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Conspiracies about the assassination of JFK
Gift Article If and when the last remaining government documents about President John F. Kennedy’s assassination are made public next week, historians may have to hold their noses and thank “JFK” — a 1991 blockbuster that conflated the historical record with conspiratorial fantasies. Oliver Stone’s barely factual retelling of a prosecutor’s effort to
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Philip Shenon, a former Washington and foreign correspondent for the New York Times, is the author of A Cruel and Shocking Act: The Secret History of the Kennedy Assassination. Larry J. Sabato is the director of the University of Virginia
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Philip Shenon, a former Washington and foreign correspondent for the New York Times, is the author of A Cruel and Shocking Act: The Secret History of the Kennedy Assassination. Larry J. Sabato is the director of the University of Virginia
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By Larry J. Sabato and Philip Shenon, Larry J. Sabato is director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics and author of “The Kennedy Half-Century.” Philip Shenon, a former Washington correspondent for the New York Times, is the author
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Philip Shenon, a former Washington and foreign correspondent for the New York Times, is author of, mostly recently, A Cruel and Shocking Act: The Secret History of the Kennedy Assassination. She may have been one of the bravest and best-placed
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Updated: Nov 28, 2018 Original: May 1, 2017 The National Archives may begin releasing the classified documents within weeks—unless President Trump intervenes. Jacqueline and John F. Kennedy during a 1960 campaign stop. (Credit: Paul Schutzer/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images) Under
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Philip Shenon, a former Washington and foreign correspondent for the New York Times, is author, most recently, of A Cruel and Shocking Act: The Secret History of the Kennedy Assassination. This essay is drawn from the afterword to the new
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A majority of Americans believe that the government is concealing information about the 9/11 attacks, one new survey suggests. And that’s not the only conspiracy theory believed by a wide swath of Americans: Around 40 percent believe the government is
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This essay is part of a series The New Yorker will be running through the election titled “Trump and the Truth.” It is no surprise that, by feverishly indulging conspiracy theories of many kinds, Donald Trump would end up reintroducing
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Robert McIlvaine knows better than to talk, unsolicited, about the research he pores over at home in Oreland, Pa. His 26-year-old son, Bobby, died in the north tower of the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. But as heart-wrenching
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