Episode Twenty-Four: Gene Weingarten Interview

Episode Twenty-Four: Gene Weingarten Interview

For today's podcast, we welcome one of our journalistic heroes: Gene Weingarten. Weingarten is an acclaimed journalist and humorist, best known for his long tenure at The Washington Post. He is the author of several books and is also the only two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing.​

In 2012, Weingarten wrote a stunning feature article about Jeffrey MacDonald's evidentiary hearing in Wilmington, North Carolina. Later, in 2014, he eulogized Joe McGinniss in the Washington Post, declaring Fatal Vision to be "one of the best nonfiction books ever written."

You can check out more of Weingarten's work on his substack, The Gene Pool. We encourage you to do so.

In this conversation, Weingarten shares his experience with the MacDonald Case, as well as his thoughts on Fatal Vision's enduring greatness, Janet Malcolm, Errol Morris, journalism, false equivalencies, and much more. We couldn't be more grateful to him.




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Episoder(58)

We Are Back (Part 4, Chapter 1, 4/5)

We Are Back (Part 4, Chapter 1, 4/5)

The Fatal Vision Podcast returns. Billy broadcasts from an undisclosed location in Holyoke, Massachusetts, the birthplace of volleyball. James explains where the Thursday live streams went. Then the f...

16 Aug 33min

"I'll Just Finish, If That's Okay" Part 4, Chapter 1, (3/4)

"I'll Just Finish, If That's Okay" Part 4, Chapter 1, (3/4)

Victor Woerheide invites the doctor to take a polygraph or sodium amytal, and instead gets a lawyer-drafted statement read through sobs.

11 Jul 1h 8min

Are You Setting Me Up? Part 4, Chapter 1, Part 2

Are You Setting Me Up? Part 4, Chapter 1, Part 2

Most of this episode isn't about the book. Billy spends the first half on his sister's triplets, who just graduated eighth grade, and on the ceremony speeches he sat through. He's sure the principal's...

27 Jun 36min

It Just Isn't Like Kojak: Part 4, Chapter 1, Part 1

It Just Isn't Like Kojak: Part 4, Chapter 1, Part 1

Asked what became of the "real killers" he'd sworn to hunt since 1970, Jeffrey MacDonald produces some Fayetteville bars and a chair he once kicked out from under a man.Pressed to name his actual crim...

25 Jun 1h 13min

Swimming and Sunning and Fishing and Diving and Making Love: Part 4, The Days of Affliction

Swimming and Sunning and Fishing and Diving and Making Love: Part 4, The Days of Affliction

Part Four. The Days of Affliction. What Jeff was up to between February 1970 and the grand jury subpoena was: working "sixty or seventy or eighty hours a week" (not hard by his standards), becoming a ...

7 Jun 59min

 The Buck Comes to Rest: Part 3, CONCLUSION.

The Buck Comes to Rest: Part 3, CONCLUSION.

Freddy stops asking. On the eve of the fourth anniversary of the Army's original accusation, Freddy and Mildred Kassab walk into the Raleigh chambers of Chief Judge Algernon Butler and file a citizens...

16 Mai 1h

Time Will Tell: Part 3, Chapter 5

Time Will Tell: Part 3, Chapter 5

Jeffrey MacDonald was living in an exclusive area of Huntington Beach, working through the local talent pool, and was a conservatively mod dresser...not a real swinger. Fred Kassab was now threatening...

10 Mai 1h 16min

"I Want Revenge, Preferably Brutal Revenge": Part 3, Chapter 4.

"I Want Revenge, Preferably Brutal Revenge": Part 3, Chapter 4.

Freddie Kassab writes Jeff, signing off "we can't and won't until whoever did this is punished." Jeff writes back with a vigilante fantasy: he's been flying all over the country hunting the hippies he...

3 Mai 1h 10min

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