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A conversation with Warren Commission Assistant Counsel Burt W. Griffin, Case Closed author and Lee Harvey Oswald scholar Gerald Posner, and JFK conspiracy theory debunker Michel Gagn\\xe9.

Shermer, Griffin, Posner, and Gagn\\xe9 discuss: the nostalgic myth of \\u201cCamelot\\u201d \\u2022 Lee Harvey Oswald and why he killed Kennedy \\u2022 Cuba, Castro, the Bay of Pigs debacle \\u2022 the CIA and why it is rational to be skeptical of their activities \\u2022 the \\u201cmagic bullet,\\u201d pristine or predictably damaged? \\u2022 James Hosty and the FBI\\u2019s files on Oswald before he killed JFK \\u2022 CIA and FBI coverups \\u2022 General Edwin Walker \\u2022 Jack Ruby \\u2022 Bernard Weissman, \\u2022 common themes in conspiracy theories \\u2022 witness intimidation \\u2022 planted evidence \\u2022 evidence tampering.

Burt W. Griffin, Warren Commission Assistant Counsel was the assistant counsel to the president\\u2019s commission on the assassination of President Kennedy (popularly known as the Warren Commission) and had primary responsibility for investigating and writing the section of the commission\\u2019s report (1964) on whether Jack Ruby was engaged in a conspiracy to assassinate either JFK, Lee Oswald, or both. He lives in Shaker Heights, Ohio.

Gerald Posner is an award-winning journalist who has written twelve books, including the Pulitzer Prize finalist Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK. His 2015 book, God\\u2019s Bankers, a two-hundred-year history of the finances of the Vatican, was an acclaimed New York Times bestseller. Posner has written for many national magazines and papers, including the New York Times, The New Yorker, Newsweek, and Time, and he has been a regular contributor to NBC, the History Channel, CNN, CBS, MSNBC, and FOX News. His other books include Killing the Dream: James Earl Ray and the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.; Secrets of the Kingdom: The Inside Story of the Saudi-U.S. Connection; Mengele: The Complete Story; Hitler's Children: Sons and Daughters of Third Reich Leaders; Warlords of Crime: Chinese Secret Societies \\u2014 the New Mafia; and Why America Slept: The Failure to Prevent 9/11. He lives in Miami Beach with his wife, author Trisha Posner.

Michel Jacques Gagn\\xe9 teaches courses in critical thinking, political philosophy, philosophy of religion, and ethics in the Humanities Department of Champlain College Saint-Lambert, a junior college (C\\xc9GEP) located near Montreal, Canada. He has an M.A. in History (Concordia University, Canada, 2005), with a thesis on civil rights protests in Northern Ireland during the 1960s, and undergraduate degrees in Education (McGill University, Canada, 1999) and History and Political Science (with joint-honors, McGill University, Canada, 1995). He has published articles in Skeptic, the National Post, the Encyclopedia of Religion and Violence, and is the author of Thinking Critically About the Kennedy Assassination: Debunking the Myths and Conspiracy. He is also the creator and host of the Paranoid Planet podcast, which discusses conspiracy theories and related phenomena. He resides with his wife and two children in Montreal, Canada.