Stephen G. Michaud's Biography
The story was not a success.
"Fats was neither fat nor very interesting," Michaud recalls. "I could not pry a worthwhile sentence out of him. As interview subjects go, he made a good pool player."
Michaud has since confronted significantly tougher subjects -- among them the infamous sexual sadist Mike DeBardeleben -- and under far more stressful circumstances -- he spent a hundred hours interviewing serial killer Ted Bundy on Death Row. Yet though Michaud's best known for his detailed explorations of the criminal mind, he never expected his career path to lead in that direction.
A Vermont native, raised in the Pacific Northwest, he graduated with a bachelor's degree in history from Stanford in , assuming at the time he would go on to law school. Instead, Michaud migrated from Palo Alto to New York City, where he took what he believed was a temporary job as a research assistant in the Newsweek magazine library.
Three years later, while on assignment to the magazine's Houston
Remembering renowned Dallas journalist and bestselling author, Hugh Aynesworth
From KERA News:
Hugh Grant Aynesworth was, as the title of his first book declared, “a witness to history.”
For such an amiable — even soft-spoken — man, Aynesworth had a resumé of news stories and investigations that reads like a chronicle of the past 60 years of American violence and trauma. He personally saw and covered the assassination of John F. Kennedy and the arrest and shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald. In , he covered the Branch Davidian siege at Waco. He reported on the bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City which killed people.
Over the course of a year, he and a partner interviewed serial killer Ted Bundy in a Florida prison in while Bundy’s murder convictions were still being appealed.
On November 12 this year, after Aynesworth was admitted to the UT Southwestern emergency room, doctors determined he had suffered a stroke months before. After a week at the hospital and a week in rehab, he returned home on November
Earlier this month, his wife, Paula Aynesworth, decided he needed to enter hospice care.
He died Saturday at home. Ayneswor
November 22, Witness to History
He recounts that day in Dealey Plaza but also the days, weeks and years to follow. He manages to do something very few writers do: To bring up his own experiences and observations without making the story about him. He also causes me to give a more jaded eye at the story of Jim Garrison, heralded in Oliver Stone's movie JFK. I still believe it is a good fiction film, but anyone who treats it as actual history is making a mistake.
Conspiracy theories have literally raged since the day of the killing as Aynesworth noted, and some of them make for intriguing yarns. The facts, as they are in most cases, are less sexy. But as someone who appreciates solid journalism over sexy
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Primary Sources
(1) Hugh Aynesworth, Editor and Publisher (1st August, )
If you would listen to this one, he would have you thinking that Lee Harvey Oswald was a polite little misunderstood youth who just got mixed up in the wrong company
Oh how terrible, says Joesten (an ex-German who became a U.S. citizen in and must wonder why), poor little Lee Harvey was the victim of a ruthless plot headed by Dallas police leaders, District Attorney Henry Wade and his staff and a few "bad guys" from the FBI.
Joesten further states that Oswald was an agent of both the FBI and the CIA (how's that for a year-old who couldn't spell "wrist"?).
It's the same old tripe with some new flavoring
The tip-off is the foreword, wherein Joesten dedicates his book to "Mark Lane the brilliant and courageous New York attorney" Lane is the troublemaker who spent two day's in Dallas in January on his "investigation" and now pretends to be an expert on all aspects of the weird tragedy.
(2) Hugh Aynesworth, JFK: Breaking the News ()
Relying on pitifully weak evidence to elevate a jack-leg Marxist such as Lee Harvey Oswald to
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