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History conspiracy podcast

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Our podcast contemplates the course of history though the actual audio archives Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/art-mcdermott/support

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Murder in Newtown - Sandy Hook Elementary - The Alex Jones Deposition

December 11, 2022 22:23 - 3 hours - 187 MB

Newtown shootings of 2012, also called Sandy Hook School shooting, mass shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, on December 14, 2012, that left 28 people dead and 2 injured. In addition to the shooter, 18 children and 6 adults died at Sandy Hook School and 2 children died at a nearby hospital, making it one of the deadliest school shootings in U.S. history.  In March 2018, six families of victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, as well as an FBI agent who responded to the attack, file...

September 11, 2001 - the FAA and NORAD tapes

September 12, 2022 11:48 - 1 hour - 104 MB

Federal Aviation Administration and North American Aerospace Defense Command on 9/11 behind the scenes. The tapes  paint a minute-by-minute picture of what unfolded that day. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/art-mcdermott/support

September 11, 2001 - The Testimony of an Air Traffic Controller

August 19, 2022 10:10 - 1 hour - 70.8 MB

September 11 commission testimony of Danielle O'Brien-Howell --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/art-mcdermott/support

True Crime History - University of Texas tower shooting - 1966

August 07, 2022 23:24 - 1 hour - 86 MB

On August 1, 1966, after stabbing his mother and his wife to death the night before, Charles Whitman, a former Marine, took rifles and other weapons to the observation deck atop the Main Building tower at the University of Texas at Austin, then opened fire indiscriminately on people on the surrounding campus and streets. Over the next 96 minutes he shot and killed 15 people, including an unborn child and one final victim who died from his injuries in 2001. Whitman also injured 31 others. The ...

Alex Jones Defamation Trial: Attorney's Opening Statement

July 28, 2022 17:39 - 1 hour - 108 MB

On April 16, 2018, Neil Heslin, father of victim Jesse Lewis, filed a defamation suit against Jones, Infowars and Free Speech Systems in Travis County, Texas --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/art-mcdermott/support

Attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan - March 30, 1981 - Radio Broadcast

July 24, 2022 02:49 - 3 hours - 198 MB

President of the United States Ronald Reagan was shot and wounded by John Hinckley Jr. in Washington, D.C. as he was returning to his limousine after a speaking engagement at the Washington Hilton. Hinckley believed the attack would impress actress Jodie Foster, with whom he had developed an erotomanic obsession. Reagan was seriously wounded by a .22 Long Rifle bullet that ricocheted off the side of the presidential limousine and hit him in the left underarm, breaking a rib, puncturing a lu...

Titanic - Survivors Speak

July 12, 2022 02:08 - 46 minutes - 43.4 MB

RMS Titanic was a British passenger liner, operated by the White Star Line, which sank in the North Atlantic Ocean on 15 April 1912 after striking an iceberg during her maiden voyage from Southampton, UK, to New York City. Of the estimated 2,224 passengers and crew aboard, more than 1,500 died, which made the sinking one of the deadliest for a single ship up to that time. It remains the deadliest peacetime sinking of a superliner or cruise ship. The disaster drew public attention, provided f...

Oklahoma City Bombing - April 19, 1995

June 20, 2022 03:01 - 3 hours - 180 MB

The Oklahoma City bombing was a domestic terrorist truck bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States, on April 19, 1995. Perpetrated by American terrorists Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols, the bombing happened at 9:02 am and killed at least 168 people, including many children, injured more than 680 others, and destroyed more than one third of the building, which had to be demolished. The blast destroyed or damaged 324 other buildings within a 1...

RFK Assassination-1968 California primary live

June 08, 2022 03:00 - 1 hour - 96.4 MB

.Assassination of Robert Kennedy following the California primary election.  live coverage June 4 1968 --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/art-mcdermott/support

Ted Kaczynski - Unabomber Manifesto

May 27, 2022 01:38 - 2 hours - 146 MB

Theodore John Kaczynski  also known as the Unabomber , is an American domestic terrorist, anarchist and former mathematics professor.He was a mathematics prodigy, but abandoned his academic career in 1969 to pursue a more primitive life. Between 1978 and 1995, he killed three people and injured 23 others in a nationwide bombing campaign against people involved with modern technology. He issued a social critique opposing industrialization and advocating a nature-centered form of anarchism. --...

What Happened At Three Mile Island ?

May 15, 2022 23:48 - 2 hours - 116 MB

The Three Mile Island accident was a partial meltdown of reactor number 2 of Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station (TMI-2) in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, near Harrisburg, and subsequent radiation leak that occurred on March 28, 1979. It is the most significant accident in U.S. commercial nuclear power plant history. On the seven-point International Nuclear Event Scale, the incident was rated a five as an "accident with wider consequences --- Support this podcast: https://podcaster...

May 4 1970 Kent State part one

May 03, 2022 20:22 - 55 minutes - 51.1 MB

What is the truth about the murders at Kent State? Featuring the sworn testimony of  General Robert Canterbury.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/art-mcdermott/support

Watergate - E. Howard Hunt testimony

April 24, 2022 23:42 - 2 hours - 159 MB

E. Howard Hunt was an American intelligence officer and published author of 73 books. From 1949 to 1970, Hunt served as an officer in the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Along with G. Gordon Liddy, Frank Sturgis, and others, Hunt was one of the Nixon administration "plumbers", a team of operatives charged with identifying government sources of national security information "leaks" to outside parties. Hunt and Liddy plotted the Watergate burglaries and other clandestine operations for the N...

Domestic Surveillance - The Huston Plan

April 18, 2022 01:29 - 39 minutes - 36.3 MB

The Huston Plan was a 43-page report and outline of proposed security operations put together by White House aide Tom Charles Huston in 1970. It came to light during the 1973 Watergate hearings headed by Senator Sam Ervin --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/art-mcdermott/support

CHAOS - domestic espionage project targeting the American people

April 15, 2022 01:39 - 2 hours - 153 MB

Operation CHAOS or Operation MHCHAOS was a Central Intelligence Agency domestic espionage project targeting the American people from 1967 to 1974 --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/art-mcdermott/support

HSCA TESTIMONY -- DR. JAMES J. HUMES - SEPTEMBER 7, 1978

April 10, 2022 12:22 - 29 minutes - 27.1 MB

The United States House of Representatives Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) was established in 1976 to investigate the assassinations of John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1963 and 1968, respectively Capt. James J. Humes, the lead prosector at the autopsy of President Kennedy. Humes publicly retracted the autopsy report's placement of the fatal entry wound, which the Medical Panel determined was 4 inches away from the originally-noted spot. In 1992 for the Journal of th...

Inside Infowars - Deposition of Paul Joseph Watson - Sandy Hook Case

April 03, 2022 12:02 - 1 hour - 73 MB

Deposition of Paul Joseph Watson in Heslin v. Jones, taken by attorney Mark Bankston --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/art-mcdermott/support

Watergate - John Dean testimony

March 31, 2022 15:50 - 5 hours - 293 MB

On January 27, 1972, Dean, the White House Counsel, met with Jeb Magruder (Deputy Director of the Committee to Re-Elect the President, or CRP and CREEP) and John N. Mitchell (Attorney General of the United States, and soon-to-be Director of CRP), in Mitchell's office, for a presentation by G. Gordon Liddy (counsel for CRP and a former FBI agent). At that time, Liddy presented a preliminary plan for intelligence-gathering operations during the campaign. Reaction to Liddy's plan was highly unfa...

Columbine High School shooting - 911 Audio and Dispatch Tapes

March 27, 2022 22:57 - 4 hours - 275 MB

April 20, 1999, at Columbine High School in  Colorado. The perpetrators, twelfth grade  students Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, murdered 12 students and one teacher. Ten students were killed in the school library, where the pair subsequently committed suicide.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/art-mcdermott/support

JFK Assassination - Dallas Police Radio Recordings November 22 1963

March 15, 2022 10:21 - 47 minutes - 44.3 MB

Here is a link to a compete transcript of the  Dallas Police Radio Recordings November 22 1963    http://jfk.hood.edu/Collection/Weisberg%20Subject%20Index%20Files/D%20Disk/Dallas%20Police%20Department/Dallas%20Police%20Department%20Records/Volume%2004/Item%2001.pdf --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/art-mcdermott/support

The Murder Of Lee Harvey Oswald

March 08, 2022 11:18 - 2 hours - 114 MB

THE MURDER OF LEE HARVEY OSWALD On Sunday, November 24, detectives were escorting Oswald through the basement of Dallas Police Headquarters toward an armored car that was to take him from the city jail (located on the fourth floor of police headquarters) to the nearby county jail. At 11:21 a.m. CST, Dallas nightclub operator Jack Ruby approached Oswald from the side of the crowd and shot him once in the abdomen at close range. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/sh...

Watergate - James W. McCord Jr. testimony

March 02, 2022 16:32 - 2 hours - 132 MB

Watergate 'Plumber' James McCord was an American CIA officer, later involved as an electronics expert in the burglaries which precipitated the Watergate scandal. Also Alfred Baldwin testimony,  the so-called "shadow man" in the Watergate break-in and the ensuing  scandal.  paypal.com/historyconspiracy.com --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/art-mcdermott/support

Lee Harvey Oswald in his own words

February 28, 2022 03:31 - 1 hour - 56 MB

 On August 9, 1963, New Orleans native Lee Harvey Oswald stood in front of the Ward Discount House at the corner of Canal and St. Charles streets distributing his Fair Play for Cuba Committee leaflets. The Fair Play for Cuba Committee was a pro-Castro organization that supported the Cuban Revolution against attacks by the United States Government. It was at this location where Oswald found himself in an altercation with the Cuban exile Carlos Bringuier. Just months prior to the assassination ...

On Politics - George Orwell and Neil Postman

February 24, 2022 16:58 - 1 hour - 63.7 MB

Politics and the English Language, by George Orwell and Amusing Ourselves to Death: Politics as Show Business by  Neil Postman --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/art-mcdermott/support

Assassination of John Lennon - Mae Brussell

February 21, 2022 17:56 - 2 hours - 166 MB

On the evening of 8 December 1980, English musician John Lennon, formerly of the Beatles, was fatally shot in the archway of the Dakota, his residence in New York City. The perpetrator was Mark David Chapman, an American Beatles fan who had travelled from Hawaii. Chapman stated that he was angered by Lennon's lifestyle and public statements, especially his much-publicised remark about the Beatles being "more popular than Jesus" and the lyrics of his later songs "God" and "Imagine". Chapman al...

CIA Torture Program - the John Rizzo Deposition

February 20, 2022 11:32 - 4 hours - 222 MB

John Anthony Rizzo was an American attorney who worked as a lawyer in the Central Intelligence Agency for 34 years. He was the deputy counsel or acting general counsel of the CIA for the first nine years of the War on Terror, during which the CIA held dozens of detainees in black site prisons around the globe. During the George W. Bush administration, the Office of Legal Counsel in the Department of Justice approved various forms of torture (referred to as "enhanced interrogation techniques...

September 11, 1973 - Chilean coup and the CIA

February 18, 2022 11:38 - 3 hours - 196 MB

The 1973 Chilean coup d'état  was a military coup in Chile that deposed the Popular Unity government of President Salvador Allende. On 11 September 1973, after an extended period of social unrest and political tension between the opposition-controlled Congress and the socialist President, as well as economic warfare ordered by U.S President Richard Nixon a group of military officers led by General Augusto Pinochet and Admiral José Toribio Merino seized power in a coup, ending civilian rule -...

JFK Assassination - Witness to History - John Stringer photographer at the autopsy of President Kennedy

February 15, 2022 16:44 - 4 hours - 242 MB

John Stringer is the photographer of record at the autopsy of President Kennedy, and took pictures at a supplementary brain exam days later. He was assisted by Floyd Riebe. Stringer was never interviewed by the Warren Commission, and his brief HSCA interview was among those materials apparently not made available to the HSCA's medical panel.This is his compete ARRB Interview . --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/art-mcdermott/support

The CIA and The News Media -from the Dave Emory archives

February 13, 2022 20:33 - 57 minutes - 53.1 MB

All of Dave Emory's historical  work is available at spitfirelist.com --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/art-mcdermott/support

JFK Assassination - Oswald, the CIA, and Mexico City part two

February 10, 2022 03:10 - 2 hours - 155 MB

Lee Harvey Oswald’s mysterious visits to the Soviet and Cuban Embassies in Mexico City weeks before John F. Kennedy’s assassination.  Written by staffers Dan Hardway and Edwin Lopez for the HSCA Report . (aka "Lopez Report") --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/art-mcdermott/support

Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy - Second Gun with Ted Charach

February 03, 2022 10:35 - 1 hour - 79.3 MB

Documentary suggesting the possibility of another gunman involved in the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy. This film ignited a worldwide controversy on 3 level, journalistic, legal and forensic. It continues today. The entire film, director’s copy and out-takes are housed at the Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study/Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, Hollywood CA. The Ted Charach RFK documentary archive, the world’s largest private collection on the Second Gun discovery, is loca...

CIA Torture Program - the Bruce Jessen Deposition

January 28, 2022 11:43 - 4 hours - 222 MB

John Bruce Jessen is an American psychologist who, with James Elmer Mitchell, created the so-called "enhanced interrogation techniques" that were used in the interrogation and torture of CIA detainees and outlined in the United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence's report on CIA torture. In that report, he was mentioned under the pseudonym "Hammond Dunbar." His company, Mitchell Jessen and Associates, earned US$81 million for its work. On October 13, 2015 the American Civil Liber...

JFK Assassination - Air Force One Flight Deck Recording

January 26, 2022 17:03 - 2 hours - 132 MB

Original audiotape recording includes taped conversations on President Kennedy's official airplane, "Air Force One," during its flight following his assassination on November 22, 1963. The conversations were between pilots and other individuals on the flight and various individuals in Washington, DC, on the flight back from Dallas, TX, to Andrews Air Force Base.  https://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/russ/jfkinfo3/reports/af1trans.htm --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show...

Dr. George Burkley - personal physician to President Kennedy

January 20, 2022 03:36 - 1 hour - 57.8 MB

. This is an Oral History Interview with ADMIRAL GEORGE G. BURKLEY October 17. 1967 Washington, D.C The Warren Commission never interviewed him.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/art-mcdermott/support

JFK Assassination - Gaeton Fonzi interviews Vincent Salandria July 1966

January 08, 2022 11:38 - 1 hour - 95.6 MB

link to full transcript -      https://ourhiddenhistory.org/entry/vincent-salandria-and-gaeton-fonzi-discuss-problems-with-the-warren-commission-report-philadelpha-1966  Vincent Salandria and Gaeton Fonzi Discuss Problems with the Warren Commission Report, Philadelphia (1966) --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/art-mcdermott/support

Gerald Ford assassination attempt in Sacramento 1975

December 31, 2021 01:26 - 2 hours - 126 MB

On September 5, 1975, Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, a  member of the so-called Manson Family cult, attempted to assassinate United States President Gerald Ford in Sacramento, California --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/art-mcdermott/support

Symbionese Liberation Army & Patty Hearst..... The Don Freed and Mae Brussell Press Conference (1974)

December 23, 2021 00:11 - 57 minutes - 52.9 MB

On May 4, 1974, Headley, along with freelance writer Donald Freed, held a press conference in San Francisco. They presented 400 pages of documentation of their findings, some of which included:  - a year before the kidnapping Patty Hearst had visited convict, Donald DeFreeze, who later became the SLA's figurehead. - DeFreeze's arrest records; - the work of Colston Westbrook with Los Angeles Police Department's CCS (Criminal Conspiracy Section) and the State of California's Sacramento-based CI...

Mind Control in America and Project MKUltra- Sidney Gottlieb

December 19, 2021 13:47 - 1 hour - 63.9 MB

A presentation by  Stephen Kinzer author of Poisoner in Chief Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/art-mcdermott/support

Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy - Local Radio Report

December 10, 2021 11:51 - 1 hour - 89 MB

KNX-RADIO LOS Angeles Live  Coverage , plus some raw unedited audio from the   Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles June 5, 1968  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/art-mcdermott/support

JFK Assassination - The Guns of November part three from the Dave Emory archives

November 21, 2021 23:11 - 2 hours - 123 MB

This is part three of research by Dave Emory. This is the  assassination in Dallas. All of Dave Emory's historical  work is available at spitfirelist.com . --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/art-mcdermott/support

JFK Assassination - the autopsy Dr. Pierre Finck HSCA testimony part one

November 19, 2021 01:55 - 1 hour - 101 MB

Commander J. Thornton Boswell, M.D ,  Commander James J. Humes, M.D ,and   Lieutenant Colonel Pierre A. Finck, M.D. preformed the autopsy of President Kennedy and here is Dr Finck under oath. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/art-mcdermott/support

The War of the Worlds -1938 - radio drama

October 27, 2021 16:46 - 2 hours - 123 MB

An episode of the American radio drama anthology series The Mercury Theatre on the Air directed and narrated by actor and future filmmaker Orson Welles as an adaptation of H. G. Wells's novel The War of the Worlds (1898). It was performed and broadcast live as a Halloween episode at 8 p.m. on Sunday, October 30, 1938, over the Columbia Broadcasting System radio network. The episode became famous for allegedly causing panic among its listening audience, though the scale of that panic is disput...

JFK Assassination - Witness to history - Nurse Tuohy

October 19, 2021 10:40 - 29 minutes - 27.7 MB

HSCA Interview with Parkland Nurse Sharon Tuohy --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/art-mcdermott/support

JFK Assassination- Guns of November part two from the Dave Emory archives

October 11, 2021 16:52 - 52 minutes - 48.3 MB

This is part two of research by Dave Emory and Spitfirelist.com. The background leading to the assassination in Dallas. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/art-mcdermott/support

JFK Assassination - The Guns of November part one from the Dave Emory archives

October 06, 2021 16:29 - 1 hour - 82.3 MB

This is part one of research by Dave Emory. This is the background leading to the assassination in Dallas. All of Dave Emory's historical work is available at spitfirelist.com . --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/art-mcdermott/support

JFK Assassination --Witness to History- George de Mohrenschildt

September 28, 2021 10:16 - 39 minutes - 36.3 MB

George de Mohrenschildt was a friend of  Lee Harvey Oswald and his Russian-born wife Marina Oswald  in the summer of 1962 in Fort Worth, Texas. Mohrenschildt testified to the Warren Commission in 1964 that he had met the Oswalds through a prominent member of the local Russian-American community, oil accountant George Bouhe. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/art-mcdermott/support

JFK Assassination - Missing Photographs from the Autopsy of President Kennedy ? - Saundra Spencer

September 24, 2021 02:15 - 1 hour - 104 MB

Saundra Kay Spencer developed photographs from the autopsy of President Kennedy on the weekend following the assassination. She worked at the Naval Photographic Center in Anacostia, in the "White House lab." Her liaison to the White House was Robert Knudsen, and she worked with Vince Madonia. Ms. Spencer, never before interviewed in association with this case. This is her compete ARRB Interview .   Here is a link to the compete HSCA testimony of Robert Knudsen White House photographer during ...

JFK Assassination - Dallas Police Chief Jesse Curry interviews

September 19, 2021 18:25 - 37 minutes - 34.6 MB

Dallas Chief of Police Jesse Curry was riding in the lead car of the Presidential motorcade with sheriff James Eric "Bill" Decker when they turned west off Houston Street onto Elm Street. Looking straight ahead, they noticed "a few unauthorized people on the overpass and wondered how they got there." Those people were later described as thirteen railroad men and two policemen who were stationed on the overpass (Triple Underpass) against rules of protocol. After the Presidential motorcade had ...

JFK Assassination - author Sylvia Meagher - Accessories After the Fact 1967 radio interview

September 16, 2021 02:22 - 1 hour - 58.6 MB

Accessories After the Fact: The Warren Commission, the Authorities, and the Report (1967) --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/art-mcdermott/support

Christopher Lasch - The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminished Expectations.

September 12, 2021 22:22 - 30 minutes - 27.9 MB

Robert Christopher Lasch  was an American historian, moralist, and social critic who was a history professor at the University of Rochester. Lasch sought to use history as a tool to awaken American society to the pervasiveness with which major institutions, public and private, were eroding the competence and independence of families and communities. He strove to create a historically informed social criticism that could teach Americans how to deal with rampant consumerism, proletarianization,...