One way to observe Martin Luther King Jr. Day is to order James W. Douglass’s new book, Martyrs to the Unspeakable: The Assassinations of JFK, Malcolm, Martin, and RFK, from a bookstore or public library. Below, a recommendation from northern Berkshire County resident Stewart Burns, and a link to a review by southern Berkshire County resident Edward Curtin. (Scroll down for MEDIA 1-14-26, and scroll up for GAZA and IRAN.) — MCM

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‘Crystal clear,’ by Stewart Burns*.  James Douglass’s earlier bestseller, JFK and the Unspeakable, presented an ironclad case that President Kennedy was murdered by the CIA because he turned into a true peacemaker, determined to end the Cold War. Martyrs to the Unspeakable picks up where he left off. Going beyond the how of the assassinations, he makes crystal clear the case for why.

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FROM OCT. 27, 2025  A luminous tapestry, by Edward Curtin** | Behind the Curtain  Douglass’s genius is to cut to the heart of the matter – to find redemptive meaning in the great mishmash of facts and awaken this compassionate spirit in the reader, just as his subjects had to discover it in the circumstances into which life had tossed them. Just as we do. Click HERE for full review.

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* Burns is the author of To the Mountaintop: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Sacred Mission to Save America (2004), and four other books.

** Curtin is the author, most recently, of At the Lost and Found: Personal and Political Dispatches of Resistance and Hope (2025).

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