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Subscribe for ad-free listening, early access, and all of our bonus content!The Constitution created what were supposed to be three coequal branches, and only Congress was given the authority to declare war. Yet we are living in the age of the imperial presidency — of endless war, executive orders, government secrecy, and a lack of accountability. These are all fit for a monarchy instead of a republic.How did we get here? What structures led to the rise of the imperial presidency? What decisions led to this unintended consequence undermining the American democratic experiment?Our guest is Jeremi Suri, who teaches history at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin. He's the author of The Impossible Presidency and co-host of This is Democracy podcast.Suri also writes the Democracy of Hope newsletter. Subscribe today to support our important work! Subscriptions begin at only $5 per month. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

In this episode, Douglas Wilson reflects on public memory of the COVID era and Fauci's recent testimony, then examines nothos in Hebrews 12:8 and the relationship between chastisement and sonship, before offering some “judicious conjecture” about LBJ and the JFK assassination in a review of Blood, Money, and Power.For more from Doug, subscribe to Canon+: https://canonplus.com/   IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com.

During the summer break, the 15-Minute History team will be republishing some of your favorite episodes. This episode originally aired on February 12, 2024.---As we look at villains in history, we want to look at actions and their effects. The policies of Lyndon Baines Johnson and Ho Chi Minh were the reflection of two leaders operating in different contexts. Though the method by which they exercised their intentions was different, the root of their “why” is in question. Join us as we look at both the intention and result from each leader by examining comparisons of policy during their tenure. The context of culture may require different methods for enacting said policies, but the intentions and subsequent outcomes show the result. We examine those today.

Climate change did not begin with AI—and neither did data centers.In this episode, Theo and I trace climate science from its nineteenth-century origins to the warning delivered to President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1965. Then we examine U.S. emissions, data-center growth, dirty grids, offshored pollution, and the increasingly convenient habit of treating AI as the new face of an old crisis.Data centers deserve scrutiny, cleaner power, and responsible regulation. But AI should answer for its own footprint—not for 60 years of governmental cowardice.Support unbanked/underbanked regions of the world by joining the "at home in my head" Kiva team at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.kiva.org/team/at_home_in_my_head⁠⁠ Podcast: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tracie-harris ⁠⁠Youtube:⁠⁠ ⁠https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoS6H2R1Or4MtabrkofdOMw⁠⁠ Bluesky: ⁠⁠https://bsky.app/profile/athomeinmyhead.bsky.social⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Paypal: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠http://paypal.me/athomeinmyhead⁠⁠RecommendedSOURCES: EARLY CLIMATE SCIENCEhttps://geosci.uchicago.edu/~rtp1/papers/Fourier1827Trans.pdfhttps://ocean.phys.msu.ru/courses/geo/lectures-addons/_/04/1999%20Fleming%2C%20Joseph%20Fourier%2C%20the%20greenhouse%20effect%2C%20and%20the%20quest%20for%20a%20universal%20theory%20of%20terrestrial%20temperatures.pdfhttps://history.aip.org/https://www.rigb.org/explore-science/explore/blog/who-discovered-greenhouse-effecthttps://history.aip.org/climate/co2.htmhttps://tellusjournal.org/articles/10.3402/tellusa.v9i1.9075https://amu.hal.science/hal-01467258THE 1965 U.S. WARNINGhttps://www.lbjlibrary.org/object/text/special-message-congress-conservation-restoration-natural-beauty-02-08-1965https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/document/31937-document-2-white-house-report-restoring-quality-our-environment-report-environmentalU.S. EMISSIONS AND CLIMATE POLICYhttps://unfccc.int/kyoto_protocolhttps://gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/https://www.eia.gov/environment/emissions/carbon/https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/inventory-us-greenhouse-gas-emissions-and-sinkshttps://ourworldindata.org/co2/country/united-stateshttps://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/energy-and-the-environment/where-greenhouse-gases-come-from.phphttps://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2026/population-growth-slows.htmlCONSUMPTION AND ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINThttps://overshoot.footprintnetwork.org/how-many-earths-or-countries-do-we-need/https://footprintnetwork.org/DATA CENTERS, ENERGY, AND COALhttps://www.ibm.com/think/topics/data-centershttps://datacenters.google/locations/the-dalles-oregon/https://www.iea.org/reports/energy-and-ai/executive-summaryhttps://www.noaa.gov/news/us-saw-its-4th-warmest-year-on-record-fueled-by-record-warm-decemberhttps://www.iea.org/reports/coal-2021/executive-summaryMusic Credit: “Wishful Thinking” – Dan Lebowitz: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOg3...A Silicon-Carbon Collaboration.

1968. LBJ is running out of time. Having abandoned his own re-election campaign, the President turns to the one achievement that might redeem his final months in office: peace in Vietnam. But as the US election tightens, the CIA begins to pick up signs that Nixon's campaign may be using secret back channels to keep South Vietnam away from the negotiating table. For LBJ, it could destroy his final hope of peace. For Richard Helms and Eloise Page, it is a dangerous collision of espionage, democracy and power.Starring Kim Cattrall, Kelsey Grammer, Johnny Flynn and David Duchovny.Eloise Page..........Kim Cattrall Lyndon Baines Johnson..........Kelsey Grammer Bill Colby..........David Duchovny Richard Helms..........Johnny Flynn Young Eloise Page..........Elena Delia Helene Boatner..........Carlyss Peer Anna Chennault..........Carin Chea Peer de Silva..........Ian Porter Nguyễn Văn Thiệu..........Aaron Teoh Tho..........Sotty Pong Richard Nixon..........Roy McCrerey Tom Karamessines ..........Akie Kotabe Averell Harriman..........Kerry Shale Elizabeth, Richard Helm's Secretary..........Laurel Lefkow Gerri Whittington..........Nettie ChickeringAll other parts played by the castOriginal music by Sacha PuttnamProduction: Written by Greg Haddrick, who created the series with Jeremy Fox Sound Design and Editing by Adam Woodhams, Andreina Gomez Casanova and John Scott Dryden Assistant Director: Flynn Hallman Sonica Studio Sound Engineers: Mat Clark & Paul Clark Sonica Runner: Lily LefkowDirector: John Scott Dryden Producer & Casting Director: Emma Hearn Executive Producers: Howard Stringer, Jeremy Fox, Greg Haddrick and John Scott Dryden.A Goldhawk production for BBC Radio 4

On April 4, 1968 the world changed when Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King was assassinated in Memphis Tennessee. Soon James Earl Ray was arrested and conviction of the murder, but questions remained. Our guest is a retired scientist who considers himself a historian, not a conspiracy theorist. Robert Doti's book "Layers of Complicity" poses questions regarding the details of the crime that do not veer into political persuasion or narrative. For instance, how could a bartender apparently content with a new found life in Los Angeles fund such a venture? How did J Edgar Hoover and LBJ factor into the event, if at all? The book does offer it's own theories, but leave enough open ended for the reader to consider. #mlk #jamesearlray #lbj #april4 #civilrights #ihadadream #podmatch YUH Theme by David T and Mojo 3https://www.amazon.com/Insanity-Sobri...Anti Social Network on Youtubehttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1NrDN795E7qwmKL5wS6z7wLayers of Complicity on Amazonhttps://www.amazon.com/Layers-Complicity-Robert-Doti-ebook/dp/B0GX4SY612/ref=sr_1_3?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.ZGvyQGsl14r_8goGrmgu8w.byiui0u2CPGsry7PAFT4EDEMRSl8eBhXdqZdpAMesOo&dib_tag=se&qid=1788824161&refinements=p_27%3ARobert+A.+Doti&s=books&sr=1-3Yeah Uh Huh Social Stuff:Yeah Uh Huh on TikTokhttps://www.tiktok.com/@yeahuhhuhpodYeah Uh Huh on Facebookhttps://facebook.com/YeahUhHuhPodYeah Uh Huh on Twitterhttps://twitter.com/YeahUhHuhPodYeah Uh Huh on Spotifyhttps://open.spotify.com/show/7pS9l716ljEQLeMMxwihoS?si=27bd15fb26ed46aaYeah Uh Huh on Apple Podcastshttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/yeah-uh-huh/id1565097611Yeah Uh Huh Website:https://yeah-uh-huh.wixsite.com/yeahuhhuhpod

Remember when Austin fun meant a Shiner Bock, some queso, and wandering until something happened?Sandy, JB, and Tricia stack a packed weekend: Chris Stapleton and Stella Lefty on the LBJ lawn, Tim McGraw across the way, Shaboozie at the Moody Amphitheater, then football and Eli Young. The bit takes a sharp turn into sport bikes, British-sounding sidecar racing, and bagger racing almost as fast as MotoGP, with JB vowing a YouTube deep dive.If you love The JB and Sandy Show, subscribe, leave a review, and share it with a friend who needs it.

He has been called one of the most consequential presidents in American history—and one of the most complicated. He was described as crude and compassionate, domineering and deeply empathetic. A political force of nature, Lyndon B. Johnson possessed a legendary ability to persuade, cajole, and outmaneuver nearly anyone in his path. He shepherded landmark civil rights legislation through Congress, won one of the greatest landslide victories in American history, and is often regarded as the most effective legislator ever to occupy the White House. Yet by the end of his presidency, the Vietnam War had made him a deeply polarizing figure, besieged by protesters and increasingly isolated. The president was Lyndon B. Johnson—and Tom Johnson had a front-row seat to it all. In this episode, Tom Johnson, former aide to LBJ and later publisher of the Los Angeles Times and president of CNN, reflects on his years alongside the 36th president during one of the most turbulent periods in American history. Drawing from his new memoir, Driven: A Life in Public Service and Journalism from LBJ to CNN, Johnson shares what it was really like to work for LBJ amid the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War, and the upheaval of the 1960s. DRIVEN: A LIFE IN PUBLIC SERVICE AND JOURNALISM FROM LBJ TO CNN https://www.amazon.com/Driven-Life-Public-Service-Journalism/dp/0820374539 JOIN PREMIUM Listen ad-free for only $5/month at www.bit.ly/TAPpremium BUY US A COFFEE buymeacoffee.com/thisamericanpresident FOLLOW US:www.thisamericanpresident.com/ CREDITSHost: Richard LimProducer: Michael NealCover Art: Nip Rogers, www.NipRogers.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

America is losing faith in Vietnam. After a major communist offensive shocks the public and exposes the fragility of the war effort, LBJ faces pressure from every side. The generals want more troops. The country wants answers. And inside Washington, the search begins for a strategy that can deliver results without admitting defeat. Into that vacuum steps Bill Colby, played by David Duchovny — the CIA's Far East chief and one of the Agency's most important Vietnam specialists. His influence inside the Agency is only beginning. His answer is the Phoenix Program: a plan to identify and dismantle the Viet Cong's hidden political network across South Vietnam. Colby believes the program can bring order, discipline and better intelligence to a failing war.But in Vietnam, even precision has a cost. What begins as an attempt to understand the enemy will become one of the most controversial operations in the CIA's history. For LBJ, Phoenix offers the hope of progress. For Colby, it is the making of a career. For the Agency, it is another step into the shadows of Vietnam.Starring Kim Cattrall, Kelsey Grammer, Johnny Flynn and David Duchovny.Eloise Page..........Kim Cattrall Lyndon Baines Johnson..........Kelsey Grammer Bill Colby..........David Duchovny Richard Helms..........Johnny Flynn Young Eloise Page..........Elena Delia Cynthia McKelvie..........Rachael Stirling Bob McNamara..........Rob Benedict Robert Komer..........Ian Porter Tom Karamessines..........Akie Kotabe Phan Pang..........Aaron Teoh Helene Boatner..........Carlyss Peer Dean Rusk..........Joseph Balderrama Elizabeth, Richard Helm's Secretary..........Laurel Lefkow McCoy..........Tyreke LeslieAll other parts played by the castOriginal music by Sacha PuttnamProduction: Written by Greg Haddrick, who created the series with Jeremy Fox Sound Design and Editing by Adam Woodhams, Andreina Gomez Casanova and John Scott Dryden Assistant Director: Flynn Hallman Sonica Studio Sound Engineers: Mat Clark & Paul Clark Sonica Runner: Lily LefkowDirector: John Scott Dryden Producer & Casting Director: Emma Hearn Executive Producers: Howard Stringer, Jeremy Fox, Greg Haddrick and John Scott Dryden.A Goldhawk production for BBC Radio 4

Tim Naftali is a presidential historian who spent four years running the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum. He's listened to thousands of hours of secret Oval Office recordings from Nixon, Lyndon B. Johnson, and John F. Kennedy. Naftali joins Coleman to break down which president was actually the sharpest, walking through the different kinds of intelligence—tactical, strategic, emotional—that separated men like LBJ and Nixon from each other. They get into why presidents started taping themselves in the first place, and what those recordings actually reveal. Naftali also takes on the recent online rehabilitation of Nixon, the idea that he was a victim of the same deep state that took down Kennedy, and explains why that story falls apart once you look at what he was actually asking the CIA and FBI to do. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

TV technology arrives on the scene half press and half novelty. Politicians learn they can bring messages on at times that won't be critiqued. Yet twice, in big historic moments, the TV industry realizes it has to stop simply covering and speak for itself. These moments rare but pack a punch. Also, Kennedy, LBJ and their relationship with television and magazines. Mutual dependence and communications. Favors and frustration. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Former IDF general Ofer Winter has launched Amcha Yisrael (“People of Israel”), a new right-wing populist party. Gadi explains why Netanyahu's camp sees Winter as a threat. In Israel's fragmented electoral system, small parties can end up wasting votes by drawing support away from other right-wing parties that then fail to cross the threshold for entering the Knesset. Winter insists that he belongs to the right-wing camp. But he rejected a reserved slot on the Likud list and chose to run on his own. His move could cost the right its majority and, ultimately, Netanyahu his hold on power. Mike and Gadi also discuss the stalemate in the Strait of Hormuz, where a “no war, no peace” deadlock drags on. And they revisit last week's conversation with Dan Schueftan, who, apparently with his ears burning, called in just as they were criticizing him. Mike reminded everyone that literally the funniest thing in the world is the recording of LBJ ordering Haggar slacks from the Oval Office, which is available at the following link: https://millercenter.org/listening-to-the-presidency/lbj-orders-some-new-haggar-pants Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sixty-two years ago today, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Food Stamp Act into law, making food stamps — now known as SNAP benefits — permanent. But Congress approved major funding cuts to SNAP last summer and introduced new work requirements. So what does the future of SNAP look like? Plus, what's on Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's agenda for G20 and, from "Marketplace Tech," a look at ICE's massive DNA collection.Every story has an economic angle. Want some in your inbox? Subscribe to our daily or weekly newsletter.Marketplace Morning Report is more than a radio show. Check out our original reporting and financial literacy content at marketplace.org — and consider making an investment in our future.Stories included in this episode:More than six decades after it was signed into law, the program known as SNAP is at risk

Sixty-two years ago today, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Food Stamp Act into law, making food stamps — now known as SNAP benefits — permanent. But Congress approved major funding cuts to SNAP last summer and introduced new work requirements. So what does the future of SNAP look like? Plus, what's on Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's agenda for G20 and, from "Marketplace Tech," a look at ICE's massive DNA collection.Every story has an economic angle. Want some in your inbox? Subscribe to our daily or weekly newsletter.Marketplace Morning Report is more than a radio show. Check out our original reporting and financial literacy content at marketplace.org — and consider making an investment in our future.Stories included in this episode:More than six decades after it was signed into law, the program known as SNAP is at risk

August 28, 2026On August 28, 1963, Reverend Dr Martin Luther King spoke at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, His speech was about race, but also about economics, John Lewis also spoke, calling for peaceful demonstrations and the vote, In 1964, voters gave Democrats a strong majority in Congress and, with President Lyndon B. Johnson, were able to pass 84 new laws putting Johnson's Great Society in Place, The laws cemented civil rights, created jobs, provided aid for job training and education, created Medicare and Medicaid, protected consumers and the environment, and provided support for the arts and the humanities, With the election of Richard Nixon the race to tear apart this commitment by appealing to racism was on, And in 2026 the Trump administration is abandoning Temporary Protected Status for Haitians who came to the US because it was too dangerous for them at home, Meanwhile vast sums are being contributed to keeping Republicans in office as they funnel money upward and dismantle the government, Republican candidates are calling for ICE and retired police to be deployed to intimidate voters in the midterms.Watch today's recording here: https://www.youtube.com/live/g9TUa1Rwd6U?si=T8_KKcHQZElhpnZ-Get full, free access to Letters from an American here: https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/subscribeYou can also find me:Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/hcrichardson.bsky.socialInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/heathercoxrichardson/?hl=enFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/heathercoxrichardson/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@heathercoxrichardson Get full access to Letters from an American at heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/subscribe

The war in Vietnam is no longer happening far away. Images of conflict flood American living rooms and the anti-war movement explodes. LBJ is convinced the protests cannot be truly domestic. Someone must be behind them: Moscow, Havana, perhaps both. He orders Richard Helms and the CIA to find the foreign influence driving unrest at home. But as the Agency moves closer to spying on American citizens, Eloise Page begins to see a different force at work. Not a secret network. Not a Soviet plot. Something much more powerful, sitting in plain sight: television.Starring Kim Cattrall, Kelsey Grammer and Johnny Flynn.Eloise Page..........Kim Cattrall Lyndon Baines Johnson..........Kelsey Grammer Richard Helms..........Johnny Flynn Young Eloise Page..........Elena Delia Cynthia McKelvie..........Rachael Stirling Bob McNamara.......... Rob Benedict Tom Karamessines ..........Akie Kotabe Richard Ober..........Richard Southgate Dean Rusk..........Joseph Balderrama Geri Whittington..........Nettie ChickeringAll other parts played by the castOriginal music by Sacha PuttnamProduction: Written by Greg Haddrick, who created the series with Jeremy Fox Sound Design and Editing by Adam Woodhams, Andreina Gomez Casanova and John Scott Dryden Assistant Director: Flynn Hallman Sonica Studio Sound Engineers: Mat Clark & Paul Clark Sonica Runner: Lily LefkowDirector: John Scott Dryden Producer & Casting Director: Emma Hearn Executive Producers: Howard Stringer, Jeremy Fox, Greg Haddrick and John Scott Dryden.A Goldhawk production for BBC Radio 4

On his 118th birthday, we honored former president Lyndon B. Johnson, by reviewing his leaked phone call to Haggar, where he was asking for some alterations to his pants. 

 Voters Right Act, Chicago Tribune, Slate, NY Times On the Eve of the 2026 March on Washington, we reflect back to August 6th, 1965 the Voting Rights Act was Signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson. C.T. Vivian, a prominent figure in the Civil Rights Movement, was violently attacked by Sheriff Jim Clark while attempting to escort a group of African Americans to register to vote. Steve Fiffer is a New York Times Bestselling Author. His Book is "It's in The Action": Memories of a Nonviolent Warrior, Rev C.T. Vivian's Memoir.Reverend Vivian was a Major Force in the Fight for Civil Rights & Voters Rights in the Twentieth Century till he Passed July 17th, 2020.Regardless of Social Status, Party Affiliation or Belief, Race: Libertarian, Democrat, Progressive or Republican or Other, All Americans Should Have the Right to Vote!Senator Barack Obama, speaking at Selma's Brown Chapel on the March 2007, anniversary of the 1965 Selma to Montgomery marches, recognized Vivian in his opening remarks in the words of Martin L. King Jr. as "the greatest preacher to ever live."Studying for the ministry at American Baptist Theological Seminary (now called American Baptist College) in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1959, Vivian met James Lawson, who was teaching Mohandas Gandhi's nonviolent direct action strategy to the Nashville Student Movement. Soon Lawson's students, including Diane Nash, Bernard Lafayette, James Bevel, John Lewis and others from American Baptist, Fisk University and Tennessee State University, organized a systematic nonviolent sit-in campaign at local lunch counters.Vivian helped found the Nashville Christian Leadership Conference, and helped organize the first sit-ins in Nashville in 1960 and the first civil rights march in 1961. In 1961, Vivian participated in Freedom Rides. He worked alongside Martin Luther King Jr. as the national director of affiliates for the SCLC. During the summer following the Selma Voting Rights Movement, Vivian is perhaps best known for, Vivian challenged Sheriff Jim Clark on the steps of the courthouse in Selma, Alabama, in 1965 during a drive to promote Black people to register to vote."You can turn your back on me, but you cannot turn your back upon the idea of justice," Vivian said to Clark as reporters recorded the interaction. "You can turn your back now and you can keep the club in your hand, but you cannot beat down justice. And we will register to vote, because as citizens of these United States we have the right to do it."Vivian conceived and directed an educational program, Vision, and put 702 Alabama students in college with scholarships (this program later became Upward Bound). His 1970 Black Power and the American Myth was the first book on the Civil Rights Movement by a member of Martin Luther King's staff.On August 8, 2013, President Barack Obama named Vivian as a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom.Steve's own Memoir is "Three Quarters, Two Dimes, and a Nickel". His work has appeared in Chicago Tribune. & Slate. He's also a Guggenheim Fellow© 2026 All Rights Reserved© 2026 Building Abundant Success!!Join Me on ~ iHeart Media @ https://tinyurl.com/iHeartBASSpot Me on Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/yxuy23baAmazon Music ~ https://tinyurl.com/AmzBASAudacy:  https://tinyurl.com/BASAud

This week we close out our Kilgallen series with the questions the first three were building toward: who killed her, and where did her JFK file go. Byron and Kelly run the suspect list one at a time, then walk through the string of connected deaths and the six places the missing file could have ended up.  CHAPTERS 0:00 Cold open, Ross Coulthart, and the Marcello confession 2:03 Part four begins 2:30 Suspect 1: Carlos Marcello 4:30 The RFK deportation and the motive 9:00 Operation CAMTEX, the informant, and the 302 11:20 The 2025 declassification 15:14 Suspect 2: Ron Pataki 16:00 Suspect 3: the CIA, and why she was a target 21:36 The 2025 Joannides file 26:00 Suspect 4: the FBI and J. Edgar Hoover 30:00 Suspect 5: the husband, Dickie Kollmar 35:17 Suspect 6: H.L. Hunt 42:10 The Carousel Club and the Murchison party 45:00 LBJ and Madeleine Brown 48:00 Roger Stone sells a stone 50:00 Back to Pataki: Stanford, Panama, and the taped confession 56:00 The string of connected deaths 1:03:00 Mary Pinchot Meyer and the diary 1:07:40 Three women, one year 1:09:15 Byron's read 1:11:30 Where the file went: six possibilities 1:13:35 What was in the file 1:15:53 Books to chase down 1:17:00 The Marilyn column and the elegy ABOUT THIS EPISODE The finale of Frightday's four-part investigation into the 1965 death of journalist Dorothy Kilgallen, found dead in a third-floor bedroom she never used, with her JFK assassination file missing. Byron and Kelly weigh each named suspect against motive, means, and opportunity, cover the recently declassified files that touch the case, and lay out the pattern of witness deaths the HSCA itself called statistically remarkable. THE SUSPECTS Carlos Marcello, New Orleans boss, the CAMTEX prison recordings, and the Camp Street connective tissue to Oswald Ron Pataki, the much younger songwriter, possible handler, and the What's My Line hotel-key signal The CIA, Mark Lane's warning, the Dulles grudge, and the Joannides personnel file The FBI and J. Edgar Hoover, the dossier opened in 1959 and the files removed after her death Richard "Dickie" Kollmar, the widower, the matching death certificate, and the mother's accusation at the funeral H.L. Hunt, Lifeline radio, the Dallas Morning News ad, and the Murchison party LBJ, Madeleine Brown, and the Billy Sol Estes testimony Roger Stone, for completeness and a stone CONNECTED DEATHS COVERED Bill Hunter, Jim Koethe, Tom Howard, Mary Pinchot Meyer, Florence Pritchett Smith, Lee Bowers, Jack Ruby, David Ferrie, George de Mohrenschildt, and Richard Kollmar. SOURCES AND FURTHER READING Mark Shaw, The Reporter Who Knew Too Much and Abuse of Power Sara Jordan-Heintz, Who Killed Dorothy Kilgallen and The Incredible Life and Mysterious Death of Dorothy Kilgallen Lee Israel, Kilgallen (1979) Lamar Waldron, Legacy of Secrecy Roger Stone, The Man Who Killed Kennedy: The Case Against LBJ G. Robert Blakey, former HSCA chief counsel James DiEugenio, Kennedys and King, for the skeptic's read The Mary Ferrell Foundation collection and the 2025 JFK releases at archives.gov CONNECT Discord: discord.frightday.com The Frightday Society: frightdaysociety.org Email: contact@frightday.com Bluesky / Twitter / Instagram: @frightday Phone line: 1-833-FRIGHT-9 MORE FRIGHTDAY 700+ episodes covering horror, paranormal, cryptids, true crime, and conspiracies since 2014. An Audio Wool original produced by Byron McKoy. Theme music by Jans. #tags

On Friday's Mark Levin Show, a major debate among conservatives will run through the 2028 Republican primaries, pitting Buchananites (post-liberal conservatives) against Reaganites and Trumpites, with some Trumpites sounding more like the former. It centers on national conservatism versus traditional constitutional conservatism and the proper use of government power. Some voices push interventionism resembling FDR or LBJ—socialist lite—without clear limits, seeking popular appeal while dismissing the strong growth of the 1980s. Such candidates could win a primary but lose the general election. Power is ubiquitous and shapes politics and liberty, yet is distinct from liberty itself.  Properly used, as in the American Revolution and the Constitution that replaced the weak Articles of Confederation, it secures ordered liberty through limited, divided government (“positive power”). Abused, it centralizes authority, erodes liberty, and turns democracies toward autocracy (“negative power”)—via courts overriding voters, people voting away their freedom, or bureaucratic expansion. Also, Doran Spielman, international spokesman in the Israeli Prime Minister's office, describes rising tensions as Erdogan moves military forces into Syria near Israel's border to exploit the situation, having taken over and militarized a former Russian base despite Netanyahu's warnings, prompting an Israeli Air Force strike. Erdogan is now sending more vehicles including tanks into southwestern Syria; Netanyahu has again warned against it, while Erdogan claims this is not Gaza and even the United States could not protect Israel if struck, to which Netanyahu replied that Israel has faced bigger empires. Later, President Trump campaigns for Sen Darline Graham in South Carolina and we take his remarks live! Finally, Ken Paxton calls in his Texas Senate race against James Talarico - a hardcore leftist who is trying to reinvent himself as a moderate Democrat. If a Democrat wins this seat, it would reshape Texas and threaten Republican control of the Senate. Paxton's top priority is the Save America Act to secure elections; he also prioritizes tackling the federal deficit, placing constitutional conservatives on the judiciary, and confronting China as America's primary economic and military challenge. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week on The Texas Take, host Jeremy Wallace and Washington correspondent James Osborne break down the backlash over border construction near Big Bend National Park and what happens next there. And with President Donald Trump coming to Houston for a big fundraiser, they dig into the Republican National Committee's huge fundraising advantage over Democrats and how that could impact Democrat James Talarico's bid to defeat Ken Paxton in the U.S. Senate race. They have exclusive audio from RNC chair Joe Gruters about why he's always in Texas and from Democratic National Committee chair Ken Martin who explained to a Texas audience why South Carolina and Nevada will be the first two states to vote in the Democratic presidential primary in 2028. Finally, with LBJ's birthday approaching, they revisit the Texas president's complicated legacy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Brian and Justin realize they met in Bush's America and they're approaching the point where they've spent more of their lives doing this show than not. Kyle Chandler appreciation, getting accidentally lost on a seven-mile run, Josie's mythical freshman apartment, baby-giraffe mania, The Pitt's scam apocalypse, Jar Jar optimism, and way too much information about LBJ. Get an extra episode every week only at https://www.patreon.com/greatnight!

Brian and Justin realize they met in Bush's America and they're approaching the point where they've spent more of their lives doing this show than not. Kyle Chandler appreciation, getting accidentally lost on a seven-mile run, Josie's mythical freshman apartment, baby-giraffe mania, The Pitt's scam apocalypse, Jar Jar optimism, and way too much information about LBJ. Get an extra episode every week only at https://www.patreon.com/greatnight!

This Day in Legal History: The War on PovertyOn August 20, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Economic Opportunity Act, the legislative centerpiece of the “War on Poverty” he had declared in his State of the Union address seven months earlier. It was among the most ambitious pieces of social legislation in American history. More fundamentally, it committed the federal government to the idea that poverty was not merely an individual misfortune, but a national problem the country could organize itself to confront.The Act was broad by design. It authorized roughly $1 billion and created a collection of programs whose names remain familiar: the Job Corps, which trained young people; VISTA, conceived as a domestic version of the Peace Corps; the Neighborhood Youth Corps; and the Community Action Program. The last of those sent federal money directly to local organizations and required the “maximum feasible participation” of poor people in designing the programs intended to help them. The Act also created the Office of Economic Opportunity to oversee the broader effort. Head Start, which continues operating today, grew out of the same framework.The legacy of August 20, 1964, is genuinely mixed, which is precisely why it is worth remembering honestly. The War on Poverty created durable institutions, including Head Start, Job Corps, and legal-services programs for poor Americans, while embedding the principle that the federal government has some responsibility for expanding opportunity. But the “maximum feasible participation” requirement also produced fierce battles between local activists and city governments that were accustomed to controlling federal money. The initiative was then starved of funding as the war in Vietnam consumed both the federal budget and the country's political attention. The Economic Opportunity Act remains a reference point in nearly every argument about what the government owes its most vulnerable citizens. It also pairs pointedly with a day of legal news dominated by criminal prosecutions and judicial power—a reminder that law is not only a mechanism for punishment, but, at its most aspirational, a tool for creating opportunity.In the trial of the man accused of orchestrating Tupac Shakur's 1996 murder, the defense has settled on a genuinely remarkable strategy: asking the jury not to believe its own client. When we covered the opening of the trial, I noted that the case largely rests on Duane “Keffe D” Davis's own words. Over the years, Davis said in media interviews and in a 2019 memoir that he was inside the Cadillac on the night Tupac was shot and that he handed the gun to the men in the back seat. Police had long suspected Davis, but they did not have enough evidence to charge him until he began publicly talking about the crime. His lawyer, Michael Sanft, is now attacking the reliability of those same admissions, at one point displaying a slide for jurors bearing a single word: “b******t.” The defense theory is that Davis is a braggart who exaggerated or invented his involvement to sell books and improve his street reputation—and that self-aggrandizing talk is not proof beyond a reasonable doubt.Legally, this is a fascinating position because Davis's statements are doing much of the work a live confession ordinarily would, except that he made them for money and status rather than during a police interrogation. His effort to claim immunity based on a 2008 proffer has already failed before the Nevada Supreme Court, clearing the way for the statements to be used at trial. The case therefore turns on a basic but difficult evidentiary question: when someone publicly brags about participating in a notorious crime for personal gain, is that a confession the government can use to convict him, or is it just talk? The jury must decide whether Keffe D was telling the world the truth—or, as his own lawyer now argues, lying for profit.Defense strategy in Tupac murder case: don't believe my client | ReutersCNN · KELOPresident Trump has announced nine new judicial nominees for federal courts in Florida, Texas, Louisiana, Kentucky, Oklahoma, and Alaska as the November midterms approach. The group notably includes an Oklahoma state attorney who supported allowing taxpayer-funded religious charter schools, offering a preview of the church-state disputes these judges could eventually be asked to decide. The larger legal point is that lifetime federal judgeships may be the most durable form of power a president exercises.These nominees, if confirmed, will continue interpreting federal law and the Constitution for decades after the president who selected them has left office. There is an unusual wrinkle this time, however: Trump's pace of judicial appointments has slowed because there are not many vacancies left. His first term substantially reshaped the federal judiciary, and an aggressive beginning to his second term further reduced the number of available seats. That is why a nine-person slate spanning six states is meaningful in a year when there simply is not much left to fill. The “as midterms loom” framing matters as well, because control of the Senate determines whether a president's nominees receive confirmation votes at all. The administration therefore has every reason to move nominees while the current Senate math remains favorable. Even a comparatively modest batch of nominations illustrates the quiet, cumulative way presidents shape American law—not through the executive orders that dominate a news cycle, but through lifetime appointments that survive countless news cycles. Each of these nine nominees, if confirmed, would represent a decades-long imprint on the federal judiciary.Trump names nine new judicial nominees as November midterms loom | ReutersLaw360 · Bloomberg LawAnd finally, we have a genuinely novel legal argument—literally. The Justice Department is prosecuting former FBI Director James Comey for allegedly threatening President Trump, and prosecutors are now pointing to Comey's own novel as evidence against him. The charge arises from a May 2025 Instagram post in which Comey shared a photograph of seashells arranged on a beach to spell “86 47.” In that formulation, “86” is slang for getting rid of something, while “47” refers to Trump as the 47th president. Comey said he encountered the shells while walking on a North Carolina beach and posted the image as a clever piece of political commentary. Prosecutors have adopted a much darker interpretation. In a new filing urging the judge not to dismiss the case, the Justice Department cites Comey's legal thriller FDR Drive, published that same month, in which a right-wing podcaster uses coded language to incite followers against political opponents.The government's theory is that the novel demonstrates Comey understood how coded language can function as a threat and therefore knew what “86 47” would communicate. Prosecutors also suggested that he exploited the resulting controversy to sell books, quoting a message to his agent in which Comey wrote that the attention was “not my intention, but I'll be OK if it sells books.” The First Amendment does not protect “true threats,” but it strongly protects political criticism and hyperbole, and the Supreme Court has held that the government generally must prove a speaker was at least reckless about how a statement would be understood. The central question is therefore whether “86 47” amounted to a genuine threat of violence or protected political speech. Using a defendant's fictional writing to establish his state of mind is an aggressive and unusual prosecutorial move. Comey's lawyers describe the case as retaliation for his criticism of Trump. The prosecution sits directly on the fault line between criminalizing a threat and criminalizing dissent—and the government is effectively asking the court to treat a novelist's imagination as evidence of criminal intent.DOJ argues Comey novel shows he knew ‘86 47' post was a threat against Trump | ReutersCNBC · The Hill This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.minimumcomp.com/subscribe

We have a history lesson with Lyndon B. Johnson and his summer pants, Colleen and Holly went to Catzen Coffee in Saint Paul and it's a delightful haven for cat and coffee lovers, and the filmmaker of "One Night Only" shares why Gen Z and Gen Alpha aren't interested in sex on screen. Jason takes Jenny Jones's biscuit recipe to task, Madonna leads this year's MTV VMA nominations and Jack Lowden might be the frontrunner for James Bond, AITA: For asking my friend to pay me back for dinner? And we have a beef with Minnesota's most popular soda is Diet Mountain Dew and we're kinda shocked!SCREEN QUEENS: Colleen is all about the new "A Different World" and Oasis documentary trailers, and Paramount explains the death of a "Dexter" spin-off. Plus, "Lanterns" and "Double Lives of Suburban Wives." Plus, we discuss the latest episode of "The Oprah Podcast" about generational differences. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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Holly knows something about a famous dessert. Can Jason and Colleen guess what it is?Plus, is there a connection between President Lyndon B. Johnson and Beavis and Butthead?! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

0:00 ... Ross opens the show and introduces the panel .... episode #262 is dedicated to Carmelo Anthony, who set the New York Knicks single game scoring record with 62 points. 0:58 ... Bruce introduces Mike Wise, whose career as an NBA writer has taken him to major outlets like the New York Times, the Washington Post, ESPN, and several other stops along the way.  He was even a rickshaw driver for one of the greatest ballers in the history of basketball. 2:58 ... Mike tells the story of how he befriended Magic Johnson as a high school kid in Hawaii and they played ball with all of his friends. 4:35 ... Mike reflects on the Knicks 2026 championship run and how improbable some of the games were. 7:29 ... Was OG Anunoby's tip in one of the greatest plays in the history of Madison Square Garden? 8:56 ... Mike remembers how Jalen Brunson's dad Rick was a member of the 1999 Knicks team with little Jalen playing around on the court and how that little kid became perhaps the second greatest Knick ever.  Brunson amazes Mike with his skills on the court. 10:56 ... Mike on Knicks fans ... were they as sophisticated as they thought they were? 16:07 .... LeBron goes to Philly and continues his quest to be recognized as the GOAT if he can win 1-2 more championships.  Mike feels LBJ still has a lot to give. 20:18 ... Which opening night matchup is Mike looking forward to the most?  Thunder vs Spurs and Wemby vs Holmgren?  Mike explains. 22:26 ... Ross likes the opener between the Sixers and Knicks as his choice. 23:12 ... What about the Celtics vs Pistons at 2:00pm on a Tuesday as the opener for those two teams? 24:27 ... Has social media made it more difficult for reporters to build relationships with players? 26:38 ... Mike has a great story about Kobe Bryant and how Kobe and he took a car ride where Kobe's musical tastes were on display. 29:05 ... Mike praises two of the best PR guys in the business, Jeff Twiss and Raymond Ridder for their willingness to help reporters gain access to players. 31:10 ... World B asks Mike who his most enjoyable players were to cover ... Bruce Bowen was at the top of his list.  Roger Mason and Garrett Temple were two others.  Temple's dad Collis broke the color barrier at LSU and Garrrett told Mike how his Dad shouted down a future Ku Klux Klan grand wizard on the LSU campus. 34:22 .... Mike has an incredible story about Charles Barkley and how they met in Panama where Mike now lives. 36:00 ... Mike tells a story about Larry Bird and how Barkley showed him a video where Bird did a favor for someone that is mind boggling in its generosity. 38:17 ... Barkley had words of inspiration for Mike's son Oliver during their visit .... and more than a few "F Bombs" were used in the conversation. 38:51 ... Sophie Cunningham has made a lot of enemies due to her opposition to transgender females competing against natural born females.  Mike checks in with his thoughts on the controversy. 41:57 ... Cunningham has publicly stood up for her teammate Caitlin Clark and Bruce was wondering if that may be contributing to some of the animosity towards her from other WNBA players. 44:01 ... Ross asks Mike for his opinion on the Steve Ballmer/Kawhi Leonard/Aspiration investigation. 46:41 ... Bruce is most bothered by the way the investigation has held up the trade involving the Raptors and Clippers and how players like Brandon Ingram and Gradey Dick as well as Leonard are collatoral damage and how unfair it is to them. 47:59 ... Mike thinks there's a good story yet to be written about Kawhi's Uncle Dennis, who may be kind of shady. 49:05 ... Bruce asks Mike, who is good friends with Jeanie Buss what he thinks about the news that Jeanie is taking legal action against her family members who are trying to sell the Buss family's remaining ownership stake in the Lakers. 52:12 ... Bruce thanks Mike for joining the show 53:22 ... Mike has one final story about "Earvin" Johnson on his way out the door ... 54:05 ... Ross wraps the show and says goodbye! TRT 54:38           Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

This week on Q&A, it's a rare interview with one of America's leading historians. We tour the New York City office and home library of Pulitzer Prize-winning bestselling biographer Robert Caro, who is currently working on the final volume of his 5-volume biography of Lyndon Johnson. During the tour, Mr. Caro talks about his research and writing process on the LBJ series, and the impact of "The Power Broker," his bestselling 1974 biography of NYC Parks Commissioner Robert Moses. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on Q&A, it's a rare interview with one of America's leading historians. We tour the New York City office and home library of Pulitzer Prize-winning bestselling biographer Robert Caro, who is currently working on the final volume of his 5-volume biography of Lyndon Johnson. During the tour, Mr. Caro talks about his research and writing process on the LBJ series, and the impact of "The Power Broker," his bestselling 1974 biography of NYC Parks Commissioner Robert Moses. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tune in here to this Monday's edition of the Brett Winterble Show! Brett kicks off the program by talking about the extreme summer heat and the political ambitions of Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear. Brett jokes about the relentless temperatures and encourages listeners to stay hydrated as the heat continues across the region. He then turns to Beshear’s comments about the economy, the cost of groceries, gas and health care, and his claim that he has created more jobs than any other governor in Kentucky history. Brett questions Beshear’s political positioning, particularly his effort to present himself as both pro-business and aligned with progressive Democratic policies. Later, Brett looks back at President Lyndon B. Johnson’s Great Society programs and questions the long-term impact of decades of federal spending. Brett argues that the Great Society established a pattern of increasing government spending and taxation that continues today. He examines the difficulty of calculating exactly how much has been spent on domestic programs since the 1960s, noting that the federal government does not maintain one single historical category for “domestic spending.” Using broader federal expenditure data, Brett highlights the staggering scale of government outlays since the Great Society era, pointing to a figure of more than $200 trillion in total federal expenditures over the period. Listen here for all of this and more on The Brett Winterble Show! For more from Brett Winterble check out his YouTube channel. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A man who sleep-walked America into the Civil War, a president whose administration was so corrupt his own Attorney General went to prison, and the commander-in-chief who escalated Vietnam while privately admitting it was unwinnable. History's Greatest Idiots is taking a well-earned break, and leaving you with three of the worst presidents America ever produced to keep you company.This 3.5-hour Greatest Hits special revisits James Buchanan (ranked the worst president in US history by multiple scholarly surveys), Warren G. Harding (Teapot Dome, corruption, and a cabinet that made his predecessors look competent), and LBJ (the Vietnam War, the Gulf of Tonkin deception, and the presidency that broke the Democratic Party for a generation).⁠⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/HistorysGreatestIdiots⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/historysgreatestidiots⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://buymeacoffee.com/historysgreatestidiots⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Artist: Sarah Chey⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.fiverr.com/sarahchey⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

This week, the march toward My Lai continues as America sinks deeper into Vietnam, from JFK and the Gulf of Tonkin to LBJ's escalation of the war, the rise of body counts, and the growing brutality that helped create the conditions for a massacre... As LBJ himself put it, "there ain't no daylight in Vietnam". For Live Shows, Merch, and More Visit: www.LastPodcastOnTheLeft.comKevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Subscribe to SiriusXM Podcasts+ to listen to new episodes of Last Podcast on the Left ad-free, plus get Friday episodes a whole week early. Start a free trial now on Apple Podcasts or by visiting siriusxm.com/podcastsplus. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Richard Helms has finally reached the top of the CIA. Now he has to prove the Agency deserves to be heard. In Vietnam, the Pentagon insists America is winning. The CIA's own intelligence tells a darker story: the enemy is larger, stronger and more resilient than Washington wants to believe. LBJ demands evidence, and Helms must stand behind an estimate that challenges everything the military is telling him. But Vietnam is not the only crisis. In the Middle East, tensions between Israel, Syria, Egypt and Jordan are moving towards a confrontation that could pull in the superpowers. As Helms begins his tenure as CIA Director, he faces the hardest task in Washington: telling a President the truth before events outrun him.Starring Kim Cattrall, Kelsey Grammer and Johnny Flynn.Eloise Page..........Kim Cattrall Lyndon Baines Johnson..........Kelsey Grammer Richard Helms..........Johnny Flynn Young Eloise Page..........Elena Delia Bob McNamara..........Rob Benedict Desmond Fitzgerald..........Donald Sage Mackay John McCone..........Tim Ahern Helen Boatner..........Carlyss Peer Dean Rusk..........Joseph Balderrama Tom Karamessines..........Akie Kotabe Gerri Whittington..........Nettie Chickering Elizabeth, Richard Helm's Secretary..........Laurel Lefkow Sailor..........Clay ZackeryAll other parts played by the castOriginal music by Sacha PuttnamProduction: Written by Greg Haddrick, who created the series with Jeremy Fox Sound Design and Editing by Adam Woodhams, Andreina Gomez Casanova and John Scott Dryden Assistant Director: Flynn Hallman Sonica Studio Sound Engineers: Mat Clark & Paul Clark Sonica Runner: Lily LefkowDirector: John Scott Dryden Producer & Casting Director: Emma Hearn Executive Producers: Howard Stringer, Jeremy Fox, Greg Haddrick and John Scott Dryden.A Goldhawk production for BBC Radio 4

Subscribe to enjoy ad-free listening, early access, and all of our bonus content! The American way of war is broken. Like many of his White House predecessors, Donald Trump is stuck in a stalemate of his own making. In Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq — to name four major wars — the president who went to war was unable to extricate the U.S. from the morass. It was up to his successor to salvage something from the wreckage of U.S. credibility and prestige. Our guest is Will Walldorf, who teaches in the Department of Politics and International Affairs at Wake Forest University. He is a Senior Fellow at Defense Priorities, a Washington think tank. His latest book is To Shape Our World For Good:  Master Narratives and Forceful Regime Change in United States Foreign Policy, 1900-2011. Recommended reading: Trump Needs to Defy History to End the Iran War by Will Walldorf (Foreign Policy) Subscribe today to support our important work! Subscriptions begin at only $5 per month. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

August 6, 2026On August 6, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act, In 1865, Americans ratified the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution, outlawing enslavement except as punishment for crimes, In subsequent years, with the ratification of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments, citizenship was guaranteed to anyone born or naturalized in the US (except certain Indigenous Americans) and the right to vote was extended to Black men, These amendments gave Congress the power to enforce them, In response, white opponents hindered the ability of Black men to vote, Opposition did not gain traction until after WWII, when judges used the due process clause and the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to argue that states could not deprive any American of equality, Under pressure from President Dwight D Eisenhower, Congress passed civil rights acts in 1957 and 1960, and in 1964 Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 which strengthened voting rights, In 1965, the Voting Rights Act became law, It was reauthorized repeatedly by large margins, but in 2013, the Supreme Court struck down the provision of the law requiring that states with a history of discrimination get approval before changing voting laws, The assault on the Voting Rights Act continued in 2026, after the decision in Louisiana v Callais, The gap between white and Black voter turnout in the 2024 election was the highest since at least 2008.Watch today's recording here: https://www.youtube.com/live/g9TUa1Rwd6U?si=T8_KKcHQZElhpnZ-Get full, free access to Letters from an American here: https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/subscribeYou can also find me:Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/hcrichardson.bsky.socialInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/heathercoxrichardson/?hl=enFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/heathercoxrichardson/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@heathercoxrichardson Get full access to Letters from an American at heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/subscribe

────────────────────────────────────────[00:03:02]Tucker's Third Party Manifesto Calls for JFK and 9/11 Accountability — Knight: Start With Your Own 9/11 RecordTucker sandbagged an Architects and Engineers guest refusing to show Building 7 footage; 9/11 was the Reichstag fire for the 21st century police state.────────────────────────────────────────[00:16:18]Trump's Michigan Endorsee Beaten by a Dropped-Out Candidate Who Raised $1,600Smith filed on paper, apologized to the FEC, dropped out, and still got 50%; Trump's endorsement had zero effect.────────────────────────────────────────[00:21:02]The GOP Is Now the ZOP — Zionist Owned Politicians — Blowback Is Giving Us Islamic CommunistsThe open buying of government by Israel and the technocrats is pushing voters toward socialists and Muslims who won't be cowed on Israel.────────────────────────────────────────[00:24:51]Burger King Woman Fired for Saying "Free Palestine" — GoFundMe Raised Over $150,000She wasn't aggressive; the customer videotaped her from his car; there's always a blowback. ──────────────────────────────────────── ── Interview 1: Humberto Cancio — Comey 86-47 Case Analysis ──────────────────────────────────────────[00:28:09]A Threat Must Be Explicit, Direct, or Contextually Unmistakable — Watts v. US: Soldier Threatening LBJ Was ProtectedA soldier said LBJ was first in his rifle sights; Supreme Court said not a threat; the 86-47 case has a longer road.────────────────────────────────────────[00:38:24]Hyperbole and Satire Are Core Protected Speech — Criminal Exception Requires an Extremely High StandardJudges from left and right agree; Cancio doubts it survives the judge; he pities the AUSA who has to try it.────────────────────────────────────────[00:57:09]Section 230 Public Square Argument Fails When Platforms Boost Content for Commercial GainBoost commercially and you are a publisher liable for libel and wrongful death; AI hallucinating citations cost one Florida lawyer his license. ──────────────────────────────────────── ── Interview 2: Iowa State Rep Cindy Golding (cindygolding.com) — Data Center Transparency Bill ──────────────────────────────────────────[01:22:10]Golding's Transparency Bill Passed Committee Unanimously — Google and NextEra Killed It in House LeadershipGoogle refused to disclose water consumption; NextEra called it proprietary; you use our land and tax dollars — we have a right to know.────────────────────────────────────────[01:26:40]Once a Data Center Is Zoned, Utilities Commission Gets Eminent Domain Authority — Citizens Lose Their WindowOnce approved, the board mandates power delivery and can raise rates; stop it at zoning before the permit request arrives.────────────────────────────────────────[01:32:37]Economic Development Departments Measured on Dollars Brought In — Not Community Impact or Job Quality$11-13 million in state incentives per permanent job; 8,000 temp workers overwhelmed landfill, roads, hotels, and housing — they leave and the community absorbs the costs. ──────────────────────────────────────── Money should have intrinsic value AND transactional privacy: Go to https://davidknight.gold/ for great deals on physical gold/silver For 10% off Gerald Celente's prescient Trends Journal, go to https://trendsjournal.com/ and enter the code “KNIGHT” For high quality made in America products go to HomeSteadProducts.shop and use promo code “Knight” for 10% off your purchases Find out more about the show and where you can watch it at TheDavidKnightShow.com If you would like to support the show and our family please consider subscribing monthly here: SubscribeStar https://www.subscribestar.com/the-david-knight-show Or you can send a donation throughMail: David Knight POB 994 Kodak, TN 37764Zelle: @DavidKnightShow@protonmail.comCash App at: $davidknightshowBTC to: bc1qkuec29hkuye4xse9unh7nptvu3y9qmv24vanh7Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-david-knight-show--2653468/support.

8.6.2026 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: Voting Rights Act at 61. Louisiana Targets Wrongfully Convicted Black Man. Boseman Estate Fight Today is the 61st anniversary of the Voting Rights Act. We'll see how much has changed since President Lyndon B. Johnson signed it into law. Governor Wes Moore signed legislation placing a constitutional amendment on November's ballot that could pave the way for Democrats to redraw Maryland's congressional map after the 2026 elections. Louisiana's Attorney General is blocking compensation for a black man wrongfully convicted and is actively trying to put him behind bars again. We'll have the second part of the 10th annual "Power of the Sister Vote" poll, which breaks down just how much black women trust the government. A recent lawsuit involving Chadwick Boseman's family suing his wife for his estate has stirred up bigger concerns about black people not having a will. We'll talk to an attorney and author of "A Matter of Life and Death: How to Handle Family Affairs," about the importance of estate planning. Black Star Network Partner: Chapter Chapter and its affiliates are not connected with or endorsed by any government entity or the federal Medicare program. Chapter Advisory, LLC represents Medicare Advantage HMO, PPO, and PFFS organizations and stand alone prescription drug plans that have a Medicare contract. Enrollment depends on the plan’s contract renewal. While we have a database of every Medicare plan nationwide and can help you to search among all plans, we have contracts with many but not all plans. As a result, we do not offer every plan available in your area. Currently we represent 50 organizations which offer 18,160 products nationwide. We search and recommend all plans, even those we don’t directly offer. You can contact a licensed Chapter agent to find out the number of products available in your specific area. Please contact Medicare.gov, 1-800-Medicare, or your local State Health Insurance Program (SHIP) to get information on all of your options. ____ Download the Black Star Network app at http://www.blackstarnetwork.com! We're on iOS, AppleTV, Android, AndroidTV, Roku, FireTV, and SamsungTV. The #BlackStarNetwork is a news reporting platform covered under Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

────────────────────────────────────────[00:03:02]Tucker's Third Party Manifesto Calls for JFK and 9/11 Accountability — Knight: Start With Your Own 9/11 RecordTucker sandbagged an Architects and Engineers guest refusing to show Building 7 footage; 9/11 was the Reichstag fire for the 21st century police state.────────────────────────────────────────[00:16:18]Trump's Michigan Endorsee Beaten by a Dropped-Out Candidate Who Raised $1,600Smith filed on paper, apologized to the FEC, dropped out, and still got 50%; Trump's endorsement had zero effect.────────────────────────────────────────[00:21:02]The GOP Is Now the ZOP — Zionist Owned Politicians — Blowback Is Giving Us Islamic CommunistsThe open buying of government by Israel and the technocrats is pushing voters toward socialists and Muslims who won't be cowed on Israel.────────────────────────────────────────[00:24:51]Burger King Woman Fired for Saying "Free Palestine" — GoFundMe Raised Over $150,000She wasn't aggressive; the customer videotaped her from his car; there's always a blowback. ──────────────────────────────────────── ── Interview 1: Humberto Cancio — Comey 86-47 Case Analysis ──────────────────────────────────────────[00:28:09]A Threat Must Be Explicit, Direct, or Contextually Unmistakable — Watts v. US: Soldier Threatening LBJ Was ProtectedA soldier said LBJ was first in his rifle sights; Supreme Court said not a threat; the 86-47 case has a longer road.────────────────────────────────────────[00:38:24]Hyperbole and Satire Are Core Protected Speech — Criminal Exception Requires an Extremely High StandardJudges from left and right agree; Cancio doubts it survives the judge; he pities the AUSA who has to try it.────────────────────────────────────────[00:57:09]Section 230 Public Square Argument Fails When Platforms Boost Content for Commercial GainBoost commercially and you are a publisher liable for libel and wrongful death; AI hallucinating citations cost one Florida lawyer his license. ──────────────────────────────────────── ── Interview 2: Iowa State Rep Cindy Golding (cindygolding.com) — Data Center Transparency Bill ──────────────────────────────────────────[01:22:10]Golding's Transparency Bill Passed Committee Unanimously — Google and NextEra Killed It in House LeadershipGoogle refused to disclose water consumption; NextEra called it proprietary; you use our land and tax dollars — we have a right to know.────────────────────────────────────────[01:26:40]Once a Data Center Is Zoned, Utilities Commission Gets Eminent Domain Authority — Citizens Lose Their WindowOnce approved, the board mandates power delivery and can raise rates; stop it at zoning before the permit request arrives.────────────────────────────────────────[01:32:37]Economic Development Departments Measured on Dollars Brought In — Not Community Impact or Job Quality$11-13 million in state incentives per permanent job; 8,000 temp workers overwhelmed landfill, roads, hotels, and housing — they leave and the community absorbs the costs. ──────────────────────────────────────── Money should have intrinsic value AND transactional privacy: Go to https://davidknight.gold/ for great deals on physical gold/silver For 10% off Gerald Celente's prescient Trends Journal, go to https://trendsjournal.com/ and enter the code “KNIGHT” For high quality made in America products go to HomeSteadProducts.shop and use promo code “Knight” for 10% off your purchases Find out more about the show and where you can watch it at TheDavidKnightShow.com If you would like to support the show and our family please consider subscribing monthly here: SubscribeStar https://www.subscribestar.com/the-david-knight-show Or you can send a donation throughMail: David Knight POB 994 Kodak, TN 37764Zelle: @DavidKnightShow@protonmail.comCash App at: $davidknightshowBTC to: bc1qkuec29hkuye4xse9unh7nptvu3y9qmv24vanh7Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-real-david-knight-show--5282736/support.

The Voting Rights Act outlawed literacy tests and authorised federal officials to oversee voter registration in jurisdictions with a history of discrimination, resulting in a substantial increase in voter registration and political participation among African Americans in the years that ...

In Episode 14 of the Noss Gold Treasure, the investigation shifts to the early 1970s as President Richard Nixon positions himself to gain access to the vast fortune hidden inside Victorio Peak. The episode explores a pivotal July 6, 1970 meeting at Nixon's Western White House in San Clemente, California, where geologist Keith Alexander—representing a coalition of treasure hunters known as the "Filthy 50"—met with Nixon and Domestic Affairs Advisor John Ehrlichman. Alexander revealed secret knowledge of 742 gold bars weighing 40 to 50 pounds each (totaling over 3 million troy ounces) stockpiled at White Sands, seeking executive immunity and an official agreement to monetize the gold through the U.S. Mint.Three days after the San Clemente meeting, Ehrlichman dispatched a personal memorandum to Treasury Secretary David M. Kennedy inquiring how the group could legally recover and sell the treasure. On July 17, 1970, Secretary Kennedy responded with an accommodating roadmap, noting that no federal license was required to search for or possess buried treasure, while proposing a 50/50 split with the government based on the prior Fort Huachuca precedent. However, when Kennedy proved too rigid regarding strict regulatory compliance, Nixon replaced him on February 11, 1971, with former Texas Governor John Connally—a close associate of Lyndon B. Johnson and an alleged co-incorporator of the LaRue Corporation, an entity formed in 1967 to manage and launder Victorio Peak gold proceeds.The episode then unpacks one of the most consequential economic maneuvers in modern American history: Nixon's live televised address on Sunday, August 15, 1971, closing the gold window and ending the direct convertibility of U.S. dollars into gold. By dismantling the Bretton Woods monetary system, Nixon eliminated international audits and physical reserve accountability, effectively creating a systemic blind spot where missing national reserves or illicitly extracted military gold could no longer be tracked or audited.Connecting internal White House memorandums, Treasury Department correspondence, corporate records, and Watergate-era disclosures, Episode 14 details how Nixon installed key gatekeepers and altered global monetary policy to set the stage for the massive thefts that followed. From San Clemente to the Oval Office, this episode exposes how presidential authority and monetary policy intersected with the covert plundering of America's most controversial treasure. Join us for this latest episode as we tell the story so well documented by  author John Clarence.

David Davenport provides a historical overview of how the concept of equality of opportunity has evolved from the American founding to the modern era. The discussion explains that while the Founders initially focused on dismantling European systems of caste and class, later leaders like Abraham Lincoln and Woodrow Wilson expanded federal power to address slavery and industrialization. As the frontier closed, the government shifted from merely protecting natural rights to actively managing social and economic outcomes. Franklin D. Roosevelt and Lyndon B. Johnson furthered this trend by implementing New Deal and Great Society programs aimed at correcting systemic poverty. Conversely, Ronald Reagan sought to revive the original philosophy by reducing government intervention and promoting individualism. Ultimately, the discussion highlights a contemporary shift in language where the traditional ideal of equality is increasingly being replaced by the more ambiguous term equity. (1)1800 BOSTON TREMONT STREET

In Episode 13 of the Noss Gold Treasure, we delve into one of the most audacious gold smuggling operations in modern history: the post-presidential pipeline orchestrated under Lyndon B. Johnson between 1969 and 1970. Drawing on direct video interviews with vintage WWII B-24 Liberator pilot Fern Hamill, this episode exposes how 130 tons of ancient gold bars stolen from Victorio Peak were covertly transported out of the United States. Weekly shuttle runs using official U.S. government vehicles—bearing White Sands Missile Range stickers on their windshields—hauled 500 to 800 pounds of gold per week directly across the Mexican border to General Roberto Fierro Villalobos International Airport in Chihuahua City.At the Chihuahua City airport, crew member Arturo weighed each gold bar on the tarmac before loading it directly into the bomb bay racks of the B-24 bomber under 24-hour Mexican military guard. To conceal the massive four-engine bomber from aerial observation when it was not flying, LBJ utilized Department of Defense resources to construct a private airstrip and a massive Quonset hangar 114 miles south at his 108,724-acre Las Pampas Ranch. This dual-location infrastructure provided the perfect covert staging network, allowing the crew to execute month-long loading cycles for 13 separate ten-ton missions.The episode breaks down the long flight paths along the Pacific corridor to refineries in Vancouver, Canada, where 11 flights successfully delivered 110 tons of gold into international channels. However, the operation was not without catastrophic failures: during the 7th and 9th flights, severe engine failures forced Hamill and Arturo to trip the bomb bay doors, ditching 20 tons of gold into the Pacific Ocean off the coast near Carmel, California.Connecting direct video testimony from pilot Fern Hamill, tape recordings of LBJ, and revelations from Bill Gulley's White House exposé Breaking Cover, Episode 13 pulls back the curtain on high-level executive and military corruption. Featuring operational oversight from former White Sands commander Major General John Shinkle and high-ranking military handlers, this episode demonstrates how official government vehicles, defense resources, and presidential authority were leveraged to pull off what Hamill called the world's biggest gold heist.

July 30, 2026Sixty years ago, Medicare and Medicaid went into effect, Congress had amended the Social Security Act of 1935 to establish the two national health insurance programs, for seniors and for people who qualified on the basis of income, In 1945 Harry Truman had proposed an Economic Bill of Rights tht guaranteed certain rights including the right to adequate medical care, Truman said that “the health of this nation is a national concern,” John F Kennedy made the expansion of health insurance a priority, but faced strong opposition, With LBJ's victory in 1964, he had the votes to pass Medicare and Medicaid, But in 2026 the Republicans are rejecting LBJ's vision of a government that works to support its people, The One Big Beautiful Bill Act partially offset its tax custs with cuts to Medicaid, and the administration now plans to cut a program capping the cost of drugs for Medicare recipients.Watch today's recording here: https://www.youtube.com/live/g9TUa1Rwd6U?si=T8_KKcHQZElhpnZ-Get full, free access to Letters from an American here: https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/subscribeYou can also find me:Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/hcrichardson.bsky.socialInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/heathercoxrichardson/?hl=enFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/heathercoxrichardson/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@heathercoxrichardson Get full access to Letters from an American at heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/subscribe

Covino & Rich have a good laugh about Rich wanting his wife to want him! There's an update on the Miami Heat's leak. They pose a great question about LeBron's jersey sales. Plus, 'LAST ONE STANDING' goes to overtime, & majoring as an influencer!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

One big domino in the AD saga has fallen: LeBron James has chosen Philly! But now that LBJ is a Sixer, what does that mean for Anthony Davis' future in DC? He says he wants to play all 82 games next year, but will that be here? We discuss that ongoing saga and more in this week's Best of Wizards!

This week on the Mark Levin Show, an armed lunatic set off an incendiary device in an apparent anti-ICE attack outside a federal building housing FBI and ICE offices in NYC. Violence against ICE is up 1,300%. This is what happens when Democrats repeatedly demonizing ICE as Nazis who “disappear” people, along with similar rhetoric against Trump, Republicans, Netanyahu, and Israel. Afterward, the ICC is a complete political setup job that the United States and Israel do not recognize. No, Zohran Mamdani cannot arrest Benjamin Netanyahu while he's at the UN in NYC – it's a crime to attempt to arrest an elected head of state. Mamdani is hypocritically targeting only Netanyahu while giving a pass to mass-murdering dictators and leaders from Arab, Muslim, and other regimes. Zohran Mamdani and the growing cabal of Marxist Islamists, who want to destroy America, will swallow the Democrat leadership. They continue to claim they are for the “working people.” Marxist policies enslave the working people. The mass grave in in communist China, the Soviet Union, and North Korea were all filled with hardworking people who rejected those systems. Later, communism is all about working people -- killing them, enslaving them, and brutalizing them. It's amazing how the Communists talk up "the working people." For communists, working people exist to serve the state and its centralized masterminds rather than as sovereign individuals. Only in free societies, especially America, are working people the heart and soul of society—the backbone of freedom. Communism is the most defective ideology ever imposed because it requires no knowledge or experience—only an iron fist and a destructive ideology that ignores human nature for an undefined “general good.” Also, New Jersey officials and a software vendor IDEMIA are publicly disputing responsibility for a glitch that registered about 6,600 non-citizens to vote. Between New Jersey, the election mess in California, and such historic examples as the Chicago political machine and LBJ in Texas, it's clear Democrats want to legalize fraud and give permanent power to the Democratic party. Senator Tim Sheehy delivered a compelling Senate floor speech explaining the long-running war with Iran's radical Islamist regime in Tehran. Sheehy stressed that the regime, which seized power 47 years ago through brutality and has never stopped, cares nothing about American politics or faith; it seeks to kill Americans and other atrocities it celebrates and rewards. The United States did not start the conflict but must finish it so another generation is not forced to fight the same murderous adversary. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On Wednesday's Mark Levin Show, New Jersey officials, and a software vendor IDEMIA are publicly disputing responsibility for a glitch that registered about 6,600 non-citizens to vote. Between New Jersey, the election mess in California, and such historic examples as the Chicago political machine and LBJ in Texas, it's clear Democrats want to legalize fraud and give permanent power to the Democratic party. Also, Jake Altman, a former DSA member, describes a rise in extremism within the organization, including collaboration with Leninist groups and anti-U.S./Western sentiment, leading to his exit over their stance blaming American imperialism for Russia's invasion of Ukraine. DSA-backed candidates are winning primaries, but their new platform reveals radical goals: ending the presidency and Supreme Court, abolishing prisons, closing overseas U.S. military bases, and lifting sanctions on Cuba, Venezuela, and Iran—aims that seek to fundamentally dismantle American institutions and life. Marxist Islamists are focused on destroying the country. The heroic men and women in the military, police, and ICE officers are under assault by communists, Islamists, and Democrats, who seek utter lawlessness, chaos, and anarchy to establish their police state. Communists claim to champion the working class but in power enslave, brutalize, and kill it, with communism responsible for over 100 million deaths. Later, U.S. actions in Iran are noble and righteous to defeat a regime that will not disappear on its own, rejects coexistence, and seeks the elimination of its enemies. We need to partner with ready allies—the Israelis (Mossad, IDF, air force) and willing Persian people—while using the CIA to arm those seeking retribution and to reclaim their country, without deploying large numbers of U.S. troops. Democrats would appease and fund the enemy, but acting now with these allies is essential to prevent further civilian and military deaths and avert the regime's relentless pursuit of ballistic missiles with nuclear warheads. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices