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Susan Sloate: Forward to Camelot, A Time-Travel Thriller

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Susan Sloate is the bestselling, award-winning author of 26 published books (fiction, young adult fiction, nonfiction, biography, sports, and history).

With Kevin Finn she co-authored Forward to Camelot: The Final Edition, a time-travel thriller about the JFK assassination, which was re-published in 2013 as the 50th Anniversary Edition before its current 2024 edition. (Recently declassified documents confirm Susan and Kevin's original theory about the identity of the assassination planner--who appears as a major fictional character in the novel.)

Her website is www.SusanSloate.com.

Bruce devoured FORWARD TO CAMELOT. “I’ve been obsessed with John F. Kennedy since 2013.” Susan, “I started the journey when I was six, when Kennedy was assassinated. For years and years, it was in my mind.” She was reading about it.

In 1992, Susan saw Oliver Stone’s film, JFK. “It was terrific. Amazing. Afterwards, I was all churned up, thinking why did this happen? It didn’t have to happen. People knew it was coming. It shouldn’t have happened. And I wanted to somehow make it better.”

At her writer’s group, she wrote the beginning pages of what would become FORWARD TO CAMELOT, whose co-author, was in the group. “When you had a story problem, Kevin could figure out what was wrong. I dragged him into the story and said, I can’t finish this without you, and we ended up collaborating.”

“The driving force was to take this event that was so tragic [JFK’s assassination] and so affected American history and somehow make it better.”

“We’re very proud of the research because it didn’t just deal with the events of the assassination or the big names associated with the assassination. We also went into Kennedy’s life, his administration and everything that was going on there, and we discovered (and put in the book) an enormous amount of new material that no one had ever seen before.”

“We decided early on, and this was a big part of the entire thing, to make Lee Harvey Oswald [SPOILER ALERT] the hero of the book, because based on everything we saw, that was truly the role he intended to play. After publication, I sent a copy to the woman who was Oswald’s lover in the summer of 1963, Judyth Vary Baker.”

“She’s a friend of mine,” Bruce said.

“Good! After she read it, she said this is exactly what he was. This is the person that he was. That made me so happy because this is what I was trying for. People are constantly surprised, asking, you mean, Oswald’s not the bad guy?” Correct. “Anything to try to repair his reputation in history, that matters to me.”

Susan’s latest book is SCENES FROM A SONG, which she calls 1960s’ music fiction, the story of a song that makes us sing, that breaks our hearts, that stays with us forever, and the very special band that started it all.

www.SusanSloate.com

Amazon.com: FORWARD TO CAMELOT: THE FINAL EDITION (The Cady Cuyler series): 9798218318338: Sloate, Susan, Finn, Kevin: Books

SCENES FROM A SONG: Sloate, Susan: 9798998989407: Amazon.com: Books

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James DiEugenio: JFK’s Anti-Imperialism, The Antidote to Our Times

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James DiEugenio is one of the most respected researchers about the assassinations of the 1960s, about which he has written or co-edited many books.

He also wrote the screenplays for Oliver Stone’s documentaries, JFK REVISITED: Through the Looking Glass and JFK: Destiny Betrayed. And he and Mr. Stone testified before Congress in 2025 about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

Jim’s work can be found at www.KennedysandKing.com and at www.JamesAnthonyDiEugenio.Substack.com.

The coverup of what JFK was doing “is more systematic and rigid than the coverup about his assassination.” Exposing that coverup “has subsumed” Jim since 2013.

“You have to understand what he was doing in order to understand why they killed him and how they did it – at high noon, in broad daylight, on a city street, with three hundred witnesses. He was trying to stay true to the ideals the United States was founded on,” the idea that all nations should be free and independent and able to prosper with their own resources and become strong enough to trade with the world and protect themselves from being conquered or controlled by other nations.

ABC emailed Oliver Stone after their Congressional appearance, and “that’s how we got roped into that godawful ABC special [Truth and Lies: Who Killed JFK?]. That’s how powerful that hearing was. The mainstream media felt they had to counteract it.”

This conversation was held on Saturday, January 3, 2026.

Bruce, “We owe President Trump gratitude because we intended to discuss JFK’s anti-imperialism and of course, the news this morning is …”

Jim laughed. “That’s exactly what I thought this morning. When I saw that headline [about the kidnapping of Venezuelan president Nicholas Maduro], I said, Wow. Bruce could not have asked for a better lead-in than what just happened. Trump sending in American commandos, to another country, setting off explosions in the capitol as a distraction, and then kidnapping the leader of the country and his wife, and then going on TV and saying that we’re going to run the country in the interim. Could you get any more of a contrast [between JFK and Trump]?”

“JFK had two sterling opportunities to take over Cuba, and he didn’t take advantage of either of them,” the Bay of Pigs disaster of 1961, which taught Kennedy that the CIA and the top military men could not be trusted. (He fired the top people at the CIA.)

Jim’s website exposing the four major assassinations of the sixties:

www.KennedysandKing.com

His Substack:

www.JamesAnthonyDiEugenio.Substack.com.

The Battler of Algiers, on YouTube:

La Batalla de Argel - Sub Esp-Eng - The Battle of Algiers - 1966 - HD

King Leopold’s Ghost, about Belgium’s brutal colonization of Congo:

King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa: Hochschild, Adam: 9780358212508: Amazon.com: Books

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Bart Sibrel: The Moon Hoax and The Redemptive Power of The Truth

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Bart Sibrel is an award-winning filmmaker, writer and investigative journalist who made A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE MOON, a documentary that shows how the Apollo moon landings were a hoax. See it at www.Sibrel.com.

In his memoir, MOON MAN: The True Story of a Filmmaker on the CIA Hit List, Bart names the military base where the fake Apollo 11 moon landing was filmed and the fifteen government scientists and officials who were present, including President Lyndon B. Johnson.

We also discussed:

Bart’s recent appearance on THE DANNY JONES PODCAST (on YouTube), where he debated Apollo astronaut Charles Duke for four hours. I wrote on my Substack, “At around three hours and thirty minutes, Bart begins a profound explanation of the spiritual stakes of lies and deceptions. Sobering. And thought-provoking.”

Bart was a super-fan of the moon landings when he was young, “with a shrine of Apollo pictures that followed me everywhere I went since childhood.” He was invited to make a film about the deception. He found compelling evidence that the landings were faked.

“If they faked the moon landing, and they did, that’s more significant historically than if they had actually gone. The most powerful nation on earth falsified mankind’s greatest boast. Russia and China are blackmailing us about it. Now Elon Musk says, in order to go to the moon, you’d need seventeen fuel trips in order to escape earth gravity. The Apollo rocket had nothing close to that capability and that’s why they destroyed all the diagrams, all the schematics, all the original videotapes, all the original telemetry, which is the last thing you would do if you really went but the very thing you would do if you faked it.”

Telling the truth is redemptive and cathartic, liberating and empowering, the first step toward healing grievances and reestablishing trust, something desperately needed in the world today, especially here in America, the nation that could do the most good if it would repent of its lies and criminal acts.

People were killed to keep the lie of the moon hoax going. A greater act of courage and repentance and redemption than the United States government telling the truth about the moon hoax can scarcely be imagined.

www.Sibrel.com

On YouTube:

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Moon - MM2

Moon Man: The True Story of a Filmmaker on the CIA Hit List: Sibrel, Bart: 9781513686561: Amazon.com: Books

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