# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gerald-posner
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:20:38.003Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gerald-posner"
name: "Gerald Posner"
slug: "gerald-posner"
description: "Gerald Leo Posner is an American investigative journalist and author of thirteen books, including Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK (1993), which explores the John F. Kennedy assassination and Killing the Dream: James Earl Ray and the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. (1998), about the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. A plagiarism scandal involving articles that Posner wrote for The Daily Beast and his book Miami Babylon arose in 2010."
tagline: "American journalist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Gerald_Posner_March_2013.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1954-05-20"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  historical:           7.289676
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "posnergram"
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    handle:    "nm0692716"
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    url:       "http://www.posner.com"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump