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JFK The Enduring Secret

by Jeff Crudele · English · Society & Culture

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

New episodes: Daily
Typical length: 28 min
Latest: 2 Oct 2026
Language: English

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2 Oct 2026 · 32 min

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 four-to-six-hour delay between the early morning discovery of her body by her butler and hairdresser and the official notification of the police at 1:00 p.m., contrasting her husband Richard Kollmar’s false statemen...

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S7 · E357 · 2 Oct 2026 · 35 min
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 Kilgallen took her regular seat on CBS’s What’s My Line?, correctly guessing that a contestant sold industrial dynamite before heading out to PJ Clarke’s and later stepping into the Regency H...
S7 · E356 · 28 Sep 2026 · 47 min
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 Ruby's sealed testimony, Kilgallen published the Dallas Police Department radio logs from November 22, 1963, exposing that Police Chief Jesse Curry's very first order after shots rang out was to send offic...
S7 · E355 · 27 Sep 2026 · 47 min
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 24, 1963, syndicated columnist Dorothy Kilgallen vowed to her butler James Clement: "If it is the last thing I do, I'm going to break this case." Driven by a deeply personal connection to John F. Kenne...
S7 · E354 · 25 Sep 2026 · 34 min
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 of Broadway column read by 20 million people across 146 newspapers, her daily radio show with husband Richard Kollmar, and her iconic Sunday night seat on CBS's What's My Line?. We explore her public f...
S7 · E353 · 25 Sep 2026 · 31 min
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 by twenty million people and star panelist on CBS's What's My Line?—was found dead inside her Manhattan townhouse at age 52, just hours after appearing on live television. While official records ruled...
S7 · E352 · 20 Sep 2026 · 28 min
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 Kathy Kay (K. Helen Coleman). We contrast Jack Ruby’s later jailhouse claims—that Olsen explicitly prompted him to kill Oswald to save the Kennedy family further grief—with Olsen and Kay's flat denia...
S7 · E351 · 20 Sep 2026 · 34 min
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 Ruby smashed his head into his cell wall and tried to fashion a noose, a renowned psychiatrist arrived to conduct a series of closed-door examinations. That psychiatrist was Dr. Lewis Jolyon "Jolly" W...
S7 · 19 Sep 2026 · 6 min
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
S7 · E350 · 15 Sep 2026 · 41 min
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 Dallas attorney Tom Howard, who aimed for a "murder without malice" defense under Texas law—an approach that framed Ruby as a grief-stricken, volatile nightclub owner acting out of sudden passion to s...
S7 · E349 · 15 Sep 2026 · 47 min
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 television, Dallas detectives searched the residence under warrant, discovering over $3,100 in cash scattered between bedroom cloth sacks, living room closets, Ruby's pockets, and his white Oldsmobile ...
S7 · E348 · 14 Sep 2026 · 28 min
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. We explore the instant, bitter fracture in public perception: while hundreds of sympathetic citizens sent telegrams and defense contributions praising Ruby as a grief-stricken patriot who spared...
S7 · E347 · 11 Sep 2026 · 33 min
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 vacation, backed by a single postcard sent to his girlfriend Alice Nichols from the FOCSA building. However, official Cuban immigration tourist cards and federal archives expose a massive ...
S7 · E346 · 7 Sep 2026 · 24 min
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 to expose a highly calculating, double-shielded operator who survived on the very edge of the law for sixteen years. We reconstruct the shadowy 1953-1955 gambling hustle Jack ran alongside swindler H...
S7 · E345 · 7 Sep 2026 · 31 min
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 this revealing twenty-first installment, we look past the smoking gun to explore who Jack Ruby really was, starting with a fierce internal struggle inside the Warren Commission itself. In the...
S7 · E344 · 5 Sep 2026 · 25 min
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 ultimate chronological paradox: at 10:00 a.m.—the exact hour the police had publicly scheduled the transfer—Ruby was still fast asleep in his South Ewing Street apartment, completely unhurried. We dism...
S7 · E343 · 5 Sep 2026 · 17 min
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 Motor Hotel. Ostensibly a playground for mid-century celebrities, the Cabana was built using millions from Jimmy Hoffa’s Teamsters pension fund and was managed by close associates of organized crime. Thou...
S7 · E342 · 5 Sep 2026 · 22 min
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 the late-night "Jackson Street rendezvous" between Jack, off-duty patrolman Harry Olsen, and Carousel stripper Kathy Kay. Although the Warren Commission accepted the story that the trio bumped into each...
S7 · E341 · 31 Aug 2026 · 17 min
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 suspicious meeting in the dark that lasted for over an hour. In this episode, we reconstruct this crucial parking lot caucus and explore the conflicting testimonies of how it began—was it a chance street coll...
S7 · E340 · 31 Aug 2026 · 19 min
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 District Attorney Henry Wade, Jack returns to collect his reward—access to the inner broadcast sanctum. But as we pull back the curtain on this midnight visit, a bizarre series of eyewitness contradic...
S7 · E339 · 29 Aug 2026 · 14 min
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 charges against Lee Harvey Oswald, the exhausted prosecutor makes a staggering, cold-war slip of the tongue—accidentally declaring to the world that Oswald was a member of the anti-Castro "Free Cuba ...
S7 · E338 · 29 Aug 2026 · 16 min
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 for a glimpse of the prime suspect. Fearing that prolonged silence behind closed doors will spark rumors of police brutality, police chiefs and prosecutors make the fateful decision to show Lee Harvey O...
S7 · E337 · 28 Aug 2026 · 15 min
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 television crews shoved shoulder-to-shoulder in the smoke-filled corridors. In this episode, we follow the frantic, hour-by-hour movements of Jack Ruby during this critical three-hour window, examining ...
S7 · E336 · 23 Aug 2026 · 1 hr 3 min
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 spent his morning writing out longhand copy for his weekend advertisements, completely oblivious to the fateful motorcade scheduled to pass just blocks away. When employees from the newspaper burst...
S7 · E335 · 20 Aug 2026 · 45 min
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 commanding salary that instantly turned heads at the Carousel Club. But while her signature tiger-skin routine and provocative stage presence promised to bring "class" to Jack's walk-up club, she quic...
S7 · E334 · 16 Aug 2026 · 51 min
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 memories of eye-witnesses at the famous Tropicana casino paint a far more complex and troubling picture. Jack wasn't just on vacation; he was traveling back and forth to the island, even making a mysterious...
S7 · E333 · 15 Aug 2026 · 21 min
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 desperation, high-interest loans, and an intense, green-eyed envy of Jack's chief competitors. In this episode, we pull back the curtain on the daily operations of Dallas's most famous clip joint, exp...
S7 · E332 · 15 Aug 2026 · 20 min
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 mogul, a Dallas "somebody" who constantly dropped the names of the mayor, the police chief, and oil tycoons to anyone who would listen. From his passionate, short-lived stint managing a 12-year-old song-...
S7 · E331 · 13 Aug 2026 · 17 min
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, beneath this polished exterior lurked a terrifying, volatile thug. With a hair-trigger temper that his lawyers would later describe as a fugue state, Ruby acted as his own brutal bouncer, savage enoug...
S7 · E330 · 13 Aug 2026 · 17 min
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 straight into a toxic family business feud. Joining forces with his brothers Sam, Earl, and Hyman at Earl Products, Jacob took charge of sales for their lucrative gray-market punchboard operation. Bu...

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Publisher: Jeff Crudele
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Category: Society & Culture
New episodes: Daily
Typical length: 28 min
Latest episode: 2 Oct 2026
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