Someone recently herein wrote about Joan Mellen and her dubious theories about RFK and LHO.
I can't find it. Mellen also wrote some full-on crackpot stuff about the USS Liberty event.
I am planning a post.
Joan Mellen was a mixed bag. The quality of her scholarship greatly depended on ideology. When her ideology overrode her objectivity on an issue, her scholarship was awful, such as her claims about the Vietnam War, the USS Liberty, Israel in general, and MLK's character. When her ideology did not override her objectivity, her scholarship was usually solid, sometimes outstanding.