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On April 4-8, 2019 researchers and attendees gathered in the small town of Olney, IL to discuss "Political Assassinations of the 1960s." Professor David Denton, Ed Tatro, Walt Boyce and the staff of Olney Central College served as the gracious hosts for what was a spectacular weekend of research, presentations, brainstorming, and planning. This is the recap of the 2019 JFK Historical Group Conference in Olney. Go to MidnightWriterNews.com for our free archives!

Walt Brown, PhD, the author of Treachery in Dallas, The People v Lee Harvey Oswald, The Warren Omission, and The Kennedy Execution, joins S.T. Patrick once again to discuss the JFK assassination. In tonight's episode, Brown discusses Dallas in 1963 as a "hostile environment," what Gov. John Connally screamed out in the car - and what it meant, the serious errors of the Dallas PD in the handling of the presidential trip to Dallas and the case itself, mortality and where his own research may go thereafter, how one maintains their zeal for the case in a field in which researchers often flee for long periods of time, and the column he wrote for garrison, the journal. Brown also addresses emails regarding his first appearance on the show and the curious case of Jay Harrison's files, computer and hard drives. Did he ever ask for them back? Walt Brown answers that, and the result thereof, tonight. Go to MidnightWriterNews.com for our free archives!

Rob Clark, host of The Lone Gunman Podcast, sits in to discuss the man who drove Lee Harvey Oswald to work on November 22, 1963, Buell Wesley Frazier. Rob brings his dogged search for factual information on the JFK assassination to MWN once again to give us the absolute truths behind the story of Buell Wesley Frazier. Go to MidnightWriterNews.com for our FREE archives.

Author and Filmmaker John Potash joins S.T. Patrick to discuss the ways in which the CIA has used drugs to de-radicalize musicians and activists. On this episode, Potash discusses the opium trade and how it influenced the Ivy League universities, the rise of secret societies, how and why the CIA got into the culture business, Acid Tests, Timothy Leary, Ken Kesey, Eldridge Cleaver, why Timothy Leary went to Algeria, how the Black Panthers were infiltrated by Elaine Brown, and more on the suspicious deaths of Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, and John Lennon. For our free archives, go to www.MidnightWriterNews.com

Author and researcher Larry Rivera joins S.T. Patrick to discuss the most controversial photographic evidence of the JFK assassination. Rivera, the author of The JFK Horsemen, describes his history in the JFK assassination field and how that merged with his interest in photography. Also addressed are the topics of Lee Harvey Oswald's backyard photo, Roscoe White, the Doorway Man controversy, Oswald vs Lovelady, LBJ's actions in the Altgens photos, Prayer Man, Badge Man, Dale Myers, the identities of the "tramps & hobos," whether we can discern the angles of the shots from the photos, what he has found in the 2017-2018 file releases, and much more. Go to www.MidnightWriterNews.com for our free archives!

In this, the current installment of the MWN Legends Series, we listen to excerpts of three Mae Brussell episodes from 1981. We begin with an amazing bit of foreshadowing, an episode Mae recorded days before the attempt on Reagan's life (March 30, 1981). Then we move to episodes recorded less than six weeks after the shooting. Mae talks about the history of Alexander Haig, including his far-right sponsorships and ties, as well as his close relationship to Alexander Butterfield. We also listen to Mae wax prophetic about the Haig / Bush power grab, the rise and importance of Fritz Kraemer, the history of the John Hinckley family and their ties to the Bushes, the Neil Bush and Scott Hinckley link, and so, so much more. If you have ever herd Mae Brussell before, you know that two hours of Mae is probably the equivalent of a month of college. Get the pens and notebooks out, folks. You're going to school. Go to www.MidnightWriterNews.com for our free archives!

TrineDay's Kris Millegan joins S.T. Patrick to discuss Edward Landsdale, CIA drug programs, Skull & Bones, and much more. Millegan is the owner of TrineDay Publishing, maybe the best alternative publisher existing today. Tonight, we discuss the origin of TrineDay (the company and the name), how the decision is made to publish controversial books, what it's like to deal with the critics who challenge the works he publishes, the flak he has taken from publishing Judyth Vary Baker's Me & Lee, the early criticisms of The Inheritance, how The Inheritance came to him and how he vetted the story, the problems with prohibitions on drugs, and much more. Go to MidnightWriterNews.com for our FREE archives!

Professor David Denton of the JFK Historical Group and the Center for Deep Political research joins S.T. Patrick to discuss his entry into the JFK assassination community, the April 5-7, 2019 conference at Olney Central College, the origin of the JFK Historical Group, The Inheritance, the 2017-2018 JFK document releases, and teaching a class on the political assassinations of the 1960s. Go to MidnightWriterNews.com for our FREE archives.

Author Geoff Shepard is back with S.T Patrick to continue their discussion of Watergate. In tonight's episode, Shepard covers, in depth, the problems of the Watergate-era biographies, how and why the Nixon tapes are misunderstood so often, the infamous 18 1/2-minute gap, the "smoking gun" tape, why Dean accused Nixon of stonewalling after Dean himself had encouraged Nixon to stonewall throughout the process, the pre-Watergate history of John Dean, the origin of "Deep Throat" and how and why the character of "Deep Throat" evolved throughout the decades after Watergate, the role of Al Haig after H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman resign, the real history of the Ford pardon, the Watergate Road Map and why it should be made public, and much more. For our FREE archives, go to www.MidnightWriterNews.com.

Douglas Horne joins S.T. Patrick on the first episode of 2019 to discuss the debate over Zapruder Film alteration. Horne is the author of the five-volume Inside the Assassination Records Review Board: The U.S. Government's Final Attempt to Reconcile the Conflicting Medical Evidence in the Assassination of JFK, JFK's War with the National Security Establishment: Why Kennedy Was Assassinated, and the two-volume Deception, Intrigue, and the Road to War, which discusses FDR's actions leading up to Pearl Harbor. This was the subject of episode 007 of the Midnight Writer News Show. Mr. Horne's article for the first issue of Deep Truth Journal is entitled "August 1941: The Key to Understanding FDR's Design for American Entry into World War II." It can be purchased at the Alibris website. For our FREE archives, go to MidnightWriterNews.com.