Mae Brussell

Background

Mae Magnin was born on May 29, 1922 in Beverly Hills, California. Her father, Edgar Magnin, was a Reform rabbi at the Wilshire Boulevard Temple.

Education

She attended Stanford University in Palo Alto and received an Associate degree from the University of California, Berkeley.

Career

She was the host of Dialogue: Conspiracy (later renamed World Watchers International). Her paternal great-grandfather was Isaac Magnin, a frame carver and gilder. She was a radio host.

Most of her work on the radio focused on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

Distraught by the murder of President Kennedy, a Beverly Hills housewife named Mae Brussel took it upon herself to buy all 26 printed volumes issued by the Warren Commission report, and attempted to make sense of the thing by cross-indexing the entire work. Mae was disturbed by the contradictory information and unreported realities she discovered in those volumes.

As a result, she started subscibing to many major newspapers and magazines, whose stories she filed and organized, uncovering disquieting connections and patterns behind government and coporate malfeasance. Her career in radio started in May 1971, when as a guest on the independently owned radio station KLRB, she questioned the 26-volume Warren Commission Hearings.

She suggested Lee Harvey Oswald might not have been the only person involved in the assassination of the president

She became a weekly guest. Shortly after, she became the host of Dialogue: Conspiracy (later renamed World Watchers International). From 1983 to 1988, she hosted the same show on KAZU FM, a radio station based in Pacific Grove.

Additionally, she published articles in The Realist, a magazine published by Paul Krassner.

An impressed John Lennon donated money to Paul Krassner"s hip counterculter magazine, The Realist, so he could afford to print Mae Brussel"s work. She died of cancer on October 3, 1988.

Achievements

• Her paternal great-grandmother was Mary Ann Magnin, the founder of I. Magnin, an upscale women"s clothing store in San Francisco, California.

Politics

She also covered the history of fascism.