#1157 - Joseph McBride

Joseph McBride is a film historian, biographer, screenwriter, and professor in the School of Cinema at San Francisco State University. McBride has published twenty-four books since 1968, including acclaimed biographies of Frank Capra, John Ford, and Steven Spielberg. His most recent work is Political Truth: The Media and the Assassination of President Kennedy (2021), a study of how the mainstream media have distorted the truth about the assassination since it happened in 1963, in contrast to the genuine investigative work of many independent researchers. McBride previously published Into the Nightmare: My Search for the Killers of President John F. Kennedy and Officer J. D. Tippit (2013); both epic and intimately personal, that book was the result of McBride's thirty-one-year investigation of the case up to that time.