At 10:15 a.m. on the morning of June 16th, 1963, US Ambassador Walworth Barber sat in his office in Tel Aviv holding a letter that could end America’s alliance with Israel. The letter was from President John F. Kennedy addressed to Israeli Prime Minister David Bengurion. It wasn’t diplomatic. It wasn’t friendly. It was an…
January 17th, 1961. 8:30 p.m. The Oval Office. President Dwight D. Eisenhower, five-star general, Supreme Allied Commander who’d won World War II, leader of the free world for 8 years, sat before television cameras for the last time. In 3 days, John F. Kennedy would take the oath of office. The oldest president in a…
November 2nd, 1963. During the filming of Viva Las Vegas, Anne Margaret casually mentioned she’d been ice skating since childhood. Elvis never won to back down from a challenge bet he could learn. She agreed to teach him, but only if he accepted one condition. What happened that afternoon became one of their most treasured…
At 3:15 a.m. on Christmas morning 1961, Ysefa Johnson was found dead in her bed in her Fredericksburg, Texas home. She was 49 years old. The official cause of death, cerebral hemorrhage, brain bleeding, natural causes. But there was a problem, several problems. First, under Texas law, any sudden or suspicious death requires an autopsy….
At 2:38 p.m. Central Standard Time on November 22nd, 1963, in the cramped conference room of Air Force One at Lovefield in Dallas, Texas, Lynden Baines Johnson raised his right hand. His left hand rested on a Catholic missile mistaken for a Bible found in President Kennedy’s bedroom. 27 people crowded into the 12×5 ft…
On March 12th, 1998, a retired fingerprint expert named A. Nathan Darby sat in his Austin home, examining two sets of prints through a magnifying glass. One was a copy of an unknown fingerprint lifted from a cardboard box on the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository on November 22nd, 1963, the day…
In August 2003, in a modest home in Miami, Florida, an 85-year-old man sat propped up in his sickbed, paper on his lap, pen in hand. His son sat beside him, watching carefully. The old man was dying. Pneumonia, failing kidneys, months, maybe weeks left. The son had asked a question, a question he’d asked…
December 9th, 1944. 2:47 p.m. Third Army Headquarters, Luxembourg. Colonel Oscar walks into George Patton’s office carrying a single folder. His face is pale. Patton looks up from his maps. doesn’t wait for permission to speak. Sir, we’ve lost 15 Panza divisions. Patton sets down his pencil. Lost them. They’ve vanished from the line. Over…
Summer of 1943, British High Command viewed the American army as a collection of amateurs, useful for providing protection perhaps, but certainly not for securing victories. Montgomery’s strategy to marginalize them in Sicily was intended to be the definitive statement until Patton decided to shatter every rule in the handbook. August 17th, 1943. As morning…
On June 4th, 1963, 171 days before his assassination, President John F. Kennedy walked into the Oval Office and signed a document that conspiracy theorists claim sealed his fate. Executive Order 11,110. With the stroke of a pen, according to the theory, Kennedy challenged the most powerful financial institution in the world, the Federal Reserve….
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