The JFK Assassination – a Debate with Jefferson Morley and Mark Zaid (Part 1)

Jefferson Morley and Mark Zaid join Andrew in a debate over the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Mark and Jeff are longtime friends and colleagues with very different viewpoints of what truly happened on November 22nd, 1963. 

• The lasting questions surrounding the Kennedy assassination
• Lee Harvey Oswald’s intelligence connections
• The Warren Commission and the JFK Assassination Records
• The strangest theories Mark and Jeff have heard, and the most plausible explanations of who killed President Kennedy

• Public distrust and the search for truth
• Reactions and responses to tragedy

 ”That's why I think they probably have something to hide. Because it doesn't make sense otherwise … If they had access to that kind of straightforward story, we would get that.” – Jefferson Morley.

• The Skinny on American Intelligence & the Law with D.C. “Super Lawyer” Mark Zaid (2024)
• Rise of Devils: The Origins of Modern Terrorism with James Crossland (2024)
• Havana Syndrome – A Panel featuring Nicky Woolf, Marc Polymeropoulos, and Mark Zaid (2023)
• The Past 75 Years with Historian of the CIA Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones (2022)

• Lee Harvey Oswald, Britannica (2024) [Short biography]
• JFK Files: What we're learning from newly released Kennedy assassination records, CBS News, YouTube (2022) [6 min. video]
• Kennedy Assassination Timeline, The Sixth Floor Museum (n.d.) [Timeline of events]

• The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government, D. Talbot (Harper Perennial, 2016)
• JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters, J. W. Douglass (Touchstone, 2010)
• Our Man in Mexico: Winston Scott and the Hidden History of the CIA, J. Morley (University Press of Kansas, 2008)

• President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act (1992)
• Select Committee on Assassinations Report (1978)
• Warren Commission Report (1964) 
• LBJ Address to Congress (1963)
• Interrogation of Lee Harvey Oswald (1963)
• JFK Autopsy Report (1963)
• The President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection 

• Test how you would do in Kennedy’s shoes by playing 13 Days: The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962 – A two-player board game that tests your quick-thinking strategy and conflict resolution skills.