Margot Williams

1 week ago | jfkfacts.substack.com | Margot Williams

Jeff Morley’s obituary for the JFK researcher and musicologist Dan Storper who passed away on May 22 at age 74 appeared earlier today. Two days before Dan’s passing, the second hearing of the House Oversight Committee’s Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets chaired by Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, was held on Capitol Hill. There was revealing, historic, and at times, emotional testimony from five men who are living witnesses to the events of the assassination of President John F.

3 weeks ago | biorxiv.org | Xin Li |Robert J. Huebner |Margot Williams |Jessica Sawyer

AbstractCells undergo dramatic morphological changes during embryogenesis, yet how these changes affect the formation of ordered tissues remains elusive. Here, we show that a phase transition leading to the formation of a nematic liquid crystal state during gastrulation in the development of embryos of fish, frogs, and fruit flies occurs by a common mechanism despite substantial differences between these evolutionarily distant animals.

1 month ago | jfkfacts.substack.com | Margot Williams

On April 18, documents relating to the June 4, 1968 assassination of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy in the kitchen of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles were made available on the National Archives web site. The release was announced in a joint statement from Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the son of the murdered senator and candidate for president in 1968.

2 months ago | jfkfacts.substack.com | Jefferson Morley |Margot Williams

Perhaps the single most significant new document to emerge from the new JFK assassination files in the past two years is the material that CIA counterintelligence officers compiled on Lee Harvey Oswald before the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on Nov. 22, 1963. Yes, the newly declassified 1961 memo that Arthur Schlesinger Jr. wrote to JFK about reorganizing the CIA exposed deep divisions between the White House and the clandestine service that persisted to the end of JFK’s presidency.

2 months ago | jfkfacts.substack.com | Margot Williams

It’s not an exaggeration to state that this week was one of the best in decades for JFK assassination researchers. It was a marathon that must have been as chaotic for the National Archives staffers who spent days and nights declassifying and scanning documents as it has been for people in the JFK research community and the media, first awaiting their release and then speed-reading through them.