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The section features past CTKA articles relating to the JFK, RFK, and MLK assassinations.

JFK

• The Wikipedia Fraud Pt. 3: Wales Covers Up for the Warren Commission
  by Jim DiEugenio
  
• David Mantik vs. Pat Speer on the JFK Autopsy X-rays:
  A Critique of http://www.patspeer.com Chapters 18a, 18b, and 19b, by David W. Mantik

• Virtual JFK: Vietnam if Kennedy had Lived is a film speculating on U.S. involvement in Vietnam had JFK not been assassinated. And as James DiEugenio points out, it owes a debt to works that preceded it. Part Two of this review examines Virtual JFK's accompanying book. Part Three, Lessons in Disaster, depicts the late McGeorge Bundy's views of Kennedy vs. Johnson on the Vietnam War.

• Head Shot: The Science Behind The JFK Assassination by G. Paul Chambers, reviewed by Martin Hay

• Family of Secrets, by Russ Baker, fails to live up to its promise, according to James DiEugenio.

• In The Scam of CE 399, longtime researcher Robert Harris examines aspects of the shooting he believes have been hitherto overlooked.
  
  
• The Real Sonia Sotomayor: How President Obama's Supreme Court nominee and a clique of judges saved Gerald Posner, Bob Loomis, and the Warren Report, by Roger Bruce Feinman, J.D.
  
  
• The Necessary Embrace of Conspiracy by Robert Shetterly
  
  
• Dr. David Mantik discusses the JFK autopsy in an expanded version of a 2003 presentation. (pdf)
  
  
• The Assassination Archives and Research Center is urging the House and Senate to hold oversight hearings on the JFK Records Act. Read AARC Chairman Jim Lesar's letter to the oversight committee chairmen. Lesar was motivated in part by recently-disclosed JFK assassination memorabilia, made public by the current Dallas DA in late February. In this commentary, CTKA's James DiEugenio wonders why this stuff has been hidden for so long.
  
  
• In Why the New York Times Deserves to Die CTKA's James DiEugenio argues that the venerable paper and other leading publications have completely failed in their responsibilities to the public.
  
  
• Arianna Huffington, Tina Brown and the New Media: Death at an Early Age? describes a recent article by Edward J. Epstein that appeared on the Huffington Post blog.
  
  
• CTKA's James DiEugenio says "JFK: Inside the Target Car" has no credibility. See Part One, Part Two, and Part Three of his review.
  • We have additional critiques of this program, including a review by Dr. David W. Mantik, MD, PhD.
  • Presidential Limo expert Pamela McElwain-Brown has an insider's perspective on how this program came to be.
  • And John Kelin demonstrates that when it comes to network veracity, the Discovery Channel program is nothing new.
  • Please read this CTKA Action Alert for suggestions on responding to this program.
    
    
• Did The Mob Kill JFK? is another seriously flawed documentary from the Discovery Channel, reviewed by James DiEugenio.
  
  
• Hear No Evil: Social Constructivism & the Forensic Evidence In the Kennedy Assassination
  Reviewed by Martin Hay, "...the problem is not the evidence but how it has been interpreted in the cause of “social constructivism.”
  
  
• Two important, private collections of JFK assassination materials are presently beyond the reach of researchers. Charles Drago describes a curious state of affairs in The People's National Archives
  
  
• President Barack Obama has, with the stroke of a pen, reversed the Bush Administration's restrictions on Freedom of Information Act requests. Read the official statement in this White House memorandum. And be sure to check this article in Slate.com.
  
  
• James DiEugenio answers criticism of Caroline Kennedy's proposed appointment to the U.S. Senate in "An Open Letter to Jane Hamsher and Markos Moulitsas."

  Be sure to see the follow-up article, The Caroline Kennedy Aftermath, and a further update in Hamsher, Moulitsas, Marshall: State of Denial. Finally, in this Reuters article, New York Gov. David Paterson has acknowledged playing a role in this matter.

• ABC's performance in a recent presidential primary debate reminds us of the network's track record on the JFK case.

• CIA stonewalling is a threat to the JFK Assassination Records Act of 1992. See this commentary by Jefferson Morley, and further analysis by Lisa Pease.

• James DiEugenio reveals the truth behind a curious book called Regicide. See this article's UPDATE .

• Chuck Marler refutes the argument of shirt/jacket bunching to account for alleged neck wounds on the president. That argument has re-surfaced in the wake of newly discovered film of the JFK motorcade route.

• Praise from a Future Generation is John Kelin's new book on the "first generation" critics of the Warren Report. This is Chapter One.

• Cuban President Fidel Castro is attacking newly-released CIA papers, and reiterating his accusations that the CIA was complicit in JFK's murder.

• Newly released CIA documents indicate previously undisclosed links between former President George H. W. Bush and the CIA. Click here for more.

• Report Says There was a Grassy Knoll Gunman In the Washington Post of March 26, 2001, George Lardner reported that a new acoustical study published in the British magazine Science and Justice, "Echo correlation analysis and the acoustic evidence in the Kennedy assassination", used evidence from the House Select Committee on Assassination (HSCA) investigation into the case in the late 70's to support the theory that there were at least two gunmen firing.

• The Single Bullet Theory: Less Than Zero

  New research shows Sen. Arlen Specter's single bullet theory -- the lynchpin in the Warren Commission's case against Lee Oswald -- has even less credibility than has been thought.

• A team of Italian experts just completed new tests on the alleged murder weapon.

  This comes on the heels of a new study by a Texas A&M statistician, which was written about in the Washington Post. Jim DiEugenio places the issues in context in Death of the NAA verdict. Also see these articles from The Pittsburgh Tribune and The Contra Costa Times.

• Biting the Elephant is an account of its author's attempts to correspond with, and perhaps understand, several prominent lone nut supporters. Reviewed by James DiEugenio.

• VANITY FAIR is featuring excerpts from a new book about Robert Kennedy's last campaign.
• In Romer's Disgrace, James DiEugenio traces the story behind the story of the razing of the Ambassador Hotel.
• Bobby and Jackie: A Love Story is yet another posthumous attack on the Kennedys. Book review by Lisa Pease.

• Hellhound On His Trail is a new and nonsensical effort to prop up the lone killer version of the King assassination. It's reviewed here by Joseph E. Green.

• Manning Marable’s Malcolm X, A review by Joseph E. Green.

• Robert Maheu, the onetime right-hand man to billionaire Howard Hughes and who had a role in CIA plots against Castro, has died. Read his obituary.
  
  
• Longtime critic and author George Michael Evica has died.
  
  
• CIA spymaster E. Howard Hunt has died.
  
  
• FBI Agent James Hosty has passed away

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