The JFK Facts Podcast

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1. WATCH: ‘November 1963’ Writer-Producer Tells Family History in New JFK Assassination Film

   28 oktober 2026 · 49 min

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   Nicholas Celozzi has a family story about the Kennedy assassination. And it’s about to hit the big screen. Lees meer

   The writer-producer of the upcoming movie “November 1963,” Celozzi appeared on the weekly JFK Live gathering on Thursday, Oct. 22, to answer questions about the film and how the project evolved to include Oscar-nominated director Roland Joffé and stars John Travolta, Dermot Mulroney, Mandy Patinkin, and Robert Carlyle.

   Celozzi is the great nephew of Chicago mobster Sam Giancana. Celozzi based his script on a story recounted by his great-uncle Joseph “Pepe” Giancana, who spent time with Sam in the days surrounding the assassination.

   During the JFK Live chat, Celozzi talked about focusing his script on the family history — which indicates the assassination plot emanated from the Chicago mob. Other theories surrounding assassination story were largely set aside.

   “People keep talking themselves into stories,” Celozzi said. “And what I’m giving you is something from someone that was sitting in the room while it happened.

   “Nobody does anything by themselves. Were there other people involved? Of course, and I gave you some of them. Did it extend? Yes, it did. And I get into that extension in the follow-up project of mine. It’s impossible to tell it all. How do you tell it all in 120 pages?”

   Celozzi also talked about early iterations of the film, his collaborators, and plans for that follow-up — a movie called “The Trial of Jack Ruby.”

   Highlights from the conversation:

   On an earlier version that included screenwriter-director David Mamet: Mamet wanted to change the movie into something that kind of “de-true storied it.” It would have made it “into more of a fictional adaptation with some truisms in it. Brilliant stuff! But I could not go that route, and it broke my heart, because I’m a huge fan, I’m still a huge fan of David Mamet. I love his work. But I couldn’t go that route. Because if I went that route, you lose ‘based on a true story’.”

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2. JFK Facts Podcast #110: RFK Files Released

   26 mei 2025 · 1 uur 30 min

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   The drop of 65,000 pages and 17 audio files related to Sen. Robert F. Kennedy’s June 1968 assassination happened too soon for JFK Facts’ team to read and analyze them. Remember, the documents are not searchable on the National Archives page highlighting the RFK collection. But if you enter “mp3” into the search box, you can find those audio files, including the Los Angeles Police Department’s interview with Sirhan Sirhan on June 6, 1968. Listen in.

   On the weekly JFK Facts podcast, Larry Schnapf and Chad Nagle discussed the FBI files, the RFK release and other matters, and subscribers joined the discussion.

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3. JFK Facts Podcast #109: The CIA Is Slow Walking the Joannides File

   24 mei 2025 · 1 uur 26 min

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   The story of the most explosive JFK file still withheld by the CIA is the story of the personnel file of undercover officer George Joannides. His paid agents generated propaganda about Lee Harvey Oswald before and after JFK was killed, and he obstructed Congress’s JFK investigation in 1978.

   It’s been 100 days since President Trump issued Executive Order 14176, calling for “full and complete” JFK disclosure, and the Joannides file — containing 44 documents from 1962-1981 — is still withheld from public view.

   I’ll report on the ongoing efforts of Rep. Anna Paulina Luna to obtain the Joannides file and other key JFK records still held by the CIA.

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4. JFK Facts Podcast #108: What is the Point of the JFK Story in 2025?

   22 mei 2025 · 1 uur 27 min

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   Does full JFK disclosure important because it advances President Trump’s ambition to tame the so-called “deep state?” Does Trump’s advocacy of full JFK disclosure serve his authoritarian agenda?

   Or does full JFK disclosure matter because it holds the CIA accountable for abuses of power related to November 22, 1963, and highlights the need for Kennedy’s liberal policy vision today, a vision quite different than Trump’s?

   In a related issue, we talk about Robert F. Kennedy’ Jr.’s decision to release the autopsy photographs of his father. Radical transparency? Or unnecessary invasion of privacy?

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5. JFK Facts Podcast #111: Task Force on Declassification to Hold 2nd Hearing on the JFK

   20 mei 2025 · 1 uur 14 min

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   JFK Live hosts, Jefferson Morley and Larry Schnapf’s live discussion of the latest developments in the JFK story—including the just-announced JFK hearing on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, May 20, featuring living witnesses to the JFK story.

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6. The JFK Facts Podcast #102: The Oswald Puzzle with Larry Hancock and David Boylan

   12 maart 2025 · 1 uur 56 min

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7. The JFK Facts Podcast: Louis Ferrante on the Mob and JFK

   11 maart 2025 · 1 uur 47 min

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8. The JFK Facts Podcast: FBI Discovers JFK Files and Rep. Luna Announces an Investigation

   26 februari 2025 · 1 uur 28 min

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9. The JFK Facts Podcast: 12 Key JFK Files We Should See Soon

   25 februari 2025 · 1 uur 35 min

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10. JFK Facts Live: The Politics of Trump's JFK Order

    26 januari 2025 · 1 uur 15 min

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    Fernand Amandi, pollster and MSNBC news analyst, joined us for a conversation about President Trump's order on JFK assassination files. What does the order say? What doesn't it say? Will the rest of the records become public? And what's in them? Lees meer

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