History conspiracy podcast

All of Dave Emory's historical  work is available at spitfirelist.com --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/art-mcdermott/support

On May 4, 1974, Headley, along with freelance writer Donald Freed, held a press conference in San Francisco. They presented 400 pages of documentation of their findings, some of which included:  - a year before the kidnapping Patty Hearst had visited convict, Donald DeFreeze, who later became the SLA's figurehead. - DeFreeze's arrest records; - the work of Colston Westbrook with Los Angeles Police Department's CCS (Criminal Conspiracy Section) and the State of California's Sacramento-based CII (Criminal Identification and Investigation) unit.; and evidence of links of the CIA to Police Departments.  On May 17, 1974, The New York Times ran the story of DeFreeze and the Los Angeles Police Department. However, the story was largely overlooked due to this being the day of the shoot out and conflagration that killed DeFreeze and five other members of the SLA. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/art-mcdermott/support

Robert Christopher Lasch  was an American historian, moralist, and social critic who was a history professor at the University of Rochester. Lasch sought to use history as a tool to awaken American society to the pervasiveness with which major institutions, public and private, were eroding the competence and independence of families and communities. He strove to create a historically informed social criticism that could teach Americans how to deal with rampant consumerism, proletarianization, and what he famously labeled "the culture of narcissism". --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/art-mcdermott/support

Carroll Quigley  November 9, 1910 – January 3, 1977 was an American historian and theorist of the evolution of civilizations. He is remembered for his teaching work as a professor at Georgetown University, and for his writing about global conspiracies, in which he argued that an Anglo-American banking elite have worked together for centuries to spread certain values globally --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/art-mcdermott/support

JFK and Vietnam: Deception, Intrigue, and the Struggle for Power argues that United States President John F. Kennedy would not have placed combat troops in Vietnam and was preparing to withdraw military advisors by the end of 1965. Oliver Stone, director of the 1991 film JFK called it "a breakthrough exploration of Kennedy and his generals, [which] defines the 1961-1963 period in a light I never understood before".[5] Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., a former special assistant to Kennedy, described it as "the most solid contribution yet" to speculation regarding the course of American history had the President not be assassinated. While calling it a "[b]old and authoritative revisionist analysis", Kirkus Reviews said "this electrifying report portrays a wily, stubborn, conflicted leader who grasped realities that eluded virtually everyone else in the US establishment." In the Los Angeles Times, historian Leonard Bushkoff wrote: "Newman's vision of warmongering hawks--a group of conspiratorial Washingtonians whose motives he barely examines--is indeed based more on suppositions and innuendoes than evidence. Nevertheless, at another, deeper level, Newman's points are highly persuasive --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/art-mcdermott/support

The Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting occurred on December 14, 2012, in Newtown, Connecticut, United States, when 20-year-old Adam Lanza shot and killed 26 people, including 20 children between six and seven years old, and six adult staff members. Earlier that day, before driving to the school, he shot and killed his mother at their Newtown home. As first responders arrived at the school, Lanza committed suicide by shooting himself in the head. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/art-mcdermott/support

The silicon chip inside her head Gets switched to overload And nobody's gonna go to school today She's going to make them stay at home And daddy doesn't understand it He always said she was as good as gold And he can see no reason 'Cause there are no reasons What reason do you need to be sure  The Grover Cleveland Elementary School shooting took place on January 29, 1979, at a public elementary school in San Diego, California, United States. The principal and a custodian were killed; eight children and police officer Robert Robb were injured. A 16-year-old girl, Brenda Spencer, who lived in a house across the street from the school, was convicted of the shootings. Charged as an adult, she pleaded guilty to two counts of murder and assault with a deadly weapon, and was sentenced to life in prison with a chance of parole after 25 years. As of July 2021, she remains in prison. She will be eligible for parole in September 2021. A reporter reached Spencer by phone while she was still in the house after the shooting, and asked her why she had done it. She reportedly answered: "I don't like Mondays. This livens up the day," which inspired Bob Geldof and Johnnie Fingers to write the Boomtown Rats song "I Don't Like Mondays". --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/art-mcdermott/support

Featured Guests: Malcolm Kilduff, Ralph Yarborough, Jim Bishop, Cyril Wecht, Mark Lane, Josiah Thompson, and Dick Gregory. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/art-mcdermott/support

From the director of RFK Must Die, Killing Oswald explores the mystery of how and why John F. Kennedy and Lee Harvey Oswald were assassinated in 1963, tracing Oswald's strange transformation from US Marine radar operator in Japan, monitoring U2 spy planes over Russia; to 20-year-old Marxist defector, decamping to Moscow threatening to share military secrets with the KGB; to pro-Castro activist in New Orleans and self-proclaimed patsy in Dallas.  The film features interviews with authors John Newman, Dick Russell, David Kaiser and Joan Mellen, Cuban exile Antonio Veciana and Watergate burglar Eugenio Martinez; alongside rare archive film and audiotapes of Oswald and his alleged CIA handlers George De Mohrenschildt and David Atlee Phillips.  "Killing Oswald sifts through the [secret files] made public after Oliver Stone's JFK and raises compelling new questions about the whole affair" - The Guardian  "This excellent documentary from Shane O'Sullivan benefits from the richness of the archive material it has unearthed and from some intriguing testimony by well-informed 'experts'" - The Independent (4 stars)  "Killing Oswald raises questions that I haven't seen consolidated like this before, via several experts and remarkable archival footage. It's a very good documentary, and I recommend it highly" – contributor Dick Russell --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/art-mcdermott/support

This film presents an account of Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) activities that had previously been covert, including actions in Iran, Vietnam, Laos, the Congo, Cuba, and Guatemala. The film includes interviews with CIA director Allen Dulles and Allen Dulles. - National Archives - Science of Spying - National Security Council. Central Intelligence Agency.   --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/art-mcdermott/support

Robert Bradley Cutler was born on November 8, 1913 in Charles River, Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard College and the Harvard Graduate School of Design. He served as a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy in the Pacific theater in World War II. He practiced architecture in New York City, and Boston and Manchester, Massachusetts. He researched extensively the assassinations of both John and Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King, published several books on his theories and established The Conspiracy Museum in Dallas, Texas to disprove the lone assassin conclusion of the Warren Commission's investigation of President Kennedy's assassination. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/art-mcdermott/support

From blood-thirsty vampires to the vengeful undead, join us as American pop and folk culture specialist W. Scott Poole traces the origins of the contemporary genre of horror to the devastation of World War I in an eye-opening conversation based upon his 2018 book, Wasteland: The Great War and the Origins of Modern Horror. Following the works of famous figures like director F.W. Murnau, actor Bela Lugosi and writers Arthur Machen and H.P. Lovecraft, Poole argues that the trauma of the Great War and its calamitous costs reappear in a multitude of macabre forms, echoing the unprecedented horrors of the trenches, haunting the screen and page through today.  Presented in partnership with the Friends of the Kansas City Public Library --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/art-mcdermott/support

Walter Philip Reuther  was an American leader of organized labor and civil rights activist who built the United Automobile Workers (UAW) into one of the most progressive labor unions in American history. He saw labor movements not as narrow special interest groups but as instruments to advance social justice and human rights in democratic societies. He leveraged the UAW's resources and influence to advocate for workers' rights, civil rights, women's rights, universal health care, public education, affordable housing, environmental stewardship and nuclear nonproliferation around the world. He believed in Swedish-style social democracy and societal change through nonviolent civil disobedience. He cofounded the AFL-CIO in 1955 with George Meaney. He survived two attempted assassinations, including one at home where he was struck by a 12-gauge shotgun blast fired through his kitchen window. He was the fourth and longest serving president of the UAW, serving from 1946 until his death in 1970. All of Dave Emory's historical work is available at spitfirelist.com --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/art-mcdermott/support

Mae Brussell spoke at the three-day conference at Boston University titled “The Politics of Conspiracy. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/art-mcdermott/support

Speaking: Dick Gregory, Donald Freed, Penn Jones, Richard Popkin, Sherman Skolnick, Mae Brussell, Peter Dale Scott, and Mark Lane. Moderated by Carl Oglesby. Date Recorded on: in Boston, Mass., 31 Jan.-2 Feb. 1975. Date Broadcast on: KPFK, 2 Apr. 1975. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/art-mcdermott/support

Richard E. Sprague  was an American computer technician, researcher and author. According to American journalist Richard 'Dick' Russell, who dedicated seventeen years to the investigation of John Kennedy assassination, Sprague was "the leading gatherer of photographic evidence about the Kennedy assassination". Sprague published his investigation in 1976-1985 as three editions of The Taking of America, 1-2-3. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/art-mcdermott/support

William Penn Jones, Jr. (1914-1998) was a journalist and World War II veteran best known for his research into the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Jones wrote a series of books entitled Forgive My Grief and was editor-in-chief of The Continuing Inquiry, a newsletter focused on assassination theories. This collection contains a nearly complete run of The Continuing Inquiry and is full text-searchable. In 1963, Penn Jones became involved in investigating the assassination of John F. Kennedy. A fellow researcher, Gary Mack, later explained, "Penn was one of the first generation of researchers who felt the government was behind the assassination - probably a conspiracy involving military intelligence... He always thought LBJ was behind it somehow." Jons was also the author of several books on the assassination: Forgive My Grief I-IV (1966-1976). His photographs reflect his interest in the Kennedy assassination and his writing.  He published many of these photos in not only his books but his monthly newsletter, The Continuing Inquiry --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/art-mcdermott/support

The lawsuit, filed in December 2003, sought records to clarify the CIA’s response to JFK’s murder. After Kennedy was killed, the Dallas police department immediately picked up an ex-Marine named Lee Harvey Oswald and claimed he shot the president. Oswald denied the charge and was killed in police custody the next day. A year later, a commission of Washington insiders concluded Oswald acted “alone and unaided.” JFK’s death was not politically motivated, it was proclaimed. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/art-mcdermott/support

Since the mid-twentieth century, the great advances in our knowledge about the most effective methods of mass communication and persuasion have been visible in a wide range of professional fields, including journalism, marketing, public relations, interrogation, and public opinion studies. However, the birth of the modern science of mass communication had surprising and somewhat troubling midwives: the military and covert intelligence arms of the US government --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/art-mcdermott/support

All of Dave Emory's historical work is available at spitfirelist.com . O. J. Simpson was tried for the murders of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald "Ron" Goldman, who were stabbed to death outside Brown's condominium in the Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles on the night of June 12, 1994. The trial spanned eleven months, from the jury's swearing-in on November 9, 1994.Opening statements were made on January 24, 1995, and Simpson was acquitted of both counts of murder on October 3 of the same year. The trial is often characterized as the trial of the century because of its international publicity and has been described as the "most publicized" criminal trial in history. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/art-mcdermott/support

September 11 commission testimony of Danielle O'Brien-Howell --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/art-mcdermott/support

The Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male(informally referred to as the "Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment,")  was an ethically abusive study conducted between 1932 and 1972 by the United States Public Health Service (PHS) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention  The purpose of this study was to observe the natural history of untreated syphilis. Although the African-American men who participated in the study were told that they were receiving free health care from the federal government of the United States, they were not, --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/art-mcdermott/support

JFK Assassination --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/art-mcdermott/support

David Richard Berkowitz - born Richard David Falco, , also known as the Son of Sam and .44 Caliber Killer (due to the weapon he used) is an American serial killer who pleaded guilty to eight separate shooting attacks that began in New York City during the summer of 1976. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/art-mcdermott/support

Emile Francisco de Antonio (May 14, 1919 -- December 16, 1989) was an American director and producer of documentary films, usually detailing political or social events circa 1960s--1980s. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/art-mcdermott/support

The Oklahoma City bombing was a domestic terrorist truck bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States, on April 19, 1995. Perpetrated by American terrorists Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols, the bombing happened at 9:02 am and killed at least 168 people, including many children, injured more than 680 others, and destroyed more than one third of the building, which had to be demolished. The blast destroyed or damaged 324 other buildings within a 16-block radius, shattered glass in 258 nearby buildings, and destroyed or burned 86 cars, causing an estimated $652 million worth of damage. Local, state, federal, and worldwide agencies engaged in extensive rescue efforts in the wake of the bombing. They and the city received substantial donations from across the country. The Federal Emergency Management Agency  activated 11 of its Urban Search and Rescue Task Forces, consisting of 665 rescue workers who assisted in rescue and recovery operations. Until the September 11 attacks in 2001, the Oklahoma City bombing was the deadliest terrorist attack in the history of the United States. It remains the deadliest act of domestic terrorism in U.S. history. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/art-mcdermott/support

Four weeks after the assassination of Kennedy on November 22, 1963, Lane published an article in the National Guardian dealing in-depth with 15 questions regarding statements by public officials about the murders of J. D. Tippit and John F. Kennedy from the perspective of a defense attorney. The statements were about the witnesses who claimed to have seen Lee Harvey Oswald on the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository; the paraffin test which, to Lane, indicated that Oswald had not fired a rifle recently; the conflicting claims about the rifle which at first was, as the police announced, a German Mauser and afterwards a smaller gauge Italian Mannlicher–Carcano; the Parkland Hospital doctors announcing an entrance wound in the throat, and the role of the FBI and the press, who convicted Oswald before his guilt could, or could not, be proven. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/art-mcdermott/support

Senate Investigator Jack Blum interview  1996 . Plus The Kerry Committee report, formally titled Drugs, Law Enforcement and Foreign Policy, was the final report of an investigation by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee's Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics, and International Operations. The report examined the problems that drug cartels and drug money laundering in South and Central America and the Caribbean posed for American law enforcement and foreign policy. The Sub-Committee was chaired at the time by Senator John Kerry, so that the report is often referred to under his name. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/art-mcdermott/support

From 1963 to 1964, Russell was one of the members of the Warren Commission, which was charged to investigate the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Russell's personal papers indicated that he was troubled by the Commission's single-bullet theory, the Soviet Union's failure to provide greater detail regarding Lee Harvey Oswald's period in Russia, and the lack of information regarding Oswald's Cuba-related activities. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/art-mcdermott/support

Following Kennedy's assassination in 1963, Sahl's interest in who was responsible was so great that he became a deputized member of New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison's team to investigate the assassination. As a result, Sahl's comedy would often reflect his politics and included readings and commentary about the Warren Commission Report, of which he consistently disputed the accuracy. He alienated much of his audience, was effectively blacklisted and more of his planned shows were cancelled. His income dropped from $1 million to $19,000 by 1964.[citation needed] According to Nachman, the excessive focus on the Kennedy assassination details was Sahl's undoing and wrecked his career. Sahl later admitted that "there's never been anything that had a stronger impact on my life than this issue," but added that he nonetheless "thought it was a wonderful quest. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/art-mcdermott/support

At 3:42 a.m. on February 17, 1970, dispatchers at Fort Bragg received an emergency phone call from MacDonald, who faintly spoke into the receiver: "Help! Five forty-four Castle Drive! Stabbing! ... Five forty-four Castle Drive! Stabbing! Hurry!" The operator then heard the sound of the receiver clatter against a wall or floor. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/art-mcdermott/support

The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, on March 25, 1911, was the deadliest industrial disaster in the history of the city, and one of the deadliest in U.S. history. The fire caused the deaths of 146 garment workers – 123 women and girls and 23 men – who died from the fire, smoke inhalation, or falling/jumping to their deaths. Most of the victims were recent Italian and Jewish immigrant women and girls aged 14 to 23 of the victims whose ages are known, the oldest victim was 43-year-old Providenza Panno, and the youngest were 14-year-olds Kate Leone and Rosaria "Sara" Maltese. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/art-mcdermott/support

Wesley J. Liebeler - assistant counsel to the Warren Commission vs Mark Lane (author) --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/art-mcdermott/support

Charles Raymond "Charlie" Starkweather (November 24, 1938 – June 25, 1959) was an American serial killer who murdered eleven people in Nebraska and Wyoming between December 1957 and January 1958, when he was 19 years old.[ He killed ten of his victims between January 21 and January 29, 1958, the date of his arrest. During his spree in 1958, Starkweather was accompanied by his 14-year-old girlfriend, Caril Ann Fugate. Both Starkweather and Fugate were convicted on charges for their parts in the homicides; Starkweather was sentenced to death and executed seventeen months after the events. Fugate served seventeen years in prison, gaining release in 1976. Starkweather's execution by electric chair in 1959 was the last execution in Nebraska until 1994. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/art-mcdermott/support

The Whitechapel murders were committed in or near the largely impoverished Whitechapel district in the East End of London between 3 April 1888 and 13 February 1891. At various points some or all of these eleven unsolved murders of women have been ascribed to the notorious unidentified serial killer known as Jack the Ripper. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/art-mcdermott/support

Warren Commission, a presidential commission that investigated the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy. He is the last chief justice to have served in an elected office before entering the Supreme Court, and is generally considered to be one of the most influential Supreme Court justices and political leaders in the history of the United States. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/art-mcdermott/support

William Ramsey Clark is an American lawyer, activist and former federal government official. A progressive, New Frontier liberal, he occupied senior positions in the United States Department of Justice under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, notably serving as United States Attorney General from 1967 to 1969; previously he was Deputy Attorney General from 1965 to 1967 and Assistant Attorney General from 1961 to 1965. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/art-mcdermott/support

Around 6:30 p.m. on November 13, 1974, 23-year-old DeFeo entered Henry's Bar in Amityville, Long Island, New York, and declared: "You got to help me! I think my mother and father are shot!" DeFeo and a small group of people went to 112 Ocean Avenue, which was located near the bar, and found that DeFeo's parents were dead inside the house. One of the group, DeFeo's friend Joe Yeswit, made an emergency call to the Suffolk County Police Department, who searched the house and found that six members of the family were dead in their beds --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/art-mcdermott/support

On March 30, 1981, United States President Ronald Reagan was shot and wounded by John Hinckley Jr. in Washington, D.C. as he was returning to his limousine after a speaking engagement at the Washington Hilton Hotel. Hinckley believed the attack would impress actress Jodie Foster, with whom he had become obsessed. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/art-mcdermott/support

In the context of the Watergate scandal, Operation Gemstone was a proposed series of clandestine or illegal acts, first outlined by G. Gordon Liddy in two separate meetings with three other individuals: then-Attorney General of the United States, John N. Mitchell, then-White House Counsel John Dean, and Jeb Magruder, an ally and former aide to H.R. Haldeman, as well as the temporary head of the Committee to Re-elect the President, pending Mitchell's resignation as Attorney General. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/art-mcdermott/support

Shep talks about the assasination and politics in general. How they affect our lives.  He did not play his usual theme song at the start or finish of his show for the entire week out of respect and spent the week doing shows related to the subject. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/art-mcdermott/support

At about 9:30 p.m. on June 18, 1984, Berg returned to his Adams Street townhouse after a dinner date with Judith, with whom he was attempting reconciliation.Berg stepped out of his black Volkswagen Beetle and gunfire erupted. He was struck 12 times. The murder weapon, a semi-automatic Ingram MAC-10, which had been illegally converted to an automatic weapon, was later traced to the home of one of The Order's members by the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Hostage Rescue Team. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/art-mcdermott/support

Newtown shootings of 2012, also called Sandy Hook School shooting, mass shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, on December 14, 2012, that left 28 people dead and 2 injured. In addition to the shooter, 18 children and 6 adults died at Sandy Hook School and 2 children died at a nearby hospital, making it one of the deadliest school shootings in U.S. history.  In March 2018, six families of victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, as well as an FBI agent who responded to the attack, filed a defamation lawsuit in Bridgeport Superior Court in Connecticut against Alex Jones who runs the website InfoWars,2 for his role in spreading conspiracy theories about the shooting. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/art-mcdermott/support

Diana died in a car crash in the Pont de l'Alma tunnel in Paris while the driver was fleeing the paparazzi. The crash also resulted in the deaths of her companion Dodi Fayed and the driver, Henri Paul, who was the acting security manager of the Hôtel Ritz Paris. Diana's bodyguard, Trevor Rees-Jones, survived the crash. The televised funeral, on 6 September, was watched by a British television audience that peaked at 32.10 million, which was one of the United Kingdom's highest viewing figures ever. Millions more watched the event around the world. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/art-mcdermott/support

On May 15, 1972, he was shot five times by Arthur Bremer while campaigning at the Laurel Shopping Center in Laurel, Maryland, at a time when he was receiving high ratings in national opinion polls. Bremer was seen at a Wallace rally in Wheaton, Maryland, earlier that day and two days earlier at a rally in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Wallace was hit in the abdomen and chest, and one of the bullets lodged in Wallace's spinal column, leaving him paralyzed from the waist down for the rest of his life. A five-hour operation was needed that evening, and Wallace had to receive several units of blood in order to survive. Three others who were wounded in the shooting also survived. The shooting and Wallace's subsequent injuries put an effective end to his bid for the Democratic Presidential nomination. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/art-mcdermott/support

Steven O'Brien is a lieutenant colonel in the Minnesota Air National Guard's 133rd Airlift Wing. O'Brien has become notable due to a pair of significant involvements on 9/11, when he and his crew flew close, in space and time, to the crashes of two of the four airliners hijacked that day: American Airlines Flight 77 and United Airlines Flight 93. The former hit the Pentagon, while the latter later crashed in a field in western Pennsylvania. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/art-mcdermott/support

Apollo 1, initially designated AS-204, was the first crewed mission of the United States Apollo program, the undertaking to land the first man on the Moon. It was planned to launch on February 21, 1967, as the first low Earth orbital test of the Apollo command and service module. The mission never flew; a cabin fire during a launch rehearsal test at Cape Kennedy Air Force Station Launch Complex 34 on January 27 killed all three crew members—Command Pilot Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom, Senior Pilot Ed White, and Pilot Roger B. Chaffee—and destroyed the command module (CM). The name Apollo 1, chosen by the crew, was made official by NASA in their honor after the fire. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/art-mcdermott/support

Dr. John Ebersole was Acting Chief of Radiology at Bethesda Naval Hospital on November 22, 1963. Assisted by Jerrol Custer and Edward Reed, he was responsible for the taking of X-rays at the autopsy of President Kennedy. Ebersole's testimony before the HSCA medical panel began with a lengthy prepared statement which included not only the events of the autopsy, but also curious circumstances following it. Ebersole described how he participated in the making of a Kennedy bust by taking measurements on the X-rays and phoning in various figures to a Dr. Young at the White House, using coded phrases like "Aunt Margaret's skirts needed the following change."  This is his compete HSCA Interview . --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/art-mcdermott/support

Lowenstein was critical of the official account of the June 6, 1968, assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy. Lowenstein made a one-hour appearance on the PBS television show Firing Line in 1975, where he was interviewed by William F. Buckley Jr., in which he stated that he did not believe that Sirhan Sirhan alone had shot Kennedy, Schrade and the four others who were injured in the shooting are often overlooked players in the assassination that killed Kennedy at the age of 42 amid his ascendant presidential campaign. When Schrade gained consciousness at a nearby hospital, a United Automobile Workers leader came to his bedside and told him the news: Kennedy was dead. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/art-mcdermott/support

On August 1, 1966, after stabbing his mother and his wife to death the night before, Charles Whitman, a former Marine, took rifles and other weapons to the observation deck atop the Main Building tower at the University of Texas at Austin, then opened fire indiscriminately on people on the surrounding campus and streets. Over the next 96 minutes he shot and killed 15 people, including an unborn child and one final victim who died from his injuries in 2001. Whitman also injured 31 others. The incident ended when a policeman and a civilian reached Whitman and shot him dead. At the time, the attack was the deadliest mass shooting by a lone gunman in U.S. history, being surpassed 18 years later by the San Ysidro McDonald's massacre. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/art-mcdermott/support

The Spring Grove Experiment is a series of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) studies performed from 1963 to 1976 on patients with psychotic illnesses at the Spring Grove Clinic in Catonsville, Maryland. These patients were sponsored by a federal agency called the National Institute of Mental Health to be part of the first study conducted on the effects of psychedelic drugs on schizophrenics. Then, the Spring Grove Experiments were adapted to study the effect of LSD and psychotherapy on patients including alcoholics, heroin addicts, neurotics, and terminally-ill cancer patients. The research done was largely conducted by the members of the Research Unit of Spring Grove State Hospital. Significant contributors to the experiments included Walter Pahnke, Albert Kurland, Sanford Unger, Richard Yensen, Stanislav Grof, William Richards, Francesco Di Leo and Oliver Lee McCabe. Later, Spring Grove was rebuilt into the Maryland Psychiatric Research Center, where studies continued to be performed for the advancement of psychiatric research. This study on LSD is the largest study on psychedelic drugs to date. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/art-mcdermott/support

On April 4, 1968, Robert F. Kennedy announced the death of Martin Luther King, Jr. to a majority-black crowd in an Indianapolis park.April 5, 1968 Robert F. Kennedy Cleveland City Club speaks about  violence. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/art-mcdermott/support

In February 1962, Thornley completed The Idle Warriors, which has the historical distinction of being the only book written about Lee Harvey Oswald before Kennedy's assassination in 1963. Due to the serendipitous nature of Thornley's choice of literary subject matter, he was called to testify before the Warren Commission in Washington, D.C. on May 18, 1964.The Commission subpoenaed a copy of the manuscript and stored it in the National Archives, and the book remained unpublished until 1991. In 1965, Thornley published another book titled Oswald, generally defending the "Oswald-as-lone-assassin" conclusion of the Warren Commission. In January 1968, New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison, certain there had been a New Orleans-based conspiracy to assassinate John F. Kennedy, subpoenaed Thornley to appear before a grand jury, questioning him about his relationship with Oswald and his knowledge of other figures Garrison believed to be connected to the assassination. Thornley sought a cancellation of this subpoena on which he had to appear before the Circuit Court. Garrison charged Thornley with perjury after Thornley denied that he had been in contact with Oswald in any manner since 1959. The perjury charge was eventually dropped by Garrison's successor Harry Connick Sr --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/art-mcdermott/support

The film compares the rise of the neoconservative movement in the United States and the radical Islamist movement, drawing comparisons between their origins, and remarking on similarities between the two groups. More controversially, it argues that radical Islamism as a massive, sinister organisation, specifically in the form of al-Qaeda, is a myth, or noble lie, perpetuated by leaders of many countries—and particularly neoconservatives in the U.S.—in a renewed attempt to unite and inspire their people after the ultimate failure of utopian ideas. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/art-mcdermott/support

The United Federated Forces of the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) was an American organization active between 1973 and 1975 that committed bank robberies, two murders, and other acts of violence. The SLA became internationally notorious for the kidnapping of heiress Patricia Hearst, abducting the 19-year-old from Berkeley, California. Interest increased when Hearst, in audiotaped messages delivered to and broadcast by regional news media, announced that she had joined the SLA. Hearst later said that members of the SLA threatened to kill her, held her in close confinement, and sexually assaulted and brainwashed her. As of 2017, all but one of the surviving SLA members have been released from prison. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/art-mcdermott/support

Some of what that day sounded like in the home town of President Kennedy --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/art-mcdermott/support

Ruth Hyde Paine  was a friend of Marina Oswald, who was living with her at the time of the JFK assassination. According to four government investigations,Lee Harvey Oswald stored the 6.5 mm caliber Carcano rifle that he used to assassinate U.S. President John F. Kennedy in Ruth Paine's garage, unbeknownst to her and her husband, Michael Paine. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/art-mcdermott/support

Theodore John Kaczynski  also known as the Unabomber , is an American domestic terrorist, anarchist and former mathematics professor.He was a mathematics prodigy, but abandoned his academic career in 1969 to pursue a more primitive life. Between 1978 and 1995, he killed three people and injured 23 others in a nationwide bombing campaign against people involved with modern technology. He issued a social critique opposing industrialization and advocating a nature-centered form of anarchism. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/art-mcdermott/support

Mark Lane is interviewed by  Jerry Williams radio host on  WBZ in 1973 about the movie Executive Action. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/art-mcdermott/support

LBJ in recorded phone conversations as the  President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy was appointed. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/art-mcdermott/support

Theodore Robert Bundy  was an American serial killer who kidnapped, raped, and murdered numerous young women and girls during the 1970s and possibly earlier. After more than a decade of denials, before his execution in 1989 he confessed to 30 homicides that he committed in seven states between 1974 and 1978. The true number of victims is believed to be higher. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/art-mcdermott/support

This is an overview of the  CIA mind control program  of experiments on human subjects. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/art-mcdermott/support

.Assassination of Robert Kennedy following the California primary election.  live coverage June 4 1968 --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/art-mcdermott/support

Assassination attempts on U.S. President Harry S. Truman occurred on November 1, 1950. It was carried out by militant Puerto Rican pro-independence activists Oscar Collazo and Griselio Torresola while President Truman resided at Blair House during the renovation of the White House. Both men were stopped before gaining entry to the house. Torresola mortally wounded White House Police officer Leslie Coffelt, who killed him in return fire. Secret Service agents wounded Collazo. President Harry S. Truman was upstairs in the house and not harmed. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/art-mcdermott/support

Dallas Chief of Police Jesse Curry was riding in the lead car of the Presidential motorcade with sheriff James Eric "Bill" Decker when they turned west off Houston Street onto Elm Street. Looking straight ahead, they noticed "a few unauthorized people on the overpass and wondered how they got there." Those people were later described as thirteen railroad men and two policemen who were stationed on the overpass (Triple Underpass) against rules of protocol. After the Presidential motorcade had proceeded a few more yards, Curry heard the first gunshot and immediately shouted over the police radio: "Get a man on top of that triple underpass and see what happened up there!"[4] His words sounded an alarm that something was dreadfully wrong --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/art-mcdermott/support

Newtown shootings of 2012, also called Sandy Hook School shooting, mass shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, on December 14, 2012, that left 28 people dead and 2 injured. In addition to the shooter, 18 children and 6 adults died at Sandy Hook School and 2 children died at a nearby hospital, making it one of the deadliest school shootings in U.S. history.  In March 2018, six families of victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, as well as an FBI agent who responded to the attack, filed a defamation lawsuit in Bridgeport Superior Court in Connecticut against Alex Jones who runs the website InfoWars,2 for his role in spreading conspiracy theories about the shooting. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/art-mcdermott/support

President John F. Kennedy was sworn into office and delivered one of the most famous inaugural addresses in U.S. history --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/art-mcdermott/support

Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., the most prominent leader of the American civil rights movement, on April 4, 1968, as he stood on the second floor balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, where he had come to lead a march by striking sanitation workers. In response to King’s death, more than 100 American inner cities exploded in rioting, looting, and violence. James Earl Ray, a career small-time criminal who became the object of a more than two-month manhunt before he was captured in England, pled guilty to the shooting and received a 99-year prison sentence. He quickly recanted his plea and spent the rest of his life claiming that he had been framed by a conspiracy that was really responsible for King’s assassination. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/art-mcdermott/support

Federal Aviation Administration and North American Aerospace Defense Command on 9/11 behind the scenes. The tapes  paint a minute-by-minute picture of what unfolded that day. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/art-mcdermott/support

Allan J. McDonald, former director of the Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Motor Project for Morton Thiokol, discusses the events surrounding the destruction of the Space Shuttle Challenger. Then the live coverage of the  Challenger Disaster January 28, 1986. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/art-mcdermott/support

What if everything we thought we knew about the Manson murders was wrong ? --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/art-mcdermott/support

On November 22, 1963, Connally was seriously wounded while riding in President Kennedy's car at Dealey Plaza in Dallas when the president was assassinated --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/art-mcdermott/support

FBI agent Francis O'Neill Jr  was present at the autopsy on behalf of the FBI. This is his AARB testimony --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/art-mcdermott/support

First day reaction from President Eisenhower and the evening news program give you the feel of November 22 1963. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/art-mcdermott/support

ee Harvey Oswald’s mysterious visits to the Soviet and Cuban Embassies in Mexico City weeks before John F. Kennedy’s assassination.  Written by staffers Dan Hardway and Edwin Lopez for the HSCA Report . (aka "Lopez Report") --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/art-mcdermott/support

Panelists: Gary R. Hamilton, Chair (student), Francis X. O’Neill (ex-FBI agent), George Michael Evica (professor of English at the University of Connecticut, Hartford), William Cheslock (History and Special Needs teacher, Brewster, MA), and Linda Saunders (professor at the Franklin Pierce Law Center) Here is a link to a compete transcript    -     http://www.manuscriptservice.com/FXO/ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/art-mcdermott/support

It is hard to get the American public to see danger when it is subtle and the effects will only be felt over a long period of time. In this episode we listen to a warning . Why was it ignored ? --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/art-mcdermott/support

Politics and the English Language, by George Orwell and Amusing Ourselves to Death: Politics as Show Business by  Neil Postman --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/art-mcdermott/support

Dr Charles James Carrico treated President Kennedy at Parkland Hospital. Here is his first hand account . --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/art-mcdermott/support

In 1932 author Aldous Huxley published the book Brave New World. Is this the world we live in today ? --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/art-mcdermott/support

Major General Smedly  Darlington Butler (July 30, 1881 – June 21, 1940),was a senior United States Marine Corps officer who fought in both the Mexican Revolution and World War I.Butler was, at the time of his death, the most decorated Marine in U.S. history. Butler later became an outspoken critic of American wars and their consequences. He is one of 19 men to receive the Medal of Honor twice, --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/art-mcdermott/support

COunter INTELligence PROgram is a series of covert and illegal projects conducted by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) aimed at surveilling, infiltrating, discrediting, and disrupting American political organizations.] FBI records show that COINTELPRO resources targeted groups and individuals that the FBI deemed subversive.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/art-mcdermott/support

In Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology Neil Postman   defines a technopoly as a society in which technology is deified, meaning “the culture seeks its authorization in technology, finds its satisfactions in technology, and takes its orders from technology. Here in 1993 he speaks about the coming computer age  . --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/art-mcdermott/support

The eyewitnesses in Dealey plaza give interviews on November 22 1963 https://shop.spreadshirt.com/history-conspiracy-podcast/?fbclid=IwAR3qO-AbqrF3lYEY21CQfpIYCVLGs338ObRD_3Mg2P5rj8q4UDz4VHVsi-0 --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/art-mcdermott/support

On August 9, 1963, New Orleans native Lee Harvey Oswald stood in front of the Ward Discount House at the corner of Canal and St. Charles streets distributing his Fair Play for Cuba Committee leaflets. The Fair Play for Cuba Committee was a pro-Castro organization that supported the Cuban Revolution against attacks by the United States Government. It was at this location where Oswald found himself in an altercation with the Cuban exile Carlos Bringuier. Just months prior to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested in New Orleans for disturbing the peace. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/art-mcdermott/support

On the evening of 8 December 1980, English musician John Lennon, formerly of the Beatles, was fatally shot in the archway of the Dakota, his residence in New York City. The perpetrator was Mark David Chapman, an American Beatles fan who had travelled from Hawaii. Chapman stated that he was angered by Lennon's lifestyle and public statements, especially his much-publicised remark about the Beatles being "more popular than Jesus" and the lyrics of his later songs "God" and "Imagine". Chapman also said he was inspired by the fictional character Holden Caulfield from J. D. Salinger's novel The Catcher in the Rye --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/art-mcdermott/support

Who killed John Lennon on December 8 1980 ? Featuring  rare audio of Stevie Wonder that night on stage and an interview with author  Fenton  Bresler about his book Who Killed John Lennon? --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/art-mcdermott/support

HSCA Interviews - Dr. Humes and Dr. Boswell, two of the three medical doctors who performed the autopsy on the body of President Kennedy, testified together to the HSCA's medical panel. Much of their testimony is taken up with the controversy over the location of the entry wound into the skull. In this interview, both Humes and Boswell remain adamant about a location near the external occiptal protuberance (eop), low in the skull, despite being unable to adequately locate this wound on any of the autopsy photographs. The medical panel seemed equally persistent that the entry wound must be higher, near the cowlick. A year later, Dr. Humes appeared in the HSCA public hearings and publicly disavowed the lower eop location, though his retraction seemed half-hearted. Later in a 1993 article for the Journal of the American Medical Association, Dr. Humes re-affirmed the original location. The other doctors, Boswell and Finck, had never wavered from their original contention --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/art-mcdermott/support

The Gulf of Tonkin incident , also known as the USS Maddox incident, was a disputed international confrontation that led to the United States engaging more directly in the Vietnam War. It involved both a real confrontation and a fabricated confrontation between ships of North Vietnam and the United States in the waters of the Gulf of Tonkin. The original American report blamed North Vietnam for both incidents, but the Pentagon Papers, the memoirs of Robert McNamara, and NSA publications from 2005, proved that the US government lied to justify a war against Vietnam. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/art-mcdermott/support

Nurse Audrey Bell was the Parkland Hospital Supervisor of Operating and Recovery Rooms in 1963. In the course of her work on November 22, 1963, she had an opportunity to view President Kennedy's wounds. She also participated in the surgery on Governor Connally. This is the March 20 1997 interview of Audrey Bell by the Assassination Records Review Board. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/art-mcdermott/support

American University in Washington, D.C., on Monday, June 10, 1963 --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/art-mcdermott/support