Backstory: A Video Discussion with Gerald Posner – Investigative Journalist & Author
INTRODUCTION: 1:58 min.
GERALD POSNER (B. 1954), a resident of Miami Beach, is an investigative journalist and the best-selling author of 13 books, including Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK (1993), Killing the Dream: James Earl Ray and the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. (1998), Miami Babylon, the history of the rise, the fall, and the resurrection of Miami and Miami Beach (2009), Why America Slept, which discusses the conspiracy of the al-Qaeda terrorists (and possibly Saudi royals) who were responsible for the September 11th attacks, God’s Bankers (2015), a 200-year history of Vatican finances and the Vatican Bank, and most recently, Pharma: Greed, Lies, and the Poisoning of America (2020).
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Posner was born in San Francisco, the only child of a Jewish father and Catholic mother. His father was an official in the Marine Cooks and Stewarts Union.
Posner was raised Catholic. He was educated at St. Ignatius College Preparatory and graduated summa cum laude from the University of California, Berkeley in 1975. In 1978, he earned his J.D. from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, where he served as the associate executive editor for the university’s Law Review.
At age 23, he joined the law firm Cravath, Swaine & Moore. In 1980, he went into private practice with a partner. One of his cases involved suing the German government on behalf of a victim of the notorious Auschwitz concentration camp doctor, Josef Mengele. The unsuccessful law suit left Posner with a ton of research materials about Mengele. Posner left the law in 1986, when his first book, about Nazi Dr. Josef Mengele’s life on the run, was published by McGraw Hill.
Posner is married to author Trisha Posner, who also does research and editing for all of Gerald’s books. Gerald is currently researching a book about Big Pharma, and Trisha is working on a book with a working title of The Pharmacist of Auschwitz.
We interviewed Gerald at FIU’s Miami Beach Urban Studios. The videos below are organized by success factors and run between 30 seconds and 9 minutes. Tap on any video. You must be connected to the Internet to view the videos.
SERENDIPITY: 4:16 min.
INSIGHT & INSPIRATION: 4:27 min.
CRITICAL THINKING: 2:18 min.
VALUES LEARNING DISCIPLINE: 2:54 min.
DEVELOPING A VOICE: 2:40 min.
SERENDIPITY: 1:10 sec.
SERENDIPITY: 5:51 min.
SEIZES OPPORTUNITIES: 1:20 min.
OPEN TO CHANGE: 2:34 min.
KNOW THYSELF: 3:41 min.
SELF-CONFIDENCE: 5:36 min.
COLLABORATION: 1:24 min.
OVERCOMES CHALLENGES TO SUCCEED: 1:31 min.
SELF-DISCIPLINE: 1:42 min.