January 19, 2022

The JFK Assassination w/Fred Litwin (Big ’Uns 5)

50 minutes

EPISODE 50 | The JFK Assassination (Big 'Uns 5)

Guest: Fred Litwin, author of On The Trail of Delusion: Jim Garrison: The Great Accuser

The JFK assassination is sort of a gateway drug for conspiracy theories, and boy there are lots of ideas about what happened that day in 1963. Fred Litwin once believed a lot of those theories, but has since changed his mind and is firmly in the lone gunman camp. For our 50th episode, we talk about why he thinks it was just Oswald, the Zapruder film, why Jim Garrison had it totally wrong and more.

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SECTIONS

02:06 - I was a Teenage JFK Conspiracy Freak

05:44 - The Great American Myth of the 20th Century

08:22 - "Proofs"

08:42 - The parade route

10:21 - The magic bullet (CE 399/FBI 1)

13:14 - The truth is, these just aren't very bright guys

14:43 - The rifle

16:41 - The Zapruder Film & frame 313

21:56 - The Three Tramps

27:36 - The Babushka Lady

29:16 - Too many Oswalds

31:00 - Umbrella Man

32:21 - Oswald on the run

35:03 - Jack Ruby

37:39 - Oswald's possible motivations

40:25 - Jim Garrison: On the Trail of Delusion

44:03: - Echoes today, focus on the great center

Music by Fanette Ronjat

More Info:

On the Trail of Delusion by Fred Litwin

Fred Litwin's blog

I Was a Teenage JFK Conspiracy Freak by Fred Litwin

The President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection at the National Archives

National Archives additional materials release - December 2021

Warren Commission Report

JFK events timeline

The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

JFK Assassination resources at the Mary Ferrell Foundation

JFK resources at Baylor University

The Harold Weisberg Archive

How the JFK Assassination Bullets Were Digitally Preserved at NIST

What Are the Biggest Revelations in the Declassified JFK Assassination Files? on History.com

Finding Aid for the John F. Kennedy Assassination Holdings (MA 88.17, MA 93.5) pdf

Echoes of Conspiracy, Vol. 13, #1 pdf

JFK assassination film hoax webpage

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