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The first book to document the efforts of the FBI against the most famous American folk singers of the mid-twentieth century, including Woody Guthrie, 'Sis Cunningham, Pete Seeger, Lee Hays and Burl Ives.
Some of the most prominent folk singers of the twentieth century, including Woody Guthrie, 'Sis Cunningham, Pete Seeger, Lee Hays, Burl Ives, etc., were also political activists with various associations with the American Communist Party. As a consequence, the FBI, along with other governmental and right-wing organizations, were monitoring them, keeping meticulous files running many thousands of pages, and making (and carrying out) plans to purge them from the cultural realm.
In The Folk Singers and the Bureau, Aaron J Leonard draws on an unprecedented array of declassified documents and never before released files to shed light on the interplay between left-wing folk artists and their relationship with the American Communist Party, and how it put them in the US government's repressive cross hairs.
At a time of increasing state surveillance and repression, The Folk Singers and the Bureau shows how the FBI and other governmental agencies have attempted to shape and repress American culture.
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Betty Medsger is the author of the forthcoming book, THE BURGLARY, as well as: Winds of Change, Framed, and Women at Work. She lives in New York.
In late 1970, a mild-mannered Haverford College physics professor privately asked a few people this question: “What do you think of burglarizing an FBI office?” In remarkable detail and with astonishing depth of research, Betty Medsger reveals the never-before-told full story of the history-changing break-in at the Media, Pennsylvania, FBI offices. Through their exploits, a group of unlikely activists exposed the shocking truth that J. Edgar Hoover was operating a shadow Bureau engaged in illegal surveillance and harassment of the American people.
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Betty Medsger : The Burglary: The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover's Secret FBI
The never-before-told full story of the history-changing break-in at the FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania, by a group of unlikely activists—quiet, ordinary, hardworking Americans—that made clear the shocking truth and confirmed what some had long suspected, that J. Edgar Hoover had created and was operating, in violation of the U.S. Constitution, his own shadow Bureau of Investigation.
It begins in 1971 in an America being split apart by the Vietnam War . . . A small group of activists—eight men and women—the Citizens Commission to Investigate the FBI, inspired by Daniel Berrigan’s rebellious Catholic peace movement, set out to use a more active, but nonviolent, method of civil disobedience to provide hard evidence once and for all that the government was operating outside the laws of the land.
The would-be burglars—nonpro’s—were ordinary people leading lives of purpose: a professor of religion and former freedom rider; a day-care director; a physicist; a cab driver; an antiwar activist, a lock picker; a graduate student haunted by members of her family lost to the Holocaust and the passivity of German civilians under Nazi rule.
Betty Medsger's extraordinary book re-creates in resonant detail how this group of unknowing thieves, in their meticulous planning of the burglary, scouted out the low-security FBI building in a small town just west of Philadelphia, taking into consideration every possible factor, and how they planned the break-in for the night of the long-anticipated boxing match between Joe Frazier (war supporter and friend to President Nixon) and Muhammad Ali (convicted for refusing to serve in the military), knowing that all would be fixated on their televisions and radios.
Medsger writes that the burglars removed all of the FBI files and, with the utmost deliberation, released them to various journalists and members of Congress, soon upending the public’s perception of the inviolate head of the Bureau and paving the way for the first overhaul of the FBI since Hoover became its director in 1924. And we see how the release of the FBI files to the press set the stage for the sensational release three months later, by Daniel Ellsberg, of the top-secret, seven-thousand-page Pentagon study on U.S. decision-making regarding the Vietnam War, which became known as the Pentagon Papers.
At the heart of the heist—and the book—the contents of the FBI files revealing J. Edgar Hoover’s “secret counterintelligence program” COINTELPRO, set up in 1956 to investigate and disrupt dissident political groups in the United States in order “to enhance the paranoia endemic in these circles,” to make clear to all Americans that an FBI agent was “behind every mailbox,” a plan that would discredit, destabilize, and demoralize groups, many of them legal civil rights organizations and antiwar groups that Hoover found offensive—as well as black power groups, student activists, antidraft protestors, conscientious objectors.
The author, the first reporter to receive the FBI files, began to cover this story during the three years she worked for The Washington Post and continued her investigation long after she'd left the paper, figuring out who the burglars were, and convincing them, after decades of silence, to come forward and tell their extraordinary story.
The Burglary is an important and riveting book, a portrait of the potential power of nonviolent resistance and the destructive power of excessive government secrecy and spying.
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John Hankey Returns - Breakthrough - The documentary
October 27
With three decades of research and examination of facts, John Hankey has finally reached his conclusions concerning the Kennedy Assassination.
With the 60th anniversary heading towards us, much of the evidence we have to examine are filmed interviews, documents which may or may not be genuine and some shaky pictures taken at the event and subsequently. Even the Assassination Commission in the 1970s were not in full possession of the events and the people surrounding them
This complex web of lies and half truths has taken up the lives of so many researchers, yet remains a subject of conjecture and intrigue.
Celebrated historian John Hankey completes his investigation into the JFK murder with undeniable evidence on the what really happened and who was behind the assassination of a President.
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John Hankey - Breakthrough - The Kennedy Assassination
October 18
John Hankey has spent the best part of three decades examining the events on 22 November 1963.
This is the third movie has put together combining his evidence and fact-based theories as to the events, the contrivance which lead up to it and the assassination itself.
He shares his conclusions with you and Ed Opperman
Breakthrough! The Kennedy Assassination Solved
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St John Hunt - The Bond of Secrecy
October 3
A father's last confession to his son about the CIA, Watergate, and the plot to assassinate President John F. Kennedy, this is the remarkable true story of St. John Hunt and his father E. Howard Hunt, the infamous Watergate burglar and CIA spymaster. In Howard Hunt's near-death confession to his son St. John, he revealed that key figures in the CIA were responsible for the plot to assassinate JFK in Dallas, and that Hunt himself was approached by the plotters, among whom included the CIA's David Atlee Phillips, Cord Meyer, Jr., and William Harvey, as well as future Watergate burglar Frank Sturgis. An incredible true story told from an inside, authoritative source, this is also a personal account of a uniquely dysfunctional American family caught up in two of the biggest political scandals of the 20th century.
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Jeffery Caulfield - General Walker and the murder of JFK
Jun 30, 2022
Ed is joined by Jeffrey Caulfield, whose exhaustive research in the motivations and build up to the JFK assassination and the aftermath have yielded yet another credible theory.
In the events building up to November 1963, a plan was being hatched in Miami. Caulfield uses personal recollections of witnesses and FOI documents to ferment a devious scheme which ultimately resulted in the murder of the President of the United States.
Jeffrey Caulfield is a emergency department doctor and writer with many credits to his name, and a formidable tenacity for seeking out evidence and facts.
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Vincent Palamara - JFK Ultimate Compendium
Aug 16, 2022
Ed is joined by one of the worlds’ foremost authorities on the events in Dallas on 23 November 1963. Vincent Palamara has spent almost half a century collecting information, data, witness reports and FOI documents to present a compelling case for conspiracy.
In this interview, he outlines his case and his methodology to arrive at his conclusions, and his copious amount of research which he has put into many books on both Kennedy and the Secret Service surrounding him.
Books By Guest: Not-So-Secret Service: Agency Tales from FDR to the Kennedy Assassination to the Reagan Era Honest Answers about the Murder of President John F. Kennedy: A New Look at the JFK Assassination Survivor's Guilt: The Secret Service and the Failure to Protect President Kennedy JFK: From Parkland to Bethesda: The Ultimate Kennedy Assassination Compendium
Website: Vincent Palamara
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Francis Richard Connelly - Everything is a rich man's trick
Oct 4, 2022
Everything is part of a brutal conspiracy; from JFK to 9/11 powerful, evil minds are intent on redesigning the world in their image. Or so Francis Connelly would say. and his comprehensive research does seem to bear out this theory.
But where did the 'New World Order' theory emerge? Originally a anti-Government and Fundamentalist Christian construct, it echoed through the 20th century, was mentioned by Woodrow Wilson, Churchill and Eisenhower. Latterly it has grown in parallel with the increased induced paranoia of the population through terror and conflict coverage, together with the increase in surveillance and monitoring technology used my the more shadowy aspects of Government.
Encased in a fog of money and power, the events of the last 70 years and the acceleration of technology particularly of the last twenty have given this movement new and fresh momentum and believers.
Frances Connelly presents his compelling evidence that this is more than a fanciful notion.
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