Historian and author Harold Holzer joins S.T. Patrick for a discussion on Abraham Lincoln, presidential performance, and historiography. Tonight, Holzer and Patrick cover Lincoln's political disappointments of 1856 and 1858, the true extent of the rivalry with Stephen A Douglas, why Lincoln believed he was the man for 1860, the posthumous impact of John C. Calhoun on South … [Read more...]
MWN Episode 151 – Nate Orlowek on the Escape of John Wilkes Booth
John Wilkes Booth researcher Nate Orlowek joins S.T. Patrick and the Midnight Writer News Show to discuss the possibility that John Wilkes Booth did not die in Garrett's Farm on April 26, 1865. Orlowek has been studying the case for 47 years and was inspired in large part by Theodore Roscoe's monumental Web of Conspiracy. After having some exchanges with Roscoe, which Orlowek … [Read more...]
MWN Episode 150 – Walt Brown on Earl Warren and His Commission
Walt Brown, PhD, joins S.T. Patrick for his fourth appearance on the Midnight Writer News Show. Brown and Patrick discuss Chief Justice Earl Warren and his Commission, about which Brown has written The Warren Omission. Walt Brown is the author of The People v. Lee Harvey Oswald, The Warren Omission, and The Kennedy Execution, among a new series of mysteries and the New York … [Read more...]
MWN Episode 149 – Mark Crispin Miller on the Politics and Propaganda of 2020
New York University professor Mark Crispin Miller simply asked his students to do research on masking before they believed the narrative of the mainstream media. After all, he was teaching a class called "Mass Persuasion and Propaganda." The very idea of the class is to foster recognition of the tools of persuasion and propaganda that are a daily part of the students' society, … [Read more...]
MWN Episode 148 – America’s Secret History with Steve Harris
Author Steve Harris joins S.T. Patrick to discuss America's Secret History: How the Deep State, the Fed, the JFK, MLK, and RFK Assassinations, and Much More Led to Donald Trump's Presidency. this episode's topics include Andrew Jackson and the Second Bank of the United States, the Deep State and the Civil War, the Assassination of President Lincoln, the Assassination of … [Read more...]