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Nancy Weiford is a leading authority on political assassinations of the 1960's, specializing in the John F. Kennedy assassination. Over more than five decades she has poured through documents from the National Archives and presidential libraries, amassed a coded name file for ease in making connections, conducted multiple 1:1 interviews with Dealey Plaza witnesses, relatives, police department personnel, Cuban exiles, informants and others who possessed important information about events surrounding the assassination. Nancy is back to discuss some photographs with Lee Harvey Oswald in Russia and some of the background of the women involved in the pictures and how they are important to he research of the JFK assassination.

Kevin J. Wetmore is Professor of Theatre Arts and Director of the Graduate Program with areas of expertise in Japanese theatre, African theatre, Shakespeare, horror theatre, Asian cinema, horror cinema, Greek tragedy, stage combat and comedy. Kevin is back to discuss the evolution and impact of film in particular horror films and how it can have a significant representation of the current mindset and fears of modern society.

Douglas Wellman is a former Hollywood television producer-director, and assistant dean of the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California. For over forty years he has been a historian and researcher of the 20th Century. Doug is the author of "Surviving Hiroshima: A Young Woman's Story" on August 6, 1945, 22-year-old Kaleria Palchikoff was doing pre-breakfast chores when a blinding flash lit the sky over Hiroshima, Japan. A moment later, everything went black as the house collapsed on her and her family.

James Kelleher received his Bachelor’s Degree in political science from CSU Northridge, magna cum laude, and received his Masters Degree from CSU Los Angeles where he was awarded the Alumni Certificate of Honor for outstanding work in political science. James joins me again to cover the area of his book that deals with the murder of J.D. Tippit who was another alleged victim of Lee Harvey Oswald.

Joseph E. Green is a political researcher and playwright. He currently serves on the board of directors of the Hidden History Center and is the author of the collections Dissenting Views and Dissenting Views II. Joe is back to discuss a bit of his book "Tin Foil Hat Not Included" and how we should examine claims of conspiracy.

Roberto Olivardia is a Clinical Psychologist and Clinical Instructor of Psychology at Harvard Medical School. He maintains a private psychotherapy practice in Lexington, Massachusetts, where he specializes in the treatment of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), executive functioning issues, and issues that face students with learning differences. Roberto joins me to discuss the harmful effects of cannabis on ADHD which is a discussion that is now being looked into since the mass popularity of legalization.

Youssef El-Gingihy is a doctor and author, He studied medicine at Oxford University. He is currently working on a book on CIA covert operations. His journalism has been published published widely including The Independent, The Guardian and The New Statesman. Youssef is back to discuss understanding covert operations and some figures like William Harvey and David Atlee Phillips who at the surface can seem like average people but below the surface were involved in some of the most covert acts of the U.S. government.

Steven Hill is a Bigfoot researcher in Arkansas and who has been involved in documenting and investigating the illusive creature for many years. Steven joins me to discuss some of his interest and experiences while investigating his area for Bigfoot and his interactions with others in the community and similar stories of sightings that others have shared with him.

Gary Severson is a retired history teacher and JFK assassination researcher who has looked into many suspicious coincidences of this historical event in 63. Gary explains some of his experiences as a informant and how he was being pressured to enlist during the time of the counterculture movements. Gary also explains some of the JFK conferences he has went too for speaking engagements and how some of the other speakers were suspicious in their interactions with Gary.

Hope Anderson is a Los Angeles-based writer and director whose films include “Jim Thompson, Silk King”, “Under the Hollywood Sign”, and “Peg Entwistle’s Last Walk.” Hope is back to discuss her recent deep dive into Howard Hughes after reading Howard Hughes the untold story and how complex his life really was including his various romances and toxic personality.

Jeff Copper is an ADHD and attention coach and expert on attention issues. As founder of DIG Coaching Practice and the host and founder of Attention Talk Radio and Attention Talk Video. Jeff joins me to discuss Cognitive Ergonomics From the Inside Out which provides a comprehensive understanding of executive function and cognition that reveals insights and intangible relationships to enable individuals or cognition engineers to define problems, identify the underlying root cause, and design solutions for those with ADHD to “fit their cognitive behavior.” This model is a radical departure from the current paradigm where one conforms their cognitive behavior to “fit a predefined solution or system."

Richard Bartholomew is a co-founder and director of the Center for Deep Political Research and researcher of the JFK assassination, authoring many writings on the events and repercussions of the national security state. Rich joins me to talk about some of the issues in the Dallas trip and the may reasonable explanations in theories of who did it. This episode discusses backdoor politics and what can be perceived as conspiracy can somewhat be a reality.

Matthew C. Ehrlich is Professor Emeritus of Journalism at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Ehrlich's research focuses on social and cultural history. Matt is the author of "Heroes and Scoundrels: The Image of the Journalist in Popular Culture" and "Journalism in the movies" in which this episode focuses on the idea of journalism and the depictions in culture of the meaning and evolution of the journalist.

Gil Jesus is a researcher of the JFK assassination and has spent much of his time looking into the corruption in Dallas police and the evidence against Oswald in the case. Gil joins me once again to look closer at the case against Oswald, looking deeper at the some areas like Oswald's lack of legal representation and issues in line ups for suspects in the killing of J,D, Tippit. Throughout the case there is many areas that have become conspiracy theories when really some can be examined with a more realistic approach such as severe corruption.

Jon Towlson is a UK-based journalist and film critic and has written for various magazines and papers on film. Jon is the author of a few works on horror cinema and throughout this episode we discuss two of his books titled "Subversive Horror Cinema Countercultural Messages of Films from Frankenstein to the Present" and "The Turn to Gruesomeness in American Horror Films, 1931-1936" which understands and dissects the way horror has become a cultural phenomenon.

Barry Jones is a twenty-years-plus high school history teacher in Tennessee – near Nashville. Without exception, in his twenty years in the classroom, the JFK assassination, the Watergate Scandal, and the CIA’s “Medical Manhattan” Project have generated more student interest than any other topic. Barry is back to discuss the Watergate break in and how a theory of its purpose was to sink Richard Nixon's presidency, there has never been a concrete explanation of how these ex CIA members could be so careless during the break in.