James B. WellsWhistleblowing Fact 897: A partial listing of whistleblower characteristics my father “possessed included being strong-willed, stubbornly committed, and obsessed about a personal belief. He also had a proactive personality, which allowed him to be more willing to go against social conventions. Like many whistleblowers, he possessed high levels of moral judgment and felt more inclined to […]
My investigative memoir, Because: A CIA Coverup and a Son’s Odyssey to Find the Father He Never Knew, is in Ireland! Thank you, Jordan Wachman! I encourage others to post their pictures of Because.
Whistleblowing Fact 895: In some of the 400 letters I found 26 years after he died in Vietnam, my father self admits that his actions qualify him as meeting the academic definition of a whistleblower. Two prominent scholars, Near and Miceli, defined in a 1985 journal article what has become the classic and commonly accepted definition […]
Memorial Days have always been difficult for me. Just as my father’s death in Vietnam was an early one, so were the government’s lies to our family and the media about how he died. My mother was notified of her husband’s death by a phone call. I was first notified of the lies when I […]
“They say a person dies twice — once when they have their physical death and the second time when we stop saying their name.” https://jamesbwells.com/2023/09/25/giving-life/ This Memorial Day weekend, I wish to honor and mention the names of Wells family members who volunteered to defend our country during wartime. My great-great-grandfather Richard Wells cut down […]
It’s difficult to express my feelings at this moment. As 2024 comes to a close, I reflect on my accomplishments with a sense of satisfaction. Yet, I also feel mixed emotions about what awaits me in 2025. Shortly after retiring as a professor of criminology and criminal justice from Eastern Kentucky University on January 1, […]
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