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Author and Historian THURSTON CLARKE joined S.T. Patrick on the Midnight Writer News Show to discuss the last hundred days of JFK as a man and a president. Clarke, the author of JFK's Last Hundred Days: The Transformation of a Man and the Emergence of a Great President, addresses the death of Patrick Kennedy two days after his birth, Russia, Vietnam, the Diem assassination, the back channel with Fidel Castro, the situation in the Congo, immigration, tax cuts, poverty, what a second term might have looked like, and, of course, Dallas. We are efforting Thurston Clark for a summer show as we would love to have him on again to discuss his book on RFK's 1968 presidential campaign. We will keep you posted on that.Go to MidnightWriterNews.com for our free, unedited archives.

In Part Two of our two-part series on LBJ, PHILLIP NELSON, the author of LBJ: From Mastermind to the Colossus, joins S.T. Patrick to discuss LBJ's presidency from the moment shots were fired in Dealey Plaza to his surprising March 1968 decision to exit the presidential primaries. Nelson addresses LBJ's movements on November 22, 1963, Albert Thomas and "the wink picture," whether or not LBJ would have been kept on the 1964 Democratic ticket had JFK lived, the formation of the Warren Commission, the Mac Wallace fingerprint controversy, the origin of the battles with RFK, and much much more. Midnight Writer News would like to thank Phil Nelson for taking part in this two-part episode.Go to MidnightWriterNews.com for our full, free, unedited archives!

PHILLIP NELSON, the author of LBJ - The Mastermind of the JFK Assassination, joins S.T. Patrick to discuss the rise of Lyndon Johnson from Texas through Dealey Plaza. Nelson joined the Midnight Writer News Show on episode 025 to discuss his LBJ's involvement in the near-sinking of the USS Liberty. Tonight, he addresses LBJ's rise through Texas politics, Johnson's views of FDR and Truman, his contention with Eisenhower, the early LBJ scandals, Malcolm 'Mac' Wallace, JFK's decision to add Johnson to the 1960 Democratic ticket, and his part in the planning of the trip to Dallas in November of 1963. Nelson will join the show on the next episode to discuss LBJ's career from Dealey Plaza through his surprising retirement from politics in 1968.Get the FREE archives of the Midnight Writer Show at MidnightWriterNews.com or add us on the Apple podcast app or Pandora.

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Journalist and author SEYMOUR HERSH visited the Center for Investigative Journalism (CIJ) in 2013 to discuss the breaking of the My Lai Massacre story on November 12, 1969. Hersh is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist and contributor to both The New Yorker and the London Review of Books. Hersh wrote two books on the subject - My Lai 4: A Report on the Massacre and Its Aftermath (1970) and Cover-up: The Army's Secret Investigation of the Massacre at My Lai 4 (1972). It was the massacre that turned many against the Vietnam War. Hersh found that U.S. soldiers had massacred hundreds of unarmed civilians in a small Vietnamese village. Download the free and unedited archives of the Midnight Writer News Show at MidnightWriterNews.com.

LT. COL. JAMES WILLBANKS (Ret.), the author of The Tet Offensive: A Concise History and the cover story for the Feb. 2018 issue of Vietnam magazine, joins the show to talk about the Tet Offensive and its impact on the turning tide against the Vietnam War. Lt. Col. Willbanks answers questions on the Tet holiday, the surprise nature of the attack, the Tet Offensive's objectives, the U.S. military's reaction, the turn of Walter Cronkite, an influential New York Times article, Sen. Eugene McCarthy, Bobby Kennedy, Richard Nixon, what we can learn from both Vietnam and Tet, and much more! Go to MidnightWriterNews.com for our free archives!

CLARA BINGHAM joins S.T. Patrick to discuss her oral history Witness to the Revolution: Radicals, Resisters, Vets, Hippies, and the Year America Lost Its Mind and Found Its Soul. Bingham's work mainly focuses on the 1969-1970 school year, which begins in August with the Woodstock concert and the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. From there, we discuss events such as the My Lai Massacre, the killings at Kent State and Jackson State, and the violence of the Weather Underground, as well as figures such as Daniel Ellsberg, Seymour Hersh, Tom Hayden, Abbie Hoffman, Bill Ayers, Bernadine Dorn, and Bobby Seale. This is an outstanding performance by an outstanding guest, folks!  Listen to Clara Bingham on the Midnight Writer News Show.Get the FREE archives, uncut and unedited, at MidnightWriterNews.com

SCOTT GREENBERGER, author of The Unexpected President: The Life and Times of Chester A. Arthur, joins S.T. Patrick to discuss one of the most unlikely ascents to the presidency in American history. Greenberger answers questions about the nature of The Gilded Age, the Roscoe Conkling political machine in New York, an amazing legal case that will remind listeners of Rosa Parks nearly 100 years before, political hackdom, the fractured Republican conventions of 1880 and 1884, John A. Logan, the assassination of James Garfield, the rise and fall of political spoils, immigration debates that will ring eerily current,  and whether Greenberger feels the presidential performance surveys of historians have been air to Arthur. A relatively unknown part of U.S. history has now seen the light, thanks to Greenberger, so join us tonight on the Midnight Writer News Show.The FREE, UNEDITED archives can be downloaded at MidnightWriterNews.com.

Author, Journalist, and Educator DICK J. REAVIS joined S.T. Patrick to discuss David Koresh, the Branch Davidians, and the siege of Mount Carmel in Waco, Texas in April of 1993. Reavis' book, The Ashes of Waco: An Investigation, is the primer for students of the siege. It is an unbiased look into not only what happened, but why it happened. Notably, Reavis also became somewhat of an expert on the Davidians ideology in order to give meaning to their perspective.Free, downloadable archives can be found at www.MidnightWriterNews.com.

Nuclear physicist STANTON FRIEDMAN, author of Crash at Corona and Top Secret/Majic, joined S.T. Patrick to talk about the Roswell crash of 1947, Operation Majestic-12, the Betty and Barney Hill case, the Travis Walton "Fire in the Sky" case, the controversial Bob Lazar, and the likelihood of government disclosure. Friedman is one of the best-known UFOlogists in the world and had made many appearances on programs such as "Coast to Coast AM with Art Bell" and Larry King Live.Free, downloadable archives at www.MidnightWriterNews.com.