Who in the World is Geoff Shepard?
This show is an attempt to introduce you to him and exactly who he is. We have discussed him at various times in our 1973 episodes but this as an indepth look at who he is and why he is a man of unquestioned stature.
I also wanted to put this show together because of my own experience with coming to learn about this man and his work. I also wanted to address the usually skillful way the other side of this debate undermines everyone with a different viewpoint in the eyes of the public and how it actually usually works, and for a brief while even with me. It's also a way to keep a skillful eye on current events too.
The first time I had ever heard of Geoff Shepard I was arguing with a former anchor at my local television station over drinks. Since the advent of social media I have developed a reputation as a rabid Nixon defender. My friend, who was on WPDE - TV 15 in Myrtle Beach, was not a Nixon fan. Over the course of our argument he said something along the lines of me believing looney conspiracy theories, and through out Geoff Shepard's name. I had never heard of him but was aware that a little cottage industry of hairbrained conspiracy theories had cropped up over Watergate and various other historic events from the Lincoln Assassination to the assassination of John F. Kennedy, to the Bermuda Triangle for that matter. But for me after the back and forth with the anchorman, I mostly forgot about it.
A while later I got to talking with a friend of mine who was the Assistant City Attorney for the City of Myrtle Beach. He was the young man who had broken up the fist fight years before between our Mayor Mark McBride and a City Councilman Wayne Gray in executive session. That fight had made national news at the time. The Assistant City Attorney had since moved on before I was elected, but we became friendly acquaintances. He had seen some of my posts on Facebook about President Nixon and had told me about his own legal work with Geoff Shepard and how Shepard had told him all about his time working with Richard Nixon. Then he sent me an article that had been in The Atlantic Magazine.
It was a fascinating look at what had really happened in Watergate. That is when I realized that there may be more to this man than what the anchorman had portrayed to me earlier. When Geoff Shepard's second book came out "The Real Watergate Scandal (Collusion , Conspiracy and the plot that brought down Nixon) " I went out and bought a copy. It was a stunning, shocking, mesmerizing book that I almost highlighted from cover to cover. It was one of the best books on Richard Nixon and Watergate I had ever read. So I did some research on the author.
What I discovered was he is a very serious man, and more importantly, a very credible one with a long resume of experience both as part of the Nixon Administration an after. So with this episode I want to establish with you, our audience, that Geoff Shepard is not a conspiracy theorist, not a person pedaling a story of a vast intricate plot of espionage designed to destroy a President, but a serious man who has uncovered a rather simple case of Prosecutorial Misconduct that has sadly occured in courtrooms and legal cases all over America.
It is a simple case of partisans in a political scandal who took control of the wheels of justice, with no real supervision, with over 100 of the best partisan lawyers and investigators in America, and a willing press covering it all, and then made a case up out of a mountain of materials and tapes they were able to force the President to turn over to them in an unprecedented way , with massive historical consequences for the country and the President it had overwhelmingly elected to office.
*** You can look at the documents w
Who in the World is Geoff Shepard?
This show is an attempt to introduce you to him and exactly who he is. We have discussed him at various times in our 1973 episodes but this as an indepth look at who he is and why he is a man of unquestioned stature.
I also wanted to put this show together because of my own experience with coming to learn about this man and his work. I also wanted to address the usually skillful way the other side of this debate undermines everyone with a different viewpoint in the eyes of the public and how it actually usually works, and for a brief while even with me. It's also a way to keep a skillful eye on current events too.
The first time I had ever heard of Geoff Shepard I was arguing with a former anchor at my local television station over drinks. Since the advent of social media I have developed a reputation as a rabid Nixon defender. My friend, who was on WPDE - TV 15 in Myrtle Beach, was not a Nixon fan. Over the course of our argument he said something along the lines of me believing looney conspiracy theories, and through out Geoff Shepard's name. I had never heard of him but was aware that a little cottage industry of hairbrained conspiracy theories had cropped up over Watergate and various other historic events from the Lincoln Assassination to the assassination of John F. Kennedy, to the Bermuda Triangle for that matter. But for me after the back and forth with the anchorman, I mostly forgot about it.
A while later I got to talking with a friend of mine who was the Assistant City Attorney for the City of Myrtle Beach. He was the young man who had broken up the fist fight years before between our Mayor Mark McBride and a City Councilman Wayne Gray in executive session. That fight had made national news at the time. The Assistant City Attorney had since moved on before I was elected, but we became friendly acquaintances. He had seen some of my posts on Facebook about President Nixon and had told me about his own legal work with Geoff Shepard and how Shepard had told him all about his time working with Richard Nixon. Then he sent me an article that had been in The Atlantic Magazine.
It was a fascinating look at what had really happened in Watergate. That is when I realized that there may be more to this man than what the anchorman had portrayed to me earlier. When Geoff Shepard's second book came out "The Real Watergate Scandal (Collusion , Conspiracy and the plot that brought down Nixon) " I went out and bought a copy. It was a stunning, shocking, mesmerizing book that I almost highlighted from cover to cover. It was one of the best books on Richard Nixon and Watergate I had ever read. So I did some research on the author.
What I discovered was he is a very serious man, and more importantly, a very credible one with a long resume of experience both as part of the Nixon Administration an after. So with this episode I want to establish with you, our audience, that Geoff Shepard is not a conspiracy theorist, not a person pedaling a story of a vast intricate plot of espionage designed to destroy a President, but a serious man who has uncovered a rather simple case of Prosecutorial Misconduct that has sadly occured in courtrooms and legal cases all over America.
It is a simple case of partisans in a political scandal who took control of the wheels of justice, with no real supervision, with over 100 of the best partisan lawyers and investigators in America, and a willing press covering it all, and then made a case up out of a mountain of materials and tapes they were able to force the President to turn over to them in an unprecedented way , with massive historical consequences for the country and the President it had overwhelmingly elected to office.
*** You can look at the documents w