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Jack Cashill

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Jack Cashill
Cashill in 2005
Cashill in 2005
Born (1947-12-15) December 15, 1947 (age 78)
OccupationNovelist, journalist and editor
EducationSiena College (BA)
Purdue University (MA, PhD)
SubjectAmerican issues
Website
www.cashill.com

John Rogers Cashill (born December 15, 1947) is an American conservative author, blogger, and conspiracy theorist.[1] He is a weekly contributor to American far-right news site WorldNetDaily and Executive Editor of Ingram's Magazine, a business publication based in Kansas City, Missouri.[2]

Biography

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Cashill was born and raised in Newark, New Jersey, to William and Frances Cashill. He graduated from Regis High School in New York City, then graduated from Siena College with a Bachelor of Arts in English. He then earned an M.A. and Ph.D. in American studies in 1982 from Purdue University. His doctoral dissertation at Purdue was titled, "The capitalist as hero in the American novel".[3] He is of Irish descent.[4] He has written for Fortune, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and The Weekly Standard. He has taught media and literature at Purdue and at other universities in the Kansas City area.[citation needed]

Cashill, in the book Deconstructing Obama (2011), promoted the theory that Bill Ayers, co-founder of the militant radical left-wing organization Weather Underground, had authored President Barack Obama's autobiography Dreams from My Father.[5][6][7] A review by Craig Fehrman in The Washington Post argued that "Cashill’s clues are far from convincing" on the supposed involvement of Ayers; Fehrman also described the book itself as being "grotesque, delusional and paranoid".[1] Eric McHenry, writing for Salon accused Cashill of believing "Obama’s entire life is one massive fraud" and exclusively applying this notion to Obama's writings; Cashill had claimed at least one of Obama's few poems were really the work of Frank Marshall Davis.[8]

TWA 800: The Crash, The Cover Up, The Conspiracy, a book written by Cashill, was published in July 2016 by Regnery. The Pitch described Cashill as a conspiracy theorist; he promotes the theory that TWA 800 was hit by a missile and doubted the veracity of Barack Obama's published birth certificate.[9] First Strike (2003), Cashill's earlier book on the crash of TWA Flight 800, alleged the real cause had been covered up to stop Bill Clinton from losing the 1996 presidential election.[5] He has claimed that the killers of In a 2004 documentary Mega Fix, he alleged additionally that cover-ups by President Clinton concerning the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995 and the Atlanta Olympics bombing the following year, contributed to the September 11 attacks. He implies the 1995 and 1996 attacks were the actions of Islamic terrorists.[5]

Bibliography

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BookYearNotes
Snake Handling in Mid-America1991ISBN 0-93370-157-8
2006: The Chautauqua Rising2000ISBN 0-96723-571-5
First Strike: TWA Flight 800 and the Attack on America2003ISBN 0-78526-354-3
Ron Brown's Body: How One Man's Death Saved the Clinton Presidency and Hillary's Future2004ISBN 0-78526-237-7
Sucker Punch: The Left Hook that Dazed Ali and Killed King's Dream2006ISBN 1-59555-033-X
What's the Matter with California: Cultural Rumbles from the Golden State and Why the Rest of Us Should Be Shaking2007ISBN 1-41653-103-3
Hoodwinked: How Intellectual Hucksters Have Hijacked American Culture2009ISBN 1-59555-286-3
Popes and Bankers: A Cultural History of Credit & Debt, From Aristotle to AIG2010ISBN 1-59555-273-1
Deconstructing Obama: The Life, Loves, and Letters of America's First Postmodern President2011ISBN 1-45161-111-0
If I Had A Son: Race, Guns, and the Railroading of George Zimmerman2013ISBN 1-93806-721-5
You Lie: The Evasions, Omissions, Fabrications, Frauds, and Outright Falsehoods of Barack Obama2014ISBN 978-0062347503
Scarlet Letters: The Ever-Increasing Intolerance of the Cult of Liberalism2015ISBN 978-1935071921
TWA 800: The Crash, the Cover-Up, and the Conspiracy2016ISBN 978-1621574712
Unmasking Obama: The Fight to Tell the True Story of a Failed Presidency2020ISBN 978-1642934458
Untenable: The True Story of White Ethnic Flight from America's Cities2023ISBN 978-1637586464
ASHLI: The Untold Story of the Women of January 62024

ISBN 979-8888457757

References

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  1. 1 2 Fehrman, Craig (March 25, 2011). "Two books on the influence of books on Obama". The Washington Post. Retrieved August 15, 2020.
  2. http://www.ingramsonline.com/staff.html Archived 2011-10-20 at the Wayback Machine Accessed 2014-03-21.
  3. "The capitalist as hero in the American novel" (PhD Thesis). Proquest. 1982. Retrieved February 9, 2026.
  4. Cashill, Jack. "Cashill Family History". Cashill.com. Archived from the original on November 20, 2010. Retrieved January 20, 2011.
  5. 1 2 3 Sessions, David (March 24, 2011). "Jack Cashill's 'Deconstructing Obama' Argues Bill Ayers Wrote Obama's Memoirs". The Daily Beast. Retrieved September 15, 2020.
  6. "Andrew McCarthy's Defense of McCarthyism". Mother Jones. Retrieved April 15, 2018.
  7. "Is Barack Obama actually not in this photo of Barack Obama?". Salon. April 7, 2011. Retrieved December 20, 2019.
  8. McHenry, Eric (July 17, 2012). "Obama's oddest critic". Salon. Retrieved September 15, 2020.
  9. Vockrodt, Steve (March 12, 2014). "Jack Cashill is investigating the missing Malaysian Airlines plane, already has a conspiracy theory". The Pitch. Archived from the original on 2018-03-03. Retrieved 2021-05-13.
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