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Dear Friends,

On Thursday, June 12th, PODCAST host Jeff Crudele (host of JFK THE ENDURING SECRET) interviewed me for a total of almost 5 hours. Fortunately, I was "high energy" that day, since we had a lot to discuss.

The interview was prompted by my recent testimony, on May 20th, before the LUNA Subcommittee on the Declassification of Federal Secrets. We covered a wide range of topics, including how I obtained my position at the ARRB; how I came to testify before the LUNA Task Force; the failure of the American television media to cover the hearing (an intentional choice on the part of the MSM); and numerous aspects of the JFK medical evidence which call into serious question the trustworthiness and reliability of the JFK autopsy in 1963.

Here are the links to parts 1, 2, and 3 of the PODCAST:

PART ONE: https://youtu.be/o3ROcXBwcsg

PART TWO: https://youtu.be/S48IGGXeVd0

PART THREE: https://youtu.be/l_Pn4Tbzjqo

ENJOY!

Dear Friends,

A friend and supporter just made me aware of an article posted today in AMERICAN THINKER online, written by Allan J. Favish, about the failure of the national TV media and print media to cover or report on the May 20th hearing of the LUNA Subcommittee on the Declassification of Federal Secrets.

Link: https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/06/the_media_s_failure_to_effectively_confront_recent_jfk_assassination_testimony.html

It is extremely well written, and mirrors the cogent observations made in Professor Jamie Galbraith's essay in 2023 titled: "On the Consequences of the Kennedy Coverup."

They are both well worth reading. Galbraith made clear in his 2023 essay that the price of membership in America's "society elites"---i.e., a place in the power structure of American life---is either full endorsement of the Big Lie that JFK was killed by a lone assassin, and that his death was without political consequence, or at the very least, total silence on the subject.


Both articles are worthy of reading, re-reading, and reposting. I encourage everyone to do so, and to give them the widest possible dissemination. END

Dear Friends,

We just experienced another anniversary of JFK's Peace Speech, delivered on June 10, 1963.

On this occasion, I would like to share with you the last hour of PART 3 of my lengthy, narrated Powerpoint lecture titled: "JFK's War With the National Security Establishment."

Here is the link to the final hour of that presentation:
https://youtu.be/0kXp92uYLZM?t=1477

The founder and manager of JFK FACTS, Jefferson Morley, just posted a PODCAST of an interview he conducted with Jeffrey Sachs about the Peace Speech, which you can watch here (I have skipped the first 18 minutes of the interview, which is not about the Peace Speech):
https://youtu.be/ACdh9xgYBzo?t=1078

I am also providing here, a link to my YouTube Channel Page, so that you can access all three parts of my narrated Powerpoint "JFK's WAR WITH THE NATIONAL SECURITY ESTABLISHMENT," as well as many other programs:
https://www.youtube.com/@DouglasHorneJFKAssassination

Please disseminate this post widely! Thank you.

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Dear friends,

As I write this on June 2, 2025, the number of views for the FORBES NEWS reposting of my Congressional testimony on May 20th, and the number of views for the FORBES NEWS reposting of the testimony Dr. Don Curtis at that same hearing, HAS NOW EXCEEDED HALF A MILLION VIEWS EACH.

The real story here is that the mainstream media (NBC, CBS, and ABC cable news channels) did not even broadcast the hearing of the Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets on May 20th, nor did those major networks cover it that evening or the next evening in their evening newscasts. FOX news only went to the hearing LIVE after Dr. Curtis, Dan Hardway, and I had all given our oral statements---so even for FOX, it was "too little, too late."

Congratulations to FORBES BREAKING NEWS.

You have successfully performed an "end run" on the MSM blackout of this second hearing into the Federal obfuscation of facts related to the JFK assassination.

Here is the FORBES NEWS link to the opening statement/oral testimony of Dr. Don Curtis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfZS1nu-OeQ

And here is the FORBES NEWS link to my opening statement/oral testimony: https://youtu.be/c8NBSjRJpkk


The vast majority of the time, the MSM will not cover any valid, serious criticism of either the Warren Commission's or the HSCA's conclusions regarding the JFK Assassination. They continued this suppression of the news on May 20th.

The MSM will generally only mention the activity of JFK researchers to disparage them as "conspiracy theorists," and to then support the Warren Commission's findings.


But FORBES NEWS has rectified this, to some extent. THANK YOU.

Let's disseminate the above links as widely as possible, and let's get those views up OVER ONE MILLION!

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A very important article was just posted at JFK FACTS.

Here is the link to the article, which is about the subject matter posts above:

https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication_id=315632&post_id=162825618&utm_source=post-email-title&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=5rz25a&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjozNDkzMTYyNTQsInBvc3RfaWQiOjE2MjgyNTYxOCwiaWF0IjoxNzQ4ODgwMjY5LCJleHAiOjE3NTE0NzIyNjksImlzcyI6InB1Yi0zMTU2MzIiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.f_OjalZ0yee5MHhLb_0qZ3Bo2oyhSwBQGLejVbzhBHs


I just favorably endorsed the article, with these comments, at JFK FACTS:

"THIS IS A VITALLY IMPORTANT ARTICLE; I AM GOING TO GIVE IT THE WIDEST POSSIBLE DISSEMINATION. The fact that Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy confided to President Charles DeGaulle, immediately after JFK's Funeral, that he believed President Kennedy was assassinated in a coup d'etat, is extremely significant---as were President DeGaulle's observations and conclusions about the event throughout the mid-1960s. I suspect that this is the kind of content that could be the cause for the Kennedy family taking author William Manchester to court, insisting on changes to his book, and imposing a 100-year court seal in 1967 on his unredacted, original manuscript (for "The Death of a President"), and on the content of the major interviews he conducted with JBK and RFK. This may very well be the exact content that Manchester was forced to remove from the book, and which is now under court seal for 100 years, until 2067. I think I now begin to understand Caroline Kennedy's behavior in refusing to agree to the ARRB's request to lift the court seal on Manchester's interviews of RFK and JBK. Manchester's interviews of RFK and JBK were conducted on the following dates: RFK was interviewed by Manchester twice, on May 14, 1964, and on December 1, 1965; and Jacqueline Kennedy was interviewed by Manchester 5 times, namely, on April 7, 1964; May 4, 7, and 8, 1964; and on July 20, 1964. If this content about the Kennedy family's belief that Jack Kennedy had been killed in a coup made it into Manchester's book, then the Kennedy family (read: RFK and JBK) may have blocked publication of that content in the belief that it was "for the good of the country." Of course, I don't think that is an appropriate justification today for Caroline Kennedy blocking the release of the RFK and JBK interviews, as requested by ARRB Chair Judge Jack Tunheim in 1998. Sixty-two years after JFK was assassinated, Americans certainly deserve to know our own history at this point, and the need to know the truth (about the reasons for the 1967 court order blocking the unexpurgated Manchester manuscript, and the RFK and JBK interviews) surely outweighs any private Kennedy family sensitivities or family considerations. Caroline Kennedy should reconsider her position on this matter. She has long stated that she prefers to focus on her father's life, and not on the manner of his death. But if John F. Kennedy was killed in an American coup in 1963, as RFK opined to Charles DeGaulle the day of the funeral, then it was because he was heroically opposing his political enemies in the national security establishment, in spite of the risk to his own life. During 1963 JFK had quite literally ordered U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam by the end of 1965; was trying to end, or at least defuse, the Cold War with the USSR; and was secretly pursuing the possibility of a rapprochement with Fidel Castro's Cuba. If JFK was killed because of his valiant pursuit of these goals, then that is a MAJOR part of the story "about how he lived," and in fact would largely define his legacy---and would be worthy of revealing to the American people, and the world."

An afterthought: Congressman Biggs asked me during the LUNA Task Force hearing on May 20, 2025, [paraphrasing]:"Why the coverup? Why has so much of the medical evidence been altered and destroyed, and why has the Zapruder Film been altered and tampered with?" This is the answer, I believe. The coup plotters had to suppress all evidence of a cross-fire, and therefore of a conspiracy, so they could blame the assassination on a Communist lone-nut (the perfect "patsy"), and thus protect themselves, and hide the fact that JFK's death was an act of consensus, an American coup d'etat, carried out for reasons of policy at the height of the Cold War. END

Dear Friends,

Today, on May 29, 2025, a substantive article about my Congressional testimony on May 20th was posted on the "JFK FACTS" BLOG site.


Here is a link to that article: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://jfkfacts.substack.com/p/jfk-autopsy-expert-douglas-horne&ved=2ahUKEwj64OW7vcmNAxWbtokEHU9AJNQQFnoECBgQAQ&usg=AOvVaw2tXKRxbNefe_xyMdk_qWIH


I want to express sincere appreciation to CHAD NAGLE for the care and attention he put into writing the article.


Listed below is a 2014 entry about my career posted at the U.S. State Department while I was still working there, prior to retirement in 2016.


Veterans Month 2014: Douglas P. Horne
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November 11, 2014






Date: 11/11/2014 Description: Veterans Month 2014 Profile: Douglas P. Horne. Douglas Horne was a Surface Line Officer in the U.S. Navy from 1975-1985, and served onboard three surface combatants in the Pacific: USS Ouellet (FF-1077); USS Reeves (CG-24); and USS Worden (CG-18). He transitioned to Navy Civil Service in 1985, and for ten years filled the role of Operations Manager at a U.S. Navy field office in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii dedicated to logistic support of a new class of high-priority anti-submarine warfare vessels (the T-AGOS/SURTASS ships). Following the end of the Cold War with the USSR, Doug relocated to Washington, D.C. and served for three years with the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Review Board (ARRB), from 1995-1998, where he rose to the position of Chief Analyst for Military Records. Doug subsequently published a five-volume magnum opus about the medical evidence in the JFK assassination, titled Inside the Assassination Records Review Board. After serving for over two years as the Manager of the Visitor Services Branch at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum from 1998-2001, Mr. Horne joined the State Department’s Washington Passport Agency, where he works today as a Passport Specialist in the nation’s premiere passport facility. Doug graduated cum laude with a B.A. in History from The Ohio State University in 1974.

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Dear Friends,

Today, on May 28, 2025, FORBES NEWS posted all ten minutes of my oral testimony before Chairwoman LUNA's Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets back on May 20th.

Here is the link to this new posting by FORBES NEWS: https://youtu.be/c8NBSjRJpkk

THIS IS PARTICULARLY IMPORTANT BECAUSE the mainstream television media (NBC, CBS, and ABC) do not cover irregularities in the JFK medical evidence, nor do they cover serious criticisms of either the Warren Commission or the HSCA made by independent citizen-researchers. The mainstream media, since April of 1992, will not cover the findings of any JFK researchers except to ridicule them and disparage their findings.

The last honest investigative news report I saw on American television about the JFK assassination was the April 1992 episode of ABC's "20/20" news journalism program, hosted by Barbara Walters and Hugh Downs---the program that featured Dr. Charles Crenshaw. Paramount Plus also deserves some favorable mention for its documentary program titled JFK: WHAT THE DOCTORS SAW, which aired in late 2023. (That program was flawed in some respects, but at least Paramount Plus allowed the Dallas doctors who treated JFK in 1963 to tell the audience that we had been lied to by the U.S. government about how JFK was killed.)

The mainstream media is "in the tank" with the Warren Commission's seriously flawed and unsupportable conclusions. This is a major failure of the Fourth Estate in this country. NBC, CBS, and ABC apparently believe that it is more important to support the flawed institutions in this country that failed us so abjectly in 1963 and 1964 (and ignore the decades-long failure of American journalism to adequately cover the JFK and RFK assassinations), rather than report on the truth---which is that the conclusions of the Warren Commission are literally unsupportable, when ALL of the evidence in JFK's assassination is considered. NBC, CBS, and ABC would prefer that the American people DEFER TO AUTHORITY when it comes to what we believe about the JFK and RFK assassinations. In these two instances, the mainstream media continues to serve as the "propaganda arm" of the national security state.

Neither NBC, CBS, nor ABC broadcast the second hearing of the LUNA Subcommittee; and they did not cover the hearing, even in a synopsis, or abbreviated format, in their evening news coverage on May 20, 2025.

SO I SAY "bravo" to FORBES NEWS for for having the integrity to cover the key aspects of the testimony of four of the five majority witnesses (Dr. Don Curtis; former HSCA staffer Dan Hardway; former ARRB Chairman Jack Tunheim; and myself (former Chief Analyst for Military Records, ARRB).

The mainstream media has taken an "ostrich approach" to the activities of the LUNA Subcommittee, with regard to the first two hearings of LUNA's Task Force. The mainstream media will NOT report on, or admit, its own decades of failure to cover the breaking developments in the JFK medical evidence arena. The problem with the adamant and blind support the mainstream media lends to the discredited Warren Report, is that if you think you are supporting faith in American institutions by promoting lies and falsehoods, you are actually continuing to ERODE faith in American institutions.

Thank you, FORBES NEWS, for having the integrity to support breaking developments about the LUNA Subcommittee.

For those of you who wish to also see how I testified during the Q&A session, please see my BLOG entry dated May 22nd.

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Dear Friends,

On May 20, 2025, I testified before the second and presumably final hearing of Representative Ann Paulina LUNA's Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets. The subject of the hearing was "THE JFK FILES: Assessing Over 60 Years of the Federal Government's Obstruction, Obfuscation, and Deception."


Here is a link to the FORBES Breaking News recording of the hearing: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DBMaVfbTlarY&ved=2ahUKEwigtt-0rbiNAxXFODQIHW9hAT0QFnoECB8QAQ&usg=AOvVaw0UEFOZBVQVQIC2I0c1htY4


My 10.5 minutes of oral testimony appears from time 59:10 through time 1:09:40 of the recording, for those who wish to fast forward directly to my testimony. I also answered a question from Representative BIGGS from time 1:18:12 through 1:21:02; and fielded three questions from Chairwoman LUNA from time 1:59:27 through 2:12:31. The final question from Representative LUNA, and the response I provided, was particularly important.


The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform has already posted a written copy of my testimony (including both my ten minutes of oral remarks, as well as detailed, supplementary details expanding upon my earlier oral testimony) at this link: https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Horne-Written-Testimony.pdf


I wish to express my public thanks to Congresswoman LUNA's subcommittee for calling me to testify. The main purpose of my oral testimony was to explain to the public why the serious doubt that so many Americans have expressed in the conclusions of the Warren Report and/or the House Select Committee on Assassinations is well-justified.


POST-SCRIPT: Here is a link for the revised recording of the hearing, just posted by the House Oversight Committee, in which the previously missing audio has been restored for Abraham Bolden's testimony:
https://youtu.be/JW1enHcYgWU?si=Bw8dXhMhiO-N0Xgy


FORBES NEWS posted (on May 28th) a stand-alone 10-minute excerpt of my oral testimony, as follows: https://youtu.be/c8NBSjRJpkk. This is particularly important, since the mainstream media (NBC, CBS, and ABC) will not cover irregularities in the JFK medical evidence that call into doubt the findings of the Warren Commission or the HSCA, and chose not to report on my testimony on May 20th.

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Dear friends,

In January of 2025 I was interviewed by Bruce de Torres for his PODCAST about the "Smoking Gun" ARRB document releases.

We covered a lot of territory, in what I believe is a wide-ranging and interesting interview.

Here is the link to the PODCAST recording: https://rumble.com/v6b1t1d-rwb-50-douglas-horne-the-smoking-gun-jfk-documents.html

Please disseminate widely!

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Dear Friends,

I'm pleased to announce that a new "Directors' Cut" of THE JFK SKULL X-RAYS (which was first posted in August of 2024) has now been put up on my new YouTube channel.

https://www.youtube.com/@DouglasHorneJFKAssassination

This improved presentation contains a lot of new content: pictures of people who are part of the story; images of Dealey Plaza focusing on the likely shooter locations for the three headshots that hit JFK; new audio commentary that supplements the original presentation; one major new conclusion; a brief animated segment depicting the sequencing of the three headshots; and a dramatic conclusion.

Please ensure that you adjust your YouTube settings to "1080p" when the program begins, to ensure maximum clarity.

I've worked for many weeks on this new edit with a new research partner and colleague of mine, and I am proud to announce its release.

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