Episode 200 is the eleventh in a mini- series wander covering the Secret Service and their possible involvement in the coverup, or the actual plot itself to assassinate President Kennedy. Today's episode continues our coverage of the individuals in the white house detail who were in Dallas that fateful day. In this episode, we tell the story of the impact of events which took place the night before in Fort Worth in an edgy nightclub named the Cellar. The President and the agents arrived in Fort ...
Dec 26, 2023•59 min•Season 3Ep. 200
Episode 199 is the tenth in a mini- series wander covering the Secret Service and their possible involvement in the coverup, or the actual plot itself to assassinate President Kennedy. Today's episode continues our coverage of the individuals in the white house detail who were in Dallas that fateful day. In this episode, we compare the two 1963 statements by Paul Landis, made just days after the assassination on November 27th and November 30th, 1963. Mr. Landis is yet another secret service agen...
Dec 18, 2023•48 min•Season 3Ep. 199
Episode 198 is the ninth in a mini- series wander covering the Secret Service and their possible involvement in the coverup, or the actual plot itself to assassinate President Kennedy. Today's episode continues our coverage of Sam Kinney, the driver of the Presidential follow up car that day in Dallas. It's part of the overall story of the secret service agents in Dallas that fateful day. The follow up car was carrying the bulk of the secret service agents who were protecting the president and t...
Dec 17, 2023•26 min•Season 3Ep. 198
Episode 197 is the eighth in a mini- series wander covering the Secret Service and their possible involvement in the coverup, or the actual plot itself to assassinate President Kennedy. Today's episode continues our coverage of the individuals in the white house detail who were in Dallas that fateful day. In this episode, we tell the story of Sam Kinney the driver of the Secret Service follow up car. The car that was carrying the bulk of the secret service agents, and which was situated right be...
Dec 13, 2023•54 min•Season 3Ep. 197
Episode 196 is the seventh in a mini- series wander covering the Secret Service and their possible involvement in the coverup, or the actual plot itself to assassinate President Kennedy. Today's episode is the second in our coverage of each of the individuals in the white house detail who were in Dallas that fateful day. In episode 195 we told the story of Roy Kellerman and we tell the story of Agent William Greer in today's episode 196. Agent Greer was the driver of the presidential limousine t...
Nov 25, 2023•37 min•Season 3Ep. 196
Episode 195 is the sixth in a mini- series wander covering the Secret Service and their possible involvement in the coverup, or the actual plot itself to assassinate President Kennedy. Today's episode begins our coverage of each of the individuals in the white house detail who were in Dallas that fateful day. We tell the story today of Agent Roy Kellerman, who was nominally in charge in Dallas during the trip . He sat in the front right seat of the president's limousine as they made their way in...
Nov 22, 2023•47 min•Season 3Ep. 195
Episode 194 is the fifth in a mini- series wander covering the Secret Service and their possible involvement in the coverup, or the actual plot itself to assassinate President Kennedy. Today's episode begins to cover the perplexing question of how men generally so loyal to the President, might have motivations to act otherwise. It is the seminal question regarding the inner workings of the secret service and their true orientation to President Kennedy. Getting a look inside, requires locating so...
Nov 11, 2023•1 hr 4 min•Season 3Ep. 194
Episode 193 is the fourth in a mini- series wander covering the Secret Service and their possible involvement in the coverup, or the actual plot itself to assassinate President Kennedy. Today's episode covers the next section of chapter 8 and a portion of Chapter 2 in the Warren Commission Report dealing with advance planning and preparation undertaken by the Secret Service prior to the president's trip to Texas. Chapter 8 generally addresses the Secret Service role in protecting the president a...
Oct 14, 2023•51 min•Season 3Ep. 193
Episode 192 is the third in a mini- series wander covering the Secret Service and their possible involvement in the coverup or the actual plot itself to assassinate President Kennedy. Today's episode covers the next section of chapter 8 in the Warren Commission Report dealing with what the Secret Service and the FBI knew about Oswald prior to the assassination. Chapter 8 generally addresses the Secret Service role in protecting the president and pertinent facts around their conduct in Dallas. Re...
Oct 10, 2023•50 min•Season 3Ep. 192
Episode 191 is the second in a mini- series wander covering the Secret Service and their possible involvement in the coverup or the actual plot itself to assassinate President Kennedy. Today's episode covers the initial section of chapter 8 in the Warren Commission Report. Chapter 8 addresses the Secret Service role in protecting the president and pertinent facts around their conduct in Dallas. Recent events, including the pending publication of the book by former Secret Service agent Paul Landi...
Oct 09, 2023•40 min•Season 3Ep. 191
Episode 190 is the first in a mini- series wander covering the Secret Service and their possible involvement in the coverup or the actual plot itself to assassinate President Kennedy. Recent events, including the pending publication of the book by former Secret Service agent Paul Landis, have given rise to renewed interest in this topic. Mr. Landis is 88 years old land he was an agent who was there in Dallas on November 22nd and participated in the motorcade protection. He now claims to be the p...
Oct 06, 2023•22 min•Season 3Ep. 190
Episode 189 is the second and last in a two part mini- series wander covering the Reverend Raymond Broshears. In today's final mini-series "wander" episode, we present Broshears' taped audio deposition that he gave to the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA). Broshears was one of the most bizarre witnesses that surfaced during the Garrison investigation. He met David Ferrie in New Orleans and became rather good friends with him. They were sexual partners as well. According to the stor...
Oct 05, 2023•1 hr 22 min•Season 3Ep. 189
Episode 188 is the first in a two part mini- series wander covering the Reverend Raymond Broshears. Broshears was one of the most bizarre witnesses that surfaced during the Garrison investigation. He met David Ferrie in New Orleans and became rather good friends with him. They were sexual partners as well. According to the story that the good Reverend told back in the day, Ferrie confided in Broshears after the fact, regarding his involvement in the assassination plot to kill the president, with...
Oct 05, 2023•56 min•Season 3Ep. 188
Episode 187 is the fifth and final in a multi-part series covering Richard Case Nagell. This is third bonus episode as well, and it may be the the most interesting one yet. Addressing the Eroshkin incident, the Luma Hotel, and the death of Marine Emmett Dugan. Richard Case Nagell was a highly decorated United States Army veteran, counterintelligence officer, and former CIA Double Agent for a brief period with ties to Russia. Nagell was arrested on September 20, 1963 after he entered the State Na...
Sep 14, 2023•50 min•Season 3Ep. 187
Episode 186 is the fourth in a multi-part series covering Richard Case Nagell. This is our second bonus episode and it addresses the perspective that Nagell's trial lawyer Joe Calamia had on his legal proceedings...and the strategy for a defense at the second trial. Nagell's lawyers settled on a temporary insanity plea, after unsuccessfully arguing to both their client and to the court, that Nagell was insane...and thus, should be hospitalized and not prosecuted and incarcerated. The legal machi...
Sep 08, 2023•50 min•Season 3Ep. 186
Episode 185 is the third in a multi-part series covering Richard Case Nagell. This is our first bonus episode and it covers several important topics in a bit greater detail. Bonus episodes provide a deeper understanding of material already addressed. Today, we discuss the horrific plane crash that handed him is life changing injuries, the letters he wrote to J. Edgar Hoover and some details related to the bank incident itself that may provide additional insight into what his intentions were that...
Sep 07, 2023•44 min•Season 3Ep. 185
Episode 184 is the second in a multi-part series covering Richard Case Nagell. This episode follows our opening overview in Episode 183 and is comprehensive chronology of Nagell's life through the bank incident. Nagell was a highly decorated United States Army veteran, counterintelligence officer, and former CIA Double Agent for a brief period with ties to Russia. Nagell was arrested on September 20, 1963 after he entered the State National Bank in El Paso, Texas and fired two shots into a wall ...
Sep 04, 2023•1 hr 20 min•Season 3Ep. 184
Episode 183 is the first in a multi-part series covering Richard Case Nagell. Nagell was a highly decorated United States Army veteran, counterintelligence officer, and former CIA Double Agent for a brief period with ties to Russia. Nagell was arrested on September 20, 1963 after he entered the State National Bank in El Paso, Texas and fired two shots into a wall at the bank. After firing the 45 calibre pistol, Nagel allowed himself to be taken into custody at the bank. Nagell had observed and t...
Aug 28, 2023•57 min•Season 3Ep. 183
Episode 182 tells the story of Gordon Novel. After winning Jim Garrison's confidence and becoming his security officer during the district attorney's investigation of the JFK assassination, it would soon become known that Novel was working for the CIA and had infiltrated Garrison's team. Garrison would eventually come to understand this double cross and seek to extradite Novel, who eventually fled to Ohio to avoid extradition by Garrison. Garrison knew that Novel had participated in the Houma ra...
Aug 13, 2023•56 min•Season 3Ep. 182
Episode 181 is a placeholder for an upcoming Episode. Listen to this short two minute podcast and you will know the answer why... Even as early as 1964, rumors and serious concerns over the lone gunman theory and the evidence that might contravene it, were becoming a major concern for the government and the commission. Conspiracy theories were contrary to the government's stated narrative from the very beginning. This real-life story is more fascinating than fiction. No matter whether you are a ...
Aug 13, 2023•2 min•Season 3Ep. 181
Episode 180 covers the The Houma bunker raid, of the Schlumberger Wells Company munitions and arms cache, which took place in the late summer of 1961. Later it was found that participants in the raid included some individuals who were also implicated in the assassination plot related to President Kennedy. The participants in the raid included David Ferrie, Sergio Aracha Smith, Rancier Blaise Ehlinger, Carlos Quiroga, Layton Martins, Luis Rabel Nunez, Gordon Novel, Novel’s wife Marlene Mancuso an...
Aug 06, 2023•41 min•Season 3Ep. 180
Episode 179 is the second and last in a two part series covering Charles I. Spiesel, the zany accountant from New York who testified at the Clay Shaw Trial. This is a classic story of a witness that began with all the potential to sink Clay Shaw. Professional and articulate on the stand, his testimony for the prosecution was clear and convincing. But it only lasted for a few minutes, as he was destroyed upon cross examination by Irvin Dymond the defense attorney for Clay Shaw. This story is so b...
Aug 02, 2023•22 min•Season 3Ep. 179
Episode 178 is the first in a two part series covering Charles I. Spiesel, the zany accountant from New York who testified at the Clay Shaw Trial. This is a classic story of a witness that began with all the potential to sink Clay Shaw. Professional and articulate on the stand, his testimony for the prosecution was clear and convincing. But it only lasted for a few minutes, as he was destroyed upon cross examination by Irvin Dymond the defense attorney for Clay Shaw. This story is so bizarre tha...
Aug 01, 2023•48 min•Season 3Ep. 178
Episode 177 is the third in a mini series covering Dean A. Andrews, Jr. the flamboyant jive talking New Orleans attorney that is so aptly portrayed by John Candy in the movie JFK. Today's Episode recreates his entire June 28th, 1967 testimony in front of the Orleans Grand Jury. Testimony that flatly contradicted what he told the Warren Commission. By this time, Andrews had already been charged with perjury and gave additional testimony that would result in additional perjury charges this day. Th...
Jul 21, 2023•34 min•Season 3Ep. 177
Episode 176 is the second in a mini series covering Dean A. Andrews, Jr. the flamboyant jive talking New Orleans attorney that is so aptly portrayed by John Candy in the movie JFK. Today's Episode recreates his entire Warren Commission testimony. Andrews, sick in a hospital bed, received a phone call the day after President Kennedy was assassinated. The mysterious caller who identified himself as Clay Bertrand asked Andrews if he would go to Dallas and represent Lee Harvey Oswald in the murder c...
Jul 15, 2023•56 min•Season 3Ep. 176
Episode 175 is the first in a mini series covering Dean A. Andrews, Jr. the flamboyant jive talking New Orleans attorney that is so aptly portrayed by John Candy in the movie JFK. Andrews, sick in a hospital bed, received a phone call the day after President Kennedy was assassinated. The mysterious caller who identified himself as Clay Bertrand asked Andrews if he would go to Dallas and represent Lee Harvey Oswald in the murder case related to the assassination. Oswald was murdered the next day ...
Jul 10, 2023•1 hr 30 min•Season 3Ep. 175
Episode 174 is the story of the alleged attempted bribe of Al Beauboeuf by the Garrison investigators. Beauboeuf was a close friend of David Ferrie who lived at Ferrie's apartment for a time and also accompanied Ferrie on the night of the assassination on the famous trip to the Wonderland Skating Rink in Houston. Garrison was convinced that Ferrie was not telling them the truth, and that he was part of the assassination plot. Garrison's team also believed that Beauboeuf's relationship with Ferri...
Jun 26, 2023•1 hr 5 min•Season 3Ep. 174
Episode 173 is the story of the 2nd polygraph test taken by Perry Russo. Jim Garrison and his team, concerned that the results of the first polygraph test administered to Perry Russo would be made public on national television as part of Walter Sheridan's NBC White Paper documentary, scrambled to have a second polygraph administered that would reinforce the veracity and confirm the truth of Perry Russo's statements to be made at trial. More specifically, that Russo was present at the assassinati...
Jun 16, 2023•26 min•Season 3Ep. 173
Episode 172 is a recap by me of our three part series which featured an interview of the author Joan Mellen on the Taking Aim Radio Program. Our three part series bonus episodes (wanders, really) supplements our ongoing story of the Garrison investigation in New Orleans and the related trial of Clay Shaw. Joan Mellen is the author of a well done investigative book entitled A Farewell to Justice. In a rare appearance to promote her book, Ms. Mellon participated in a radio interview that was prese...
Jun 10, 2023•59 min•Season 3Ep. 172
Episode 171 is part 3 (and the final part) in a three part series of bonus episodes (wanders, really) which supplement our story of the Garrison investigation in New Orleans and the related trial of Clay Shaw. Joan Mellen is the author of a well done investigative book entitled A Farewell to Justice. In a rare appearance to promote her book, Ms. Mellon participated in a radio interview that was presented by radio station WBAI in Brooklyn on the show Taking Aim. The conversation aired in October ...
Jun 01, 2023•1 hr 3 min•Season 3Ep. 171
