Building off my research from my book The Mad Bishops: The Hunt for Earl Anglin James and His Assassin Brethren (2023, TrineDay), the research forged in 2024 published here on Medium and frequently reposted on TrineDaily focused largely on the following elements:
- the illicit secret paramilitary society Order of Saint John of Jerusalem (Shickshinny Knights), with my FOIA request to to the FBI resulting in the FBI posting 230 pages for public access on the Order;
- newly uncovered links between the Civil Air Patrol and the cult of “wandering bishops”;
- David Ferrie’s exploits the weekend of the assassination and the possibility the Mauser was sent to Dallas from an associate of Ferrie in Cleveland;
- lastly, that JFK’s actual killers were racist preachers steeped in Christian Identity, sympathetic to the Klan, and loathsome of the Kennedy policies of disarmament and desegregation.
Top 10-Most Read JFK Articles of 2024
- New Link Between the Civil Air Patrol and the Wandering Bishops (published January 5)
A new link sheds further light on the role of the Civil Air Patrol (CAP) and the cabal of “bishops” who manipulated Lee Oswald as the Texas School Book Depository patsy on November 22, 1963.
2. JFK: Was It Faked? (April 24)
JFK X: SOLVING THE CRIME OF THE CENTURY claims there was no assassination at all in Dealey Plaza, but that the 35th president of the United States faked his own death and lived out his days on Aristotle Onassis’s Ionian Sea island, Skorpios.
3. Hunting Down the Mauser (March 12)
Did David Ferrie have something to do with the Mauser rifle found in the Texas School Book Depository?
4. June Cobb, Jerrie Cobb, and QJWIN (June 16)
A Woman I Know is required reading not only for those within the JFK research community, but also for the intellectually curious, who care about our fading past as a country, and for anyone who simply desires spending time with well-written nonfiction prose.
5. A Rockefeller Conspiracy? (May 26)
In the context of the crime ultime — the assassination of President Kennedy — a Rockefeller was noticeably absent as a chief suspect from most books and theories about November 22, 1963. That is, except for the work of one Richard James DeSocio, author of the slambang self-published epic Clash of Dynasties: Why Gov. Nelson Rockefeller Killed JFK, RFK, and Ordered the Watergate Break-In to End the Presidential Hopes of Ted Kennedy, which he released in 2017 and is available on Kindle.
6. The Sacred Duty to Kill JFK (August 16)
Colonel Jack Cannon became the Klan’s Grand Dragon of Texas in 1966. This dovetails with research proffered by Jeffrey Caufield, Dick Russell and others that the radical right, Birchers and Klansmen fomented the assassination of the president.
7. Ferrie’s Flight to Texas — An FBI Typo Yields New Clues (January 17)
During their stay on Saturday, November 23, Ferrie (or his boy pals, but likely Ferrie) made two long distance calls that are strange for someone supposedly just wanting to get away and relax: to two New Orleans radio-television studios.
8. The Cinematic Influences of Oliver Stone’s JFK (January 2)
JFK also enabled Stone to honor the film’s cinematic predecessors, landmark films for their time in both form and content. In evoking these films, Stone subtly bridged the Kennedy assassination with other political assassinations of the time. Among them: The Day of the Jackal (1973), The Battle of Algiers (1966), Z (1969) and State of Siege (1973) by Costa-Gavras, Frankenheimer’s The Manchurian Candidate (1962) and Seven Days in May (1964), and Francesco Rosi’s Il Caso Mattei (1972).
9. The Best JFK Book You’ve Never Heard Of (January 9)
Caufield argued a more convincing, logical, and ultimately more disturbing reality than the various theories on who killed Kennedy: that the assassination was the result of America’s deep-seated problem as a country. Hate.
10. Shaking Down Shickshinny (February 22)
Was a secret society connected to the JFK assassination? Indeed there was. It still exists today, believing itself to be the authentic and original Knights of Malta. It is the Sovereign Order of St. John of Jerusalem (SOSJ), colloquially known for a time as the Shickshinny Knights.
Honorable Mentions
Linking the JFK Assassination and the Vatican Bank Securities Scandal
JFKKK: The Ku Klux Klan and the Killings of November 22, 1963