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

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

1. 02:06 - I was a Teenage JFK Conspiracy Freak
2. 05:44 - The Great American Myth of the 20th Century
3. 08:22 - "Proofs"
4. 08:42 - The parade route
5. 10:21 - The magic bullet (CE 399/FBI 1)
6. 13:14 - The truth is, these just aren't very bright guys
7. 14:43 - The rifle
8. 16:41 - The Zapruder Film & frame 313
9. 21:56 - The Three Tramps
10. 27:36 - The Babushka Lady
11. 29:16 - Too many Oswalds
12. 31:00 - Umbrella Man
13. 32:21 - Oswald on the run 
14. 35:03 - Jack Ruby
15. 37:39 - Oswald's possible motivations
16. 40:25 - Jim Garrison: On the Trail of Delusion 
17. 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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