Military History

Military History Group: Because: A CIA Coverup and a Son's Odyssey to Find the Father He Never Knew.

Author James B. Wells, a retired criminology and criminal justice professor in the School of Justice Studies at the College of Justice, Safety and Military Science at Eastern Kentucky University, presents on his investigative memoir to uncover the truth and meaning of his whistleblower father's covered-up and still CIA-classified death in Vietnam. Twenty-six years after the CIA Air America plane his father was a passenger in was reportedly brought down by hostile fire in South Vietnam, his youngest son, James, discovered hundreds of letters his father, Major Jack J. Wells wrote his mother, Betty, over two wars and a career in the U.S. Army and State Department. When he discovered his father was a whistleblower and the details of his death are inexplicably classified, an Odyssean journey for the truth began. 

Through archival and field research across two continents, a son connects with the man he barely knew and finds himself along the way.