Joseph McBride - Into the Nightmare - My Search for the Killers of President John F. Kennedy and Officer Tippit
Sep 21, 2022

Back to November 1963 and the fateful events which were to change America and the world.

Ed Opperman is joined by Joseph McBride.

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“AMERICA’S NEED TO WALK INTO THE NIGHTMARE . . .”

. . . was how Norman Mailer predicted the tumultuous period that led to President John F. Kennedy’s 1963 murder on a public street and the fifty years of controversy that have followed that turning point in our nation’s history. Journalist and historian Joseph McBride, a volunteer in JFK’s 1960 Wisconsin presidential primary campaign, began studying the assassination minutes after it happened. In 1982, McBride launched his own investigation. Both epic and intimately personal, Into the Nightmare: My Search for the Killers of President John F. Kennedy and Officer J. D. Tippit incorporates rare interviews with key people in Dallas, archival discoveries, and what novelist Thomas Flanagan, in The New York Review of Books, called McBride’s “wide knowledge of American social history.” McBride chronicles his evolving skepticism about the official story and shines a fresh, often surprising spotlight on Kennedy’s murder and on one of the murkiest, most crucial aspects of the case, its “Rosetta Stone,” the Tippit killing.

Joseph McBride is an American film historian, biographer, screenwriter, author and educator. He has written numerous books including biographies of notable film directors, a book on screenwriting, an investigative journalism book on the JFK assassination, and a memoir of the dark years in his life.

He also serves as professor in the Cinema Department at San Francisco State University.

Book: Into The Nightmare

Website: http://www.josephmcbridefilm.com/(domain registered, website under maintenance at time of posting.

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Other Books: How Did Lubitsch Do It? What Ever Happened to Orson Welles?: A Portrait of an Independent Career The Whole Durn Human Comedy: Life According to the Coen Brothers Frank Capra: Castastrophe of Success Political Truth: The Media and the Assassination of President Kennedy Searching For John Ford: A Life Two Cheers for Hollywood: Joseph McBride on Movies Hawks on Hawks (Screen Classics) Writing in Pictures The Book of Movie Lists: An Offbeat, Provocative Collection of the Best and Worst of Everything in Movies