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Essay - Murdering Civil Rights

Martin Luther King, Jr. was killed 45 years ago this April 4. In this original and thoughtful essay, Charles Faulkner presents new evidence tying alleged assassin James Earl Ray to the.....

Dealey Plaza Echo - Volume 15, Issue 3 and Volume 16, Issue 1

Now online are two new issues of Dealey Plaza Echo, the outstanding Kennedy assassination research journal published by the Dealey Plaza UK group.

Fonzi-Specter Interviews

In 1966, Philadelphia journalist Gaeton Fonzi interviewed Arlen Specter, the former Warren Commission staff member whose primary responsibility had been in the area of the medical and ballistics.....

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Hear No Evil, by Donald B. Thomas

Scientist and acoustical evidence expert Don Thomas's tour de force on the use and misuse of science in the Kennedy assassination investigations.

Thomas explains the acoustics evidence for multiple gunmen in detail, and shows how that evidence dovetails with the rest of the forensic evidence in the case.

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1963 The JFK Assassination
A defining event in modern history, JFK's murder signaled the end of a country's innocence, and set the stage for the modern political landscape.

1968 The MLK Assassination
The 1968 murder of civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. was the opening act in a year rife with violence and turmoil.

1968 The RFK Assassination
For many, the murder of Robert Kennedy following his California primary victory silenced the last best hope for peace in a country divided.

1972-74 Watergate

A "third rate burglary" soon escalated into a scandal which brought down the presidency of Richard Nixon.

1975-76 Intelligence Agency Investigations
Nixon's resignation ushered in the era of the "reform Congress," bringing investigations into the past abuses of the intelligence agencies.

Iran-Contra Special Collection
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Formation of the Warren Commission
LBJ's taped phone calls and other records illuminate the process by which the Warren Commission was established. Listen to Johnson invoke the spectre of nuclear war in regards to "what Hoover told me about a little incident in Mexico City."

Walkthrough - Warren Commission Executive Sessions
Formerly-secret transcripts of the behind-the-scenes deliberations of the Commissioners, summarized with links to important sections and the entire transcripts.

Walkthrough - Vietnam in Late 1963
Plans for a complete withdrawal from Vietnam were drawn up in the spring of 1963. What happened to that plan?

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