“Coverup WORSE!” - New JFK Files are Missing More than You Thought | Stu Wexler • 422
Julian Dorey · 15 May 2026 · 3h 17m
Guest: Stu Wexler · Host: Joey Def, Julian Dorey
This conversation with researcher Stu Wexler covers the JFK and MLK assassinations, focusing on what recently released government files do and don't reveal. Wexler explains that the House Select Committee on Assassinations concluded in the late 1970s that both killings likely involved conspiracies, yet the Justice Department later used disputed acoustics evidence to sideline further JFK investigation while doing essentially nothing further on King. He details how newly released documents add suggestive detail about figures like William Harvey, George Joannides, and David Morales without producing a definitive smoking gun, and discusses why he remains skeptical of theories involving Fidel Castro, sewer-based shooters, and other popular claims. A large portion of the episode turns to the King assassination, where Wexler lays out his own research (co-authored in the book Killing King) arguing that James Earl Ray was likely a paid shooter motivated by money rather than a lone racist, tied to a bounty allegedly organized through Ku Klux Klan networks in Mississippi and filtered through prison contacts. He also describes disturbing episodes in which the FBI appears to have let violent white supremacist informants be killed by local police rather than prosecuted, drawing a parallel to the killing of Fred Hampton. Throughout, host and guest discuss covert operations history, Cold War nuclear brinkmanship, and how secrecy and self-interest inside intelligence agencies shaped decades of cover-up.
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- House Select Committee on Assassinations findings
- Acoustic evidence controversy in JFK case
- Devil's Chessboard and how secrets stay hidden
- RFK's private investigation and Castro theories
- Cuban assassination plots and Rolando Cubela
- Autopsy interference and Curtis LeMay suspicions
- Guatemala 1954 coup and CIA covert operations
- New JFK files: Harvey, Joannides, Morales leads
- Author's personal history covering the assassination since age 12
- Official narrative of the King assassination
- Ku Klux Klan bounty theory and Christian Identity ideology
- FBI informants and killings of Fred Hampton and Kathy Ainsworth
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“in both cases JFK and MLK they concluded that there was a likely conspiracy in both crimes”
“the main objective of the Kennedy assassination was to frame Castro and get an invasion of Cuba”