFK Facts Live: Trail of Destruction in New Orleans

Apr 10 2024 65 mins

[Note: An earlier version of this post mistakenly contained a different group discussion, which will be re-published at a later date]Each set of circumstances surrounding the destruction of JFK assassination-related records — whether by a government agency or an individual — tells its own story. Taken together, these stories (as told in Chad Nagle’s ongoing series “Trail of

JFK Facts Podcast: Danny Fingeroth on Jack Ruby

Apr 03 2024 54 mins

Fingeroth, the biographer of Marvel Comics mastermind Stan Lee, excavates the life and times and troubled mind of the man who committed murder on national television.JFK Facts is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or ge