The Journey 163 and 164, John Barbour

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163. John Barbour, Part One: Tribute to William F. Pepper
164. John Barbour, Part Two: Harris, Trump, and The Debate

163. John Barbour, Part One: Tribute to William F. Pepper

Publisher R. A. “Kris” Millegan speaks with John Barbour, actor, comic, veteran of THE TONIGHT SHOW and Las Vegas,

“The Godfather of Reality TV,” creator, co-host and writer of the hit show, REAL PEOPLE, five-time Emmy-winner, celebrated movie critic for years in L.A.,

Writer and director of the award-winning THE GARRISON TAPES, which Oliver Stone called, “The perfect companion piece to my movie JFK,”

Writer and director of THE AMERICAN MEDIA AND THE 2ND ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY, which leading researchers applaud as “The definitive film on JFK and the rise of Fake News,”

Co-creator with Len Osanic of the film, GREATEST PIECE OF INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM IN 75 YEARS: Barbour & Osanic’s Tribute to Wm. F. Pepper,

And the author of YOUR MOTHER’S NOT A VIRGIN! The bumpy life and times of the Canadian dropout who changed the face of American TV!, his delightful autobiography available at TrineDay.com and the usual sellers.

John’s films, books, and more can be found at JohnBarboursWorld.com.

Topics discussed:

How Oliver Stone wanted to make a documentary about Jim Garrison’s prosecution of Clay Shaw for the murder of John F. Kennedy, but Garrison said, “No. John Barbour is going to be my Boswell,” because John lost two of the greatest shows on television trying to tell Garrison’s story.

Len Osanic, editor and musician, took John’s interviews of attorney William F. Pepper and made the film, GREATEST PIECE OF INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM IN 75 YEARS: Barbour & Osanic’s Tribute to Wm. F. Pepper.

Attorney Pepper petitioned for Sirhan Sirhan’s release, “claiming that a second gunman fired the shots that killed Robert F. Kennedy … Pepper believes that Sirhan, who claims to have no memory of the shooting, was programmed under hypnosis to shoot and provide a distraction from the actual gunman who got away. Hypnosis expert Harvard Medical School professor Daniel P. Brown concluded that Sirhan did not act under his own volition and knowledge at the time of the shooting. He was a real ‘Manchurian Candidate’” -Wikipedia.

Sirhan was always in front of Senator Kennedy, whose autopsy showed he was shot from behind with the gun very close, a couple of inches away. And Sirhan was plausibly firing blanks, not bullets. The 1973 documentary, THE SECOND GUN, shows how the shooter was probably security guard Thane Eugene Cesar.

William Pepper was also James Earl Ray’s last attorney, arguing that Ray did not kill Martin Luther King Jr in 1968. Pepper not only found the Memphis cop who shot King, he had lunch with him.

164. John Barbour, Part Two: Harris, Trump, and The Debate

Topics discussed:

John lost a national TV show because he tried to tell the story of Jim Garrison’s late 1960s investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. “I was getting $30,000 an hour from 1979 to 1982. I lost it all.” He doesn’t care. He made the two definitive films on the murder of JFK. They can’t be topped because “I have the real Jim Garrison.”

Recently he made, with Len Osanic, the film, GREATEST PIECE OF INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM IN 75 YEARS: Barbour & Osanic’s Tribute to Wm. F. Pepper, who not only solved the murder of Martin Luther King, Jr. – he had lunch with the Memphis cop who shot him.

John’s recent broken rib, he told his doctors, was from laughing at Trump during the debate. “Trump and Vance are the Laurel and Hardy of American politics. Another fine mess!” The majority of John’s Facebook friends are not voting for Kamala. They are voting against Trump. If he loses, “he’ll be like a flock of [bucking] flies at a picnic that just won’t go away.”

John distains American politics. The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is the spelling. He’s on Facebook only to inform people about his films and his books.

His wife recently had a bout of edema. She’s home now, doing fine, but was still in a wheelchair when she watched the debate with John after not watching television for months. Ten minutes in, she jumped up and said, “Is he kidding? How did he get this far?” Though Trump’s performance was a disaster, “At least for a moment, he helped Sarita’s recovery!”

Trump was dead meat from the start. He ignored Harris and went to his lectern. But she came to him to introduce herself, as confident, paraphrasing Mark Twain, “as a Christian holding four aces.” Trump instantly became a cornered sheep. She sliced him up into little pieces. He did nothing but talk about himself, while Harris talked about you, and me, and America, three things that Trump is totally unfamiliar with.

John knows several really smart businessmen who are going to vote for Trump – even though they admit they would never hire him for anything.

John will probably make a couple of new documentaries, like his Jim Garrison and William F. Pepper films.

He describes his movie review of DEEP THROAT in LOS ANGELES MAGAZINE and its effect on the jury and when the judge insisted that he say the last line, which he omitted when he read the review on TV. Scores of such stories are in Carol Hoenig’s book of John’s reviews, THE GREATEST REVIEWS I’VE EVER READ, which is available at all the usual sellers.

About THE GREATEST REVIEWS I’VE EVER READ

“John Barbour isn’t beholden to any network or its advertisers, so he can hate or love anything he pleases and tell you why. He’s one of the wittiest critics whose reviews sometimes got him in hot water; however, having had an abusive mother and absentee father, being a high school dropout, and deported back to Canada at 17 years old, angering studio heads didn’t concern John, which you’ll soon discover.”

“But what happened to all those reviews? John went into a trunk in his garage and hit pay dirt, finding all those issues with his byline where he informed readers about classics such as Network, Grease, The Sting and so many others.”

“In The Greatest Reviews I’ve Ever Read, come along with Carol Hoenig as she discusses with John some of the best (and worst) films to ever grace the silver screen!”

“Carol Hoenig is President of Carol Hoenig, Publishing Consultant, Inc. and the author of Without Grace, Of Little Faith, and The Author’s Guide to Planning Book Events. Her essays, articles, book reviews and short stories appear in a wide number of publications.”

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