Hello, this is Mark Shaw and Mark Shaw Investigates, where we probe injustices

in the most explosive criminal cases of the 20th century, in the 20th century American history

and beyond with my motto to identify and investigate distortions of that history and rectify them through my belief

that the dead cannot cry out for justice it is the duty of the living to do so for them and

we're going to have a guest today who does just that that's a quote by the way by Lewis

McMaster Bougault, a famous novelist.

As far as who I am, it's complicated.

I'm a guy who hasn't really been able to keep a job for very long throughout my career,

but it's been interesting for sure.

I started as a criminal defense lawyer in Indianapolis,

handling almost all of the time high-profile murder

cases. And that was an amazing time of my life because I had never imagined after almost flunking

out of colleagues that I could do that. But for several years, I represented people at one time as co-counsel of the famous lawyer, F.B. Bailey.

And after a while, though, I'd had a string of acquittals that I decided there was something else I wanted to do in my life.

And so I began to work in the television arena analyzing high-profile cases for the networks.

The first one was the Mike Tyson case, then O.J. Simpson, then Kobe Bryant.

And since then, then I began, after that, I began writing my books.

The first one was down for the count about the Mike Tyson trial.

Since then, it's amazing to believe, but I've written more than 30 books,

and the last six or seven of them have all been connected to the JFK assassination. I learned about it

kind of by accident when I started finding out about an amazing reporter, a woman of integrity, a woman that was called the most powerful female voice in America by New York Post in the 1960s Dorothy Kilgallan.

And I began writing the books with the first one, a biography of Melvin Belli, who represented Jack Ruby,

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