Mae Brussell is quite possibly our earliest example of a citizen journalist. In 1964 she bought herself the Warren Commission Report as a Christmas present. She later went on to host a number of talk radio shows. This archival material is extremely important for us to review, not just as a great example of how to be a citizen journalist (and why) but the JFK assassination was also the launch of many other horrifying psychological operations such as the Zodiac killer and Jonestown which Mae was reporting on as they were happening in real time. Most of these psychological operations were coming out of the San Francisco Bay Area where Mae lived and she was noting at the time that the “wire services” such as the Associated Press were not picking up or reproducing these stories. In the pre-Internet days the wire services would pick up local news stories and make them national. These archival shows are also important because Mae is reading the titles and dates of these newspaper articles and giving us summaries and reading quotes and from them and so we get many more details from this than what writers decades later tell us about these things, because again, she is describing everything as it is happening. She wanted to train the next generation to “solve crimes.” She called them her “Brussell Sprouts.” This episode covers the Presidio daycare scandal where 58 children were diagnosed with a sexually transmitted disease at a military base in San Francisco during the mid-1980s.
Satanic Cults In The U.S. Army, Mae Brussell, November 9, 1987, Part 1:
Part 2: https://youtu.be/pawtg99pn-M
Part 3: https://youtu.be/UQ7TBte4exM
In her coverage of Jonestown she speaks more specifically about how to do Citizen Journalism:
Pt. 2: https://youtu.be/6DUuShMExnM
Pt. 3: https://youtu.be/4CHSUS2F0EY
How to Study History:
PT 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4F5u7U_8feo
PT 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PB4y_smpbcc&t=30s
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