Midnight Writer News
141 episodes - English - Latest episode: 8 months ago - ★★★★★ - 78 ratingsMidnight Writer News is a podcast and website hosted by Editor-in-Chief S.T. Patrick. Midnight Writer News challenges the mainstream historical and political establishment in search of truth. Many of today's best alternative writers, speakers, and researchers will join S.T. Patrick in this ongoing search for truth in alternative history, conspiracy theories, contrarian thought, and new theories on classic tales.
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MWN Episode 074 - Ike's Propagandist - C.D. Jackson and the Infiltration of the Media
July 01, 2018 00:03 - 1 hour - 77.3 MBAuthor and Professor JOHN STERN joins S.T. Patrick to discuss Ike's Propagandist, C.D. Jackson, and his impact on post-World War II propaganda in America. Stern covers the influence of Nazi propaganda on America, the rise and beliefs of C.D. Jackson, Journalist and CIA official Thomas Braden, Walter Cronkite & Dan Rather, artist Jackson Pollock, why Ike wanted Jackson to criticize after McCarthyism, and the truth about involvement from Cord Meyer, Richard Case Nagell, and the Washington Post...
MWN Episode 073 - Richard Bartholomew and the Fight Against the Deep State
June 28, 2018 04:14 - 1 hour - 57.2 MBRICHARD BARTHOLOMEW, the author of the upcoming The Deep State in the Heart of Texas, joins S.T. Patrick once again to discuss his essay "The Deep Political Realities of the U.S. General Election." What would a pro-conspiracy candidate have to do to affect change from the White House? What two camps have divided all of our major political candidates since 1960? Who repeatedly saved the JFK Records Act from expiring? What is the truth behind the 1993 Travelgate scandal? How did Carl Oglesby l...
MWN Episode 072 - Lisa Pease on the Life and Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy
June 23, 2018 02:14 - 1 hour - 70.6 MBLISA PEASE, the author of the upcoming A Lie Too Big to Fail: The Real History of the Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, joins S.T. Patrick to talk about the life and assassination of RFK. The episode focuses on the presidential campaign of 1968. The show opens with a conversation about Lisa's contribution to the new Robert F. Kennedy Jr. book, American Values, and the questions raised since the its release. From there, we address the stories regarding the Kennedy men and the rumors of extr...
MWN Episode 071 - Mae Brussell on Jonestown Part 2 (MWN Legends Series 005)
June 09, 2018 04:17 - 3 hours - 133 MBBy popular demand, MAE BRUSSELL finishes her five-part series on the 1978 Jonestown massacre. On MWN Episode 061, we heard the first two parts of Brussell's series (episodes 365 and 366 in her catalogue). This time, we hear episodes 367, 368, and 369. These episodes were released on December 15, 22, and 29 of 1978, shortly after the massacre in November. What is amazing to us is how much information Brussell had already gathered. For those interested, she does continue her verbal assault on ...
MWN Episode 070 - Richard Bartholomew and the Gordian Knot
June 05, 2018 03:02 - 1 hour - 80.8 MBRICHARD BARTHOLOMEW, JFK assassination researcher and co-founder of the Center for Deep Political Research think tank, joined S.T. Patrick to discuss the field of JFK assassination research, his background and personal investment in the case, and what needs to happen in the JFK assassination research community hereafter. Bartholomew has an intelligent, analytical, historical view of the community. The JFK assassination was the "defining moment" of Bartholomew's life, and he explains why. He ...
MWN Episode 069 - Rob Clark on Larry Crafard
June 03, 2018 00:18 - 1 hour - 49.6 MBROB CLARK, quarterly guest host of the Midnight Writer News Show and full-time host of The Lone Gunman Podcast, returns to MWN to continue his JFK assassination profile series. In Clark's last appearance as MWN guest host (episode 052), he covered the life of Guy Bannister. In this episode, his focus is Larry Crafard, ally and employee of Jack Ruby at the Carousel Club. He testified before the Warren Commission, and some researchers have suggested that Crafard was one of the Oswald impersona...
MWN Episode 068 - If This Be Treason: JFK vs. The Far Right Wing
June 01, 2018 01:03 - 2 hours - 96.1 MBJOHN BEVILAQUA joined S.T. Patrick to discuss the assassination of President John F. Kennedy through the lens of the far right wing of American politics. The focus of the interview centers on Richard Condon's "dirty dozen," the Winnipeg airport incident, and the Raleigh phone call. However, Bevilaqua also traces the far right movement from the eugenics movement of the early 20th century through the 1980s. In what is an episode of amazing links that touch on many of the seminal events of the ...
MWN Episode 067 - The John Lear Files II
May 26, 2018 06:08 - 1 hour - 68.6 MBJOHN LEAR joined S.T. Patrick once again to discuss a wide range of topics including the passing of Art Bell and the odd question Bell once asked Lear. John Lear also discusses openly the single issue that tore apart their friendship of decades. John has spoken about his belief that the Apollo 11 craft did not get to the moon, and tonight he also addresses the relative silence of Neil Armstrong's latter years. Lear also talks about life on Mars, Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell's comments ...
MWN Episode 066 - The Defense of Dr. DeRosa
May 23, 2018 03:49 - 1 hour - 56.2 MBDR. MARSHALL DEROSA, a Florida Atlantic University professor, joined S.T. Patrick to discuss the recent attack on him by The Nation and "Unkoch My Campus." Dr. DeRosa is a longtime scholar of Southern and Confederate history and law. Because he has belonged to and withdrew from academic associations that impartially study Southern and confederate history, he has been attacked as a racist and a "White Nationalist." The underlying issue, as proven by the March 2018 article in The Nation, is th...
MWN Episode 065 - Jim Fetzer Unleashed I
May 20, 2018 22:44 - 1 hour - 63.6 MBDR. JIM FETZER joined S.T. Patrick to discuss the issues surrounding the Amazon banning of Nobody Died at Sandy Hook. In the discussion, Fetzer addresses the details of the Sandy Hook case, including the reasons why he believes it was a false flag operation involving crisis actors and FEMA. Fetzer also addresses the issues of the Lanza family, Wolfgang Halbig's quest, and issues he has with mainstream detractors. In discussing the alt.media, Fetzer discusses the reason why he was booted prem...
MWN Episode 064 - James Perloff on the CFR, the NWO, and Deep State America
May 16, 2018 03:54 - 1 hour - 67.6 MBJAMES PERLOFF, the author of Shadows of Power, the primer on the Council on Foreign Relations, joins S.T Patrick to discuss the history of the deep state in America. Subjects discussed by Perloff include whether or not Thomas Jefferson actually wrote the Declaration of Independence, the CFR, the "Wise Men," The 1979 Coup of the Shah of Iran, the New World Order, Vietnam, 9/11, Syria, the Trump Administration, and so much more. Go to www.MidnightWriterNews.com for our free archives.
MWN Episode 063 - Who Really Killed MLK
May 12, 2018 04:16 - 2 hours - 112 MBPHILLIP F. NELSON joins S.T. Patrick to discuss his newest release, Who Really Killed Martin Luther King, Jr.? The Case Against Lyndon B. Johnson and J. Edgar Hoover. Nelson, the author of three previous LBJ-related books, addresses whether or not this is his last LBJ work, his own memories of 1968, LBJ vs MLK, Hoover's FBI vs MLK, the best and worst of MLK scholarship, what led King to Memphis, what happened in Memphis, the role of Jesse Jackson, why James Earl Ray is innocent, and much mor...
MWN Episode 062 - Barr McClellan on LBJ vs JFK
May 05, 2018 04:42 - 1 hour - 64.7 MBBARR McCLELLAN, the author of Blood, Money, & Power: How LBJ Killed JFK, joined S.T. Patrick to discuss LBJ's inner circle and how he came to learn about their involvement in November 22, 1963. All of the major names are discussed: Ed Clark, Don Thomas, Billy Sol Estes, Mac Wallace, Madeline Brown, etc. McClellan also speaks candidly about his associations with Jack Worthington and Gordon Ferrie. From his tenure on Johnson's legal team to Nigel Turner's The Men Who Killed Kennedy: The Guilty...
MWN Episode 061 - Mae Brussell on Jonestown (MWN Legends Series 004)
April 29, 2018 23:48 - 2 hours - 92.4 MBLegendary researcher MAE BRUSSELL is the focus of our fourth installment of the Midnight Writer News Legends Series. In this episode - an airing of her 365th and 366th episodes - Mae focuses on Reverend Jim Jones and the Jonestown massacre in Guyana. Just close to two weeks after the massacre, it is amazing how much information Mae had already gathered. These were the first two episodes of a five-episode concentration on Jonestown. She would come back to the topic on future episodes. Interes...
MWN Episode 060 - Who Murdered FDR?
April 26, 2018 18:59 - 49 minutes - 34.3 MBAuthor STEVE UBANEY joined S.T. Patrick to discuss his newest book, Who Murdered FDR? Ubaney is the author of the Who Murdered...? book series, which has also included Who Murdered Elvis? The newest edition, Who Murdered JFK? is being finalized. Ubaney addresses the scene of the crime in Warm Springs, GA, the disappearing medical records, Eleanor's later inquest, Lucy Mercer & Missy LeHand, Polio vs Poisoning, Harry Hopkins, Joseph Stalin, the potential timeline of the murder, and much, much...
MWN Episode 059 - Huey P. Long - Ascension and Assassination of the Kingfish
April 23, 2018 00:12 - 1 hour - 55.8 MBDONALD JEFFRIES joined S.T. Patrick to discuss the life, career, ideas, and assassination of Huey P. Long, the self-titled Kingfish. Long was maybe the most charasmatic, bombastic politician of the first half of the 20th century, yet, in many ways, he was also the most creative and the most radical. A Democrat who went head-to-head with the Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company in Louisiana, he rose to Governor and then to U.S. Senator, only to see his life ended with assassination when he bega...
MWN Episode 058 - Carmine Savastano and the JFK Assassination
April 20, 2018 01:49 - 1 hour - 62.7 MBCARMINE SAVASTANO joined S.T. Patrick to discuss the JFK Assassination. Carmine Savastano addressed his entrance into the JFK assassination community, a 21-page CIA report on assassination procedures that he found in 2013, how these procedures potentially help build Lee Harvey Oswald as the patsy, the Thomas Casasin story, CIA and FBI interest in Oswald, Marina's possible intel ties, the means and motives of Priscilla Johnson McMillan, whether or not Kennedy used the mob to try to kill Castr...
MWN Episode 057 - Jim Hougan on the Jonestown Massacre
April 09, 2018 23:22 - 1 hour - 62.6 MBJIM HOUGAN joined S.T. Patrick to discuss the 40th anniversary of the Jonestown Massacre. Hougan, the author of the three part "Jim Jones, Dan Mitrione, and the Peoples Temple" rose to prominence with his breakthrough 1984 work on Watergate, Secret Agenda: Watergate, Deep Throat and the CIA. Tonight, Hougan addresses the biography of Reverend Jim Jones, the parallels to Dan Mitrione, Jones's 201 File, why he found religion, Indiana's surprising intelligence history, the origin of the Peoples...
MWN Episode 056 - The Tudor Triangle - Elizabeth I, Robert Dudley, and Lettice Knollys
March 30, 2018 01:39 - 41 minutes - 28.2 MBNICOLA TALLIS joined S.T. Patrick to discuss one of the greatest losses of Queen Elizabeth I's life - that of her favorite suitor Robert Dudley, the Earl of Leicester. Elizabeth didn't lose him to death. She lost him to another woman, Lettice Knollys. Who was Lettice Knollys and why did the Earl choose her over the Queen? What was Elizabeth's reaction? Why did Elizabeth choose a life and a reign that would be conducted alone? In the final thoughts, S.T. Patrick discusses how we look at affai...
MWN Episode 055 - The Center for Deep Political Research
March 26, 2018 22:34 - 1 hour - 62.2 MBJEFF WORCESTER of the Center for Deep Political Research joined S.T. Patrick to discuss the formation of the CDPR, the origin of his own deep political research, the idea of research versus deep research, what Oliver Stone's JFK meant to him, the idea of the JFK research community being a "community," how to differentiate genuine researchers from those who have been compromised, and much more. For access to the free and unedited archives of the Midnight Writer News Show with S.T. Patrick, go...
MWN Episode 054 - Richard Nixon Wants Jack Anderson Dead!
March 24, 2018 03:11 - 1 hour - 46.3 MBAuthor and Professor of Broadcast Journalism MARK FELDSTEIN joined S.T. Patrick to talk about Jack Anderson, one of the most important and influential journalist/columnists of the 20th Century. Not only did Anderson and his mentor Drew Pearson move the needle on so many stories and issues, but their muckraking style also put the fear of... the fear of Anderson into politicians. What happened when Anderson conflicted with a politician just as hard-nosed as he was? Richard Nixon wanted Jack An...
MWN Episode 053 - Colodny vs Woodward on Nixon vs Trump
March 19, 2018 23:28 - 1 hour - 54.6 MBLEN COLODNY joins S.T. Patrick to discuss the recent CNN comparisons of Donald Trump to Richard Nixon. CNN has used Washington Post writers Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, who are best known for their two books on Watergate. Colodny, the author of Silent Coup: The Removal of a President, spends time discussing the validity of the comparison, the media's desire to make the comparison, the continued use of John Dean as an "expert," the real Alexander Haig, Ray Locker's upcoming work Haig's Co...
MWN Episode 052 - Rob Clark on Guy Banister
March 15, 2018 16:37 - 1 hour - 48.9 MBROB CLARK, host of The Lone Gunman Podcast, guests hosts for the first time on the Midnight Writer News Show. Tonight, Rob brings us the story of Guy Banister. For those who have seen Oliver Stone's JFK, the role of Guy Banister was played by Ed Asner. Rob brings his sharp wit, vast knowledge, and smooth presentation to discuss one of the anti-communist men who surrounded Lee Harvey Oswald during his time in New Orleans. Rob will be hosting the Midnight Writer News Show quarterly. He will be...
MWN Episode 051 - Revolution's End - The Patty Hearst Kidnapping and the SLA
March 12, 2018 22:39 - 1 hour - 76.6 MBAuthor BRAD SCHREIBER joins S.T. Patrick to discuss his work, Revolution's End: The Patty Hearst Kidnapping, Mind Control, and the Secret History of Donald DeFreeze and the SLA. Schreiber takes a fascinating, alternative look at a story that has recently been told (wrongly, as Schreiber explains) by Jeffrey Toobin. While most of America believes the story centers on heiress Patty Hearst, Schreiber takes us inside California's prison system in the 1970's to discuss a tale of CIA infiltration,...
MWN Episode 050 - Enduring Vietnam
March 09, 2018 02:11 - 1 hour - 55 MBJAMES WRIGHT, President Emeritus and Eleazar Wheelock Professor of History at Dartmouth College, joins S.T. Patrick to discuss the Vietnam War. Wright wrote Enduring Vietnam: An American Generation and Its War to highlight the struggles of the average American soldier who spent time in Vietnam. In the conversation, Wright addresses the origin of American involvement in Vietnam, the high expectations that fell upon the 60s generation, JFK vs LBJ, demographics of the average soldier, the Battl...
MWN Episode 048 - RFK Must Die - The Assassination of Bobby Kennedy
March 07, 2018 02:52 - 1 hour - 48 MBFilmmaker and Author SHANE O' SULLIVAN joins S.T. Patrick on the Midnight Writer News Show to discuss the 1968 assassination of Robert F. Kennedy. In this year, the 50th anniversary of the assassination, the world has a unique opportunity to shine a spotlight on the case. O' Sullivan, the director of RFK Must Die and author of Who Killed Bobby?, openly discusses his initial interest in the case, the problems with the crime scene at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, what Sirhan Sirhan did ...
MWN Episode 049 - Randy Benson Interviews John Judge
March 04, 2018 00:34 - 2 hours - 123 MBRandy Benson, the director of The Searchers, interviews the great John Judge on the third installment of the Midnight Writer News Legends Series. This interview was one of many done by Benson for The Searchers film. The date of the interview is September 16, 2007. Listen to Judge discuss everything from Hidden History to Mae Brussell to untrustworthy researchers. Midnight Writer News would like to thank Randy Benson for the use of this audio.For S.T. Patrick's review of The Searchers, click...
MWN Episode 046 - JFK's Last Hundred Days
February 28, 2018 03:03 - 58 minutes - 40.1 MBAuthor and Historian THURSTON CLARKE joined S.T. Patrick on the Midnight Writer News Show to discuss the last hundred days of JFK as a man and a president. Clarke, the author of JFK's Last Hundred Days: The Transformation of a Man and the Emergence of a Great President, addresses the death of Patrick Kennedy two days after his birth, Russia, Vietnam, the Diem assassination, the back channel with Fidel Castro, the situation in the Congo, immigration, tax cuts, poverty, what a second term migh...
MWN Episode 045 - LBJ From Mastermind to the Colossus
February 17, 2018 05:03 - 1 hour - 78.9 MBIn Part Two of our two-part series on LBJ, PHILLIP NELSON, the author of LBJ: From Mastermind to the Colossus, joins S.T. Patrick to discuss LBJ's presidency from the moment shots were fired in Dealey Plaza to his surprising March 1968 decision to exit the presidential primaries. Nelson addresses LBJ's movements on November 22, 1963, Albert Thomas and "the wink picture," whether or not LBJ would have been kept on the 1964 Democratic ticket had JFK lived, the formation of the Warren Commissi...
MWN Episode 044 - LBJ Mastermind of the JFK Assassination
February 12, 2018 01:22 - 1 hour - 76 MBPHILLIP NELSON, the author of LBJ - The Mastermind of the JFK Assassination, joins S.T. Patrick to discuss the rise of Lyndon Johnson from Texas through Dealey Plaza. Nelson joined the Midnight Writer News Show on episode 025 to discuss his LBJ's involvement in the near-sinking of the USS Liberty. Tonight, he addresses LBJ's rise through Texas politics, Johnson's views of FDR and Truman, his contention with Eisenhower, the early LBJ scandals, Malcolm 'Mac' Wallace, JFK's decision to add John...
Midnight Writer News Show Theme Song for 2017
January 31, 2018 17:26 - 1 minute - 1.43 MBBy request, this is the 2017 Midnight Writer News Show theme song. The music is rights-free and the clips are added in. For free and unedited archives of the show, please visit MidnightWriterNews.com or subscribe to us on iTunes, Stitcher Radio, or your favorite podcast distributors today!
MWN Episode 047 - Seymour Hersh on the My Lai Massacre (MWN Legends Series 002)
January 29, 2018 17:51 - 1 hour - 52.4 MBJournalist and author SEYMOUR HERSH visited the Center for Investigative Journalism (CIJ) in 2013 to discuss the breaking of the My Lai Massacre story on November 12, 1969. Hersh is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist and contributor to both The New Yorker and the London Review of Books. Hersh wrote two books on the subject - My Lai 4: A Report on the Massacre and Its Aftermath (1970) and Cover-up: The Army's Secret Investigation of the Massacre at My Lai 4 (1972). It was the m...
MWN Episode 043 - The Tet Offensive - Vietnam in 1968
January 28, 2018 03:25 - 41 minutes - 28.6 MBLT. COL. JAMES WILLBANKS (Ret.), the author of The Tet Offensive: A Concise History and the cover story for the Feb. 2018 issue of Vietnam magazine, joins the show to talk about the Tet Offensive and its impact on the turning tide against the Vietnam War. Lt. Col. Willbanks answers questions on the Tet holiday, the surprise nature of the attack, the Tet Offensive's objectives, the U.S. military's reaction, the turn of Walter Cronkite, an influential New York Times article, Sen. Eugene McCart...
MWN Episode 041 - Witness to the Revolution
January 23, 2018 08:21 - 1 hour - 74.2 MBCLARA BINGHAM joins S.T. Patrick to discuss her oral history Witness to the Revolution: Radicals, Resisters, Vets, Hippies, and the Year America Lost Its Mind and Found Its Soul. Bingham's work mainly focuses on the 1969-1970 school year, which begins in August with the Woodstock concert and the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. From there, we discuss events such as the My Lai Massacre, the killings at Kent State and Jackson State, and the violence of the Weather Underground, as wel...
MWN Episode 042 - The Unexpected President (of 1880)
January 14, 2018 21:46 - 59 minutes - 40.5 MBSCOTT GREENBERGER, author of The Unexpected President: The Life and Times of Chester A. Arthur, joins S.T. Patrick to discuss one of the most unlikely ascents to the presidency in American history. Greenberger answers questions about the nature of The Gilded Age, the Roscoe Conkling political machine in New York, an amazing legal case that will remind listeners of Rosa Parks nearly 100 years before, political hackdom, the fractured Republican conventions of 1880 and 1884, John A. Logan, the ...
MWN Episode 039 - The Ashes of Waco
December 30, 2017 05:53 - 1 hour - 53.3 MBAuthor, Journalist, and Educator DICK J. REAVIS joined S.T. Patrick to discuss David Koresh, the Branch Davidians, and the siege of Mount Carmel in Waco, Texas in April of 1993. Reavis' book, The Ashes of Waco: An Investigation, is the primer for students of the siege. It is an unbiased look into not only what happened, but why it happened. Notably, Reavis also became somewhat of an expert on the Davidians ideology in order to give meaning to their perspective.Free, downloadable archives can...
MWN Episode 038 - Stanton Friedman on Roswell, Majestic-12, and UFOlogy
December 29, 2017 05:24 - 1 hour - 78.2 MBNuclear physicist STANTON FRIEDMAN, author of Crash at Corona and Top Secret/Majic, joined S.T. Patrick to talk about the Roswell crash of 1947, Operation Majestic-12, the Betty and Barney Hill case, the Travis Walton "Fire in the Sky" case, the controversial Bob Lazar, and the likelihood of government disclosure. Friedman is one of the best-known UFOlogists in the world and had made many appearances on programs such as "Coast to Coast AM with Art Bell" and Larry King Live.Free, downloadable...
MWN Episode 037 - Nixon's Gamble
December 24, 2017 04:47 - 1 hour - 47.8 MBRAY LOCKER author of Nixon's Gamble, joins S.T. Patrick to discuss the risk President Richard Nixon took in sacrificing transparency and unity for secrecy and potential success. The gamble, Locker writes, was "to do it all in secret before the weight of the secrets crushed him." Locker addresses the reason for secrecy, changes in the national security apparatus, Nixon's trusted team, H.R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman, John Dean, Alexander Haig, the Pentagon Papers, his thoughts on the Heidi Rik...
MWN Episode 036 - Watergate and the White House Call Girl
December 18, 2017 21:28 - 1 hour - 53.7 MBAuthor PHIL STANFORD joins S.T. Patrick to discuss Watergate, Prostitution, and John & Maureen Dean. One of the perpetual questions of Watergate is that of motive. Why did the Watergate break-ins occur? What were the burglars looking for? And who ordered the break-ins? Are the rumors of a call girl ring true? Stanford, author of White House Call Girl: The Real Watergate Story, answers these questions. Stanford also discusses the fascinating personalities of Heidi Rikan, Josephine Alvarez, Pa...
MWN Episode 035 - The Prison Abolition Movement
December 05, 2017 03:18 - 1 hour - 52.9 MBMOHAMED SHEHK of CriticalResistance.org joins S.T. Patrick to discuss the Prison Abolition Movement. The United States has the largest per capita prison population in the world - but why? What can be done about it? What needs to change in our thinking before anything can be done? We will also hear clips from two TedX talks as well as a clip of activist Angels Davis's views on prison abolition. This will really challenge what has become a common, widespread, bi-partisan belief in America. The...
MWN Episode 034 - From Maury Island to JFK with Kenn Thomas
November 29, 2017 03:46 - 1 hour - 47.8 MBKENN THOMAS joins the Midnight Writer News Show to talk to S.T. Patrick about the 1947 Maury Island UFO incident and how it led to Dallas and the JFK assassination in 1963? Who are Fred Crisman and Harold Dahl? Who did Jim Garrison believe was the Grassy Knoll shooter? What was Guy Bannister doing in the Pacific Northwest? What's the theory regarding Lee Harvey Oswald and mind control? What are Kenn's thoughts on Mae Brussell and William Cooper? How did the study of parapolitics and conspira...