At 10:00 a.m. on July 3rd, 2025, Congresswoman Anna Palina Luna stood before reporters in Washington DC holding a stack of freshly declassified documents. Her words were precise, deliberate, and damning. We just learned definitively that the CIA has been lying for 62 years about the assassination of an American president. 62 years, not 6…
On Halloween 1966, exactly 3 years and 11 days after President Kennedy’s assassination, officials at the National Archives in Washington DC, conducted a routine inventory of materials related to the president’s death. They were looking for autopsy evidence, tissue samples, bone fragments, photographs, X-rays, and the president’s brain. They found the filing cabinet where the…
March 1945, the war in Europe was entering its final phase. Allied armies were closing on the Rine, Germany’s last natural barrier. Every general knew crossing the Rine meant victory was within reach. Every general except one believed they needed weeks of preparation, massive supply buildups, overwhelming force concentrations before attempting the crossing. George S….
The ancient French city of Brest was completely gone. After 39 straight days of relentless earth-shattering American artillery fire, the city had been reduced to 30 million tons of smoking, pulverized rubble. The stench of explosives and death hung heavy in the September air. Major General Troy Middleton, commander of the United States 8th Corps,…
Frank Fay hit Barbara Stanwick the night her career surpassed his. Not once, repeatedly, systematically. Each new role she landed, each review that called her luminous, each director who asked for her by name. Fay answered with violence, cruelty, and his bottomless jealousy. He married the most talented woman in Hollywood and spent 9 years…
In April 1950, Henry Fonder had his wife committed to Craig House Psychiatric Hospital in Beacon, New York, and then filed for divorce. He did not tell her to her face. He sent a representative, a note, a bureaucratic messenger carrying the news that her marriage, her children, her name, and her future had been…
John Barrymore annihilated his wife in a Manhattan courtroom in 1928. He did not need to be present. He sent attorneys. He was on a film set in California earning more money than Blanch Olri would see in the rest of her life. The papers were filed, the arguments made, the judgment rendered. Primary custody…
In November 1941, Joseph Patrick Kennedy Senior had his daughter’s brain surgically destroyed. He arranged the procedure without telling his wife, without telling Rosemary. He told the doctors she was difficult. He signed what needed to be signed. The doctors drilled through her skull and began cutting while she was still awake. She was 23…
Room 80, Glennham Hotel, Broadway and 22nd Street, Manhattan. It is a Sunday afternoon in April 1882. The curtains are drawn. The room smells of stale tobacco and the particular staleness of a man who came in at 6:00 in the morning from a gambling house and went to bed without washing. He is 51…
August 1918, a marble column townhouse on East 64th Street, Manhattan. A telegram arrives. Alen Tub Burchchard is 46 years old, listed in the social register, married to the vice chairman of General Electric, owner of a Paris address, a Newport cottage, a wardrobe that costs more per season than most families earn in a…
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