Beyond the Classroom with William Holiday

DR. MICHAEL MARCADES is the son of Rose Cherami, aka Melba Christine Youngblood Marcades. You have seen an incident in the early stages of Oliver Stone’s film, JFK, with a delirious woman in a hospital bed sharing information about the impending assassination attempt on President Kennedy, BEFORE it happened.

Dr. Michael Marcades heard of the JFK assassination at school and all students were sent home. For ...

The Green Mountain Boys band from Putney, Vermont had formed in 1969 and performed in Craftsbury Common, Vermont on March 14, 1970. Banjo player, Bruce Stockwell, 14 years old, won the banjo contest that day.  

Within a short time, news spread of the Green Mountain Boys and they caught the attention of Windham College students who were part of an early 1970s college funded Student Activities group. They in...

Monica Mercedes Pérez Jiménez has a lineage of power. She is the daughter of Marco Jimenez, dictator of Venezuela in the 1950s, and Marita Lorentz, one-time girlfriend of Fidel Castro who later became a CIA spy.

This recording is a conversation between Bill Holiday and Monica at the JFK Lancer Convention in Dallas, Texas in November of 2023.

Monica tells the story of growing up the daughter of a CIA assassin and South American dict...

Bill Holiday taught history beyond a classroom. He spent his career traveling to the places where history happened and spoke with people who had first-hand knowledge of events, compiling materials for his students. 

But how to explain history when the officialdom disavows events and its agents? How do you explain history when history is comprised...

On his 18th birthday Robert Groden was playing hooky from high school when a blockbuster news story hit NBC TV News: President John F. Kennedy had been shot from a hill along the parade route during a campaign stop in Dallas, Texas. 

In this episode of Beyond the Classroom, Robert Groden tells Bill the unlikely story of a New York teenager who, some 12 years after the events of November 22, 1963, revealed the definitive visual acco...

Hello gentle listener, in this edition of Beyond the Classroom we talk about how an announcemtne from the Junior High middle school intercom and a sans-textbook curriculum led to a lifelong search for truth that spurred Bill to Dallas’ Dealy Plaza by way of the Putney School. Along the way, he spoke with witnesses to a seminal moment in American history and chronicled those stories in a new book: The JFK Assassination: What They T...