Original Interviews
Explore our exclusive interviews with historians, journalists, and primary sources discussing deep politics and covert operations.
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An 'Our Hidden History' Interview
Sullivan & Cromwell: Capitalism, Intelligence, & Fascism
Researcher Hugo Turner, November 24, 2018
Hugo Turner is a writer and a researcher specializing in the history of anti-imperialism. In this interview he discusses Sullivan & Cromwell, the infamous US corporate law firm that launched the careers of the Dulles brothers.
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An 'Our Hidden History' Interview
JFK Assassination-era Dallas and JD Tippit, plus George HW Bush and the CIA
Author Joseph McBride, September 19th, 2018
Prosecutors in Dallas have said for years, "Any prosecutor can convict a guilty man: it takes a great prosecutor to convict an innocent man.
Joseph McBride is an accomplished professor, journalist, film historian, and author. He is the author of 20 books, including a new book, which came out in June entitled, How Did Lubitsch Do It? about Ernst Lubitsch, a famed Hollywood comedic film director. He's also the author of Into the Nightmare: My Search for the Killer of President John F. Kennedy and Officer J.D. Tippit.
Mr. McBride became prominent nationally in 1988 for uncovering an FBI document from J. Edgar Hoover listing George H.W. Bush as a member of the CIA in contact with anti-Castro Cubans at the time of the Kennedy assassination, a finding that has been basically like an earthquake in changing the way that people understand the history of the Bush family.
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An 'Our Hidden History' Interview
The CIA and Covert Action Information Bulletin
Covert Action Magazine co-founder Louis Wolf, June 2nd, 2018
Lou Wolf, one of the founders of Covert Action Information Bulletin along with Philip Agee, James and Elsie Wilcott, and Ellen Ray and Bill Schaap, talks about the magazine's relaunch, the history of CAIB, Gina Haspel, Obama, Trump and more. Visit: http://COVERTACTIONMAGAZINE.COM
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An 'Our Hidden History' Interview
The J.D. Tippit Murder Case in the New Millennium
Author James DiEugenio, May 25th, 2018
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An 'Our Hidden History' Interview
James Jesus Angleton and the Assassination of President Kennedy
Author Lisa Pease, February 22nd, 2018
Author and researcher Lisa Pease discusses CIA's cold war counterintelligence chief James Angleton and his role in the events surrounding the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
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An 'Our Hidden History' Interview
The Pentagon Papers and The Post
Author James DiEugenio, February 15th, 2018
Jim DiEugenio, publisher and editor of Kennedysandking.com, discusses the true history behind the exposure of The Pentagon Papers, reviews the Hanks-Spielberg film The Post, and talks about the passing of journalist Robert Parry.
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An 'Our Hidden History' Interview
The Vietnam War and the Destruction of JFK's Foreign Policy
Author James DiEugenio, December 16th, 2017
Author and researcher James DiEugenio breaks down the history of US involvement in Vietnam. He discusses the differences in policy between Eisenhower and Dulles, JFK, Johnson, and finally Nixon and Kissinger. We also cover the pivitol year of 1968:\u00a0Tet, the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr and Bobby Kennedy, the Chicago Police riot, and the election of Richard Nixon. Both audio and transcript are available.
This transcript first appeared at http://kennedysandking.com in two parts: part 1 & part 2
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An 'Our Hidden History' Interview
MKULTRA-linked Human Experimentation and Torture in Canada
Steve Smith, Author of The Psychopath Machine, September 3rd, 2017
In 1968, when he was just a teenager, Steve found himself pulled into the justice system in Canada, and as happens all too often the system sort of took over and Steve, though he was brought in for a very minor crime, eventually ended up at a maximum security mental hospital for the criminally insane called Penetanguishene Mental Hospital, Oak Ridge Division. There he was subjected to a really bizarre series of "treatments". Canadian judge has recently ruled these treatments should be more rightly called torture.
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An 'Our Hidden History' Interview
The Murder of J.D. Tippit
Attorney and author Bill Simpich, August 26th, 2017
Our Hidden History discussed the murder of Dallas Police officer JD Tippit with attorney and author Bill Simpich. Bill breaks down the shooting of Tippit, the arrest of Oswald, and role of specific Dallas Police officers in the events surrounding the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
We also discussed the upcoming mock trial of Lee Harvey Oswald, scheduled for November 16th and 17th, 2017 in Houston, Texas. More information about the mock trial can be found at capa-us.org.
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An 'Our Hidden History' Interview
The JFK Assassination in the Press & the Public Eye
Author James DiEugenio, July 1st, 2017
James DiEugenio is a veteran author and researcher lately focusing on JFK's foreign policy. He's the author of Reclaiming Parkland and Destiny Betrayed: JFK, Cuba, and the Garrison Case, now in its second edition. He's a regular guest on Len Osanic's Black Op Radio, he writes for Robert Parry's Consortium News, and he's the principal behind one of the most active and important assassination websites, www.KennedysAndKing.com, which is constantly updated with new articles, book reviews, and important news about the assassinations of both JFK, RFK, and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., among a lot of other interesting items.
We covered the ebb and flow of the public perception of the case as it played out in the media and in official investigations. It's a good look at the 50 years of the long-term cover up in the press and in officialdom, and on efforts of people such as the early researchers and others - like Jim Garrison, and Oliver Stone - to bring the facts of the case to light. We look too at what some of the official investigations uncovered - like the House Select Committee and the board created by the 1993 JFK Act - and assessed their impact, if any, on the story being put out by the US press. We end by seeing what the 2017 releases might mean and whether or not the press and official story will ever fully grapple with the facts of the murder of John F. Kennedy.
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An 'Our Hidden History' Interview
Secret Operations in the United States and their Effects on Democracy
Author and attorney Bill Simpich, May 14th, 2017
Bill Simpich is an attorney and anti-war activist. He's been practicing law for 35 years now. He's worked on several important political cases. He's been in court against both the FBI and the CIA, against the FBI in a case where two political activists were the victims of a car bombing, and against the CIA for their involvement in the Nicaraguan Contra drug trafficking. He's also been involved in cases against the Bush administration for their civil liberties clampdown during the "War on Terror."
He's worked on cases of police shootings in the Bay Area, and most recently, cases to make sure the votes were counted properly in the California Democratic Primaries in 2016. He's also written on political assassinations during the 1960s, such as the murder of Black Panther leaders Fred Hampton and Mark Clark, CIA attempts on the life of Fidel Castro, and a whole lot, including a book and a series of articles on the Kennedy assassination. His book, called State Secret, is available for free on the Mary Ferrell site.
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An 'Our Hidden History' Interview
Investigating the Assassination of JFK, Then and Now
Former Congressional Investigator Dan Hardway, April 6th, 2017
In 1977 to 1978, Dan Hardway was a researcher for the US House of Representatives. He worked on a committee that sought to determine the facts of the assassinations of John F. Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Along with his fellow researcher, Ed Lopez, Dan produced a 500-plus page report looking into the CIA's story surrounding Oswald's trip to Mexico City. The report was so revealing that the CIA fought to keep it hidden and were successful in that effort for almost two decades. The report, 'Oswald, The CIA and Mexico City', is widely regarded as one of the most important documents to be released through the work of the JFK Act.
Worse than this suppression of the report is the fact that Dan and Eddie and the Committee were the target of a CIA covert operation. We know today that this operation successfully prevented the Committee from looking into the CIA's relationship with the Cuban exile group known as the DRE.
The DRE is the group that Oswald had his famous scuffle with in New Orleans. More importantly, it was the group which, immediately after the assassination, launched a campaign trying to blame the assassination on Castro and Cuba. The same CIA officer who, in 1963, was running the operations of the DRE - Mr. George Joannides - was the officer sent in to halt the HSA investigation. This is a topic that journalist and author Jefferson Morley has made the focus of his work and his lawsuit against the CIA.
Our Hidden History spoke with Mr. Hardway about all of this and more.
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An 'Our Hidden History' Interview
Iran/Contra, WACL, World War 3, and Studying Deep Politics
Researcher Hugo Turner, March 14th, 2017
The following is an interview with Hugo Turner, a researcher with a passion for studying the covert operations of the 70's and 80's. We discussed his four part series on the history of the Iran-contra scandal. They can be found at his blog here: part I, part II, part III, part IV. This interview first appeared on his blog.