1. Gerald Leo Posner is an American investigative journalist and author of thirteen books, including Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK, which explores the John F Kennedy assassination, and Killing the Dream: James Earl Ray and the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Gerald Posner was born in San Francisco, California, the only child of Jerry and Gloria Gerald Posner.
Gerald Posner's father was Jewish and his mother Catholic, and both were native San Franciscans.
Gerald Posner left the law in 1986, when his first book, about Nazi Josef Mengele's life on the run, was published by McGraw Hill.
The book was the result of a five-year pro bono lawsuit that Gerald Posner brought on behalf of survivors of Josef Mengele's medical experiments at Auschwitz.
Gerald Posner testified before the United States Senate in 1986 about how Mengele used an International Red Cross passport to travel safely from Europe to Argentina in 1949.
Gerald Posner testified about the discovery made by himself and Ware that Mengele had twice been captured by US Army troops in 1945, but released both times before authorities realized he was on several wanted lists.
In June 1986, Gerald Posner appeared with Mengele's only son, Rolf Mengele, on the Phil Donahue Show.
In 1988, Gerald Posner published Warlords of Crime: Chinese Secret Societies: The New Mafia, an expose of Triads and international heroin syndicates.
Gerald Posner's only novel is a biological warfare thriller set in the Cold War.
Gerald Posner's descriptions move smartly; his characters, while somewhat two-dimensional, are convincing in their context; and his plot is constructed to satisfy demanding readers.
In 1993, Gerald Posner testified before the Legislation and National Security Subcommittee of the United States House Committee on Government Operations about the findings in Case Closed.
In 1998, the Assassination Records Review Board briefly referenced this testimony in discussing two unsuccessful attempts to acquire the interview notes of two physicians, James Humes and J Thornton Boswell, that Posner said he possessed.
Gerald Posner's thesis is this: Lee Harvey Oswald killed Kennedy by himself.
Vincent Bugliosi, whose own book Reclaiming History largely agrees with Gerald Posner's conclusions, accused Gerald Posner of "omissions and distortions" but described Case Closed as "an impressive work".
Gerald Posner [Posner] has rendered a valuable service by putting the King murder under his magnifying glass.
In Why America Slept, Gerald Posner became the first journalist to reveal the details of a US interrogation against one of the highest-ranking al-Qaeda suspects caught to date.
Gerald Posner asserts that the Saudis have built an elaborate doomsday scenario around their oil fields.
Accessible and well written, Gerald Posner's is the definitive history of the topic to date.
Some reviewers have noted that God's Bankers contains inaccuracies, the most serious of which is Gerald Posner's allegation in Chapter 11 that Bernardino Nogara, the wartime director of the Vatican's Amministrazione Speciale per la Santa Sede, was a Nazi intelligence agent.
Gerald Posner argues that it is Bruno Nogara, who is listed as a member of Abwehr Unit 257 under Reichsstatthalter Hubert Pfannenstiel, while Branch Nogara is listed under Abwehr Unit 254, commanded by Reichsstatthalter Ernst Schmidt-Burck.
Gerald Posner said that his goal was to get more than 1,000 signatures to present to Pope Francis when the Pope visited the US in September 2015.
In STAT News, Gerald Posner listed some of his new findings about the Sackler family.
In WIRED, Gerald Posner wrote about Marianne Skolek, who became an activist against Purdue Pharma and its narcotic painkiller, OxyContin, after her daughter died of an overdose.
Gerald Posner relied on his reporting from 'PHARMA' to write a series of opinion pieces in national publications about either shortcomings in the drug industry or about the concerns that the Sackler family might not be held accountable for their role in the marketing of Oxycontin in their privately-owned drug company, Purdue Pharma.
Besides the Sacklers and Purdue Pharma, Gerald Posner joined Margarida Jorge, the campaign director for Lower Drug Prices Now, in a Newsweek opinion piece that criticized pharmaceutical executives for profiting from rumors and press releases about COVID-19 vaccines and treatments.
Gerald Posner wrote about investigative issues for The New York Times, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Talk, Newsweek, Time, the Miami Herald, and The Daily Telegraph.
Gerald Posner was a regular contributor to NBC's Today Show, as well as other national shows on the History Channel, CNN, FOX News, and CBS.
Gerald Posner was a frequent guest on MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olbermann.
Gerald Posner worked on all his projects with his wife, Trisha Posner, who is an author and artist.
Gerald Posner was the Chief Investigative Reporter for The Daily Beast, until he resigned over plagiarism charges in 2010.
Since 2023, Gerald Posner has published several anti-trans articles, many based on the works of Jennifer Bilek, an anti-Semitic conspiracy theorist.
Gerald Posner was a regular panelist on HistoryCENTER, the History Channel's weekly current affairs discussion program, from 2000 to 2002.
Gerald Posner was the consulting producer of the film documentary, "The Barrel of a Gun", by Tigre Hill, about the 1981 murder of Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner, and Faulkner's convicted murderer, Mumia Abu-Jamal.
Gerald Posner advised Dr Conrad Murray, charged with manslaughter in the death of pop icon Michael Jackson, as part of a British documentary over Murray's role.
Gerald Posner provided pro-bono advice to Viktor Bout, the Russian arms dealer nicknamed in the press as the "Merchant of Death".
Gerald Posner is a member of the New York and Washington DC Bars and the International Criminal Bar.
In 1999, in the premier September issue of Talk Magazine, Gerald Posner wrote about the mistakes of French and British investigators in the 1997 death of Diana, Princess of Wales.
Gerald Posner reported that the driver of the car in which Diana was killed, Henri Paul, had met with his French intelligence handler in the hours before the fatal crash.
That was the amount Gerald Posner had reported Paul's intelligence handler had given him in cash only a few hours before the fatal accident.
Gerald Posner gave 'source' information that they were with Henri Paul on Saturday night.
Gerald Posner's sources did not indicate to him that the Princess of Wales herself was under targeted surveillance by the NSA.
The importance of such information, had there been any, would not be lost on the sources and it is reasonable to assume that they would have passed on that information to Gerald Posner had they been in possession of it.
For instance, the American investigative writer Gerald Posner says in the report that through a source, he heard an intercept of a telephone call between Diana and Lucia Flecha de Lima, wife of the Brazilian ambassador at the time.
In 2010, Gerald Posner was the chief investigative reporter at The Daily Beast.
Gerald Posner said the Miami Babylon plagiarism occurred because of a new system of "trailing endnotes", because an individual he interviewed read one of the plagiarized sources and reiterated it during the interview, and because he mistook other people's writing for his own after scanning source documents into a computer database.
The Miami New Times found that Gerald Posner "seems to add, subtract, or misattribute quotes" and displayed a series of such "apparently altered or misattributed quotes".
Posner's choice of attorney was particularly notable, as Lane was a well-known conspiracy theorist in regards to the death of President John F Kennedy, while Posner had written his debunking of such theories in his 1993 book, "Case Closed".
On May 3,2013, Gerald Posner was named in a federal lawsuit brought by author Harper Lee in Manhattan.