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JFK

A Bird in the Hand: Bird Smuggler Caught in JFK

By Steve Erickson

June 21, 2019

As the old proverb goes, “A bird in the hand is worth 34 in hair curlers.” Wait, isn’t that how it goes? If you ask Francis Gurahoo, he’d probably say so—even if his feathers are a bit ruffled at the moment. According to KRON4, Gurahoo was arrested after arriving at JFK International Airport from a…

Review: November Road by Lou Berney

By John Valeri

October 9, 2018

Set against the backdrop of John F. Kennedy’s assassination, November Road by Lou Berney introduces mafia tough guy Frank Guidry who, fearing an oncoming betrayal, hits the road to Vegas. Lou Berney set the literary world ablaze with his 2015 novel, The Long and Faraway Gone, which garnered effusive praise and earned accolades including the…

The Mole: The Cold War Memoir of Winston Bates by Peter Warner

The Mole: The Cold War Memoir of Winston Bates: New Excerpt

By Peter Warner

October 19, 2013

An excerpt of The Mole: A Cold War Memoir of Winston Bates by Peter Warner, a fictitious memoir featuring a spy in Cold War era America (available October 22, 2013). Recruited by a foreign power in postwar Paris and sent to Washington, Winston Bates is without training or talent. He might be a walking definition…

Billy Bob Thornton in Parkland

Do You Find JFK Assassination Film Parkland Convincing?

By Crime HQ

August 23, 2013

Well, it definitely looks good, in part because this movie is a star-studded affair with Marcia Gay Harden, Billy Bob Thornton, Jacki Weaver, Paul Giamatti, James Badge Dale, Jackie Earle Haley, Colin Hanks, David Harbour, Ron Livingston, Jeremy Strong, Tom Welling, and Zac Efron (showing a wee bit too much stubble for the era?). Here's…

Fresh Meat: The Annals of Unsolved Crime by Edward Jay Epstein

By Leslie Gilbert Elman

March 7, 2013

The Annals of Unsolved Crime by Edward Jay Epstein “re-investigates” notorious, mysterious, and unsolved crimes from the past 200 years (available March 12, 2013). You might be forgiven for wondering how investigative journalist Edward Jay Epstein sleeps at night. The man has made a career of reporting on murky, unsettling, often unsolved murders and other…

Wait, I thought YOU were going to dissect the manubrium sterni...

Ancient Crimes, Modern Detection

By Tony Hays

August 10, 2012

The world is in love with methods of forensic crime detection. We have been entranced by CSI (the original) and every spin-off it has produced. Abby Sciuto and her mass spectrometer add immeasurably to the strength of the Navy-based NCIS series, not to mention the ubiquitous Dr. Donald “Ducky” Mallard and his scalpel and keen…

Time Machine

The Mystery of Time Travel

By Deborah Lacy

January 18, 2012

Seriously. Scientists at Cornell University have created a real hole in time, a temporal cloak of sorts, just like the invisibility cloak in Harry Potter. It’s a place where objects are invisible and events are un-recorded. Sure, no humans went in the hole and it only lasted 50 trillionths of a second, which isn’t long…

A million conspiracies surround us all the time.

The Best—And Worst—Conspiracy Books

By Tony Hays

September 10, 2011

I do not believe every conspiracy theory that comes down the pipe. I really don’t. I am not a 9/11 “truther.” I am not a “birther.” But, as Sixth Floor Museum head Gary Mack famously told Jesse Ventura, “when I go home at night, I think there has to be something more than Lee Harvey…

JFK with other crewmen aboard USS PT-109

The Kennedys Miniseries: Once More Into The Conspiracies

By Tony Hays

August 1, 2011

Was John F. Kennedy a hero or an incompetent in the PT 109 story?  Did patriarch Joseph P. Kennedy use the Chicago mob to steal the Illinois presidential vote in 1960?  What was the truth about Jack Kennedy’s womanizing?  Did the Bay of Pigs disaster play a role in President Kennedy’s assassination?  How involved were…

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