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Gerald Posner

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Covers:  drug trafficking, investigative reporting, crime, organized crime, politics, terrorism, nazis, political assassinations
Award-winning investigative journalist | 13x author (PHARMA, CASE CLOSED, MENGELE, GOD’S BANKERS | Pulitzer finalist | “A merciless pit bull of an investigator"

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Gerald Posner’s Biography

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John Martin of ABC News says "Gerald Posner is one of the most resourceful investigators I have encountered in thirty years of journalism." Garry Wills calls Posner "a superb investigative reporter," while the Los Angeles Times dubs him "a classic-style investigative journalist." "His work is painstakingly honest journalism" concluded The Washington Post. The New York Times lauded his "exhaustive research techniques" and The Boston Globe talked of Posner's "thorough and hard-edge investigation.…

Gerald Posner’s Journalist Portfolio

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Gerald Posner on the Single Bullet, Oswald and the fatal JFK head shot - compilation

Gerald Posner on the Single Bullet, Oswald and the fatal JFK head shot - compilation

Clips from Crossfire with Cyril Wecht; Bryant Gumbel; Dick Cavett; Dan Rather; Charlie Rose, and Conan O'Brie…

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Gerald Posner on TODAY (1998) - Martin Luther King Jr. assassination

Gerald Posner on TODAY (1998) - Martin Luther King Jr. assassination

Gerald Posner, on the publication of KILLING THE DREAM; JAMES EARL RAY AND THE ASSASSINATION OF MARTIN LUTHER…

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Jeopardy - The JFK Assassination Answer

Jeopardy - The JFK Assassination Answer

This is the answer in Jeopardy about JFK Assassination, Cased Closed, Gerald Posner, and the Single Bullet $2…

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Gerald Posner on JFK's casket, TODAY Show, May 1999

Gerald Posner on JFK's casket, TODAY Show, May 1999

Gerald Posner talking to Katie Couric about news that JFK's casket was dumped by the military in the ocean

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Gerald Posner on Gangsters - The Pot Princess of Beverly Hills (excerpts)

Gerald Posner on Gangsters - The Pot Princess of Beverly Hills (excerpts)

Some excerpts of investigative journalist Gerald Posner interviewed about pot princess, Lisette Lee, the self…

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Articles

The Democrats' Tea Party Moment

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By Gerald Posner
| justthefacts.media
Note: as I finish this piece Wednesday night, Graham Platner has just dropped his Maine Senate bid amid a sexual assault allegation. That's a real story, but it's a different one from the story below. Platner was never a DSA candidate, and he isn't leaving the race because Democratic voters rejected him — he's leaving because his endorsers fled overnight, not because of an ideological reckoning.
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Not Progressive Enough: The Scott Wiener Morality Tale

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By Gerald Posner
| justthefacts.media
Gaza has replaced everything. Scott Wiener is the proof. There is a viral video making its way across social media this week that every Democrat who cares about the future of the party should be required to watch. It runs about three minutes. It is not comfortable viewing.
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The Hostile Takeover: Mamdani’s Purge of the New York Democratic Party

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By Gerald Posner
| justthefacts.media
A Just the Facts dispatch based on election calls in three key NY Congressional races I registered as a Democrat the week I turned eighteen. My first presidential vote, cast in San Francisco in 1972, went to George McGovern. I didn’t think much of it at the time — in the San Francisco I grew up in, there wasn’t really a Republican Party to speak of, so being a Democrat wasn’t a choice so much as the only option on the table.
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email

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Nexis, internet, archives (old fashioned paper and microfilm and microfiche) and a tape recorder for interviews

Who do you wish followed you?

Vladimir Putin

Awards

Pulitzer Prize

1994 - History

ONE OF THREE FINALISTS for the Pulitzer in History for CASE CLOSED: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK - check the link below to the Pulitzer foundation

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