#164 | JFK Assassination with Dr. John Newman

Dr. Newman is a retired U.S. Army intelligence officer who served as a strategic intelligence cryptologic analyst before accepting a special two-year appointment to become Military Assistant to the Director, General William Odom at the National Security Agency. He is an expert in Far Eastern studies, a scholar of Christian Theology and comparative religions, an historian and educator. He has testified before various congressional sub-committees, worked as a consultant on PBS Frontline, two Academy Award nominated motion pictures and to U.S. and foreign news agencies.

His works on the Cold War and America’s involvement in Vietnam have been recognized by many, including Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., former CIA Director William Colby, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Dr. James Galbraith to be among the most authoritative and significant yet published.

His 1991 book, JFK and Vietnam, documents President Kennedy’s navigation of a dangerous course through cold war hot spots and a divided administration. What eventually emerged is an astonishingly dishonorable deception: a deliberate attempt to manipulate the President of the United States into authorizing a war policy to which he was fundamentally opposed.

Published in 1995, updated and expanded in 2008, his second book, Oswald and the CIA used the enormous collection of federal agency documents newly released by the ARRB to explore the CIA’s keen operational interest in Lee Harvey Oswald.

Dr. Newman re-entered the JFK case in 2015 with the publication of Where Angels Tread Lightly: The Assassination of President Kennedy, Volume One. The updated and expanded second edition of JFK and Vietnam appeared in January 2017, as did Volume Two in his series on the Kennedy presidency, Countdown to Darkness. Volume III, Into the Storm was published in January of 2019. Volume IV: Uncovering Popov’s Mole was published September of 2022. Volume V: Armageddon, and MLK Volume I will follow in the next two years.