Unredacted Episode 3: Interview with Josiah Thompson

Welcome to Unredacted, the MFF's interview show featuring authors and experts on the Kennedy assassination and related topics. Our third episode is an interview with Josiah Thompson, author of the seminal work Six Seconds in Dallas: A Micro-Study of the Kennedy Assassination. Originally a Professor of Philosophy, he has for many years now been a private detective, participating in the investigation of a number of high-profile cases, including the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.

Josiah Thompson has remained an active student of "the case" over the past four decades, and a few years ago he and Gary Aguilar did further research on the provenance of CE-399, the so-called "magic bullet." What they found only deepened the mystery around this suspicious piece of "hard evidence." Thompson is also a strong advocate in the debate over possible tampering of the Zapruder film's, and argues forcefully for its authenticity. His new essay entitled Bedrock Evidence in the Kennedy Assassination (see resources below) is the first essay published directly by the Mary Ferrell Foundation on this website.

The forty-five-minute interview covers Thompson's work on the chain of possession of the "magic bullet," various aspects of the forensic and other physical evidence in the case, and general thoughts on where we stand more than forty years after the event.