2024-01-11

Who Killed JfK? with Rob Reiner and Soledad O’Brien

 


Director Rob Reiner and journalist Soledad O’Brien have dug into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. 60 years after the assassination, people still wonder about the event and theories continue to emerge about who was behind JFK's death.

Rainer and O'Brien claim they have found evidence about who was really behind the killing. They host “Who Killed JFK?”, a 10-part podcast series that premiered in November and features interviews with authors, witnesses, CIA officials, and forensic experts as part of their investigation.

The podcast also includes an interview with a former Secret Service agent who earlier this year came forward with “groundbreaking new evidence,” according to iHeartMedia, which is distributing the series.

Their investigation tells them that Lee Harvey Oswald, who was charged with JFK’s assassination but claimed he was a “patsy,” did not act alone. 

Reiner claims there were U.S. government officials, including at the CIA, who were behind the plot to murder JFK and that President Lyndon B. Johnson participated in covering up the conspiracy, and that individuals who have attempted to expose the truth about the assassination were themselves killed.

Other events of the 1960s also play roles in the plot, including the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Vietnam War, and the Civil Rights Movement.

Reiner, after starring in All in the Family, has gone on to direct movies including This Is Spinal Tap, Stand By Me, MiseryA Few Good Men, When Harry Met Sally and The Princess Bride. His films also include LBJ and 2017’s Shock and Awe, which his bio says “exposed the lies that led to the U.S. invasion of Iraq.” 

O’Brien has anchored shows on CNN, MSNBC, NBC and CBS. She currently anchors and produces Matter of Fact With Soledad O’Brien, a Hearst political TV magazine program. Recent productions by her Soledad O’Brien Productions company include Peabody-Award-winning documentary, “The Rebellious Life of Rosa Parks,” which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and streams on Peacock, and multipart series “Black and Missing,” which won the Independent Spirit and NAACP awards and streams on HBO.

2024-01-02

The End of Affirmative Action

 


Soledad O'Brien joined "CBS Mornings" to discuss her new CBS Reports documentary, "The End of Affirmative Action," and the impact the Supreme Court ruling is having on colleges and families. 



2023-12-01

Real Sports HBO Program Ending


Soledad posted on X that Real Sports on HBO is ending after a 29-year run. Soledad started there in 2013.


2023-11-19

Podcast - Who Killed JFK?


Who Killed JFK? For 60 years, we are still asking that question. In commemoration of the 60th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy's tragic assassination, legendary filmmaker Rob Reiner teams up with award-winning journalist Soledad O’Brien to tell the history of America’s greatest murder mystery. 

They interview CIA officials, medical experts, Pulitzer-prize winning journalists, eyewitnesses and a former Secret Service agent who, in 2023, came forward with groundbreaking new evidence. 

They dig deep into that question which has shaped America, and why it matters that we’re still asking it today.

Reiner has pored over the Zapruder film—the home movie, shot by a Dallas citizen on the route of the motorcade, that inadvertently captured the entire sequence of the assassination.

Episode 1 -. "Shots Have Been Fired"
Who wanted the president dead? And is the unexpected murder of the lead suspect the first clue in the answer to this mystery? 

Episode 2. The Investigations
Was there a coverup? The Warren Commission published a report in 1964 that claimed Lee Harvey Oswald was the sole gunman. But over a decade later, the House Select Committee on Assassinations claimed that President Kennedy was killed as the result of a ‘conspiracy.’ Why the conflicting results? With revelations over the last 60 years, flaws in both investigations are exposed.

All episodes podcasts.iheart.com/WhoKilledJFK