Talk:The Men Who Killed Kennedy

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[edit] Steve Rivele

According to the wiki article on The Men Who Killed Kennedy, the research involving the French assasins and their potential involvement in the Kennedy killing, including the interviews of "French Connection" criminals Christian David and Michele Nicoli were conducted by a British journalist named Anthony Summers and included in the 2003 History Channel episodes rather than the original series produced by Nigel Turner.

I have The Men Who Killed Kennnedy on DVD, recorded from The History Channel- this being the original 1988 episodes. I also have the 1995 chapter, The Truth Shall Set You Free, on VHS and somewhere around this house among my jumble of videos are the three 2003 chapters broadcast on The History Channel.

I've watched the original episodes several times. So, I am sure that the theories involving French assassins, including a man called Lucien Sarti, were put forth by a writer named Steve Rivele. It was Rivele who interviewed Christian David, and Michele Nicoli. And his research was documented in the Forces of Darkness chapter of The Men Who Killed Kennedy, produced by Nigel Turner, and not one of the later "add-ons" produced by A&E or The History Channel.

Anthony Summers may well have interviewed David and Nicoli at some point, but I cannot recall any interviews of those two men, or any information involving them in The Men Who Killed Kennedy beyond Rivele's investigation in the 80s.

I do know that Rivele went on to work on the script for the Oliver Stone film, Nixon.

—Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.6.185.27 (talk) 03:58, 25 January 2008 (UTC)


The Long Standing Deception, by John Joseph Joubert Jr. This is an article written by someone who has been reading about the Kennedy assassination for over thirty years. It will not attempt to convince you that any particular theory is the correct scenario of events on that tragic November day. Instead it will attempt to review the various possibilities and logically pose questions that remain to be answered. The relevance to today's world may seem obscure. What importance can still remain on whomever was the assassin after almost forty one years have passed? Our country is ruled by government and it is up to us, the simple people, to keep vigilance over its workings to safegaurd our freedom. If there is a hidden truth behind the Kennedy assassination, and our government, or agencies within it, know the truth, then it is imperitive that the truth come out. There is no longer danger of WW3 should it be the soviets...or cubans, no great upheaval if the mafia was to blame. But what if the American government itself was the culprit? There have been hundreds of books written on the JFK assassination over the past forty years. One of the more interesting books contended that Oswald got off three shots, hitting the President twice. The third spectacularly grisley head shot came from a Secret Service agent who missfired while falling backward in the follow up car to the President. This intrigueing contention explains why there seems to be such an elaborate coverup after the event. But it does not answer the crucial question.