Unconventional Thought and Independent Journalism

Keith Jeffreys is the Founder/Artistic Director of LAAVAA,
Los Angeles Area Veterans' Artists Alliance.
For more about LAAVAA go to: www.laavaa.org
 and www.laavaajava.com. In 2006 LAAVAA hosted, DEBRIEFING, a photography exhibit by four photographers with work from Vietnam or about veterans.  The exhibit moves to Chicago in May of 2008.

Keith has worked for the last three years with Citizens For Veterans' Rights (CFVR) www.cfvr.org, serving as the President since October 2006. In early 2007, CFVR initiated legislation to protect the entire 388 acres of the West Los Angeles Veterans' Affairs Medical Center property from commercial development and misuse.  The provision to protect the property was included in the omnibus spending bill for 2008 and signed into law on December 26, 2007.

For comments on documents, documentaries, art, artifacts,
arti-facts, media and current affairs, go to www.docu-commentary.com.

Keith is currently working on a documentary film about the Mountain Meadows Massacre as part of an eleven-year study of causes and effects of religious and military conflicts.

The study includes material from public talks and numerous interviews he has conducted.

This also includes an on-going comprehensive study of the 1993 tragedy at Waco focusing on the conspiracy theories and subsequent documentary films it generated including WACO: THE BIG LIE, WACO: THE RULES OF ENGAGEMENT, WACO: A NEW REVELATION, and THE F.L.I.R. PROJECT.  Based in-part on interviews with filmmakers, Dan Gifford, William Gazecki, Michael McNulty, and Amy Sommer, it is tentatively titled: WACO: THE RULES OF DECEPTION: THE MANUFACTURE AND DISTRIBUTION OF EXAGGERATED CLAIMS REGARDING THE WACO TRAGEDY. Other work includes:

Western Americana: The Life and Times of Frank Freed Tammen
(My lifelong search for the father I never knew)

• WWII Navy Veteran (European and Pacific Theaters)
• Heir to the legacy of the Denver Post, H.H. Tammen Curio Co, the Sells-Floto Circus, and The Tammen Society.
• Texas advertising entrepreneur
• Bigamist
• The Tammen Utah connection and the suicide of Joe Wilson

 

• Waco

  • Waco: The Terms of the Debate Film Review
  • Skeptics Debate Waco Standoff: Film Draws Heated Reaction at Caltech
  • Study Focus Areas
  • The Big Texas Double-Dupe
• Saints and Soldiers
• Remembering the Ritchie Boys
• Jessie Nelson: An Artist with a Vision
• Director Adrian Lyne Examines the Arbitrary Nature of Love in his new Film, Unfaithful
• Mountain Meadows Massacre Artifact Now Believed To Be A Fake

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