In 1947 six flying saucers circled above a harbor boat in Puget Sound near Tacoma, Washington, one wobbling and spewing slag. The falling junk killed a dog and burned a boy's arm. His father, Harold Dahl, witnessed it all and brought his partner, Fred Crisman, down the next day to see yet another UFO. The Maury Island incident became the first UFO event of the modern era.

In 1968 New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison subpoenaed Fred Crisman as part of his investigation into the JFK assassination, which became the subject of Oliver Stone's 1992 movie "JFK." Garrison believed that Crisman was the infamous grassy knoll shooter. He's also the central figure in the "Mystery Tramp" photo of the Dallas rail yard hobos.

Illustrated with rare images, "JFK & UFO "interconnects the lingering mysteries of America's most notorious assassination and its weird ufological subculture. It examines the denizens of the bizarre, semi-spook underground reflecting a stranger and more true history than offered by the mainstream.

Kenn Thomas works as a conspiracy investigator, university library archivist, and editor and publisher of the conspiracy magazine "Steamshovel Press." For Feral House he has written "The Octopus: Secret Government and the Death of Danny Casolaro," which helped expose the Inslaw scandal of the Reagan years. Thomas also co-edited (with Adam Parfrey) "Secret and Suppressed II: Banned Ideas and Hidden History into the 21st Century."

Steamshovel Press editor Kenn Thomas returns with a collection of writings on conspiracy topics as they have become revealed in, by, and despite the major media.

'POPULAR PARAPOLITICS: Pop Culture Conspiracies' includes articles, interviews, and commentary on the many researchers and activists--the "conspiracy theorists"--that have informed the popular debate about hidden histories and secret agendas in popular culture. The book offers a real-deal examination of the people, events, and issues that animate the global conspiracy spectacle.

POPULAR PARAPOLITICS includes "Steamshovel Press #24," an issue that never appeared on the newsstands and is available only in this volume. It contains interviews with a top-five list of parapolitical writers and publishers, including Acharya S, author of 'Christ Conspiracy'; Konformist Robert Sterling; Feral House's Adam Parfrey; Joan D'Arc of PARANOIA Magazine; and Jonathan Vankin, author of 'The World's Greatest Conspiracies'. Also explored: the role-playing game origins of the Achille Lauro terrorist incident; the fashion crimes of despots by Adam Gorightly; a report on the first Conspiracy Conference by Skylaire Alfvegren; a rare essay by the late, great Jim Keith, author of 'Mind Control/World Control'; and a critique of TV's faux conspiracy critic, Jessie Ventura.

AN IN-DEPTH WHISTLEBLOWER'S GUIDE TO THE STRANGEST AND MOST BIZARRE COSMIC AND GLOBAL CONSPIRACIES Newly Added Revelations From: Adam Gorightly Ritual Magic, Mind Control and UFOs. Commander X Mind Control In The 21st Century. Kenn Thomas Wilhelm Reich, Eisenhower And The Aliens. Terry Melanson The Sulphur Enigma Of Paranormal Visitation. Hundreds gathered at the Alien Agenda and Cosmic Conspiracies Conference to hear the testimony of a dozen of the world s leading theorists discussing various cutting edge topics. Panel members included... Retired Air Force pilot Mel Noel, Jordan Maxwell, Wendy Wallace, Vladimir Terziski, Alexander Collier, Carol Stopper, PX Survivor Al Bielek, Gary Schultz, Sean David Morton, AND MANY OTHERS Discussed were: Mind Control, The Rapture, Eisenhower And The Aliens, The Gulf Breeze Six, Project Blue Beam, Ritual Magic And UFOs, What was hidden aboard Space Shuttle Challenger when it exploded over the Atlantic, System of tunnels built 200,000 years ago by aliens who are linked to the New World Order, Secret anti-gravity ships were built in 1860 and landed on the Moon and Mars, NASA is just a front for the real space program, Hybrid children have been born in American hospitals, Ultra-secret military legions were trained to enter UFO crash sites to recover aliens and wreckage, Anti-gravity ships exist that will take thousands of elitists from earth in case of a cosmic disaster (which is on the way) EXCLUSIVE FIRST TIME EVER INTERVIEW: BILL COOPER'S DAUGHTER SPEAKS OUT Daughter of the legendary patriot and former Naval Officer, Jessica Cooper, gives her first ever interview with Tim Beckley, discussing her dad's raging battle with the authorities, what he REALLY believed about UFOs, the Kennedy assassination, and how the Feds tried to use her to lure her father down from the safety of his mountain top retreat.