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The Significance — and Potential Release This Year — of the Still-Secret Secret Service ‘Threat Sheets’ Against JFK

By William Kelly (CAPA Board member) In his March Sunshine Week presentation at the National Press Club, Federal Judge John Tunheim called attention to the “Secret Service Threat Sheets for 1963” that the Assassinations Records Review Board (ARRB) requested but the Secret Service wanted to keep secret. The former ARRB chairman said: “Actually, the Secret […]

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CIA Records Reveal: Agency Spied On 1973 Hollywood Film ‘Executive Action’ and Creators

Executive Action (1973, starring Burt Lancaster, Robert Ryan and Will Geer) is perhaps the most famous conspiracy thriller about the John Kennedy assassination, with the exception of Oliver Stone’s JFK. Recently released CIA records in the CREST database show that they were keeping an eye the production and how it was being received. The articles

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Washington Post History: ‘Assassins!’: A Confederate spy vanished after being accused of helping kill Abraham Lincoln

John Surratt, Lincoln assassination conspirator, in his Papal Zouave uniform. (Library of Congress) On Feb. 19, 1867, the American gunboat Swatara returned to the Washington Navy Yard after a months-long trip to the Middle East. Out stepped a young man in a bizarre but filthy uniform and shackles. His name was John Harrison Surratt, and

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Wecht Describes JFK ‘Conspiracy’ April 11 At Sixth Floor Museum In Dallas

Renowned forensic pathologist, consultant and author Dr. Cyril H. Wecht delivered an April 11 lecture at the Sixth Floor Museum in Dallas drawing from his remarkable career and longtime study of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in. In a multi-media presentation on key areas of the Warren Commission’s 1964 investigation, Dr. Wecht addressed

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50 Years Ago: Martin Luther King’s Brave, Fateful Speech Seeking Vietnam Peace

Fifty years ago today, Martin Luther King addressed the moral bankruptcy of the Vietnam war and the untenable costs to society of rampant U.S. militarism. Entering the final year of his life, his “Beyond Vietnam” address at New York City’s Riverside Church moved Dr. King into a profoundly deeper exploration of experiments with truth akin

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