Jim
Marrs is an award-winning veteran Texas journalist whose books
Crossfire: The Plot That Killed Kennedy (Carroll & Graf) and Rule
by Secrecy (Harper Collins: 2002) reached the New York Times
bestseller list.
Comprehensive
Biography of Jim Marrs
A native of Fort Worth, Texas, Mr. Marrs earned a Bachelor of
Arts degree in journalism from the University of North Texas in 1966 and
attended Graduate School at Texas Tech in Lubbock for two years more.
He
has worked for several Texas newspapers, including the Fort Worth
Star-Telegram, where beginning in 1968 he served as police reporter and
general assignments reporter covering stories locally, in Europe and the
Middle East.
After a leave of absence to serve with a Fourth Army
intelligence unit during the Vietnam War, he became military and
aerospace writer for the newspaper and an investigative reporter. Since
1980, Mr. Marrs has been a free-lance writer, author and public
relations consultant. He also published a rural weekly newspaper along
with a monthly tourism tabloid, a cable television show and several
videos.
Since 1976, Mr. Marrs has taught a course on the assassination of
President John F. Kennedy at the University of Texas at
Arlington. 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 mid-February 1992. It became a
basis for the Oliver Stone film JFK. Mr. Marrs served as a chief
consultant for both the film’s screenplay and production.
Beginning in 1992, Mr. Marrs spent three years researching and
completing a non-fiction book on a top-secret government program
involving the psychic phenomenon known as
remote viewing only to have it mysteriously canceled
as it was going to press in the summer of 1995.
Within two months, the
story of military-developed remote viewing broke nationally in
the Washington Post after the CIA held a press
conference revealing the program but putting their own spin on psychic
studies.
In May, 1997, Marrs’ in-depth investigation of UFOs,
Alien Agenda, was published by HarperCollins Publishers. Mr.
Marrs has been a featured speaker at a number of national
conferences including the Annual International UFO Congress and
the Annual Gulf Breeze UFO Conference. Publisher’s Weekly
described Alien Agenda as "the most entertaining and complete
overview of flying saucers and their crew in years." Beginning in 2000,
he began teaching a course on UFOs at the University
of Texas at Arlington.
In early 2000, HarperCollins published
Rule by Secrecy, which
traced the hidden history that connects modern secret societies to the
Ancient Mysteries.
Jim
Marrs is an award-winning veteran Texas journalist whose books
Crossfire: The Plot That Killed Kennedy (Carroll & Graf) and Rule
by Secrecy (Harper Collins: 2002) reached the New York Times
bestseller list.