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Solving JFK examines each issue in the JFK Assassination by looking at the arguments from both those who believe Oswald acted alone and those who believe there was a conspiracy to kill president Kennedy. Host Matt Crumpton analyzes each tree in the forest and then zooms out to look at the big picture. Objective truth is the paramount goal of the podcast, with every factual proposition cited. In season one, we look at whether the Warren Report got it right that Lee Harvey Oswald was the lone assassin, and if not, what the open questions are that still need to...
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Matt Crumpton tests JFK assassination claims against documents, counterarguments, and the limits of what the surviving evidence can prove.
Solving JFK treats the Kennedy assassination as a continuing argument over evidence, with Matt Crumpton testing claims instead of rushing toward a single grand conclusion.
Matt Crumpton hits the brakes on a Hoover plotter theory; your red string can take a breath.
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Kennedy's restraint push and the Soviet theory get a careful, document-led treatment.
The episode ties Kennedy's move toward nuclear restraint to the long-running dispute over Soviet involvement in his death, then sets that debate beside the claim, attributed to former CIA Director James Woolsey, that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone and with Soviet help.
A fragmented installment that feels more like sponsor traffic than a settled case chapter.
Ep 92 is hard to read as a clean case chapter because sponsor reads and scattered copy keep crowding out any steady argument. The result feels stitched together rather than settled.
A document-led rebuttal that makes the documentary earn its certainty.
This bonus episode steps aside from the Soviet Union series to take a direct look at PBS Nova's Cold Case JFK and its argument that Oswald acted alone. The appeal is in the way it keeps things orderly: claim, document, inconsistency, implication.
A bonus Solving JFK episode that keeps Mexico City and the documentary record at the center.
The bonus episode of Solving JFK brings James DiEugenio, Paul Blow, Andrew Iler, and Mark Adamczyk into the same room to revisit season three and the recent congressional hearing from the Committee to Declassify Government Secrets, led by Congresswoman Luna.
A document-first Hoover recap that keeps suspicion and proof apart.
Solving JFK uses this Recap and Rebuttals episode to revisit the Hoover argument across episodes 67 through 69, with Don from Fourth Reich Archaeology Podcast in the room.
True crime with blunt reactions and dark edges.
Scarce radio crime, case by case.
True crime with blunt moral focus.
Political scandal, history, and sharp receipts.
Kennedy was leaning toward peace.
The available excerpt is sponsor material, not case evidence.
Spring break bumps the Soviet Union series.
This episode analyzes the Cuban Missile Crisis and its potential connections to the assassination of President Kennedy.
This episode examines the Cold War context and Soviet connections in the JFK assassination, analyzing Oswald's ties to the USSR.
Host Matt Crumpton interviews the creators of the film series Four Died Trying, which examines the assassinations of JFK, Malcolm X, MLK, and RFK.
Congress is back on JFK.
Matt closes out the Hoover run by revisiting the arguments from episodes 67 through 69.
The episode analyzes the actions of Secret Service driver Bill Greer during the JFK assassination, debating whether his failure to accelerate was due to panic or conspiracy.
Host Matt Crumpton interviews Secret Service expert Vince Palamara about whether the Secret Service's actions on November 22, 1963 were negligent or intentional.