Education
McAdams attended Kennedy High School in Kennedy, Alabama. He earned his Doctor of Philosophy from Harvard University in 1981.
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John McAdams
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McAdams teaches courses on American politics and public policy and the John F. Kennedy assassination. He runs a website on the assassination and has published a book the subject, John F Kennedy Assassination Logic: How to Think about Claims of Conspiracy (2011). He describes himself as "a debunker by temperament".
He gained an undergraduate degree from the University of Alabama and a masters from the Teachers College, Columbia University.
McAdams teaches courses on American politics and public policy and the John F. Kennedy assassination and has been published in the American Journal of Political Science, Journal of, Sociological Quarterly, and Law and Contemporary Problems. McAdams maintains The Kennedy Assassination Home Page, a web page of articles, resources, and links devoted to debunking various conspiracies regarding the assassination.
The site has been called "impressively comprehensive", "the best gateway to serious and reliable materials" and "the best collection of Kennedy assassination-related information." He is also co-moderator of the Usenet group alt.assassination.jfk. He is the author of the book John F Kennedy Assassination Logic: How to Think about Claims of Conspiracy (2011).
On December 12, 2014, McAdams was placed on indefinite academic leave from Marquette University and was suspended from all teaching and faculty duties.
This indefinite suspension came about after McAdams publicly named a graduate instructor in a post on his private blog. A letter from Marquette University indicated that the firing was the result of his thrice violating student privacy and deliberately publishing students" names and information to target them for harassment, and because he had done so in the third instance despite making written agreements with the University that he would not do so after the 2nd instance. McAdams has been described as a "vocal conservative" and is a proponent of capital punishment.
In 2006, he testified before the Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights Subcommittee of the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary as an expert on capital punishment.
McAdams runs the blog Marquette Warrior which was linked, along with several other blogs, to a pro-Walmart Puerto Rico effort.
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