We’re back with another installment of The Warren Commission Decided to round out our excavation into the backgrounds and baggage of the seven commissioners LBJ appointed to seal up the narrative of the JFK assassination in the wake of the murder of Lee Oswald. And we’ve saved the worst for l...
2025-03-19 05:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Our long time listeners will know that we at Fourth Reich Archaeology are big fans of a love story. Whether it's a romance (like between Jerry and Betty Ford), or a bromance (like between Jerry and Richard Nixon), or a platonic love story about the paternal bond between mentor and mentee (like be...
2025-03-17 20:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostOur cohost Don, whose music you may remember from the outro to our Intro episode, or to the Jacob Silverman interview, is working on a new song, inspired by Wendy Painting's incredible book, "Aberration in the Heartland of the Real: The Secret Lives of Timothy McVeigh," and Don DeLillo's 1983 ess...
2025-03-17 18:59:11 +0000 UTC View Post
As promised, we are digging into the surprising story of the formation of the Warren Commission over the week succeeding Lee Oswald's murder by Jack Ruby on November 24, 1963. Most observers assume that the idea originated with President Lyndon Baines Johnson, whose name was on the Executive Orde...
2025-03-16 20:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
We are in the big game now. Jack gets capped and it’s up to FBI informant Gerald Ford Jr. and a ragtag band of Fourth Reichsmen helmed by ex-CIA chief, Allen Dulles, to investigate (read: cover up) the murder.
We recap the first half of Jerry’s life’s work and his entry into the...
2025-03-15 15:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
In Money Pt. 2, we switch lenses from macro to micro and link back up with Jerry as he navigates the scene we set in part one. Recall that in part one, we gave a big-picture view of the U.S. as it emerged out of WWII as the victor and began its reign over the rubble left in the wake of the War.&n...
2025-03-14 15:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Congressman Gerald R. Ford Jr. - once upon a time known as Leslie Lynch King, Jr. - is in the money. Not literally. Yet. But he’s moving major stacks for Uncle Sam. You see, with a maneuver of cunning and of sidling up to just the right power brokers, Jerry lands himself a seat on the much-cove...
2025-03-13 15:00:13 +0000 UTC View Post
A true American spectacle, the sights and sounds of the 2024 campaign trail appear to have been inspired by the pomp and circumstance of modern professional wrestling. In fact, with a steady bombardment of character arcs, secret alliances, double-crosses, over-the-top walkout songs, cheesy catchp...
2025-03-13 05:54:20 +0000 UTC View Post
We are continuing our mission to post our entire backlog on Patreon. We last left off at Jerryworld 5, Part 2. In that episode, Jerry bought the ticket to Congress. In this episode, he takes the ride. Already aboard the ride and two years deep into their own nascent political careers were fell...
2025-03-13 04:46:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Join us this week in the first installment of what will be a periodic series focused on current events within our Reich, and the historical precedents in Reichs past. We’re calling it “Fourth Reich Geopolitik.”
After a little catch-up on some of the latest expressions of f...
2025-03-07 08:44:40 +0000 UTC View Post
The Warren Commission Decided 8: Specter's Spectre
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2025-02-14 16:33:23 +0000 UTC View Post
This week, we are thrilled to welcome a very special guest, journalist and author Jacob Silverman. Jacob’s writing focuses on the tech industry; particularly on the political activism of tech billionaires and their collective efforts to buy the U.S. government and instrumentalize it in support ...
2025-02-05 20:46:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Look out folks! Here comes the second part of our fifth installment of Jerryworld!
2025-01-10 02:49:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Today's Patreon re-release is the start to another two-parter. In this one, we introduce the female lead in our Jerryworld saga, Betty Bloomer Ford.
2025-01-08 03:51:40 +0000 UTC View Post
Almost exactly 80 years ago today, when Gerald Ford Jr. was finished with his tour of duty in the Pacific, his first stop was back home to Grand Rapids for a brief visit with mom and dad. We cover that saga, and more, in our second installment of Jerryworld 4: WAR.
2025-01-06 20:22:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Day five of our Patreon re-release series means we get to revisit our first two-parter episode, Jerryworld 4: WAR!
2025-01-06 00:08:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Can you believe it is already day four of our Patreon "re-release" series?! This one is called "Boola Boola," which is of course the famed Yale University football song.
In this episode, we dig deep into the whole Yale milieu of the time - how curious that Jerry finds himself in the land...
2025-01-04 22:43:51 +0000 UTC View Post
It's day three of our "re-release" series, which means it's time for one of our favorite episodes: Leatherhead.
More than just a biography of Gerald Ford Jr.'s early years, Leatherhead is a geographical and cultural tour of Jerry's hometown, Grand Rapids, Michigan. The class-based and ethn...
2025-01-03 21:37:23 +0000 UTC View PostAlrighty folks, it is day two of our journey to "re-release" our entire episode catalogue on Patreon. Today's drop is episode 1 of the series that started us off: Jerryworld.
Join us as we give this "All-American" origin story another listen today.
2025-01-02 22:21:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy new year! To ring in the new year, we thought it would be nice to "re-release" our catalogue on Patreon, so that our content can live here too. To kick things off, here is our very first episode ever.
And don't worry folks, we've still got brand new episodes coming your way every wee...
2025-01-01 21:57:40 +0000 UTC View Post
This is our first in what we expect to be a series of digs into works of propaganda - film, music, art exhibitions, books, etc. We hope you like it and please reach out with feedback, reactions, and suggestions for other things to cover! Since we know our audience is consummately literate, for fu...
2024-12-22 19:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostWe wanted to send a note of welcome and thanks to all of you who’ve signed up recently and reaffirm our heartiest gratitude to the OG crew that have been with us from the ground floor. We really do love and appreciate you all.
As you’re probably sick of hearing us say on the pod, we rea...
2024-12-22 15:12:01 +0000 UTC View Post
We are back for another round of excavation into the life, times, and legacy of Reichsman extraordinaire, John J. McCloy. We last left off with McCloy’s service in WWI, during which he spent the bulk of his time as aide-de-camp to Brigadier General Guy H. Preston. Preston was not only a soldier...
2024-12-20 05:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Are you heading into Thanksgiving weekend wondering WTF you will talk about with family and friends? Fear not, dear listener; Fourth Reich Archaeology has got you covered. In an EXCLUSIVE pre-Thanksgiving drop for our Patreon subscribers, we offer some fodder for the forthcoming awkward dinner on...
2024-11-28 01:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Last week, we talked about how President Lyndon Johnson came to put together a top-flight blue ribbon commission to cover up the Kennedy assassination. For the next two episodes, we go around the table and introduce the listener to each of the seven members of that commission. As we do, we ...
2024-11-21 13:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
As a special thanks to our patrons, and as we are gearing up to go deep into the Warren Commission in the universe of Jerryworld, we wanted to drop a little spooky story about Lee Harvey Oswald's attempted defection to the Soviet Union on Halloween, 1959. It's short, sweet, and mysterious. We hop...
2024-10-30 23:02:19 +0000 UTC View PostYou've asked for it, and now here it finally is. Apologies for taking so long to give you, our loyal and most deeply loved and appreciated ground-floor subscribers, a little something to set yer playlist to.
Enjoy, and thanks again for tuning in!!