Episode · The Joe Rogan Experience · 2020-04-16
Books mentioned on #1459 - Tom O'Neill
Tom O’Neill is an award-winning investigative journalist and entertainment reporter whose work has appeared in national publications such as Us, Premiere, New York, The Village Voice and Details. His book, Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties (https://amzn.
Joe Rogan recommended Chaos by Tom O'Neill. Tom O'Neill discussed Helter Skelter by Vincent Bugliosi and others, The Search for the "Manchurian Candidate" by John Marks, Best evidence by David S. Lifton, and The White Album by Joan Didion.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Chaos
Chaos by Tom O'Neill is a deeply researched investigative non-fiction book that exposes startling connections between the CIA's MKUltra mind control experiments, COINTEL Pro, and the infamous Charles Manson murders of the 1960s.
Recommended“I've been deep into your book for the last two weeks and will tell everybody what it's called right off the bat it's called chaos Charles Manson the CIA and the secret history of the 60s”
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Helter Skelter
Helter Skelter by Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry is widely regarded as the definitive true crime account of the Manson family murders and the motivations driving their crimes.
Discussed“it's an important lie that Vince Puleo see presented not just in at trial but also in his book a trial”
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The Search for the "Manchurian Candidate"
The Search for the Manchurian Candidate by John Marks is a pioneering historical investigation into the Central Intelligence Agency's covert MKULTRA behavioral modification and drug testing programs during the mid-to-late twentieth century.
Discussed“he wrote the first book about MKULTRA that came out in the mid to late 70s called the search for The Manchurian Candidate”
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Best evidence
Best Evidence by David S.
Discussed“there's a great book called best evidence by David liftin that book got me down a dark road when I was in my 20s”
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The White Album
The White Album is a prominent collection of essays by Joan Didion that captures the cultural and social landscape of the turbulent late nineteen sixties and seventies.
Discussed“it's like Joan Didion wrote in her book The White Album that the morning she learned about the murders and she knew most of the victims”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“I've been deep into your book for the last two weeks and will tell everybody what it's called right off the bat it's called chaos Charles Manson the CIA and the secret history of the 60s”
“popularly known as Manchurian candidates after a book that was written 1962 and later became a movie and then a movie again the people would be through drugs and hypnotism”