My longform podcast about the Kennedy assassination, Ghosts of Dallas, is now essentially complete. Episodes 1-20 are available wherever you get your podcasts.
I've been asked whether there will be any further episodes. There may be, if the assassination comes into the news again — as it did last year, when Donald Trump sought to reveal the "hidden" truth about the assassination by releasing all the remaining classified government files about it. (The upshot, of course, was that the files revealed nothing important about Kennedy's murder that we didn't already know.)
But for the most part, I've done what I set out to do in the podcast — i.e., I have told the true story of the Kennedy assassination, and I've traced the origins of all the untrue stories that flourished in its wake. I've answered, as well as I can, all the questions I set out to answer: Why is it that more than half the American population has always believed there was a conspiracy behind Kennedy's death? How did JFK conspiracy theory get started? How did it become an industry? How did six decades of myth-making about Kennedy's murder set the scene for the conspiratorial presidency of Donald J. Trump? And why did Jack Ruby bring his favourite sausage dog along on the morning he shot Lee Harvey Oswald?
Check it out wherever you get your podcasts.
