Tag: JFK

James Tracy, JFK, MASS MEDIA, AND THE ORIGINS OF “CONSPIRACY THEORY”

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NOVEMBER 22, 2018 MHB Prefatory Note on Censorship in Academe This study was written in 2013-14 as part of my academic research as Associate Professor of Media Studies at Florida Atlantic University. I have had numerous papers addressing news coverage of historical events published in academic journals over the past two decades. However, this was the first attempt to offer a scholarly treatment of a research object related to a conspiracy–how the news media “framed” New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison’s JFK assassination inquiry. When I presented the paper at the…

The 6th Annual JFK Dallas Conference (15-18 November 2018)

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THE CONFERENCE SCHEDULE SITE: DOUBLETREE-by-HILTON Market Center, Dallas TX Date: Nov. [15],16-17-18   SCHEDULE IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE Theme: “THE BIG PICTURE: WHY JFK, RFK & MLK HAD TO DIE” – more than 40 SPEAKERS THURS – SUNDAY! Thursday, Nov. 15: Many of you are arriving too late to join other activities beginning Thurs. AM, so we have arranged to expand the conference to include Thurs. PM. 1:00: CONFERENCE ROOM: Greetings to Friends, Helpers & Early Arrivals 1:05 – 2:00: [Stockholm, by Skype] Ole Dammegard: “Parallels between the murders of JFK and Sweden’s Prime Minister Olof Palme” [by Skype, from Spain] 2:05…

“Today is Nov. 22, 1963”, PENN Magazine (Nov. 2018)

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Penn Magazine November 2018 pennmagazine.us Also available here in flip-page format: https://archive.org/details/NovemberPennMagazine/page/n0 Special Offer: Johnny Moon available here for free in pdf format: https://archive.org/details/johnnymoonebook/page/n0 “I’ve read JFK assassination fiction by Don Delillo and Norman Mailer, and can tell you that this new novel [Johnny Moon] not only is Mike’s best book yet, it’s much better than Delillo and Mailer’s efforts to do justice to the most important event in U.S. history.”   — DR. KEVIN BARRETT       … IT IS STILL THAT DAY, in a sense, Nov. 22, 1963. That is…

Larry Sabato: Poster Child for the Mockingbird Media

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  Jim Fetzer The CIA began infiltrating the media in the 1950s, where by 1975, William Colby, then its Director, testified to Congress that the agency “owned everyone of any significance in the media” — and where the situation had only become worse over time. Carl Bernstein followed up with an article in Rolling Stone, “The CIA and the Media” (20 October 1977), in which he quoted high officials of the agency boasting that their greatest successes have been with The New York Times, CBS and Time-Life. During that era,…