Jim Marrs

A native of Fort Worth, Texas, Jim Marrs earned a B.A. degree in journalism in 1966 and attended Graduate School at Texas Tech in Lubbock for two years more. He has worked for several Texas newspapers covering stories locally, in Europe and the Middle East. After a leave of absence to serve in Vietnam, he became a military and aerospace writer and an investigative reporter. Since 1980, Jim has been an award-winning free-lance writer, author and public relations consultant. He also published a rural weekly newspaper along with a cable television show and several videos.

Since 1976, Jim has taught a course on the assassination of JFK at the University of Texas. In 1989, his book, Crossfire: The Plot That Killed Kennedy, was published to critical acclaim and reached the New York Times Paperback Non-Fiction Best Seller list in 1992. It became a basis for the Oliver Stone film, JFK, and Jim served as a chief consultant for both the film’s screenplay and production.

Beginning in 1992, Jim spent three years researching and completing the book, Psi Spies, on a top-secret government program involving remote viewing, only to have it mysteriously canceled as it was going to press in 1995. Within two months, the story of military-developed remote viewing broke nationally in the Washington Post after the CIA revealed the program, but put their own spin on psychic studies.

In 1997, Jim's in-depth investigation of UFOs, Alien Agenda, was published, and he has since been a featured speaker at a number of national conferences including the Int'l UFO Congress and the Gulf Breeze UFO Conference. The book been translated into several foreign languages, and has become the top-selling UFO book in the world. Beginning in 2000, he began teaching a course on UFOs at the University of Texas.

In early 2000, Rule by Secrecy was published. It traced the hidden history that connects modern secret societies to the Ancient Mysteries. In 2003, his book The War on Freedom probed the conspiracies of the 9/11 attacks and their aftermath. It has since been reprinted under the title Inside Job: Unmasking the 9/11 Conspiracies.

Jim is listed both in Who’s Who in the World and Who’s Who in America. He has won several writing and photography awards, including Freedom Magazine’s Human Rights Leadership Award. He has appeared on ABC NBC, CBS, CSPAN, the Discovery, Learning and History Channels, as well as on many radio and TV talk shows, including Art Bell and George Noory. He is a former president of the Press Club of Fort Worth and a current member of the Society of Professional Journalists, Sigma Delta Chi, and the Investigative Reporters and Editors.

Books:

PSI Spies

Rule by Secrecy: The Hidden History that Connects the Trilateral Commission, the Freemasons, and the Great Pyramids

Crossfire: The Plot That Killed Kennedy

Alien Agenda: Investigating the Extraterrestrial Presence Among Us