Monday,

September 8, 2025

From Prosecuting Jeffrey MacDonald to Serving Time to Serving Tables

On August 27, due primarily to the interest in the Jeffrey MacDonald murder case, I spoke to a group of over 150 people at The Cardinal in Raleigh.  The topic was the Jeffrey MacDonald trial, and I  added parts of my personal story thereafter for good measure.

This podcast is the video of that presentation. It is a trip back in time.

 Monday, 

September

15, 2025

Hope in an Uncertain Time

 Last week was a tough one for our country with political asssassination and shouts of revenge.  We seem to have lost, or at least misplaced, our way.

It is a good time ro remember the words of Nelson Mandela, that "hope is the most powerful weapon when all else seems lost".

Not that long ago, really, on April 4, t968, Robert Kennedy was in Indianapolis to speak at a a campain rally. He was running for President. He told a crowd of black people in a poor section of the city that Martin Luther King had been shot, and that he had died.

Sen. Kennedy's words that night helped to calm the city and give them peace. There were no riots thought there were that same night in over 100 cities.

We have been given a blueprint to make ourselves better if only we have the will to follow through with it.

Monday,

July 28, 2025

Rick Thames

A Reporter's Look

Back at the

Jeffrey MacDonald

Trial

Rick Thames was 26 years old in the summer of 1979 when he moved to Raleigh to cover the murder trial of Jeffrey MacDonald for the Fayetteville Observer.  Now, after a remarkably successful career in journalism with stops as Editor of the Whichita Eagle and the Charlotte Observer, he sits down with me to recall the weeks when he had a front row seat at that trial.

He remembers it all, saying the moment the jury announced rheir verdict of guilty was one of the most explosive times he had ever seen.

Rick tells his thoughts about the trial, the evidence and the very questions he asked MacDonald, and the answers he gave, one day at lunch that summer.