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The JFK Assassination – a Debate with Jefferson Morley and Mark Zaid (Part 1)

Aug 13, 2024
01:15:02

Summary

Jefferson Morley and Mark Zaid join Andrew in a debate over the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Mark and Jeff are longtime friends and colleagues with very different viewpoints of what truly happened on November 22nd, 1963. 


What You’ll Learn

Intelligence

  • The lasting questions surrounding the Kennedy assassination
  • Lee Harvey Oswald’s intelligence connections
  • The Warren Commission and the JFK Assassination Records
  • The strangest theories Mark and Jeff have heard, and the most plausible explanations of who killed President Kennedy

Reflections

  • Public distrust and the search for truth
  • Reactions and responses to tragedy

And much, much more …


Quotes of the Week

 ”That's why I think they probably have something to hide. Because it doesn't make sense otherwise … If they had access to that kind of straightforward story, we would get that.” – Jefferson Morley.


Resources 

SURFACE SKIM

*SpyCasts*

*Beginner Resources*

DEEPER DIVE

Books

  • The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government, D. Talbot (Harper Perennial, 2016)
  • JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters, J. W. Douglass (Touchstone, 2010)
  • Our Man in Mexico: Winston Scott and the Hidden History of the CIA, J. Morley (University Press of Kansas, 2008)

Primary Sources 

*Wildcard Resource*

  • Test how you would do in Kennedy’s shoes by playing 13 Days: The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962 – A two-player board game that tests your quick-thinking strategy and conflict resolution skills. 

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