Cites & Mentions
“Still Guilty After All These Years ” (11 May 2008)
• Mel Ayton’s essay on the 40th anniversary of RFK’s assassination was featured in the CI Centre’s History News section on May 14.
• HNN linked to the article on May 15 in its “Talking About History” section.
New LBJ Tapes Released (2 May 2008)
• Washingon Decoded’s editor was interviewd on CNN’s “The Situation Room,” hosted by Wolf Blitzer, about a new tranche of Johnson tape recordings from January-April 1968.
“Harvard Does Dallas ” (11 April 2008)
• HNN featured the essay for the week beginning April 21, in an article entitled, “Anatomy of a JFK Conspiracy Book by a Reputable Academic.”
“Road to Nowhere ” (11 March 2008)
• John McAdams’s review of The Road to Dallas by David Kaiser was featured in the CI Centre’s Book News & Reviews on March 12.
• HNN linked to the review on March 20, in an article entited, “Debunking JFK Conspiracy Claims Made by David Kaiser.”
New JFK Document Trove (19 February 2008)
• The front-page article in The New York Times about the new documents and artifacts discovered in Dallas quoted the editor of Washingon Decoded.
• Washingon Decoded’s editor participated in a February 21 discussion of the JFK assassination on The Diane Rehm Show, a nationally-syndicated radio program.
“Civics Lesson” (February 2008)
• HNN featured this article in its “Historians in the News” section on February 14.
“Commission Confidential” (January 2008)
• Brian Ross’s investigative team at ABC News ran a story on this EXTRA the same day it was posted, January 30.
• The Washington Independent, a new online news site, also featured this item on January 30.
• TPMMuckraker labeled the EXTRA “Today’s Must Read” on January 31.
“Doubt and Disbelief in the Warren Report ” (January 2008)
• HNN featured this article in its “Talking about History” section on January 14.
“McCarthy, According to Evans (and Novak)” (December 2007)
• History News Network featured this article in its “Historians in the News” section on December 11.
• The online magazine FrontPageMag.com republished John Haynes’s review of M. Stanton Evans’s history in its December 12 issue.
“Credit Where Credit Is Due” (December 2007)
• History News Network featured this article in its “Talking About History” section on December 11.
“JFK’s Death Re-Framed ” (22 November 2007)
• The New York Times published this article on its Op-Ed page 22 November 2007. On the same day, Instapundit, one of the most widely-read US blogs, highlighted the article.
• On November 30, the Kennedy Assassination Home Page, a widely-respected site edited by Marquette University Professor John McAdams, posted an article that supports the analysis that the Zapruder film did not capture the entire shooting sequence in Dealey Plaza. Hidden in Plain View: The Zapruder Film and the Shot that Missed was written by a Seattle lawyer named Kenneth Scearce.
“What Oswald Wrought” (11 November 2007)
• The Mary Ferrell Foundation featured this review in a selection of articles about the Robert Stone documentary, Oswald’s Ghost.
“What Did LBJ Know About the Cuban Missile Crisis?
And When Did He Know It?” (11 October 2007)
• The CI Centre website featured this essay on 29 October 2007.
• HNN highlighted this article in its “Historians and History” section during the week of 4 November 2007.
“The Cuban Missile Crisis 45 Years Later” (11 October 2007)
• Sheldon Stern’s personal and professional essay of remembrance was listed on the “Roundup Top 10” articles on the History News Network (HNN) for the week of 8 October 2007.
“Sins of Omission and Commission” (11 September 2007)
• Jeffrey Richelson’s review of Tim Weiner’s Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA was featured in Steven Aftergood’s widely-read Secrecy News on 12 September 2007.
• On 1 October 2007, “The Corner,” a group blog on National Review Online, favorably mentioned Jeffrey Richelson’s review of Legacy of Ashes.
• Peter Earnest, executive director of the International Spy Museum in Washington, called Richelson’s take “the definitive review” of Weiner’s book, according to the 17 October 2007 CI Centre.
• Richelson’s review was reprinted in full in the Summer/Fall 2007 issue of The Intelligencer, a journal published by the Association For Intelligence Officers (AFIO).
• Jeff Stein, national security editor for Congressional Quarterly, highlighted Richelson’s review in a 15 March 2008 column about the increasing controversy over Legacy of Ashes.
• Stephen Weissman singled out Richelson’s review for praise in a 20 March 2008 column in TPM Café about the Legacy of Ashes controversy.
“The Quiet Vietnamese” (11 August 2007)
• Merle Pribbenow’s review of Perfect Spy by Larry Berman, was featured in Weekly Intelligence Notes #32-07, which is published by the Association of Former Intelligence Officers (AFIO).
• “The Quiet Vietnamese” was also a feature review on History News Network (HNN) for the week of 3 September 2007.
• Pribbenow’s review was reprinted in full in the Summer/Fall 2007 issue of The Intelligencer, a journal published by the Association For Intelligence Officers (AFIO).
“Camelot and Cuba” (11 July 2007)
• History News Network (HNN) featured Don Bohning’s review of David Talbot’s Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years, during the week of 30 July 2007.
“A Word About Lee Harvey Oswald” (11 June 2007)
• Priscilla J. McMillan’s article was reprinted in the Fall 2007 issue of World Policy Journal as “JFK & Oswald: The Inconvenient Truth.”
“Deep Throat 3.0” (11 May 2007)
• Alicia C. Shepard, author of Woodward and Bernstein: Life in the Shadow of Watergate, called “Deep Throat 3.0” a “very detailed” article, “filled with the kind of minute details that only a Watergate geek like me could digest” during a 19 June 2007 online discussion at washingtonpost.com.
• Michael Miner, media critic for the Chicago Reader, called this essay “a closely observed analysis of one of the most mythologized chapters in the history of American journalism” in his 6 July 2007 column.
“The New McCarthyism” (11 April 2007)
• John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr’s article was praised in Sam Tanenhaus’s new essay on the Hiss-Chambers case, “From Whittaker Chambers to George W. Bush: The End of the Journey,” which appeared in the 2 July 2007 issue of The New Republic.
• On 16 July 2007, Ronald Radosh took note of “The New McCarthyism” in “Alger Hiss: Once Again,” posted on a New Republic group blog, “Open University.”
• Ron Rosenbaum, who writes about culture for Slate, cited the critique Haynes and Klehr presented in Washington Decoded. Rosenbaum’s article, “Alger Hiss Rides Again,” was also posted on July 16.
• In “Still Seeing Red,” a 16 September 2007 op-ed in the Los Angeles Times, Richard Schickel, a TIME magazine film critic, seconded the argument first raised in “The New McCarthyism.” Schickel criticized those who would exonerate Alger Hiss by falsely accusing Wilder Foote, calling the effort “reverse McCarthyism.”
“11 Seconds in Dallas, Not Six” (11 March 2007)
• Prompted a special report on Channel 11 in Dallas/Ft. Worth, the local CBS affiliate. The segment was broadcast during the 10 P.M. news hour on 12 March 2007, and repeated throughout the next day.
