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Tales from the Crypt: Searching for Answers in the New JFK Assassination Files

The Miller Center's Barbara Perry writes, "When people ask me if the newest records of the Kennedy assassination contain any 'smoking guns,' I reply not so far. But wait! We already have three literal smoking guns in the most dastardly crimes perpetrated in American history: the rifle that Lee Harvey Oswald used, the pistol that he murdered a police officer with as he fled the assassination scene, and the handgun that Jack Ruby wielded to kill Oswald."
Barbara Perry
WTOP

Spike Lee, William H. Macy headline 30th annual Virginia Film Festival

“We’re going to screen ‘The Vietnam War’ and [Lynn Novick is] in for a moderated discussion with Marc Selverstone, professor at the Miller Center at the University of Virginia, one of the top presidential think tanks,” festival director Jody Kielbasa said. “This should be a really fascinating discussion about the advent of the war and the impact it had, not only [on] our veterans but on our country.”
Marc Selverstone
Mashable

What Trump's tweets after a disaster tell us about his leadership

"Like an artist who paints in oils or pastels or watercolors or sketches, his medium for his 'art' is Twitter," said Barbara Perry, presidential studies director at the Miller Center. "Much as for FDR it was the radio and for Kennedy it was television."
Barbara Perry
Macleans

Did Donald Trump break the American presidency?

“The Sarah Palins and the Herman Cains have been marginalized, but given what Trump said during the campaign about John McCain not being a hero, I said, ‘This is different,’" said the Miller Center's Barbara Perry. "By virtue of his personality and his lack of experience, this changes forever the rules of the game.”
Barbara Perry