JFK The Enduring Secret
by Jeff Crudele
An in depth tutorial and discussion around the assassination of John F. Kennedy, (JFK) the country's 35th president who was brutally murdered in Dallas Texas on November 22, 1963. The series comprehensively explores the major facts, themes, and events leading up to the assassination in Dealey Plaza and the equally gripping stories surrounding the subsequent investigation. We review key elements of the Warren Commission Report , and the role of the CIA and FBI. We explore the possible involvement of the Mafia in the murder and the review of that topic by the government's House Select Committee on Assassinations in the 1970's. We explore the Jim Garrison investigation and the work of other key figures such as Mark Lane and others. Learn more about Lee Harvey Oswald the suspected killer and Jack Ruby the distraught Dallas night club owner with underworld ties and the man that killed Oswald as a national TV audience was watching. Stay with us as we take you through the facts and theorie
Episodes
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Episode 361 Ground Zero: JM WAVE And The Cuban Question Part 3 (Includes Operation Tilt)
In this third installment of our miniseries, Ground Zero: JM WAVE and the Cuban Question, we examine the dangerous two-track contradiction of U.S. foreign policy toward Cuba during the summer and autumn of 1963. While one hand of the United States government was quietly exploring diplomatic...
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Apologies For Delays In Responding To Your Email!
I owe many of you a sincere and overdue apology. Over the years, I have always strived to be prompt in answering every single email I receive from listeners of JFK: The Enduring Secret. However, over the past 10 to 11 months, balancing a full-time consulting role alongside researching and…
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Notice! I updated Episode 360
I made some minor additions, deletions, and edits to Episode 360 and I also added a little something from President Kennedy himself at the end of the episode. Please remove your previous download (if it occurred before 1PM EST October 25, 2026 and replace it with the latest available download…
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Episode 360 Ground Zero: JM WAVE And The Cuban Question Miniseries Part 2
In this second installment of our 15-part miniseries, Ground Zero: JM WAVE and the Cuban Question, we explore the chaotic aftermath of the October 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis and the secret agreements that fundamentally altered President John F. Kennedy's relationship with the anti-Castro exile...
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Episode 359 Ground Zero: JM WAVE And The Cuban Question Miniseries Part 1
In this opening chapter of our new 15-part miniseries, Ground Zero: JM WAVE and the Cuban Question, we journey to South Florida in November 1963, just four days before President John F. Kennedy’s assassination in Dallas. On Monday, November 18, President Kennedy stood inside the Americana Hotel…
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Teaser: Ground Zero: JM WAVE And The Cuban Question Miniseries Is Next!
We have a new wander to go on together. After a massive 70-plus episode run through the J.D. Tippit shooting, the 28-part Jack Ruby saga, and the mysterious death of Dorothy Kilgallen, we return to tell the story of South Florida, the CIA and the secret war that they waged, along with the...
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Episode 358 Dorothy Kilgallen Miniseries Part 6 (Finale)
In this dramatic finale to our Jack Ruby miniseries and six-part Dorothy Kilgallen investigation, we dissect the chilling aftermath, timeline cover-ups, and forensic revelations surrounding the November 8, 1965 death of syndicated columnist Dorothy Kilgallen. We expose the glaring…
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Episode 357 Dorothy Kilgallen Miniseries Part 5
In this gripping part five of our miniseries on the Dorothy Kilgallen investigation, we retrace the final hours of syndicated columnist and television star Dorothy Kilgallen leading up to her mysterious death on November 8, 1965. On Sunday evening, November 7, a composed and sharp 52-year-old...
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Episode 356 Dorothy Kilgallen Miniseries Part 4
In this gripping fourth installment of our Dorothy Kilgallen miniseries, we follow the relentless syndicated columnist as she escalates her independent investigation into the JFK assassination following her standoff with the FBI. Just two days after refusing to surrender her source for Jack…
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Episode 355 Dorothy Kilgallen Miniseries Part 3
In this part three of our Dorothy Kilgallen deep dive, we reach the high-stakes intersection where America's most famous female journalist took on the official narrative of the JFK assassination. Following the live TV shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald by Dallas nightclub owner Jack Ruby on November…
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Episode 354 Dorothy Kilgallen Miniseries Part 2
In this captivating 2nd installment of the Dorothy Kilgallen miniseries, we trace how a 1938 Broadway gossip columnist transformed herself into one of the most formidable investigative figures in Cold War America. We examine her meteoric media empire—spanning her nationally syndicated The Voice…
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Episode 353 Dorothy Kilgallen Miniseries Part 1
In this captivating launch of our Dorothy Kilgallen miniseries, we pivot from the Jack Ruby trial to investigate the life, investigative crusade, and mysterious death of one of the twentieth century's most formidable journalists. On November 8, 1965, Dorothy Kilgallen—a syndicated columnist read…
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Episode 352 Jack Ruby Miniseries Part 28 (Jolly West 2 of 2)
In this gripping twenty-eighth installment of our Jack Ruby miniseries, we finish out the two part story tell of Jolly West. We revisit the infamous late-night meeting on Saturday, November 23, 1963, at Simon's Garage between Jack Ruby, off-duty Dallas patrolman Harry Olsen, and Carousel stripper...
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Episode 351 Jack Ruby Miniseries Part 27 (Jolly West 1 of 2)
In this chilling twenty-seventh installment of our Jack Ruby miniseries, we step inside Cell 6F2 of the Dallas County Jail on Sunday, April 26, 1964, just six weeks after Jack Ruby was sentenced to die in the electric chair. Following a frantic, desperate suicide attempt the previous night where...
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Update On What is Coming Next
Sorry for this weeks delay. I am getting over a cold and wanted to give you a bit of an update. Episodes coming on Sunday (I hope). Enjoy! Jeff
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Episode 350 Jack Ruby Miniseries Part 26
In this twenty-sixth installment of our Jack Ruby miniseries, we step inside the legal pressure cooker following the November 24 shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald and dissect the clash of defense strategies that defined Jack Ruby’s capital murder trial. We trace the initial strategy devised by local...
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Episode 349 Jack Ruby Miniseries Part 25
In this compelling twenty-fifth installment of our Jack Ruby miniseries, we step inside Apartment 207 at the Marsalis Place Apartments on South Ewing Street during the turbulent afternoon and evening of Sunday, November 24, 1963. Hours after Jack Ruby executed Lee Harvey Oswald live on national...
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Episode 348 Jack Ruby Miniseries Part 24
In this twenty-fourth installment of our Jack Ruby miniseries, we reconstruct the immediate, chaotic aftermath of Sunday morning, November 24, 1963, when Jack Ruby stepped from a crowd of journalists in the Dallas Police Department basement and shot Lee Harvey Oswald live on national television.…
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Episode 347 Jack Ruby Miniseries Part 23
In this twenty-third installment of our Jack Ruby miniseries, we revisit Jack Ruby’s infamous summer 1959 trip to Cuba and unravel the paper trail that shatters sixty years of official cover stories. For decades, the Warren Commission portrayed Ruby's presence in Havana as an innocent, week-long...
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Episode 346 Jack Ruby Miniseries Part 22
In this gripping twenty-second installment of our Jack Ruby miniseries, we look past the convenient post-assassination caricature of Jack Ruby as a pathetic, lonely "police buff" who brought free pizza to headquarters. Instead, we peel back the layers of the Dallas Police Department and FBI files...
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Episode 345 Jack Ruby Miniseries Part 21
With Lee Harvey Oswald assassinated in the basement of City Hall, the grand trial of the century evaporated in a single flash of gunfire, leaving a paralyzed nation to wonder whether Jack Ruby’s bullet was an act of spontaneous, patriotic grief or a calculated underworld silencer’s strike. In…
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Episode 344 Jack Ruby Miniseries Part 20
In this climactic twentieth installment of our Jack Ruby miniseries, we explore the jaw-dropping chronology of Sunday morning, November 24, 1963, when Jack Ruby stepped out of the shadows of the Dallas Police basement to execute Lee Harvey Oswald on live television. We begin by highlighting the...
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Episode 343 Jack Ruby Miniseries Part 19
In this gripping nineteenth installment of our Jack Ruby miniseries, we take a seat at the table during one of the most mysterious and heavily obscured meetings of the assassination weekend: Jack Ruby’s Saturday night dinner on November 23, 1963, at the glittering, mob-financed Dallas Cabana…
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Episode 342 Jack Ruby Miniseries Part 18
In this gripping eighteenth installment of the Jack Ruby miniseries, we peel back the layers of the fateful weekend of November 22-23, 1963, to examine the suspicious, hour-by-hour movements of Dallas’s most volatile nightclub owner. We begin by dismantling the sixty-year-old alibi surrounding…
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Episode 341 Jack Ruby Miniseries Part 17
Settle into the early morning hours of Saturday, November 23, 1963, at the corner of Jackson and Field Streets in downtown Dallas. Outside the exit of Simon's Garage, off-duty patrolman Harry Olsen and Carousel Club stripper Kathy Kay run into Jack Ruby, culminating in an intense, highly…
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Episode 340 Jack Ruby Miniseries Part 16
Step inside the quiet, graveyard shift of the KLIF newsroom during the early hours of Saturday, November 23, 1963, where Jack Ruby stands at the locked glass doors clutching a cardboard box of cold corned beef sandwiches. Having just spent the midnight hours brokering an exclusive interview with...
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Episode 339 Jack Ruby Miniseries Part 15
Step inside the sweltering, smoke-filled basement assembly room of the Dallas Police Headquarters at 12:30 a.m. on Saturday, November 23, 1963, as District Attorney Henry Wade addresses a packed room of over one hundred global journalists. Looking to deliver the first formal summary of the murder...
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Episode 338 Jack Ruby Miniseries Part 14
It is midnight in Dallas on Friday, November 22, 1963, and the weekend of tragedy is bleeding into Saturday morning. Inside the limestone walls of the Dallas Police and Courts building, the air is thick with tobacco smoke, sweat, and cheap coffee as hundreds of international journalists clamor…
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Episode 337 Jack Ruby Miniseries Part 13
Step into the heavy, suffocating silence that fell over Dallas on the evening of Friday, November 22, 1963. Inside the local police headquarters at City Hall, a chaotic media gauntlet was rapidly taking shape on the third floor, as over three hundred out-of-town journalists, photographers, and...
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Episode 336 Jack Ruby Miniseries Part 12
Friday, November 22, 1963. While the nation was shattered by the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Jack Ruby's day began in a remarkably ordinary way. Sitting at a free desk in the second-floor retail advertising department of the Dallas Morning News, the 52-year-old nightclub owner…
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Episode 335 Jack Ruby Miniseries Part 11
Step into the summer of 1963, when Jack Ruby took a fateful scouting trip to New Orleans and returned with his ultimate, red-carpet feature attraction: a fiery, red-haired headliner named Jada. Born Janet Adams Mole, Jada possessed the perfect storm of expensive clothes, a flashy Cadillac, and a...
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Episode 334 Jack Ruby Miniseries Part 10
On August 8, 1959, Jack Ruby boarded a plane to Havana, embarking on what he would spend the rest of his life claiming was a simple, eight-day vacation to visit his close friend, syndicate gambler Lewis McWillie. But official Cuban immigration cards, flight manifests, bank records, and the…
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Episode 333 Jack Ruby Miniseries Part 9
Step inside the red spotlights of the 1300 block of Commerce Street, where the neon glow of the Carousel Club promised a world of "classy" burlesque, live jazz, and high society glamour. But behind the red velvet curtains and the cheap, overpriced champagne lay a business built on pure financial...
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Episode 332 Jack Ruby Miniseries Part 8
In Episode 332, we dive into the fascinating, complex double life of Jack Ruby during his golden years in Dallas—a decade defined by manic showbiz dreams that went nowhere and explosive, bone-breaking violence. To the public, Jack desperately wanted to be seen as a sophisticated entertainment...
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Episode 331 Jack Ruby Miniseries Part 7
In the mid-1950s, Jack Ruby was the self-appointed king of the Dallas strip, strutting through his nightclubs in immaculate double-breasted suits and a cocked fedora. Shaking hands, dropping names, and paying rent for struggling waiters, he projected the image of a flashy, generous showman. Yet,...
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Episode 330 Jack Ruby Miniseries Part 6
In February 1946, thirty-four-year-old World War II veteran Jacob Rubenstein stepped off the train onto the freezing platforms of Chicago, carrying a good conduct medal on his chest and hoping his honorable service had finally cleansed him of his chaotic childhood. Instead, his return plunged him...
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Episode 329 Jack Ruby Miniseries Part 5
We often think of Jack Ruby as a creature of the dark, of smoky, neon-lit walkups, back-alley brawls, and shady financial deals. But for nearly three years during the height of the Second World War, Jacob Rubenstein proudly wore the olive drab uniform of the United States Army Air Forces.…
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Episode 328 Jack Ruby Miniseries Part 4
In the pre-World War II era of the "Chicago Cowboy," Jacob Rubenstein was a striking figure of manic energy on the West Side. Working out with desperate intensity at local YMCA clubs, he obsessed over his physical conditioning and receding hairline, famously boasting to anyone who would listen…
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Episode 327 Jack Ruby Miniseries Part 3
In the late summer of 1933, with the Great Depression holding Chicago in a frozen grip, twenty-two-year-old Jacob Rubenstein and his sister Eva packed a single suitcase and looked west. Under the sun-drenched palm trees of California, a strange transformation occurred. The volatile…
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Episode 326 Jack Ruby Miniseries Part 2
If you visit Westlawn Cemetery just outside Chicago, you'll find a simple granite headstone for the man who silenced Lee Harvey Oswald on live television. But carved right in the center of that marker is a bracketed childhood nickname: Jack "Sparky" Ruby. In part two of our special miniseries, we...
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Episode 325 Jack Ruby Miniseries Part 1
On November 24, 1963, Jack Ruby stepped out of the shadows of a crowded Dallas police basement and shot Lee Harvey Oswald live on national television, silencing the accused assassin of President John F. Kennedy forever. In a single moment, Ruby opened a canyon of doubt and conspiracy that has…
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Episode 324 Jack Ruby Miniseries Prelude Episode
Join us in this prelude episode of a miniseries series covering Jack Ruby. Our podcast coverage now moves to tell the story of this central character in the assassination. Jack Ruby was an enigmatic figure that some say was the "cleanest available test of the conspiracy hypothesis". While sixty...
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Noss Gold Treasure Episode 14
In Episode 14 of the Noss Gold Treasure, the investigation shifts to the early 1970s as President Richard Nixon positions himself to gain access to the vast fortune hidden inside Victorio Peak. The episode explores a pivotal July 6, 1970 meeting at Nixon's Western White House in San Clemente,...
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Noss Gold Treasure Episode 13
In Episode 13 of the Noss Gold Treasure, we delve into one of the most audacious gold smuggling operations in modern history: the post-presidential pipeline orchestrated under Lyndon B. Johnson between 1969 and 1970. Drawing on direct video interviews with vintage WWII B-24 Liberator pilot Fern...
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Noss Gold Treasure Episode 12
In 1958, Air Force Captain Leonard Fiege, Airman Tom Berlett, and civilian Bill Schriever entered a cave at Victoria Peak, discovering massive, pyramid-shaped stacks of gold bars stamped with Spanish double crosses alongside the remains of 29 human skeletons. Choosing to act honorably and follow...
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Noss Gold Treasure Episode 11
On June 5, 1963, President John F. Kennedy and Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson made a highly orchestrated visit to White Sands Missile Range. While the official itinerary claimed the 139-minute stop was merely to witness a missile demonstration and inspect an unpaved desert runway known as the...
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Noss Gold Treasure Episode 10
In the summer of 1976, an Illinois oilman named Ed Atkins received a tape containing an explosive conversation: former President Lyndon B. Johnson admitting to moving stolen gold from White Sands Missile Range to his ranch in Mexico. Discussing the heist with Fred Drolte, LBJ explicitly detailed...
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Episode 323 The Cuba Project and Mongoose: The Aftermath of the Bay of Pigs
Even though I am technically in the middle of the Noss Gold Treasure epiodes, I felt the need to go on a "wander" and produce a new episode for our core journey here at JFK The Enduring Secret. In Episode 323, we begin to explore one of the most intense backdrops of the Kennedy administration…
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Episode 322 Our Meeting with Congresswoman Luna in Washington DC
In this special update episode of JFK The Enduring Secret, Andrew Isler and Mark Adamczyk and myself recap our recent trip to Washington, D.C., for a highly anticipated meeting with Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna. After a chaotic day of travel, we secured nearly an hour with the Congresswoman…
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Noss Gold Treasure Episode 9
Episode 9 plunges into the darkest chapter of the Victoria Peak saga, a chilling period between 1955 and 1963 when the United States military transformed from guardian to thief. Based entirely on the exhaustive, decades-long research of investigative author John Clarence (the pen name of Jack...
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An in depth tutorial and discussion around the assassination of John F. Kennedy, (JFK) the country's 35th president who was brutally murdered in Dallas Texas on November 22, 1963. The series comprehensively explores the major facts, themes, and events leading up to the assassination in Dealey Plaza and the equally gripping stories surrounding the subsequent investigation. We review key elements of the Warren Commission Report , and the role of the CIA and FBI. We explore the possible involvement of the Mafia in the murder and the review of that topic by the government's House Select Committee on Assassinations in the 1970's. We explore the Jim Garrison investigation and the work of other key figures such as Mark Lane and others. Learn more about Lee Harvey Oswald the suspected killer and Jack Ruby the distraught Dallas night club owner with underworld ties and the man that killed Oswald as a national TV audience was watching. Stay with us as we take you through the facts and theorie
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