Sean Connery hands Nicholas Cage a slip of paper as bagpipes whisper. Front pew, Right Leg it reads. It’s the map to a buried treasure. The great American mystery in a church pew in Fort Walton, Kansas. Gold? Eternal Youth? Absolute knowledge? No, it’s a tiny little microfilm. Cage holds the film up to the…
Tag: JFK
The Big Event
To mark the anniversary of President Kennedy’s Assassination, we’ve put together a three-part podcast titled The Big Event as well as a special JFK episode of Inside Jobs. Listen here, on the Talk on the Internet feed, or wherever you get your podcasts. Inside Jobs JFK Junior Novelization The Big Event Part III: Frame 313…
The Great Lie Lives On
So much has happened since President Kennedy was slain. The average citizen has access to exponentially more information than any person in 1963. We’ve gone through 10 Presidents in the ensuing decades, witnessed a revolution in personal computers, satellite imagery and the digitization of documents and photographs. Most importantly, any person with access to a…
The JFK Document Dump
Today is the day. The last of the files relating to the assassination of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy are finally scheduled for release. For over 5 decades our own government has kept the infamous “JFK Files” hidden from us like a trust fund executor. Now the jig is up. As the beneficiaries of this storied trust,…
“The Whole Bay of Pigs Thing”
If there is one mystery in Presidential history as tantalizing as who killed Kennedy, it’s what happened to the missing 18 ½ minutes of President Richard Nixon’s infamous “Watergate Tapes,” the series of secret White House recordings that exposed the corruption of his administration and ultimately led to his resignation in disgrace. But what if…
11.22.63
History Fights Back “What if JFK had lived?” It’s a simple question that has tantalized historians, storytellers and ordinary Americans for half a century. It’s easy to imagine a world with no Vietnam War, peace with Russia and a colony on Mars if only our most idealistic President had been able to fulfill his destiny….
James Bond and JFK
The early 1960s. The pinnacle of male style, when men treated each activity, accouterment and debutant with sophistication and taste. But the two ambassadors of swinging sixties charm were also two of the Cold War’s coldest warriors. Both were boarding school boys turned navy officers, men who rose in rank to the heights of government…
The Secret Service Stand Down
One of the most fiercely debated aspects of the Kennedy case is the conduct and response of the Secret Service Agents responsible for protecting the President on that fateful afternoon in Dallas. Clearly the Kennedy detail failed their mission of safely escorting the Commander-in-Chief through the most hostile stop of his trip to Texas. Questions linger…
Orphans of Camelot: A Documentary
I’m proud to announce the release of a new documentary “Orphans of Camelot”. Unlike all the Kennedy documentaries that have come before, Orphans of Camelot isn’t about who killed President Kennedy. It’s about the impact this event has had on media, popular culture and the national consciousness. For a new generation of viewers this film…
Parkland: The Forgotten Tales of November 22nd
Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman’s film Parkland, which commemorates the 50th anniversary of President Kennedy’s assassination is out on Blu-Ray, DVD and VOD this week and even if you don’t agree with its lone gunman perspective, it’s a well-acted and moving portrayal of this tragic event. Parkland is named after the hospital in which President…
3 Steps to Ease the Pain
The dispute over the true circumstances of the JFK assassination has raged for nearly have a century. Just when it seems like the fire will die down, a new revelation, watershed book or controversial film stokes the flames of debate. Perhaps America’s ongoing obsession with the darkest day in its history stems from the fundamental…
Zombies Killed Kennedy?
50 Years after his Election, Jack Strikes Back The smash hit video game Call of Duty: Black Ops was released 50 years to the day after the election of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, but anyone worried the newsmaking launch of the game would distract from this historically significant date shouldn’t be. Not only does President…
Assassination Agnostic 