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101-510: In 1993, Jowers appeared on the ABC News program Prime Time Live and claimed to be part of an alleged conspiracy involving the Mafia and the U.S. government to kill King. According to Jowers, the alleged assassin, James Earl Ray , was a scapegoat , and was not the only person responsible for assassinating King. Jowers named a number of different people as the alleged assassins, including

202-626: A New York Times opinion piece titled "The Sacklers’ Last Poison Pill." Besides the Sacklers and Purdue Pharma, Posner joined Margarida Jorge, the campaign director for Lower Drug Prices Now, in a Newsweek opinion piece that criticized pharmaceutical executives for profiting from rumors and press releases about COVID-19 vaccines and treatments. And in February 2021, Posner wrote in USA Today asking President Biden not to make Janet Woodcock

303-694: A heart attack at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Union City, Tennessee . He was reported to have suffered from lung cancer at the time of his death. ABC News (United States) ABC News is the news division of the American television network ABC . Its flagship program is the daily evening newscast ABC World News Tonight with David Muir ; other programs include morning news-talk show Good Morning America , Nightline , Primetime , 20/20 , and Sunday morning political affairs program This Week with George Stephanopoulos . In addition to

404-522: A joint venture between Starwave and ABC formed in April 1997. Starwave had owned and operated ESPNet SportsZone (later known as ESPN.com ) since 1995, which licensed the ESPN brand and video clips from ABC's corporate sister ESPN Inc. Disney wanted more control of their Internet properties, which meant ABCNews.com was operated as a joint venture with ABC News having editorial control. Disney had also bought

505-459: A 150-page report denying allegations that there was a conspiracy to assassinate King. In a 1993 episode of ABC 's Primetime Live , Jowers told reporter Sam Donaldson that he hired someone to kill King as a favor to a friend in the mafia , produce merchant Frank Liberto. Jowers said Liberto, who had died prior to the ABC interview, had paid him $ 100,000 to arrange the assassination. He did not name

606-560: A 150-page report rejecting allegations that there was a conspiracy to assassinate King, including the findings of the Memphis civil court jury. The DOJ considered suggestions by the U.S. House Select Committee on Assassinations in 1979 and the district attorney of Shelby County, Tennessee in 1998 that Ray's brothers may have been co-conspirators and stated that they "found insufficient evidentiary leads remaining after 30 years to justify further investigation." On May 20, 2000, Jowers died of

707-560: A JFK assassination conference in Pittsburgh that Case Closed was discredited and "there's nothing in the movie ( JFK ) that I would go back on." Posner, on the day of the 50th anniversary, told CNN's Anderson Cooper that "the only thing he [Stone] gets right in 'JFK' is the date on which Kennedy is killed." As controversial and talked-about as Case Closed was Posner's 1998 Killing the Dream: James Earl Ray and

808-537: A London-based Catholic journal, points out that the source cited by Posner, a copy of which can be read online, clearly identifies Branch Nogara not as a person, but as the small town of Nogara located just north of the River Po , where Abwehr Unit 254 maintained its supply depot. According to The Tablet , there is no second person named Nogara. Citing disclosures in God's Bankers , Posner wrote an opinion editorial in

909-482: A black man who was in the area, a man named Raoul named by Ray to have been involved, and someone he could not identify before finally settling on the story that he hired Memphis police Lieutenant Earl Clark to fire the fatal shot. A Memphis civil trial in 1999 supported this claim, not having been shown evidence of Jowers' contradictions. In 2000, the United States Department of Justice released

1010-471: A decision by Arledge, president of ABC News and Sports, to kill a 13-minute report about Marilyn Monroe , possibly due to his close ties to Ethel Kennedy . 20/20 drew criticism from the program's co-anchors, Hugh Downs and Barbara Walters, and the executive producer, Av Westin. Arledge said that he had killed the piece because it was "gossip-column stuff" and "does not live up to its billing." Downs, however, took issue with Arledge's judgment. "I am upset about

1111-654: A fascinating and comprehensive look at the dark side of the Catholic Church ;... Accessible and well written, Posner's is the definitive history of the topic to date." Kirkus Reviews said: "A dogged reporter exhaustively pursues the nefarious enrichment of the Vatican, from the Borgias to Pope Francis  ... A meticulous work that cracks wide open the Vatican's legendary, enabling secrecy." Booklist said that "A decade of exhaustive research into

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1212-545: A good ear for tales, tall or otherwise. And he also assiduously digs into the business practices that turned the Motown story sour." Most of the mainstream press echoed the San Francisco Chronicle which concluded that "Posner offers the most objective and thoroughly accurate history of the label to date, plus a detailed and complex portrait of its founder, Berry Gordy ". In his New York Times review of

1313-506: A hoax the widely printed conspiracy story that Green Beret snipers from the 20th Special Forces Group were in Memphis on the day of the assassination. Killing the Dream was the largest private reinvestigation of the King assassination in 30 years. As was Case Closed , Killing the Dream was widely praised and embraced by the mainstream press, and among the national broadcasts that featured

1414-497: A look at the Martin Luther King, Jr. assassination, American Experience PBS, 2010; and "JFK Assassination: The Definitive Guide", History Channel (2013). Posner has also been a historical consultant on two Holocaust-related episodes – "Liberation and Revenge" and "Frenzied Killing", both in 2005 – of the documentary series "Auschwitz: The Nazis and the 'Final Solution'". He was also the consultant to Inheritance ,

1515-532: A massive research dive can bring.... Posner has created a medical leviathan for our times." Beth Macy , author of Dopesick, says that "I could not put down Gerald Posner’s Pharma , the definitive story of how one family, the Sacklers, set out to get exquisitely rich on the back of unsuspecting Americans—then blamed the so-called 'abusers' instead of their own highly addictive drug." Natasha Singer in The New York Times Book Review said

1616-455: A minority stake in Starwave before the launch of ABCNews.com and would later buy the company outright. The website initially had a dedicated staff of about 30. In addition to articles, it featured short video clips and audio from the start, delivered using RealAudio and RealVideo technology. Some content was also available via America Online . In 2011, ABC News and Yahoo News announced

1717-554: A national poll showing that while a majority (61%) of Americans still believed a conspiracy was behind JFK's death, the number of those who thought it was a lone assassin (30%) was the highest in 46 years. Although some mainstream media commentators such as The Independent said that "for Americans, JFK will never be case closed", others like The Economist cited "Case Closed" and concluded, "50 years on, face it, Oswald did it." Historian Robert Dallek called Case Closed "authoritative," and said: "the best book on this subject

1818-565: A news focused streaming channel, was launched on Roku. Following a reorganization of ABC's parent company, The Walt Disney Company which created the Walt Disney Direct-to-Consumer and International segment in March 2018, ABC News Digital and Live Streaming, including ABC News Live and FiveThirtyEight , were transferred to the new segment. In an October 2018 Simmons Research survey of 38 news organizations, ABC News

1919-523: A press conference following the verdict , Coretta Scott King stated that "there is abundant evidence of a major high level conspiracy in the assassination of my husband, Martin Luther King, Jr... the Mafia, local, state and federal government agencies, were deeply involved in the assassination of my husband. The jury also affirmed overwhelming evidence that identified someone else, not James Earl Ray, as

2020-431: A public-private partnership." Posner's penultimate chapter is titled "The Coming Pandemic". Biochemist Karen Bush told Posner in a 2016 interview that when it comes to the next pandemic, “It is not a question of if, it is a question of when.” The Dallas Morning News wrote that while " Long before coronavirus, Gerald Posner began writing ‘Pharma,’ which warns of ‘The Coming Pandemic.’ In Literary Hub , Posner wrote "On

2121-546: A single case from the most intimate point of view." In his 1993 book Case Closed , Posner contended that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in the assassination of John F. Kennedy and Oswald's murderer, Jack Ruby , acted independently as well. Case Closed was a New York Times bestseller and a finalist for the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for History . It was also the subject of a double issue of U.S. News & World Report , and featured on programs such as ABC 's 20/20 , CBS Special Reports , and PBS 's Frontline . The book

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2222-567: A strategic partnership to share ABC's online reporting on Yahoo's website; the deal expanded in 2015 to include the Disney/ABC Television Group. In 2018, ABC News, and Good Morning America specifically, ended the hosting partnership with Yahoo, instead opting to continue separate web presences. ABC News Live is a 24/7 streaming video news channel for breaking news, live events, newscasts and longer-form reports and documentaries operated by ABC News since 2018, The channel

2323-493: A time; the contrast between innocent childhood experience, and the awful understanding of that experience that came with time, is enough to make you weep." Christopher Lehmann-Haupt in The New York Times questioned whether Posner's book length treatment was necessary to study the children of Nazi perpetrators. "Perhaps it would have been more enlightening had Mr. Posner studied fewer cases more intensely, or even

2424-527: A wide range of entertainment and lifestyle programming . The channel was available in the United States and Europe . Its Talk Back feature allowed viewers to voice their input by submitting videos and personal thoughts on controversial issues and current topics. It was shut down as a digital subchannel after its experimental phase ended with the Presidential inauguration in 2005. ABC News Now

2525-605: Is an American investigative journalist and author of thirteen books, including Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK (1993), which explores the John F. Kennedy assassination , and Killing the Dream: James Earl Ray and the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. (1998), about the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. A plagiarism scandal involving articles that Posner wrote for The Daily Beast and his book Miami Babylon arose in 2010. Posner

2626-570: Is an acute sensation of disgust—along with a mix of admiration for and skepticism about Pope Francis' efforts to reform the Vatican Bank and its curial enablers." Trine Tsouderos wrote in the Chicago Tribune : "Wall-Street-lawyer-turned-author Gerald Posner lays it all out in his deeply researched, passionately argued book, God's Bankers ." According to Publishers Weekly , "Posner uses his superlative investigative skills to craft

2727-477: Is available through Roku , Hulu , Disney+ , YouTube TV , Sling TV , Pluto TV , Xumo , FuboTV and the news division's other streaming platforms. The service is under the direction of Justin Dial, Vice President of Streaming Content, Seniboye Tienabeso, Executive Director of ABC News Live, Chandra Zeikel, Executive Producer & Eric Ortega, Executive Producer. This unit is producing: Satellite News Channel

2828-495: Is by a man named Gerald Posner, called 'Case Closed', I think he has responded very effectively to all the conspiracy theories, and there are so many of them." Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, Hector Tobar wrote in the Los Angeles Times that Case Closed was "the book that cured me of JFK conspiracies once and for all." Case Closed continued to generate widely divergent views. Film director Oliver Stone told

2929-477: Is powerful, frightening and, unfortunately, nonfiction." Touchstone Pictures purchased the film rights to Warlords of Crime . Posner's only novel is a biological warfare thriller set in the Cold War. According to Publishers Weekly , "Posner's first novel, a thriller whose development depends heavily on the author's convincing descriptions of the technology in intelligence work. The narrative works within

3030-431: Is utterly convincing in its thesis, which seems, in light of all that has transpired over the past 30 years, almost revolutionary. His thesis is this: Lee Harvey Oswald killed Kennedy by himself. ... I started Case Closed as a skeptic—and slightly put off by the presumptuous title. To my mind historical truth is always a slippery thing. The chances of knowing for sure what happened in any event—much less one as murky as

3131-620: The Los Angeles Times on February 13, 2015 calling on Pope Francis "to approve the release of the Vatican's Holocaust-era files in its secret archives. They probably contain not only answers to how early the Vatican knew about the Nazis' mass murder of innocents, but also crucially important documents from the Vatican Bank, founded in June 1942." Subsequently, Posner started collecting online signatures in petitions to Pope Francis to release

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3232-552: The Australian Broadcasting Corporation , operates its unrelated news division that is also named ABC News . The U.S. ABC News maintains a content-sharing agreement with the Nine Network , which also broadcasts GMA domestically in the early morning before its own breakfast program . In New Zealand , ABC World News was broadcast daily at 5:10 p.m. and again at 11:35 p.m. As with

3333-588: The Chicago Tribune , the Toronto Sun , The Sydney Morning Herald and Newsday all cited Posner's "meticulous" research in their respective reviews. In his review for the Chicago Tribune , Jeffrey Toobin wrote, "Unlike many of the 2,000 other books that have been written about the Kennedy assassination, Posner's Case Closed is a resolutely sane piece of work. More importantly, Case Closed

3434-897: The Golden Triangle , the Netherlands, San Francisco, London and New York to conduct in-person research with drug traffickers. Clarence Petersen, reviewing the book for the Chicago Tribune , commented, "Posner ... is persuasive for the facts he gathered, all the more so because his narrative is largely the story of how he got the story, what he was told by the criminals and by law enforcement agents here and abroad and, most persuasive of all, what he saw with his own eyes. He does not dramatize; he doesn't have to. The chilling story he unearthed speaks for itself." Former New York detective and best-selling novelist, Dorothy Uhnak , wrote in The New York Times that " Warlords of Crime

3535-600: The New York Times , Damon Linker said that " God's Bankers provides an exhaustive history of financial machinations at the center of the church in Rome, from the final decades of the 19th century down to Pope Francis' sincere but as yet inconclusive efforts to reform the church's labyrinthine bureaucracy. ... From there Posner weaves an extraordinarily intricate tale of intrigue, corruption and organized criminality. ... The cumulative effect of Posner's detective work

3636-817: The Sackler family . In STAT News , Posner listed some of his new findings about the Sackler family. In WIRED , Posner wrote about Marianne Skolek, who became an activist against Purdue Pharma and its narcotic painkiller, OxyContin , after her daughter died of an overdose. PHARMA was published the day before the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic. A week before publication, Posner wrote an opinion piece in The New York Times , "Big Pharma May Pose an Obstacle to Vaccine Development." He called COVID-19 "the ultimate test case for whether drug firms might at last become full partners in

3737-690: The United States , specifically news and political broadcasting, and broaden the projected points of view . Only a few companies, such as NBC and CBS , dominated the radio market. NBC conducted the split voluntarily in case its appeal of the ruling was denied, and it was forced to split its two networks into separate companies. Regular television news broadcasts on ABC began soon after the network signed on its initial owned-and-operated television station (WJZ-TV, now WABC-TV ) and production center in New York City in August 1948. Broadcasts continued as

3838-637: The United States House Committee on Government Operations about the findings in Case Closed . In 1998, the Assassination Records Review Board briefly referenced this testimony in discussing two unsuccessful attempts to acquire the interview notes of two physicians, James Humes and J. Thornton Boswell, that Posner said he possessed. Case Closed generally drew critical acclaim from the media;

3939-929: The United States Marshals Service , was launched after allegations that Mengele was at any time in the custody of or had any relationship with U.S. government institutions or personnel after World War II. In its official report to the Attorney General of the United States in 1992, In the Matter of Josef Mengele , OSI noted it was indebted to Posner for obtaining a witness statement concerning Mengele's whereabouts from October 1945 to August 1, 1948. In 1988, Posner published Warlords of Crime: Chinese Secret Societies: The New Mafia , an exposé of Triads and international heroin syndicates. Posner, and his wife, Trisha, traveled to Hong Kong,

4040-509: The University of California, Hastings College of the Law , where he served as the associate executive editor for the university's Law Review . At age 23, he joined the law firm, Cravath, Swaine & Moore , as one of the youngest attorneys ever hired by the firm. In 1980, he went into private practice with a partner. In 1981, he represented Deborah Ann Fountain, Miss New York State, against

4141-418: The "most anticipated books of 2020," and in a review, author John Freeman stated: "The cat’s out of the bag on this one, we all know pharma has been a disaster for many Americans, but Gerald Posner specializes in telling you what you don’t know: in his New York Times bestsellers like Case Closed and books like Hitler’s Children or God’s Bankers , what he has perfected is achieving the kind of disgust only

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4242-421: The 1970s, the network had effectively turned around, with its prime-time entertainment programs achieving more substantial ratings and drawing in higher advertising revenue and profits for ABC overall. With the appointment of the president of ABC Sports , Roone Arledge as president of ABC News in 1977, ABC invested the resources to make it a significant source of news content. Arledge, known for experimenting with

4343-409: The 2013 Broadway show Motown: The Musical , Charles Isherwood noted: "For a full and coherent history of Mr. Gordy's game-changing music factory, you'd need to check out Gerald Posner's engrossing book 'Motown: Music, Money, Sex and Power.' " The criticism by some of Motown was that Posner was "tone deaf about music" but invariably noted that since he had written a business history, not a review of

4444-514: The 9/11 attacks. This assertion was strongly denied by Prince Ahmed's family, who pointed out that he in fact loved the U.S., spent time at his home there, and invested heavily in the U.S. horse racing industry. Prince Ahmed, two other Saudi princes named by Posner, and the chief of the Pakistani Air Force all died within days of each other from a blood clot after a simple operation, a car wreck involving only one vehicle, dehydration in

4545-410: The ABC network expanded nationwide. Until the early 1970s, ABC News programs and ABC in general consistently ranked third in viewership behind CBS and NBC news programs. ABC had fewer affiliate stations and a weaker prime-time programming slate to support the network's news operations compared to the two larger networks, each of which had established their radio news operations during the 1930s. By

4646-555: The Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. (Random House). The book concluded that confessed assassin, James Earl Ray , killed Martin Luther King Jr. acting alone, likely for the hope of collecting a racist bounty for the murder. Among other portions of his book, Posner tracked down for the first time the mysterious "Raoul", fingered by James Earl Ray as the mastermind of a conspiracy to kill King and to frame Ray. After setting out to settle Ray's Raoul story, Posner challenged as

4747-1251: The BBC in the U.K., TVNZ 7 (owned by Television New Zealand ) aired the program commercial-free until the channel ceased operations on June 30, 2012. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 NBC News Wall Street Journal Politico MSNBC / CNBC / Telemundo Bloomberg Government Washington Examiner Boston Globe / Washington Blade Fox News CBS News Radio AP Radio / PBS VOA Time Yahoo! News Daily Caller / EWTN CBS News Bloomberg News McClatchy NY Post / TheGrio Washington Times Salem Radio / CBN Cheddar News / Hearst TV AP NPR Foreign pool The Hill Regionals Newsmax Gray TV / Spectrum News ABC News Washington Post Agence France-Presse Fox Business / Fox News Radio CSM / Roll Call Al Jazeera Nexstar / Scripps News Reuters NY Times LA Times Univision / AURN RealClearPolitics Daily Beast / Dallas Morning News BBC / Newsweek CNN USA Today ABC News Radio Daily Mail National Journal HuffPost Financial Times / The Guardian Gerald Posner Gerald Leo Posner

4848-700: The History Channel, CNN, FOX News, and CBS. He was a frequent guest on MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olbermann . A member of the National Advisory Board of the National Writers Union , Posner is also a member of the Authors Guild , International PEN , The Committee to Protect Journalists , and Phi Beta Kappa . He worked on all his projects with his wife, Trisha Posner , who is also an author and artist. Posner

4949-692: The Internet, and not necessarily to the telecasts alone. In June 1998, ABC News (which owned an 80% stake in the service), Nine Network and ITN sold their respective interests in Worldwide Television News to the Associated Press . Additionally, ABC News signed a multi-year content deal with AP for its affiliate video service, Associated Press Television News (APTV), while providing material from ABC's news video service, ABC News One, to APTV. Scandal erupted in 1985 over

5050-416: The Kennedy assassination—seem remote. But this fascinating and important book won me over. Case closed, indeed." Case Closed also drew widespread criticism from academics involved in assassination research as well as from non-academic assassination researchers who contended that it contained factual inaccuracies. For example, historian David Wrone wrote that "massive numbers of factual errors suffuse

5151-422: The King family, represented by Pepper, brought a civil lawsuit in which a jury found evidence of a conspiracy involving Loyd Jowers , the owner of a restaurant near the assassination site. In response to that verdict, Posner told The New York Times , "It distresses me greatly that the legal system was used in such a callous and farcical manner in Memphis. If the King family wanted a rubber stamp of their own view of

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5252-668: The Miss America pageant after Fountain was disqualified for padding her bra. He left the law in 1986, when his first book, about Nazi Josef Mengele 's life on the run, was published by McGraw Hill. Posner's first book, co-written with British journalist John Ware , was the 1986 biography Mengele: The Complete Story . The book was the result of a five-year pro bono lawsuit that Posner brought on behalf of survivors of Josef Mengele's medical experiments at Auschwitz . Posner and Ware obtained exclusive access to 5,000 pages of Mengele's diaries and personal papers for their book. The book

5353-644: The Nazis throughout World War II. Dr. Marilyn Mallory, a scholar familiar with the pontificates of Popes Pius XI and Pius XII, rebutted Posner in a 2015 article in Inside the Vatican , asserting that the interrogation report, found in the National Archives in London, identifies the man as Bruno Nogara, a Venice school teacher who was arrested by the Allies in April 1945. Faced with this evidence, Posner amended

5454-659: The Near Impossibility of Planning for a Viral Pandemic." The Society of American Business Editors and Writers selected 'PHARMA' as a finalist for the Best Business Book of 2020 The Florida Book Award selected 'PHARMA' for its Gold Medal award for the Best General Nonfiction Book of 2020 . Posner relied on his reporting from 'PHARMA' to write a series of opinion pieces in national publications about either shortcomings in

5555-537: The President", published on The Huffington Post , he reverted to his original position that Bush was a bad president stifled by his stubbornness. He also wrote about investigative issues for The New York Times , The New Yorker , Vanity Fair , Talk , Newsweek , Time , the Miami Herald , and The Daily Telegraph . He was a regular contributor to NBC's Today Show , as well as other national shows on

5656-497: The Sacklers might evade justice for their role in the opioid epidemic , said "Gerald Posner may be the best known and most thorough investigative reporter in this country." Posner supported Al Gore during the 2000 presidential election, and wrote a Wall Street Journal editorial shortly after the 9/11 attacks reversing his opinion of George W. Bush . Later he changed his opinion again; in October 2006, in "An Open Letter to

5757-621: The Secret Saudi-U.S. Connection , Posner provides an account of the "close" business and personal relationship between the House of Saud and the U.S. government, including discussions of "dirty bomb" technology and the financial and political maneuvering surrounding 9/11 . Posner also asserts that the Saudis have built an elaborate doomsday scenario around their oil fields. The Saudis have denied this, and some skepticism has been expressed about

5858-497: The Third Reich Talk About Themselves and Their Fathers , included in-depth interviews with a dozen children of top Nazi officials. The book was also well received. Karen Stabiner wrote in her review for the Los Angeles Times , "This is a mesmerizing, blood-chilling book, a set of oral histories of the sons and daughters of 11 of Hitler's top men. It is barely possible to read more than a few pages at

5959-634: The Vatican Bank's World War II archives and the Vatican's Holocaust documents. Posner said that his goal was to get more than 1,000 signatures to present to Pope Francis when the Pope visited the U.S. in September 2015. Posner's history of the American pharmaceutical industry was published by Simon & Schuster imprint Avid Reader Press for March 10, 2020. Kirkus said that the book is "A shocking, rousing condemnation of an industry clearly in need of better policing." Literary Hub selected PHARMA as one of

6060-541: The [Sackler] family’s role in igniting and fanning the opioid epidemic for its own profit." Posner subsequently co-wrote two opinion pieces about the Sacklers in The New York Times. In July 2020, he joined with bankruptcy law professor Ralph Brubaker in a piece titled "The Sacklers Could Get Away With It." Posner wrote "At stake is whether there will ever be a fair assessment of responsibility for America’s deadly prescription drug epidemic." In December, Posner teamed with another bankruptcy law professor, Jonathan C. Lipson, in

6161-1193: The ages of 18 and 34. The network replaced ABC News Now , a mainly streaming service of ABC News content. In December 2015, it was reported that Disney was in talks to sell its stake in Fusion to Univision. The split was complete on April 21, 2016; Univision alone would continue to operate Fusion until December 31, 2021, when it shut down the network. New York (Main Headquarters) Washington, D.C. Atlanta Chicago Dallas Los Angeles London Miami Paris San Francisco Auckland Current ABC News Radio personnel Contributors ('†' symbol indicates person deceased) In Australia, Sky News Australia airs daily broadcasts of ABC World News Tonight (at 10:30 a.m.) and Nightline (at 1:30 a.m.) as well as weekly airings of 20/20 (on Wednesdays at 1:30 p.m., with an extended version at 2:00 p.m. on Sundays) and occasionally Primetime (at 1:30 p.m. on Thursdays, with extended edition at 2:00 p.m. on Saturdays). Coincidentally, that country's public broadcasting ,

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6262-549: The assassination was the result of a vast conspiracy involving the FBI, CIA and the Army, organized crime and various state and local officials." After four weeks of testimony which involved over 70 witnesses and thousands of pages of new evidence, a Memphis jury unanimously found, on December 8, 1999, that Jowers was part of a conspiracy to kill King, and that the assassination plot also involved "others, including governmental agencies." At

6363-423: The book included CBS' 48 Hours , Charlie Rose and TODAY . Richard Bernstein in The New York Times wrote that the book was "the most comprehensive and definitive study of the King assassination to date. ... He [Posner] has rendered a valuable service by putting the King murder under his magnifying glass. One finishes this book reassured that no dark secrets remain, that no unexplained details need bedevil

6464-404: The book was “A withering and encyclopedic indictment of a drug industry that often seems to prioritize profits over patients…[PHARMA] reads like a pharmaceutical version of cops and robbers." The New York Times Book Review also selected Pharma as one of "11 Editor's Weekly Choices," calling referring to the book as a "major work" PHARMA included extensive coverage of the opioid epidemic and

6565-482: The book". Vincent Bugliosi , whose own book Reclaiming History largely agrees with Posner's conclusions, accused Posner of "omissions and distortions" but also described Case Closed as "an impressive work". "He is perhaps public enemy No. 1 to members of what might be called the JFK conspiracy industry," wrote journalist Paul Galloway. Coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the assassination in 2013, Gallup released

6666-446: The broadcast "model", created many of ABC News' most popular and enduring programs, including 20/20 , World News Tonight , This Week , Nightline , and Primetime Live . ABC News' longtime slogan, "More Americans get their news from ABC News than from any other source." (introduced in the late 1980s), was a claim referring to the number of people who watch, listen to and read ABC News content on television, radio and (eventually)

6767-492: The current conventions of its genre: principle is a mask for expedience; cynicism displaces conviction; proficiency implies virtue. But Posner, author of nonfiction works on Josef Mengele and Chinese secret societies, handles his material well. His descriptions move smartly; his characters, while somewhat two-dimensional, are convincing in their context; and his plot is constructed to satisfy demanding readers." Posner's 1991 book, Hitler's Children: Sons and Daughters of Leaders of

6868-518: The day of her death. Fred Otash, a detective who said he was the chief wiretapper, is interviewed on camera, and ABC staff members said three other wiretappers corroborated his account. In addition, several people not in the book say on camera that Monroe kept diaries with references to meetings with the Kennedy brothers, according to a staff member who has seen the report. "It set out to be a piece which would demonstrate that because of alleged relations between Robert Kennedy and John F. Kennedy and Monroe,

6969-436: The deep and mysterious history of the Vatican's finances is a monumental task, but controversial author Posner proves more than up to this daunting challenge. ... It's a fast-paced read that brings history alive on every page. The book will captivate those who prefer their historical nonfiction spiked with real-life tales of murder, power, and intrigue." Some reviewers have noted that God's Bankers contains inaccuracies,

7070-431: The desert and a sabotaged helicopter explosion. Three of the men were in their forties, and one in his twenties. In Why America Slept , Posner became the first journalist to reveal the details of a U.S. interrogation against one of the highest-ranking al-Qaeda suspects caught to date. Why America Slept reached No. 2 on The New York Times Best Seller list. In his 2005 book Secrets of the Kingdom: The Inside Story of

7171-424: The division's television programs, ABC News has radio and digital outlets, including ABC News Radio and ABC News Live , plus various podcasts hosted by ABC News personalities. ABC began in 1943 as the NBC Blue Network , a radio network that was spun off from NBC , as ordered by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in 1942. The reason for the order was to expand competition in radio broadcasting in

7272-415: The drug industry or about the concerns that the Sackler family might not be held accountable for their role in the marketing of Oxycontin in their privately-owned drug company, Purdue Pharma . In the Los Angeles Times he argued for the appointment of an independent examiner in the bankruptcy of Purdue Pharma so that the case would not leave "unanswered the many troubling questions about the full extent of

7373-417: The facts, they got it." Posner seemingly took a respite from assassination controversy in his 2003 book, Motown: Music, Money, Sex and Power , a business history of one of the most successful U.S. recording labels. The New York Times ' s Janet Maslin said the book was "actually a much more reputable book than its title suggests" and concludes that "Happily, Mr. Posner, a former Wall Street lawyer, has

7474-574: The individuals interviewed by Posner for Miami Babylon have complained of severe misquoting and inaccuracies. Miami Babylon has been optioned for a television series. The original name for the book was listed as American Babylon , but it was changed prior to publication. God's Bankers is a 2015 book based on a 200-year history of Vatican finances and the Vatican Bank . It became Posner's third New York Times bestseller (after Case Closed and Why America Slept ) on February 22, 2015. In

7575-562: The killer. Once again, beyond that you had credible witnesses that named members of a Special Forces team who didn't have to act because the contract killer succeeded, with plausible denial, a Mafia contracted killer. The Memphis county prosecutor said on several occasions that Mr. Jowers' claims were without merit and that he was motivated to sell his story for a book or a movie. Ray's lawyer claimed two sisters who worked at Jowers' restaurant would corroborate Jowers' claim, but both recanted their stories. One sister said that Jowers had fabricated

7676-588: The label's music, "to his credit, Posner claims to be nothing more than a historian anyway ..." In 2003 Random House published Posner's Why America Slept , which discusses the conspiracy of the al-Qaeda terrorists who were responsible for the September 11, 2001, attacks . In the book, Posner claims that Prince Ahmed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud had ties to al-Qaeda and advance knowledge of

7777-403: The legal system was used in such a callous and farcical manner in Memphis. If the King family wanted a rubber stamp of their own view of the facts, they got it." Prompted by the King family's acceptance of some of the conspiracy theories, United States Attorney General Janet Reno ordered a new investigation on August 26, 1998. On June 9, 2000, the United States Department of Justice released

7878-476: The most serious of which is Posner's allegation in Chapter 11 that Bernardino Nogara , the wartime director of the Vatican's Amministrazione Speciale per la Santa Sede , was a Nazi intelligence agent. This allegation is based on his finding of a man named Nogara named in the interrogation report of Abwehr recruiter Reinhard Reme, which he suggests could only be Bernardino Nogara , who was therefore working for

7979-519: The national composure." Two-time Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and columnist, Anthony Lewis , in The New York Times Book Review , said: "With Killing the Dream , he [Posner] has written a superb book: a model of investigation, meticulous in its discovery and presentation of evidence, unbiased in its exploration of every claim. And it is a wonderfully readable book, as gripping as a first-class detective story." On

8080-500: The other hand, conspiracy theorists bristled at Killing the Dream , criticizing Posner for in part basing it on "a psychological evaluation of James Earl Ray, which he [Posner] is not qualified to give, and he dismisses evidence of conspiracy in King's murder as cynical attempts to exploit the tragedy". William Pepper, Ray's final defense attorney, repeatedly dismissed Posner's book as inaccurate and misleading. Dexter King, one of Martin Luther King's sons, also criticized it. In 1999,

8181-643: The paperback version of God's Bankers , now stating on page 137 that there were in fact two Abwehr agents named Nogara: Bruno Nogara and Branch Nogara, listed in Appendix C of Reme's interrogation report. Posner argues that it is Bruno Nogara, who is listed as a member of Abwehr Unit 257 under Reichsstatthalter Hubert Pfannenstiel, while Branch Nogara is listed under Abwehr Unit 254, commanded by Reichsstatthalter Ernst Schmidt-Burck. Thus, there were two different Abwehr units under two different commanders, and therefore two different Nogaras. But The Tablet ,

8282-541: The permanent director of the Food and Drug Administration . Posner wrote that "The Biden administration should avoid rewarding any government official who contributed to the opioid crisis having become the most lethal prescription drug epidemic in American history." Posner also helped break the story of the role McKinsey & Company had in advising Purdue Pharma how to energize its flagging OxyContin sales. Tucker Carlson , when interviewing Posner about his reporting that

8383-447: The person he claimed to have hired, but said it was not Ray. In 1998, the King family filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Jowers and "other unknown co-conspirators" for the murder of King. The King family was represented by attorney William Pepper , who had previously served as the attorney of James Earl Ray, King's formerly accused assassin, in a televised, mock trial. According to The Washington Post , Pepper had "for years claimed

8484-521: The plausibility of Posner's account of such a scheme. According to Posner, he and his wife Trisha have been banned from entering Saudi Arabia as a result of the book. This 2009 book explores the history of Miami Beach, with a particular focus on corruption, extravagance, and the drug trade. In a New York Times review, Byron Burroughs said: "Where Posner thrives is telling the stories of the first developers and artists who foresaw what Miami Beach would become and worked against all odds to build it." Some of

8585-445: The presidency was compromised because organized crime was involved," he said. "Based on what has been uncovered so far, there was no evidence." Arledge's decision to kill the broadcast resulted in the subsequent decision of Geraldo Rivera to leave ABC entirely. Rivera was a 20/20 correspondent but did not work on that story. He had been publicly critical of Arledge's decision. Arledge, a champion and defender of Rivera, said he thought

8686-554: The shooter, and that Mr. Ray was set up to take the blame." Following statements by Dexter King and other family members, Dexter was subsequently asked by a reporter, "there are many people out there who feel that as long as these conspirators remain nameless and faceless there is no true closure, and no justice." He replied: No, he [Mr. Lloyd Jowers] named the shooter. The shooter was the Memphis Police Department Officer, Lt. Earl Clark who he named as

8787-449: The story needed more work. The story probed purported affairs between actress Marilyn Monroe, President John F. Kennedy, and his brother Robert F. Kennedy. On August 7, 2014, ABC announced that it would relaunch its radio network division, ABC Radio , on January 1, 2015. The change occurred following the announcement that Cumulus would replace its ABC News radio service with Westwood One News (via CNN ). On September 20, 2019, ABC Radio

8888-470: The story so he could make $ 300,000 from selling the story; she in turn corroborated his story in order to get money to pay taxes. In a telephone conversation taped by authorities, Jowers' main witness stated that his story was false. According to the Los Angeles Times , "The trial relied heavily on second- and third-hand accounts, and the judge and jurors were often seen dozing off during testimony." John Campbell, an assistant district attorney in Memphis who

8989-442: The way it was handled," he said in an interview. "I honestly believe that this is more carefully documented than anything any network did during Watergate. I lament the fact that the decision reflects badly on people I respect and it reflects badly on me and the broadcast." Additionally, Westin said: "I don't anticipate not putting it on the air. The journalism is solid. Everything in there has two sources. We are documenting that there

9090-574: Was a joint venture between ABC News and Group W that launched on June 21, 1982, as a satellite-delivered cable television network. SNC used footage from ABC News and seven Washington, D.C. –based crews and stories from other overseas networks to provide a rotating newscast every 20 minutes. However, this channel had difficulty getting clearance from cable systems, so ABC News and Group W decided to sell it to its competitor, CNN (a subsidiary of Time Warner 's Turner Broadcasting System ). CNN ceased Satellite News Channel's operations on October 27, 1983. SNC

9191-424: Was a relationship between Bobby and Marilyn and Jack and Marilyn. A variety of eyewitnesses attest to that on camera." Two other aspects of the unaired report, according to an ABC staff member who has seen it, are eyewitness accounts of wiretapping of Monroe's home by Jimmy Hoffa , the teamster leader, that reveal meetings between her and the Kennedy brothers, and accounts of a visit to Monroe by Robert F. Kennedy on

9292-475: Was born in San Francisco, California, the only child of Jerry and Gloria Posner. His father was Jewish and his mother Catholic, and both were native San Franciscans. His father was a labor union official. Posner was raised Catholic. He was educated at St. Ignatius College Preparatory and graduated summa cum laude from the University of California, Berkeley in 1975. In 1978, he earned his J.D. from

9393-498: Was critically recognized as the "definitive" biography of Mengele. Posner testified before the United States Senate in 1986 about how Mengele used an International Red Cross passport to travel safely from Europe to Argentina in 1949. He also testified about the discovery made by himself and Ware that Mengele had twice been captured by U.S. Army troops in 1945, but released both times before authorities realized he

9494-464: Was either replaced by CNN or CNN2 on most cable systems. ABC News Now was a 24-hour cable news network that launched on July 26, 2004, as a digital subchannel by ABC News, being the company's second attempt in the 24-hour cable news world after Satellite News Channel . It was offered via digital television , broadband and streaming video at ABCNews.com and on mobile phones . It delivered breaking news , headline news each half hour, and

9595-720: Was on several wanted lists. In June 1986, Posner appeared with Mengele's only son, Rolf Mengele, on the Phil Donahue Show . Syndicated columnist, Lewis Grizzard , called the hour-long live program "an incredibly compelling piece of television journalism." Some of the content in Mengele: The Complete Story was utilized by the United States Department of Justice 's Office of Special Investigations (OSI), which in, February 1985, began an in-depth investigation into Mengele's post-war activities and whereabouts. The investigation, done in conjunction with

9696-572: Was optioned for a television miniseries by David L. Wolper , the producer of the miniseries Roots . In his 2003 autobiography, Producer: A Memoir , Wolper cited his failure to get movies made of Case Closed and the Cuban Missile Crisis book, One Hell of a Gamble: Khrushchev, Castro, and Kennedy , as his two major career disappointments. In 1993, Posner testified before the Legislation and National Security Subcommittee of

9797-439: Was part of the criminal trial against James Earl Ray, said: "I'm not surprised by the verdict. This case overlooked so much contradictory evidence that never was presented, what other option did the jury have but to accept Mr. Pepper's version?" Gerald Posner , an investigative journalist who wrote the book Killing the Dream in which he makes the case that Ray was the killer, said after the verdict: "It distresses me greatly that

9898-571: Was ranked the second most trusted news organization by Americans, behind The Wall Street Journal . ABC News Radio is the radio service of ABC Audio , a division of the ABC News. Formerly known as ABC Radio News , ABC News Radio feeds through Skyview Networks with newscasts on the hour to its affiliates. ABC News Radio is the largest commercial radio news organization in the US. ABCNews.com launched on May 15, 1997, by ABC News Internet Ventures,

9999-477: Was renamed as ABC Audio as the network has evolved to offer a podcast portfolio and other forms of on-demand and linear content. In April 2018, it was announced that FiveThirtyEight would be transferred to ABC News from ESPN, Inc. , majority owned by The Walt Disney Company . On September 10, 2018, ABC News launched a second attempt to extend its Good Morning America brand into the afternoon with GMA3: What You Need to Know . In May 2019, ABC News Live ,

10100-515: Was replaced on cable providers with Fusion on October 28, 2013. Fusion was a digital cable and satellite network owned and operated by Fusion Media Group , LLC, which was a joint venture between ABC News and Univision Communications . ABC and Univision formally announced their launch on May 2, 2012. Launched on October 28, 2013, Fusion features a mix of traditional news and investigative programs along with satirical content aimed at English-speaking Hispanic and Latino American adults between

10201-811: Was the Chief Investigative Reporter for The Daily Beast , until he resigned over plagiarism charges in 2010. Posner was a regular panelist on HistoryCENTER , the History Channel's weekly current affairs discussion program, from 2000 to 2002. He has also had an on-air role in broadcast documentaries, including among others the 1993 Frontline "Who Was Lee Harvey Oswald?"; "Who Killed JFK: The Final Chapter" (1994); "Hitler and Stalin, A Legacy of Hate"(1994); "The Secret KGB JFK Assassination File" (1999); "Jack Ruby on Trial" History Channel (2004); "Gangs of New York", History Channel (2002); "Conspiracy", TV Series (2004–05); "Beyond Biba – A Portrait of Barbara Hulanicki", (2009); "Roads to Memphis",

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