#steven gillon

[dreamofstarlight]

I've been thinking about getting a book on John but I've heard that The Good Son by Christopher Anderson isn't great, does anyone have a review of America's Reluctant Prince by Steven Gillon?

[mercurygray]

I'm trying to finish up a couple of the books in my TBR before I head out for vacation, so I finally finished up as much of Fierce Valor as I was going to read. I guess I really don't like Frederick and Dorr's writing style - it feels...like it comes from the same school of history writing as Ambrose, with more of an eye to telling a story, and filling in with speculation, than sharing facts. Anyway, I'm glad I checked this one out from the library - it doesn't need to be part of my collection.

A friend asked me if I'd consider writing a drabble or two about what various Girl Gang members were doing on December 7th, so to help fill in I've started Steven M. Gillon's Pearl Harbor: FDR Leads the Nation to War, which runs readers through the first 24 hours of response from Washington. It's really interesting so far!

[chrisfriel]

steven gillon / desolatus out today with thanks to @steven_gillon @adrianoesteves

[shiradestin]

updated Review of a Library Book Worth Buying: Separate and Unequal, by S. Gillon

        Project Do Better strongly urges the supporting of our library systems, which is where I discovered this book, but some books are also worth buying as references. Separate and Unequal: The Kerner Commission and the Unraveling of American Liberalism, by Steven M. Gillon, is one of them.      How sad that the contents and conclusions of this report are still relevant, and still ignored,…

[humptydumptyunbroken]

It’s time to stop. It’s time to look out for each other in the distance. Time to stare humanity in the eyes, to take a break for the world. It’s time to stop. Time to take a pause, so we can play again. To think of everyone and meet no one. To reset, re-centre, switch off, to move on. Time to change our little world, to calibrate the path of mankind (...)

It's time to stop. Time to reset, time to recenter, time to switch off so we can move on. The best part of it all? We are in this together (...)

It’s time to stop. We are meant to connect and we are stronger together, but separated, we are today more united than ever. And for now, our main strength is to be apart (..)

Nature, landscapes, beaches and monuments aren’t going anywhere. They will still be there waiting for a better time to be lived. And we must do the same for a while. It’s time to stop. The perfect time not to visit anything. Sometimes to rise is to stand still. It’s time to stop, stop and think of ourselves, think of everyone else too. It’s time to stop and refocus as a whole, for all. It’s time to understand and respect our times. Respect one another. The faster we stop the sooner we will bond again. It’s time to dream of those amazing days to come (...)

[universitybookstore]

New from Dutton and biographer Steven M. Gillon, America’s Reluctant Prince: The Life of John F. Kennedy Jr.

[whatever-isthe90s]

John F. Kennedy Jr and Daryl Hannah. According to Steven M. Gillon’s recent biography America’s Reluctant Prince: The Life of John F. Kennedy Jr., Kennedy and Hannah first met in the early ‘80s while on respective family vacations in Saint Martin. “John found it odd that Daryl seemed to carry a teddy bear with her wherever she went, but also found her fascinating,” Gillon writes of their initial meeting. They were introduced by Hannah’s billionaire stepfather Jerrold Wexler, who’d made large contributions to the presidential campaign of Ted Kennedy, John's uncle. However, it wasn’t until they met again at the wedding of John's aunt, Lee Radziwill, to director Herb Ross in 1988, that they began dating. Gillon, a friend to John as well as a historian said in an interview: “John just found Daryl so self-absorbed.” In America’s Reluctant Prince he writes that while Jackie was in the hospital in New York, just days ahead of her death in 1994, John was in L.A. for the funeral of Hannah’s dog — yep. Fueling the absurdity of the story, Hannah then got angry with John because he hadn’t chosen a more elaborate box for the dog’s ashes. “That just infuriated him,” Gillon told us. “And even after [Jackie] died, Daryl had another dog that was sick and John was up in Martha's Vineyard or Hyannis Port, and Daryl's on the phone talking about her dog all the time and John is there in the kitchen with [his longtime friend] Sasha Chermayeff, and he says, ‘Can you believe this. I just lost my mom and all she wants to talk about is her sick dog.’” Though “in his mind, the relationship had already ended,” Kennedy knew he couldn’t let a public breakup distract from Jackie’s passing, hence the aforementioned roller blading outing. By August of 1994, about three months after Jackie’s death, Kennedy and Hannah had split for good. Via InStyle. #jfkjr #darylhannah #90s https://www.instagram.com/p/CP_c-EWndXw/?utm_medium=tumblr

[kwebtv]

Monday  Monday   -  ITV  UTV  -  July 13, 2009  -  August 24, 2009

Comedy / Drama (7 episodes)

Running Time:  60 minutes

Stars:

Management

Clive Merrison as Gavin

Peter Wight as Roger Sorsby

Jenny Agutter as Jenny Mountfield

Holly Aird as Alyson Cartmell

Tom Ellis as Steven McColl

Human Resources

Fay Ripley as Christine France

Morven Christie as Sally Newman

Miranda Hart as Tall Karen

Jodie Taibi as Small Karen

Marketing

Neil Stuke as Max Chambers

Laura Haddock as Natasha Wright

Saikat Ahamed as Vince

Finance

Nick Sampson as Keith Saunders

Building Services & Facilities Management

Joan Oliver as Susan

Susan Earl as Janet

Shop Floor

Sue Vincent as Helen

Bruce McGregor as Greg

Richard Fleeshman as Gillon

[writersarea]

tagged by: @pumpkinspiceandpaperbacks

tagging: @wintersoldiersbutt @bookcub @lizziethereader @surfacage @wickedcoughsyrup

Relationship Status: single

favourite colors: purple but i wear a lot of blue

three favourite foods:  mashed potatoes, my great grandma’s apple salad (I’m the one that makes it now. she passed away a few years ago), and green apple

song stuck in my head: One Jump Ahead from Aladdin

last song i listened to:  M.A.A.D City (Feat. MC Eiht)Kendrick Lamar

last movie i watched: Halloweentown (it was streaming on youtube for halloween)

time: 8:58 AM

top three shows: Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Doctor Who

books i’m currently reading: Separate and Unequal: The Kerner Commission and the Unraveling of American Liberalism by Steven M. Gillon and Voices of Resistance: Muslim Women on War, Faith, and Sexuality

last thing i googled: how tall is steve rogers

how many blankets do you sleep with: 1. It’s a quilt I made a few years ago

dream trip: Traveling the middle east

anything you really want: to get rid of my undergrad debt and not have law school debt

[movies-derekwinnert]

Midnight Sting [Diggstown] (1992, James Woods, Louis Gossett Jr, Bruce Dern) - Classic Movie Review 10,036

Midnight Sting [Diggstown] (1992, James Woods, Louis Gossett Jr, Bruce Dern) – Classic Movie Review 10,036

Director Michael Ritchie’s 1992 Midnight Sting [Diggstown] stars James Woods as Gabriel Caine, a conman fresh out of jail who gets middle-aged prize-fighter ‘Honey’ Roy Palmer (Louis Gossett Jr) to help him win a bet with mean, scheming boxing-hall owner John Gillon (Bruce Dern), boss of a boxing-mad town called Diggstown.

Steven McKay’s clumsy script is an attempt to mix Rocky with The Sting,…

[shoppingfordeals]

America's Reluctant Prince: The Life of John F. Kennedy Jr. by Steven M Gillon $18.42

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[theconspiracyconstruct]

Episode 5: The JFK Assassination

Click “Keep Reading” for the transcript!

     November 22, 1963—crowds flock to Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas, in hopes of getting a glimpse at the president. 12:30pm—shots ring out through the plaza. 1:00pm—President John F. Kennedy is pronounced dead at Parkland Memorial Hospital (Wallenfeldt). Hey, welcome back. I’m Madi, and on this episode, we’re going to be exploring the JFK assassination. Let’s get into it.

     John F. Kennedy’s 1963 visit to Dallas, Texas was part of a larger fund-raising trip as well as an attempt to unite the Democratic party as they were critical to his reelection in 1964 (Wallenfeldt). He rode in the presidential motorcade through Dallas along with his wife, Jacqueline Kennedy, and Texas Governor John Connally. As the presidential motorcade passed through Dealey Plaza, a man named Lee Harvey Oswald—the assassin—fired three shots from the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository where he was employed, which overlooked the plaza (Gillon). The first shot missed (Gillon). The second went through Kennedy and hit Connally. The third shot hit Kennedy in the head, killing him (“Findings”). Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone, and so did local nightclub owner Jack Ruby when he shot and killed Oswald before the trial was able to finish (Beyond JFK: The Question of Conspiracy and Schechter). Or, at least that’s what the Warren Commission says.

     After Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson is sworn in, he launches an investigation headed by Chief Justice Earl Warren (Beyond JFK: The Question of Conspiracy and Schechter). The Warren Commission’s findings reported those previously stated conclusions. However, there were multiple problems with their findings, which we’ll get into in a second.

     The first problem is a disagreement between the commission’s report and the eye-witness testimonies on the location of the gunman. This introduces the grassy knoll theory. The grassy knoll is a now-famous location that I’m sure many of you have already heard of. It refers to the “elevated area to the front, right” of the presidential motorcade (Gillon). The Warren Commission states that the shots came from the Book Depository, yet many eyewitnesses who were there that day say they saw a gunman at the grassy knoll (Beyond JFK: The Question of Conspiracy and Schechter).

     The second issue is with the bullets themselves. The Warren Commission states that Lee Harvey Oswald fired three, two of which hit JFK. The second bullet introduces the single bullet or “magic bullet” theory, the name given to the bullet that hit both JFK and Connally (Beyond JFK: The Question of Conspiracy and Schechter). The report states that the second shot that Oswald fired entered through Kennedy’s back, exited through his throat, then hit Connally—breaking his rib, shattering his wrist, and then puncturing his right thigh (Gillon). Critics claim that it’s unlikely a single bullet—which remained mostly intact—could do that much damage; thus, the second gunman theory came up, as well (Beyond JFK: The Question of Conspiracy and Schechter). This theory was also brought about by the idea that Oswald couldn’t have fired that many shots in so little time. In fact, the findings of the House Select Committee on Assassinations support this theory.

     The House Select Committee on Assassinations is a follow-up investigation completed in December 1978. It maintained the Warren Commission’s conclusion that Oswald was the assassin but divulged that there was a conspiracy involving a second gunman. They relied on a dictabelt recording, which is basically an audio recording from which you can get an analysis of acoustical evidence such as echoes (Gillon; “Acoustics Evidence”). The recording was from a police motorcycle stationed in Dealey Plaza, and the acoustic analysis led the Committee to conclude that there was a second shooter who fired at the President from the grassy knoll and missed (Gillon).

     The third—and probably biggest issue—was the idea that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. The commission never presents a convincing explanation for why Oswald might’ve done what he’d done. This brings us to examining Lee Harvey Oswald himself.

     Oswald dropped out of high school to join the marines, where he was praised for his sharpshooting skills but began expressing “pro-Soviet and politically radical views”. Oswald then defected to the Soviet Union, where he denounced his American citizenship and attempted to apply for citizenship there, but his application was refused. He eventually returned to the U.S. after marrying Marina Prusakova and having a child with her (“Lee Harvey Oswald”). However, due to his history of violence and his anti-American sentiments, he was placed under surveillance by the FBI. Oswald was under the FBI’s surveillance at the time of the assassination (Hall).

     Which raises the question: if the FBI was watching Oswald at the time, why would they not raise any objections to the presidential motorcade route going past the Texas School Book Depository—which Oswald was known to be employed at? Why would they allow the motorcade route to pass through an area that would give an individual who has violent tendencies and anti-American sentiments direct trajectory to the president?

     There’s also a theory that the CIA may somehow be involved, as the CIA was angry with Kennedy over the Bay of Pigs invasion. The CIA denies any involvement, obviously (Hallemann).

     But, how did all these theories and uncertainties arise? Well, the suspicion surrounding the event can greatly be attributed to the critics that spoke up after the Warren Commission. In 1966, Mark Lane published his bestseller titled Rush to Judgement, which challenged the Warren Commission. Later that year, the New Orleans district attorney, Jim Garrison, began “a highly publicized, but deeply flawed, investigation” which reported “a vast conspiracy”. Life Magazine also published color reproductions of the Zapruder film, which was footage of the assassination that was captured by a local dressmaker. The media and the critics “turned public opinion against the report”, and by 1970 a large portion of the population was skeptical of the Warren Commission (Gillon).

     Additionally, the House Select Committee on Assassinations’ report in December 1978 rebutted parts of the Warren Commission, such as when it admitted that there was a conspiracy involving a second gunman as I stated previously. This report came out in a time of increased distrust and cynicism towards the government, as the American public had just learned that their government had lied to them about Vietnam—publicized by the Pentagon Papers—and Watergate. Thus, it was not hard for the American people to imagine that their government lied to them about the JFK assassination, too. Before 1970, most conspiracy theories were focused around the Russians or the Cubans, which can be attributed to the American fear of communism. By the 1980s—because of the government’s actions in Vietnam, Watergate, and now the JFK assassination—polls began to report that many Americans believed that their own government assassinated JFK (Gillon).

     There’s a lot to explore with the JFK assassination, which is partly why it’s one of my favorite conspiracy theories. There are so many webs of theories and inconsistencies that I couldn’t possibly cover all them in one episode. But, ultimately, most Americans believe that Oswald did not act alone. Not to mention that it’s pretty suspicious that Jack Ruby, a local nightclub owner, just killed Oswald before the trial could even go through. However, who Oswald conspired with is not largely agreed upon. Due to his time spent in the Soviet Union, there are theories that the USSR possibly backed the assassination. He also had ties to Cuba, as he was known to advocate for Castro and his communist regime as well as having reportedly attempted to apply for passage to Cuba at the Cuban embassy in Mexico City (Lewis). Or, perhaps the most terrifying theory of them all, is that our own government assassinated the president and has been lying to us about it all along.

     That’s all for this episode! Stay tuned for next time, where we’ll be delving into the moon landing. Did it really happen? Or was it all a hoax? You’ll be able to find that episode, along with all the others, on theconspiracyconstruct.tumblr.com. Bye!

Works Cited

“Acoustics Evidence.” Mary Ferrell Foundation, www.maryferrell.org/pages/Acoustics_Evidence.html. “Findings.” National Archives and Records Administration, National Archives and Records Administration, www.archives.gov/research/jfk/select-committee-report/part-1a.html.

Gillon, Steven M. “Why the Public Stopped Believing the Government about JFK's Murder.” History.com, A&E Television Networks, 30 Oct. 2017, www.history.com/news/why-the-public-stopped-believing-the-government-about-jfks-murder.

Hall, Kevin G. “'Oswald's KGB Handler': New JFK Docs Fill in Some Blanks on Events around Assassination.” Mcclatchydc, McClatchy Washington Bureau, 27 Apr. 2018, www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/national/article209906954.html.

Knopple, Barbara and Danny Schechter, directors. Beyond JFK: The Question of Conspiracy. 1992.

Lewis, Danny. “A Brief History of Lee Harvey Oswald's Connection to Cuba.” Smithsonian.com, Smithsonian Institution, 4 May 2016, www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a-brief-history-of-lee-harvey-oswalds-connection-to-cuba-180958987/.

“Lee Harvey Oswald.” Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., 20 Nov. 2018, www.britannica.com/biography/Lee-Harvey-Oswald.

Wallenfeldt, Jeff. “Assassination of John F. Kennedy.” Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., 10 Dec. 2018, www.britannica.com/event/assassination-of-John-F-Kennedy.

Hallemann, Caroline. “The 5 Biggest Kennedy Conspiracy Theories.” Town & Country, Town & Country, 11 Apr. 2018, www.townandcountrymag.com/society/politics/a13093037/jfk-assassination-conspiracy-theories/.