Ghosts of Dallas

David Free
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The Epic Story of JFK Conspiracism. The true story of the Kennedy assassination -- and of all the untrue stories it left behind ...

  1. 04/13/2025

    20: Trump and the JFK Files

    The JFK assassination is back in the news. A House Declassification Task Force is unsealing all the remaining classified files about the assassination, in keeping with a promise made on the campaign trail by Donald Trump. "It's been 60 years," Trump said. "Time for the American people to know the TRUTH." What is it about this case that has made Donald Trump, of all people, suddenly become interested in the concepts of truth and transparency? And what kind of truths will the declassification of these files deliver?  Show notes: www.ghostsofdallas.net Support the podcast: https://paypal.me/goodbadbogus

    2h 1m

  2. 10/31/2024

    19: Flooding the Zone

    On January 25, 1967, two men squared off to debate an issue that had become an increasingly hot one, in the fractured and paranoid atmosphere of late 1960s America. Who killed President Kennedy? Had there or had there not been a conspiracy behind his murder? The two participants in this long-ago debate are now dead. But the tactics that one of them used that day to drown out the truth, and to flood the zone with demagoguery and lies, live on today, in the dangerous conspiratorial style of Donald J. Trump … Show notes: www.ghostsofdallas.net Support the podcast: https://paypal.me/goodbadbogus

    1h 53m

  3. 10/01/2024

    18: The Trial of Clay Shaw (Part 6)

    On February 27, 1969, the defence in the matter of the State of Louisiana versus Clay L. Shaw called its final witness to the stand. The witness was Clay Shaw himself. Under questioning from his own attorney, Shaw didn’t say anything all that startling or unexpected. What was surprising was happened next … Show notes: www.ghostsofdallas.net Support the podcast: https://paypal.me/goodbadbogus

    1h 48m

  4. 09/10/2024

    17: The Trial of Clay Shaw (Part 5)

    On January 21, 1969, at the criminal district court building in NO, proceedings finally got underway in the case of the State of Louisiana versus Clay L. Shaw. For almost two years now, Garrison had been loudly telling the world that he’d solved the Kennedy case. He had repeatedly promised that the proof would be delivered, when the time came. Well, the time had finally come. Garrison’s chance to put up or shut up had officially arrived. And if he didn’t put up, he really was going to look like one of history’s all-time greatest frauds and tools … Show notes: www.ghostsofdallas.net Support the podcast: https://paypal.me/goodbadbogus

    1h 33m

  5. 07/29/2024

    16: The Trial of Clay Shaw (Part 4)

    In April 1967, researchers working for the New Orleans DA Jim Garrison found a suspicious entry in the address book of Clay Shaw, the man Garrison had charged with having conspired to murder President John F. Kennedy. The entry was for a man named Lee Odom; the address Shaw had scrawled down for this Odom character was PO Box 19106, Dallas, Texas. According to Jim Garrison, the late Lee Harvey Oswald had once scrawled the same PO Box number in his notebook. Also according to Garrison, Post Office Box 19106 did not really exist in Dallas, and never had. It was “a non-existent or fictional number.” This meant that the number had to be some kind of code. And Garrison publicly claimed to have cracked the code. He announced that the number in the notebooks was an encrypted version of Jack Ruby’s unlisted telephone number: WH1-5601. The telephone code was the smoking gun. Not only did it link Clay Shaw with Lee Harvey Oswald. It also linked both men with Jack Ruby … Show notes: www.ghostsofdallas.net

    2h 9m

  6. 06/16/2024

    15: The Trial of Clay Shaw (Part 3)

    How do you make a case when you have no real case to make? It’s a question that all conspiracy theorists face. Jim Garrison faced it in March 1967, when he opted to stage a public pre-trial hearing in the Clay Shaw case. Garrison would now have to produce some evidence, fast, to show why he believed that Shaw had conspired in the murder of President Kennedy. So how did Garrison make his case? By injecting witnesses with truth serum and hypnotizing them. By offering bribes and issuing threats of violence. By springing convicts from prison in exchange for lurid anti-Shaw testimony. “He’s an unmitigated liar and a psychopathic paranoid,” said one of Garrison’s former aides, after quitting from his investigation in disgust. And the Jolly Green Giant was just getting warmed up … Show notes: www.ghostsofdallas.net

    2 hr

  7. 05/11/2024

    14: The Trial of Clay Shaw (Part 2)

    On March 1, 1967, the New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison arrested a local civic leader named Clay Shaw, and charged him with having conspired to murder President John F. Kennedy. To Garrison, it didn’t matter that there was no serious evidence to support that extremely serious charge. He set about simply manufacturing a case out of thin air, using a series of increasingly desperate measures, including coercion of witnesses, bribery, extortion, forgery, and threats of physical violence. When Garrison arrested Clay Shaw, he crossed the Rubicon. There was no turning back. He had nowhere to go except deeper and deeper into the almost incredible clusterf**k that he had set in motion. And unfortunately, the man who was going to pay for Garrison’s act of madness wasn’t Garrison himself. It was Clay Shaw, the man who suddenly found himself starring in a Kafka novel, accused of committing a crime that he’d had absolutely nothing to do with … Show notes: www.ghostsofdallas.net

    1h 22m

  8. 04/14/2024

    13: The Trial of Clay Shaw (Part 1)

    To this day, the late New Orleans businessman Clay Shaw remains the only person ever to have been criminally prosecuted in connection with the murder of JFK. His trial began in New Orleans in January, 1969. On March 1st, a jury found him Not Guilty in just 54 minutes, but Shaw's life and reputation were destroyed by his very public prosecution. How was it that an entirely innocent man came to be prosecuted for conspiring to murder the President of the United States? The answer has nothing to do with Shaw, and everything to do with the warped mind of the man who prosecuted him: the New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison. Garrison was drunk on conspiracy theory; when the early conspiratorial books about the case came out, he fell disastrously under the spell. And before he tried to pin Kennedy's murder on Clay Shaw, he tried to pin it on another innocent man: the eccentric, wig-wearing David W. Ferrie ...  Show notes: www.ghostsofdallas.net

    1h 50m
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The Epic Story of JFK Conspiracism. The true story of the Kennedy assassination -- and of all the untrue stories it left behind ...

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  • Creator
    David Free
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2025
  • Episodes
    20
  • Rating
    Explicit
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