#1260 – Jeff Meek/ Joan Mellen / John Barbour
- Author
- Len Osanic
- Published
- Thu 17 Jul 2025
- Episode Link
- https://podcast.blackopradio.com/1260-jeff-meek-joan-mellen-john-barbour/
- Jeff Meek discusses Joan Mellen
- His interview Article Here
- Part Two @ 22:40 – Joan Mellen from Black Op Radio #382 July 10th 2008
- Joan appeared on Black Op Radio 17 times !
- Joan’s book “Jim Garrison: His Life And Times”
- Available at Amazon
- All Joan Books at Amazon.com Here
- A history/bio of Jim Garrison rendered from 1500 to 300 page perfect bound soft cover
- Who Garrison was before he gave up politics and immersed himself in the JFK case
- It’s primarily the battle between Garrison, Pershing Gervais and others
- A web article on Pershing Gervais and his attempt to frame Jim Garrison
- Garrison was an articulate, honest and talented man who enjoyed life
- Corrupt practices in New Orleans at the time and how Garrison began to clean it up
- Joan talks about the most surprising thing she discovered about Jim Garrison
- Surprising news about Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Martin
- The book also shows the colorful use of language in New Orleans at the time
- Garrison and Dachau Concentration Camp
- Joan relates several parallels that occurred in Garrison’s life
- Garrison wasn’t a saint but he seemed to always reject the easy road in favour of the honest road
- Physically and intellectually, Garrison was bigger than life
- Joan talks about Bugliosi and his cowardly slander of her in his book
- How the lack of cohesion in the assassination research community hurts the work
- It is astounding what Garrison accomplished with a staff of about 10 investigators
- Joan puts Garrison up as one of the great characters in American history
- Joan: “He was Unique, Special”
- Part Three @ 121:20 – John Barbour discusses Joan Mellen
- The Last Word on the JFK Assassination
