Parkland and JFK Assassination Truth with Author James DiEugenio

The JFK assassination, inconsistencies between the facts and the Warren report, and how PARKLAND handles the event are discussed with RECLAIMING PARKLAND author James DiEugenio. We discuss the magic bullet, shots from all sides, why Lee Harvey Oswald was a patsy, and the “conspiracy truth” about JFK, + how the government has used Hollywood to promote their official stories with Zero Dark Thirty and Tom Hanks are all discussed on Media Mayhem.

GUEST BIO:
Jim DiEugenio is the author of Destiny Betrayed, and most recently, Reclaiming Parkland. He is the co-author and editor of The Assassinations: Probe Magazine on JFK, MLK, RFK and Malcolm X. He co-edited Probe Magazine from 1993-2000 and he was a guest commentator on the anniversary issue of the film JFK re-released by Warner Brothers this year. He lives in Los Angeles and has a MA in Contemporary American History from California State University Northridge.

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EPISODE BREAKDOWN:
00:01 Welcome to Media Mayhem
00:30 Introducing Jim DiEugenio.
01:25 Errors in Parkland.
01:35 Slamming conspiracy theorists
04:00 Bugliosi’s book and missing information.
07:00 Confidential material.
07:40 Government inquiries.
10:00 Autopsy photographs.
11:45 Six Seconds in Dallas – the magic bullet.
13:05 Lee Harvey Oswald’s rifle.
19:15 The single bullet theory.
19:50 Why is Bugliosi so attached to the single bullet theory?
22:10 CIA reports two assassins creating multiple versions of the crime.
23:30 Oliver Stone’s JFK and the rise of investigations.
24:30 Witnesses excluded by Bugliosi.
24:50 Oswald set up – wrong place at the wrong time.
26:25 Parkland and the Pentagon liaison in Hollywood.
27:40 Zero Dark Thirty and pentagon propaganda.
28:30 CIA networks with Hollywood.
32:00 Manufacturing wars with propaganda.
34:30 Making of The Green Berets.
37:00 Tom Hanks – perspective brought to Parkland.
38:40 Tom Hanks simplifies the 1960s.
39:40 Charlie Wilson’s War – Hanks as historian.
40:45 Saving Private Ryan – and how Russia won the war.
41:40 Dramatic licence – truth in presenting both sides of story.
43:30 Hanks’s high school attitude towards American history.
45:30 What’s missing from Parkland.
47:35 Thanks and Goodbye.

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