GUEST 1 OVERVIEW: Dick Russell, author of The Real RFK Jr.: Trials of a Truth Warrior, is an investigative journalist and the eclectic author of fifteen books, including three New York Times bestsellers co-authored with Jesse Ventura and Eye of the Whale, named a Best Book of the Year in 2001 by three major newspapers.

His book The Man Who Knew Too Much, probing the forces behind the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, has been hailed as a “masterpiece of historical reconstruction.” The final two volumes of his biographical trilogy, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, are being published in 2023.

Russell is also the author of Black Genius and the American Experience and the memoir My Mysterious Son: A Life-Changing Passage Between Schizophrenia and Shamanism. He was a recipient of the citizen’s Chevron Conservation Award for his environmental activism. Russell resides in Los Angeles.
GUEST 2 OVERVIEW: Edward Berenson is a professor of history at NYU and NYU's Institute of French Studies. Berenson is a cultural historian specializing in the history of modern France and its empire, with additional interests in the history of Britain, the British Empire, and the United States. In 1999, Berenson received the American Historical Association's Eugene Asher Distinguished Teaching Award, having earlier won UCLA’s Distinguished Teaching Award. In 2006, French President Jacques Chirac decorated him as Chevalier de l’Ordre du Mérite.