JFK Lancer

schedule & info
special guests
Thursday
Main Room Schedule
November 21 7:30am-9:00pm:
7:30-8:30
8:30-9:00
9:00-9:45
Registration
Welcome and Introductions by Larry Hancock
Brent Holland: Ted Sorensen~
The Man Who Saved The World...Really
9:45-10:30 Dick Russell: Richard Case Nagell
10:30-11:15 Barry Ernest: The Search for Victoria Adams
11:15-12:00 Josiah Thompson: Investigation and Trial
12:00-1:30 Break for Buffet Lunch
1:30-2:15
Rollie Zavada: The Zapruder Film
2:15-3:15
Brian Edwards, Casey Quinlan:
“Spread the News” Panel
3:30-4:15
Ian Griggs: Jack Ruby & the DPD
4:15-5:00
Mark Shaw: Connecting Jack Ruby and
Melvin Belli to Joseph Kennedy
5:00-7:00
Dinner Break, Visit Author Tables
7:00-7:45
Pat Speer: The JFK Back Wound:
Anatomy of a Lie
7:45-9:00
Brent Holland: Abraham Bolden & Chicago
Friday
Main Room Schedule
November 22 8:00am-9:30pm:
8:00-8:30
8:30-9:15
Stuart Wexler: Harold Wiseberg Leads
Jim DiEugenio: A Motive for Murder:
Kennedy’s Foreign Policy
9:15-10:00 Russ Baker: Updates from Family of Secrets
10:00-10:45 Bill Simpich: Oswald Impersonation
11:30-12:30 Dallas’ Dealey Plaza Televised Ceremony**
12:30-1:00 JFK Lancer Anniversary Observance
1:00-3:00
Break
**See the Note on Dealey Plaza on page 5
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award winners
resources
Thursday
breakout Schedule
Alternatives to the mainroom activities
12:00-1:30
12:00-1:30
4:15-5:00
5:00-7:00
5:00-7:00
7:00-7:45
7:00-7:45
Joan Mellen: Garrison Investigation
Bill Simpich & Larry Hancock:
Understanding Oswald & Mexico City
Rollie Zavada & Debra Conway:
Zapruder Film Study Updates
Dr. David Mantik & Debra Conway:
Bethesda Autopsy
William Law & Debra Conway:
Interviewing Bethesda Hospital Witnesses
Larry Hancock & Rex Bradford:
The Cover Up
Sherry Fiester:
Dealey Plaza Shooting Trajectories
Friday
breakout Schedule
Alternatives to the mainroom activities
schedule & info
3:00-3:30
3:30-4:15
4:15-5:15
5:15-6:00
6:00-9:30
Russell Kent: Classical Mistakes in the
Medicolegal Autopsy of JFK
William Law: Special Guest Jim Jenkins
Sherry Fiester: Reconstructing the Fatal
Headshot
Jim Marrs: Conspiracy
Mary Ferrell - JFK Lancer Banquet, Awards
and Auctions (see next page for details)
Saturday
Main Room Schedule
November 23 8:00am-9:00pm:
8:00-9:15
Rex Bradford: The 14-Minute Gap:
The Early Days of the Cover-up
9:15-10:00 Donald Thomas: Cross-Talk: the Acoustical
Record of Gunfire in the JFK Assassination
10:00-10:45 Joe Backes: ARRB Investigation and Trial
10:45-11:15 Sherry Fiester, Debra Conway, Jim DiEugenio:
“How To Answer Big Questions” Panel
11:15-12:00 Joan Mellen: On The Nature of Evidence In
The Kennedy Assassination
12:00-1:30 Break for Buffet Lunch
1:30-2:30
Brian Litman: Tourist Non Grata: The Soviet
Experience of Oswald (and Who the KGB
Chairman Really Thought Did It)
2:30-3:30
Jim DiEugenio: The HSCA:
How Blakey Buried the Case
3:30-4:15
Pamela McElwain-Brown: Midnight Blue to
Black: The Vanishing Act of the Presidential
Limousine SS100X In Broad Daylight
4:15-5:00
Scott Kaiser: Cuban-Exile Connections to the
JFK Assassination
5:00-7:00
Dinner Break, Visit Author Tables
7:00-8:00
Brian Edwards: The 26 Volumes: Making
Sense of the Nonsense
Ed Tatro: Intriguing Suspects
8:00-9:00
Sunday
Main Room Schedule
November 24 8:00am-12:30pm:
8:30-9:15
Casey Quinlan: The Edge of Apocalypse: Cold
War, Cold Warriors, Cold Blooded Murder
9:15-10:00 Glenn Bybee: The Position of the Defense
Regarding the Carcano Rifle
10:00-10:45 Russ Tarby:
Tammi True Remembers Jack Ruby
3:30-4:15
Russell Kent: Medical
Saturday
breakout Schedule
Alternatives to the mainroom activities
9:15-10:00
10:00-11:00
12:00-1:30
1:30-3:00
Ed Tatro: Garrison Trial
Bill Simpich: Oswald
Ben Rogers: Poage Library Archives
Teachers of the Year: Teaching the Kennedy
Assassination in the Classroom
Barry Ernest & Debra Conway:
TSBD Witnesses
Stuart Wexler: NAA
Scott Kaiser & Larry Hancock: Cuba
Sunday
breakout Schedule
Alternatives to the mainroom activities
10:00
11:00
11:30-12:30
1:00
Bus Tour: Brian Edwards & Casey Quinlan*
Meet for Walking Tour
Walking Tour of Dealey Plaza: Larry Hancock
Bus Tour: Brian Edwards & Casey Quinlan*
* Bus tours are sold out. Ticket required.
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schedule & info
Banquet
Schedule
Friday, November 22 6:00-9:30pm:
Alan Dale, our host for the evening
Invocation by Bob Cochran
Entertainment by Beverly Oliver
Welcome and Introductions, Alan Dale
Remarks, Larry Hancock and Debra Conway
Speech by Kerry McCarthy
Video presentation by David Knight
Speaker Recognition, Stu Wexler and Larry Hancock
Teacher Scholarship Award, Sherry Fiester
JFK Lancer - Mary Ferrell Awards, Debra Conway
Video presentation by Brian Edwards
Keynote Speech by Jeff Morley
Amazing Grace performed by Beverly Oliver
Closing, Alan Dale
What is JFK Lancer?
We are a historical research company specializing in the administration and assassination of President John F. Kennedy;
founded in 1995 by Thomas A. Jones and Debra J. Conway.
Larry Hancock is the Chairman, and Stuart Wexler the CoChairman of our annual Dallas Conference. We were joined
by Sherry P. Fiester in 2006, Nicola Mediteraneo in 2010, and
designer Julianne Carson in 2013.
JFK Lancer works with the largest and most active group
of President John F. Kennedy historical researchers. Our
past conferences have hosted many of the eye witnesses of
the assassination and the most respected of authors and researchers from around the world. We subscribe to the values
of patriotism, excellence, integrity and dedication to the revealing of truth surrounding the assassination of President
John F. Kennedy.
Our goal is to make research materials concerning Kennedy’s assassination easily available to everyone. Our prime
concern is the accuracy of history and the true story of the
turbulent 1960s.
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We believe these basic facts:
1. There was more than one shooter involved in the assassination of President Kennedy and the wounding of Governor
Connally.
2. There has not been a true or complete investigation of this
crime by our government.
3. Intelligence agencies did not give those investigatory bodies the information they should have, and the assassination
case, therefore, should still be open, and research should be
ongoing.
If you support JFK Lancer’s principles and objectives we invite you to join us online and help make a difference.
schedule & info
Conference Guidelines:
Note on Dealey Plaza on the 22nd:
• Please be prompt! We will make every attempt to begin
each session on time and to stick to the schedule.
• Please speak softly in the hallway outside of the Conference room.
• You may audiotape presentations for your personal use
only. No video-taping without permission.
• You may not put recorded material on any website
without permission.
• Flash cameras are permitted unless they become distracting to the speaker.
• You must wear your name badge to enter all conference
events.
• There will be Q&A time whenever possible.
The city of Dallas has given limited access for Dealey Plaza
for Friday the 22nd. Due to these restrictions, JFK Lancer
will not hold an observance in the plaza.
The city’s events will be streamed to the conference room at
11:45am and JFK Lancer will hold an observance of the President’s assassination directly following at 12:45am - 1:15pm.
We hope you will join us. Attendees will, of course, be free
to go to the plaza, or as close as they can get, and participate
in the city’s organized event.
We will return to the conference scheduled activities at 3pm.
• We ask that you be respectful of the views of others.
D-Link
Free Bus
DART’s free new down-
town bus system is now
available. Buses run every
15 minutes, 11 a.m. - 11:30
p.m., Monday-Saturday. For
more information, call or
visit the site.
(214) 979-1111
www.dart.org/dlink
The Adolphus Hotel
is half a mile east on
Commerce Street from
Dealey Plaza.
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schedule & info
Hang on to your stubs
If you recieved one of our JFK Lancer
tearable tickets, please hold on to your
stub. There will be a raffle at the end of
the conference for some exciting prizes!
Special thank you
We couldn’t have done it without you
Steve Conway and Paul Fiester, JFK Lancer’s Staff: Nicola
Mediterraneo and Julianne Carson, Conference Chairs:
Larry Hancock and Stu Wexler, Our Host: Alan Dale, Our
Speakers and Guests, Volunteers: Joey Granati, Cathy Stewart, Mesha, Karla Abogabir, Denise Tatum and Lori Leckbee
Brian Edwards and Casey Quinlan, David Knight Visual
Services, Bob Cochran, Beverly Massegee, Lamar Waldron
and George DiCaprio, Last Hurrah Book Store, Jim Douglass, Lightning Source, PPG AV, The Adolphus, Kinko’s
Grapevine, Ignite Imaging
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And a heartfelt thank you goes out to
JFK Lancer’s own Debra Conway for
all her years of service to the JFK research community.
Your hard work and diligence has made a
significant impact and will leave a legacy
for all the generations to come. As your
staff, your colleagues, and your friends, we
are exceedingly grateful.
schedule & info
Beckley
Rooming House
1026 N. Beckley Ave, Dallas, Texas
Amon
Carter museum
3501 Camp Bowie Blvd, Fort Worth, TX
Owner Patricia Puckett Hall inherited the property from
her grandmother, Gladys Johnson, who was the owner of
the house during Oswald’s time there. The 1930’s-era home
served as a rooming house, where Lee Harvey Oswald was
rooming when he was found as a suspect for the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Oswald came back to
this house immediately after the assassination. The 1991
American Political Thriller JFK directed by Oliver Stone was
filmed here. The house was Oswald’s residence from October 14 – November 22, 1963 (Day of assassination). He paid
$8 per week for sleeping quarters, living room and refrigerator privileges.
There is an art exhibit at the Amon Carter
Museum in Fort Worth called Hotel Texas
about the private art exhibit for JFK and
Mrs. Kennedy in their hotel room in Fort
Worth the night before he went to Dallas.
Tours of this exhibition take place Thursday through Sunday at 3:30 p.m. and begin at the exhibition
entrance on the second floor. No reservations are required;
admission is free. This exhibit will be on view until January
12, 2014.
www.CarterMuseum.org
Tours are available by appointment. Call 469-261-7806.
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schedule & info
Adolphus Hotel
focus group
room
The Author Tables, Cash
Bar, and the Buffet will all
be set up in the Century
Room Foyer.
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retail room
main room
Drained? There is a charging station located in the
Retail Room for your cell
phone, laptop or tablet.
The featured speakers
and our Awards Banquet
will be held in our Main
Room. Focus groups are in
the room next to the Retail
Room.
special guests
Special guests
Bob Cochran
Invocation Presenter
Cochran has been an avid JFK enthusiast all of his life. An
unusual turn of events put Bob in New Orleans, Louisiana
during the JFK assassination and witnessed firsthand the
hate for JFK prevalent in that City. Bob also lived in New Orleans in the 1970’s where he attended Warren Eastin Senior
High School that was the same school Lee Harvey Oswald
attended. He is now a collector of JFK and conspiracy oriented items, especially first-hand items of JFK, Jack Ruby,
and Lee Harvey Oswald.
James Douglas
Author of JFK And The Unspeakable
JFK Lancer is proud to host Author James Douglass for a
special Book Signing of his book “JFK And The Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters.” The signing will be
at the Adolphus Hotel on Thursday, Nov 21 from 10:00am
– 12:00pm at our “November In Dallas” Conference. We will
have limited copies of the book for sale to benefit “The Last
Hurrah Book Store”. You are welcome to bring your personal copy for the signing.
Kathleen “Kerry” McCarthy
Kennedy’s Cousin, Author
Kathleen Mary McCarthy, named for mother Marylou’s beloved cousin Kathleen (Kick) Kennedy Harrington, is an acknowledged historian of the Kennedy Family lineage. She
is the owner and curator of the Loretta Kennedy Connelly
Collection. She has been a source for most major published
biographies on the Kennedy family. She has appeared in a
myriad of documentaries produced and aired both in America and Europe. Her research has been used for over four decades by the JFK Presidential Library. She is a published author with articles on Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, and has done
research for The New England Genealogical Society. Kerry
is a governmental affairs and public relations consultant.
For over 30 years she has also been a radio and television
host and reporter in Florida. She has attended and spoken at
many JFK Lancer Conferences and joins us again after some
years of absence for the occasion of the 50th Anniversary of
her cousin John F. Kennedy’s death.
Kevin Mccarthy
Kennedy’s Cousin
Kevin M. McCarthy is the grandson of George and Loretta
Kennedy Connelly, son of Matthew and Marylou Connelly
McCarthy, Grand- nephew of Joseph and Rose Fitzgerald
Kennedy. He follows in the footsteps of generations of Kennedy men in his choice of public service. A career member
of America’s National Park Service, for over 27 years he has
served the NPS within the Department of the Interior. He
has served as a federal law enforcement officer, museum curator, fire fighter, researcher, and historical interpreter. Kevin
joins the JFK Lancer Conference for the 1st President John F.
Kennedy. time this year in remembrance of his cousin.
Jefferson Morley
Keynote Speaker at Awards Banquet, journalist
Morley has written about the JFK story for national publications and was awarded the 2009 PEN/Oakland Censorship
Award for his JFK reporting. He is author of Our Man in
Mexico; Winston Scott and the Hidden History of the CIA
(University Press of Kansas, 2008).
Morley is a veteran Washington journalist. He started his
career as an editor at the New Republic. He also served as
Washington correspondent for The Nation and Spin magazine. From 1992 to 2007, he worked at the Washington Post
as an editor in the “Sunday Outlook” section, a reporter
in the Metro section, and as author of the “World Opinion
Roundup” column for washingtonpost.com.
Morley has been published in The Washington Post, New
York Review of Books, The Nation, The New Republic, Slate,
American Prospect, Spin, Rolling Stone, The Los Angeles
Times, Foreign Service Journal, and the New York Observer. Morley’s lastest work, Snow-Storm in August was published by Nan Talese/Doubleday in July 2012.
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speakers
Beverly Oliver
Singer, Performer
We are delighted to have Beverly perform at this year’s conference. She is a wonderful performer. Beverly is a professional singer, professional ventriloquist, public speaker and
lecturer, published author, and former movie actress (Nightmare on Elm Street). Beverly was one of the closest eye witnesses to the assassination of President Kennedy and was
dubbed the “Babushka Lady” by Richard Sprague because
of the triangular head scarf she was wearing at the time.
Beverly was portrayed by actress Lolita Davidovich and
was technical advisor on Oliver Stone’s movie, “JFK”. Beverly worked as a singer at the Colony Club, a nightclub next
door to Jack Ruby’s Carousel Club. She became close friends
with Jack Ruby and is one of the witnesses that puts Ruby
and Lee Oswald together before the murder of the President.
She is married to Charles Massagee and has two daughters.
Speakers
Joe Backes
Speaker
ARRB Investigation and Trial
Joe Backes, the JFK assassination researcher who brought
you the latest news from the JFK Assassination Records Review Board (ARRB), now hopes to bring you the latest JFK,
MLK, and RFK news as the research continues. Many of the
JFK Act document releases were published in JFK Lancer’s
Kennedy Assassination Chronicles magazines. Backes runs
a blog “Justice For Kennedy: A Blog About The JFK Assassination And Other Political Crimes.” (justiceforkennedy.
blogspot.com)
Russ Baker
Speaker, Author, Journalist
Updates from Family of Secrets
Russ Baker is a journalist whose career has been about one
thing: finding out what really happened (or the truth of
what is currently unfolding) and presenting it to the public
in a compelling, entertaining, thoughtful manner. In his re-
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porting and writing he brings the best of mainstream methods (balance and rigor) to the alternative media, and the
best of the alternative media (passion for the truth and the
larger story) to the mainstream. He focuses on getting past
the rhetoric to expose the hidden levers and machinations
that shape our world. Baker’s investigative reporting, analysis pieces, features, and essays on politics, power, and perceptions have appeared in many of the world’s finest publications. His accomplishments include: Receiving Society
of Professional Journalists, Mencken and Common Cause
awards; Serving as a panelist for the national conference of
Investigative Reporters & Editors; Being a member of the
adjunct faculty at Columbia University’s Graduate School of
Journalism; Co-founder of the journalism company, MediaBistro; Author of FAMILY OF SECRETS: The Bush Dynasty,
America’s Invisible Government, and the Hidden History of
the Last Fifty Years; Starting a nonprofit, nonpartisan news
organization called WhoWhatWhy.com.
Rex Bradford
Speaker, Author, Archivist
The 14-Minute Gap: The Early Days of the Cover-up
Rex Bradford is an expert on the assassination of JFK and
is well-known for his prolific work as electronic archivist of
JFK assassination records. Bradford runs the History Matters website and is the President of the Mary Ferrell Foundation, the largest searchable electronic collection of materials
related to the JFK assassination. Within the research community, Bradford is also well known as an expert on Oswald
and Mexico City.
Bradford will present information proving that President
Johnson, J. Edgar Hoover, and possibly other high-level officials knew the truth: the Oswald-Soviet/Cuban connection
based on the Mexico City tapes was in fact false. In 2002,
Bradford discovered a presidential tape erasure of a phone
conversation between President Johnson and FBI Director J.
Edgar Hoover. Johnson’s daily diary notes the Hoover call
which occurred at 10:01 AM on the morning of November
23, 1963, less than 24 hours after the assassination. Oswald
was still alive in a jail cell in Dallas. President Kennedy’s
body was in the Rotunda. The erasure is about 14 minutes in
length. The erased Johnson and Hoover taped conversation
is very different from the Nixon erasure in one spectacular
way - a transcript of the conversation survived the erasure.
Bradford obtained that transcribed conversation and will
provide the details in his NID 2013 presentation.
speakers
Pamela Brown
Speaker, JFK Limo Expert
Midnight Blue to Black: The Vanishing Act of the Presidential Limousine SS100X In Broad Daylight
Pamela Brown is generally acknowledged to be the foremost
authority on the JFK Assassination Presidential Limousine
SS-100-X. JFK Lancer is pleased to announce she will presenting new research at the November in Dallas 2013 Conference. Brown has given several presentations on the famous
limousine, written journal articles in the US and abroad, and
has been in numerous television programs.
In 2004, the SPEED Channel aired an exciting hour-long
documentary devoted entirely to the JFK Presidential Limousine. Her essay SS-100-X” from CAR CRASH CULTURE
(Palgrave/2002) was used as the basis for the assassination
section. She was hired by Discovery as a consultant for the
2008 Discovery Channel program Inside the Target Car special. Her research was used in the program, and her expertise as the limo researcher was acknowledged in the show’s
credits. Visit her site (ss100x.com).
Glenn Bybee
Speaker, Teacher
The Position of the Defense Regarding the Carcano Rifle
Glenn Bybee has been researching and studying the assassination of President Kennedy for over 38 years. He gives
numerous lectures and presentations throughout the year
pertaining to the assassination to various colleges and high
school classes. In 2009, He was the recipient of the JFK Lancer - Mary Ferrell Foundation Teacher of the Year Award in
addition to presenting a speech in Dealey Plaza titled, “Why
the Assassination of President Kennedy is Still Important to
the Educational Curriculum of Today.” He currently resides
with his family in southern California.
Debra Conway
Speaker, JFK Lancer President
Since 1995, Debra has worked as a full-time historical researcher specializing in the assassination of President John
F. Kennedy and related events. As president of JFK Lancer
she also facilitates the distribution of information on the
presidency and assassination of John F. Kennedy.
Conway subscribes to the values of patriotism, excellence,
integrity and dedication to the revealing of truth surrounding the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Her goal
is to make research materials concerning President John F.
Kennedy’s assassination easily available to everyone. Her
prime concern is the accuracy of history and the true story
of the turbulent 1960s.
Jim DiEugenio
Speaker, Author
A Motive for Murder: Kennedy’s Foreign Policy
The HSCA: How Blakey Buried the Case
DiEugenio has piloted CTKA (Citizens for Truth in the Kennedy Assassination) and its website since was it was organized as a result of the April 1993 Chicago Midwest Symposium on Assassination. Along with articles and reviews,
DiEugenio has written two books on the Kennedy assassinations. “Destiny Betrayed” (1992) was the first positive reconsideration of the Jim Garrison investigation in a generation.
“The Assassinations” (2003, co-edited with Lisa Pease) analyzed the murders of RFK, MLK, and Malcolm X, but devoted most its pages to the newly released ARRB documents
in the JFK case. He and Pease also edited the journal “Probe”
(1993-2000) which focused on the releases of the ARRB and
new developments in the King and RFK cases. DiEugenio
has an MA in Contemporary American History from California State University Northridge. He was asked by Oliver
Stone to do a commentary track on the expanded DVD version of his film “JFK”.
Brian Edwards
Speaker, Author, Professor
The 26 Volumes: Making Sense of the Nonsense
Edwards has been studying the JFK assassination since 1969
and has read over 300 books on the subject. He worked as
an officer on the police department’s tactical response team.
He received his Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Criminal Justice from Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas. He
served as an adjunct instructor for the Criminal Justice department, with Washburn University, and taught a variety
of law enforcement-related courses. Edwards has lectured
on the JFK assassination throughout the Midwest, including
the University of Kansas Law School, Washburn University
School of Law, Johnson County Community College, and
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the Alf Landon Lecture Series at Kansas State University. He
has served as an adjunct instructor at Friend’s University in
Wichita, Kansas; Ottawa University in Overland Park, Kansas, and Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas. Edwards
is co-director of Project JFK/CSI Dallas, a student-oriented
historical experience. For the past 20 years, Edwards and
Casey Quinlan have sponsored student trips to Dallas to
study the assassination. Edwards is the co-Author of the
book, “Beyond The Fence Line: The Eyewitness Account of
Ed Hoffman and the Murder of President Kennedy.
Barry Ernest
Speaker, Author
The Search for Victoria Adams
Barry Ernest is speaking on his highly acclaimed book, The
Girl on the Stairs: The Search for a Missing Witness to the
JFK Assassination. With a degree in journalism and communications, Ernest honed his skills as an investigative reporter
and feature writer at newspapers in New York and Pennsylvania. It was a tip from a friend in 1967 that started Mr. Ernest looking for answers to the John Kennedy assassination.
Ernest’s book has been updated, a forward by David Lifton added, and has new cover. The release of this much anticipated book is scheduled for early March. It required 35
years of painstakingly diligent searching to uncover Victoria Adams, a key witness to the JFK assassination, and her
story. Adams was on the staircase of the Texas School Book
Depository at the precise moment that Lee Harvey Oswald,
according to the Warren Commission, was making his escape-yet she saw no one. Badgered by the Commission and
fearing for her life, Adams vanished into obscurity. At long
last, her story has been brought to light and forces us to reconsider one of the most controversial assassinations of the
20th century.
Sherry Fiester
Speaker, Author, Forensic Specialist
Reconstructing the Fatal Headshot
In 1999, Fiester, a Certified Senior Crime Scene Investigator
and Court recognized expert, begin to apply her professional expertise to the Kennedy assassination. By using the same
Bloodstain Pattern Analysis and Trajectory Analysis techniques she’s used in court for over 20 years, Fiester answers
basic questions concerning the Kennedy assassination. The
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result of her research has been several NID presentations
with new information concerning the fatal headshot, while
including blood spatter and trajectory analysis from previous presentations. Fiester has testified as an expert in crime
scene reconstruction and bloodstain pattern analysis in over
30 judicial districts in the states of Louisiana, Mississippi and
Florida. Her publications include “Bloodstain Pattern Identification and Documentation: a Workbook for Analyst,” 1990,
“Blood Evidence; What Does the Blood Tell Us?” JFK Lancer
Publications, 1997; and “Bloodstain Pattern Analysis and the
Kennedy Assassination” The Echo, England, 2002. Her new
book titled, “Enemy of the Truth: Myths, Forensics, and the
Kennedy Assassination” will be available in November of
this year. In 2003, Fiester was presented with the “Mary Ferrell - JFK Lancer New Frontier Award” in appreciation for
her contributions of new evidence and furthering the study
of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Visit her
website. (sherryfiester.com)
Ian Griggs
Speaker, Author
Jack Ruby & the DPD
Griggs’s interest in the Kennedy assassination goes back to
the day it happened and he has been studying it seriously
for the past 37 years. He is a frequent visitor to Dallas and
has presented research papers and moderated panels regularly at the Assassination Symposium on President Kennedy (ASK), the Coalition of Political Assassinations (COPA),
and JFK Lancer’s November In Dallas Conference since
1994. Griggs has published work in “The Fourth Decade”
and “Assassination Chronicles” research publications. He
is very proud to be a founder member and recently elected
Life Member of the UK research group Dealey Plaza UK,
which celebrates its 16th anniversary this year. Griggs’ research articles have been widely published on both sides of
the Big Pond.
He is the proud recipient of a JFK Lancer Editor’s Award
(1995) and a JFK Lancer Frontier Award (1998). His first assassination book, “No Case To Answer” was published by
JFK Lancer in 2005 and is being issued in an updated edition. He is also at work on a definitive work describing the
Dallas Police Department.
speakers
Larry Hancock
Speaker, Author, JFK Lancer Chairman
Hancock is a leading historian-researcher in the JFK assassination. In 2000, Hancock received the prestigious “Mary
Ferrell New Frontier Award” for the contribution of new evidence in the Kennedy assassination case. In 2001, he was also
awarded the “Mary Ferrell Legacy Award. He co-authored,
with Connie Kritzberg, “November Patriots” and is author
of the acclaimed “Someone Would Have Talked”, now in its
third, 2010 edition. Larry has a new book “NEXUS: Political
Assassinations and the CIA” that includes new information
and analysis on “The CIA and Extreme Deniability”, “The
Culture of the Agency”, and “Spy Games in Mexico City”.
Hancock describes his book saying in essence that this work
deals with “what happened” rather than “how could something like that happen?” How can you take a position that
CIA officers were involved and yet maintain that it was not
an act of the Agency as a whole? The only way to respond
to that question is to engage in a historical study of how political assassination evolved within the Central Intelligence
Agency. Hancock has also published a study of the RFK
assassination, “Incomplete Justice” and along with Stuart
Wexler, co-authored the publication of their new work on
the MLK assassination “The Awful Grace of God” in the
spring of 2011. (LarryHancock.wordpress.com)
Brent Holland
Speaker, Author
Ted Sorensen~ The Man Who Saved The World...Really
Abraham Bolden & Chicago
Brent Holland has two broadcast shows focused on students
of all ages. Both are volunteer shows and put on by a staff
of one with no funding or budget. The Brent Holland Show
presents interviews with international and national legends
such as Nobel Peace Prize recipients and Heads of State. Included in that list of notables is Ted Sorensen who wrote
JFK’s Nuclear Test Ban Treaty speech.
A holocaust was far too real in Oct 1962 when it was discovered the Soviets had placed offensive nuclear weapons
in Cuba. There were missiles that would only take five minutes to reach Washington. JFK handed Ted the future of the
human race that night when he told him to draft a letter to
Soviet premier Khrushchev in a last ditch attempt to resolve
the crisis. Sorensen reveals to Holland many intimate details
concerning this historic time, among others. Holland brings
to the JFK Lancer November in Dallas Conference a unique
opportunity for us gain insight into one of the great men of
our nation.
Scott Kaiser
Speaker, Author
Cuban-Exile Connections to the JFK Assassination
Scott Kaiser will speak on the contents of his new book,
available April 18, 2014. It is truly a labor of love, telling the
riveting story of his father, Edwin Kaiser, and his encounters with Cuba, Watergate and the JFK assassination. Edwin
Benjamin Kaiser was a thrill-seeking patriot who became
enmeshed with many of America’s biggest conspiracies.
Through handwritten letters and contact book entries left by
Edwin Kaiser, and a bevy of discovered government documents, an exciting puzzle forms around the life of a man
who was at once a patriot, an arms smuggler, a revolutionary leader, an assassin, and a husband and father. In the
1970s Edwin was the military head of an anti-Castro movement called Cubanos Unidos, and during his life he was frequently in contact with Frank Sturgis—during which time
Edwin confessed to the author an assassination plot against
President Nixon and confirmed Sturgis’ role in the death of
JFK. This thrilling mix of paramilitary bravado, government
conspiracy, family history, and firsthand anecdote shows
how Edwin Kaiser was willing to lay it all on the line to accomplish what he thought was right.
Presented at the conference will be taped conversations with
certain individuals in Miami, some never before scene documents from the FBI, CIA and Howard S. Libengood papers,
photos, and the full, original little black book in its present
condition, including all the contact entries of his father’s associates, (which tells a story in itself). This will be the first
time ever that the phone book will be shown, in it’s original
condition, at any public event. Visit his website. (edwinthebook.com)
Russell Kent
Speaker, Author
Classical Mistakes in the Medicolegal Autopsy of JFK
Russell Kent has a Bachelor of Science degree in Physiology from the University of London. After graduating in
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1983, Russell did two years medical research at St. Thomas’
Hospital, London in the Department of Applied Physiology
sponsored by the Department of Anaesthetics and the British Heart Foundation. He is a founder member of Dealey
Plaza UK and has published papers in The Assassination
Chronicles and The Dealey Plaza Echo. He last presented
at JFK Lancer in 1998 and is the author of three chapters in
“JFK – Echoes from Elm Street”.
William Law
Speaker, Author, Medical Evidence Specialist
Special Guest Jim Jenkins
William Law is the author of the book, “In the Eye of History,” (new edition, November 2013) that explores the medical evidence through new witness interviews. He is also
currently working new projects, one with Mark Sobel to
produce a documentary on the assassination of Robert Kennedy. Law’s interest in the Kennedy assassination began in
1975 with the showing of Abraham Zapruder’s 26-second
home movie of the event on Geraldo Rivera’s Goodnight
America program. Later, after reading David Lifton’s book
Best Evidence, Law began researching Kennedy’s murder.
Results of that research have appeared in the books November Patriots by Constance Kritzberg and Larry Hancock,
JFK: The Medical Evidence Reference by Vincent Palamara,
Murder In Dealey Plaza edited by James Fetzer, and Paris
Flammonde’s forthcoming opus An Encyclopedic Narrative
and Historical and Personal Perspective on The Kennedy
Coup d’État. Law has written for the research periodicals
the Kennedy Assassination Chronicles and the Dealey Plaza
Echo, is producer of the forthcoming DVD The Gathering,
and currently serves as a consultant to film director Brian
McKenna for his documentary Killing Kennedy.
Brian Litman
Speaker, Author, KGB Specialist
Tourist Non Grata: The Soviet Experience of Oswald (and
Who the KGB Chairman Really Thought Did It)
Specialist Brian Litman was invited to the Soviet Union to
assist major Soviet media firms in their “perestroika” towards commercial self-support in November 1990. Litman’s
cross-media pedigree included CBS, Hearst/ABC/NBC
Networks, Time, Inc. and Disney. By 1991, Litman had “penetrated” the power elite of Soviet media - Pravda, Soviet
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Central TV and Moskovski Novosti. In 1992, Litman made a
bold overture to the KGB that he develop books, television
and lecture series based on the archives and principals of the
Cold War – to benefit the Veterans.
Within a month of meeting five KGB Generals at “Moscow
Centre”, Litman executed an unprecedented agreement to
represent 500 KGB veterans. Given that it was one year before the 30th anniversary of the assassination of JFK, Litman
asked to meet the KGB officers of the Soviet Embassy who
dealt with Lee Harvey Oswald during the latter’s mysterious Mexico City trip in September 1963. They included the
enigmatic Valery Kostikov – Oswald’s “Comrade Kostin”
per the “Warren Report”. Semichastny told Litman privately who KGB identified as Kennedy’s assassin to Soviet Premier Khrushchev. For 20 years, Litman never disclosed the
contents of these meetings nor other extraordinary details
of the Soviet experience of Oswald. Given the event’s 50th
Anniversary, Litman has decided to “finally exorcise myself
of these demons and let the research community do what it
may”. Litman is the Principal of General Alchemy investments and CEO of digital audio firm PlayMedia. He is writing a memoir entitled “The Spies Who Loved Me (or How I
Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the KGB)”.
Dr. David Mantik
Speaker, Author
Bethesda Autopsy
Mantik earned a PhD in physics (1967), did a postdoctoral
fellowship in biophysics at Stanford, and then joined the
physics faculty at Michigan. He graduated from the UM
Medical School (1976). After medical school, he continued
his post-graduate education at USC. After board certification he joined the medical faculty at Loma Linda and supervised the residency training program. In 1983 he moved to
Eisenhower Medical Center, where he served for 15 years,
eventually as medical director of radiation oncology (at the
original Peter Lake Center). For the next 8 years he returned
to Loma Linda, often using the proton beam for cancers of
the head and neck and the prostate. After the second Peter
Lake Center opened (2005), he was delighted to resume
practicing in the desert, where he has lived since 1983.
During nine visits to the National Archives, he has viewed
(and performed many measurements on) the JFK autopsy
X-rays, the autopsy photographs, JFK’s clothing and the ballistic evidence. This data has been published in four books.
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Jim Marrs
Speaker, Author
Conspiracy
Since 1980, Marrs has been a free-lance writer, author and
public relations consultant. In 2007, Marrs retired from
the University of Texas at Arlington where he had taught
a course on the Kennedy assassination since 1976. 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.
Crossfire: The Plot That Killed Kennedy, became the basis
for the Oliver Stone film, JFK, where Marrs served as a chief
consultant for both the film’s screenplay and production.
An award-winning journalist, Marrs is listed both in Who’s
Who in the World and Who’s Who in America. Marrs has
won several writing and photography awards including the
Aviation Aerospace Writer’s Association’s National Writing
Award and Newsmaker of the Year Award from the Fort
Worth Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. In
1993, Marrs received Freedom Magazine’s Human Rights
Leadership Award. Marrs has appeared on numerous national and regional radio and TV shows. 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. Visit his website. (jimmarrs.com)
Joan Mellen
Speaker, Author
On The Nature of Evidence In The Kennedy Assassination
Mellen’s book, The Great Game in Cuba, uses the backdrop
of the Cuban Revolution to examine the CIA’s inner workings during the fifties and sixties. Detailing the agency’s lies
and deceits, Mellen paints a vivid behind-the-scenes picture of the CIA in Cuba after the Castro revolution: what
it wanted and the lengths it was willing to go to paralyze
the opposition to Fidel Castro. The game begins with Robert J. Kleberg, Jr., proprietor of the legendary King Ranch.
Kleberg’s messianic ambitions bring him to Cuba, where
he establishes a satellite ranch managed by his right-hand
man, the James Bond-type character Michael J. P. Malone,
who secretly reported to both the FBI and to at least five CIA
handlers. An array of Cubans share never-before-revealed
information regarding the agency’s activities in Cuba and its
attempts to unseat Castro and install a CIA-friendly figure-
head in his place. The mysterious disappearance of Camilo
Cienfuegos, a major figure in Castro’s government, is told
here for the first time. The agency’s shady dealings with a
major U.S. publication are uncovered.
Casey Quinlan
Speaker, Author, Teacher
The Edge of Apocalypse: Cold War, Cold Warriors, Cold
Blooded Murder
Quinlan has been a high school American History and Government teacher for the past 36 years. He served in the United States Army with the 9th Infantry as a Medical Corpsman
during the Vietnam War and has a Bachelor of Science in
Social Studies and a Master’s Degree in American History
from Emporia State University, located in Emporia, Kansas.
He is the director of “Project JFK”, a student-oriented educational experience designed for high school, college and
adults exploring the murder of President Kennedy. Casey
has been the featured lecturer at many universities throughout the Midwest. He was named “Outstand Educator” in
1994 and in 2008 by JFK Lancer. From 1995 to 2006, Quinlan
was an adjunct instructor in Kansas. Quinlan continues his
teaching profession as a middle and high school level instructor in Kansas. He has been studying the assassination
of President Kennedy for over 45 years and has read over
1000 books. In 1991, Quinlan was a Guest Historian for the
A&E Network and the History Channel for Oliver Stone’s
film, “JFK”. In 2007, Quinlan presented “Beyond the Fence
Line: The Ed Hoffman Story” (published by JFK Lancer).
This publication continues to be a best seller. He has been
a featured lecturer at the JFK Lancer Conference since 2007.
He and Brian Edwards received the JFK Lancer 2011 “New
Frontier Award” for their continued efforts to write and inform students of the truth behind the murder of JFK.
Ben Rogers
Speaker, Library Director
What’s new at the Paoge Library
Ben Rogers is Director of W. R. Poage Legislative Library, a
research facility that houses congressional records and personal papers related to political history. The Library’s current exhibit is John F. Kennedy: His Life – His Presidency
– His Legacy. The library began its JFK Assassination Research Collection in 2004 with the papers of Penn Jones, Jr.
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The W. R. Poage Legislative Library now hosts papers from
not only Penn Jones, but also Mary Ferrell, Jack White, John
Armstrong, Gary Shaw, John Kelin, Roy Schaeffer, Paul
Hoch, Dick Russell, Gus Russo and others. The library is
currently processing the JFK collections of Mary Ferrell, R
B Cutler, Gus Russo, Dick, Russell, Theresa Seay and John
Nichols. The Library’s collection includes extensive magazines, newspapers and newsletters related to research since
1963. Most materials are listed online and are open to researchers. (www.baylor.edu/lib/poage)
Dick Russell
Speaker, Author, Activist
Richard Case Nagell
Dick Russell has published several books including The
Man Who knew Too Much (Carroll & Graf, 1992). It was
hailed by Publisher’s Weekly as “a masterpiece of historical
reconstruction” focusing on the Kennedy assassination. In
2008, “On the Trail of the JFK Assassins,” Russell released
a second book examining the conspiracy behind what happened to President Kennedy.
For most of the past 20 years, the primary focus of Dick Russell’s magazine writing and personal activism has been the
environment. He has published two other widely-acclaimed
books. Black Genius: And the American Experience(Carroll
& Graf, 1998) is a path-breaking study of African-American
artists, writers, musicians, educators, and scientists, past
and present, including a new chapter about Barack Obama.
In earlier “incarnations,” Russell was a staff writer in the
Hollywood Bureau of TV Guide Magazine (1977-79), and a
staff reporter for Sports Illustrated (1969-70) in New York.
His freelance articles have appeared in numerous publications, from Family Health to theVillage Voice. He has been
a guest on many national TV and radio programs, including the Joan Rivers Show and NBC Nightly News, and has
been a guest lecturer at universities including Harvard and
the University of California, at the National Arts Club, and
elsewhere.
Mark Shaw
Speaker, Author, TV Personality
Connecting Jack Ruby and Melvin Belli to Joseph Kennedy:
A Fresh Perspective of the JFK Assassination
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Mark Shaw, former network TV personality and legal analyst
for USA Today, ESPN and other networks, authored more
than 20 books. His latest, The Poison Patriarch: How the Betrayals of Joseph P. Kennedy Caused the Assassination of
JFK, is to be released later this year. The only authorized biographer of Jack Ruby’s attorney Melvin Belli, Shaw’s books
include biographies of Jonathan Pollard, Thomas Merton,
Mike Tyson and former Hitler Youth Leader Ursula Martens.
The Poison Patriarch (available for preorder) connects those
who caused the JFK and Lee Harvey Oswald assassinations
to occur, as well identifies those who participated in the cover-up. The explanation for how and why they were assassinated is revealed by focusing on the actions of Melvin Belli,
Jack Ruby’s attorney. The book presents more than 40 eyewitnesses to history never before presented in any investigation or publication, as well as multiple previously ignored
FBI files. Based on seven years of research, Shaw, the only
authorized biographer of Melvin Belli (Melvin Belli: King of
the Courtroom, 2007) focuses on Belli’s actions during the
few years prior to the assassinations. (markshawbooks.com)
Bill Simpich
Speaker, Lawyer
Oswald Impersonation
Simpich is a civil rights attorney and an antiwar activist in
the San Francisco Bay Area. The main areas of his law practice are government misconduct and toxic tort violations. He
also writes for publications such as Truthout, Counterpunch
and OpedNews. He considers the assassination cases to be a
poorly understood area of civil rights violations. To preserve
cold cases, he is preparing a proposed JFK Preservation of
Evidence Act that would be applicable in both of these areas
of the law and administered by a citizen panel similar to the
ARRB. His study of the JFK case focuses on the documentary evidence, rather than firearms, acoustics, and other forensic evidence. His current focus is on Mexico City and the
counterintelligence aspects of the JFK case.
Patrick Speer
Speaker, Author
The JFK Back Wound: Anatomy of a Lie
In 2003, Patrick Speer began studying the assassination of
President John F. Kennedy full-time. He continues studying and writing about the case, part-time. In 2004, and then
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again in 2005, Speer presented his findings on the medical
evidence at the November in Dallas Conference. In 2007, The
Mysterious Death of Number 35, a 4-part video series written by and featuring Speer, debuted on Youtube. In part 1 of
this series, Speer demonstrated that Dr. Michael Baden, the
spokesman for the House Select Committee on Assassinations’ Forensic Pathology Panel (the last government panel
to study the Kennedy assassination medical evidence), was
confused by the evidence and testified with a key autopsy
photo upside down. It is Speer’s contention that Baden was
confused because the medical evidence, as interpreted by
his panel, made little sense, and was at odds with articles
and textbooks written by the very members of his panel.
On his website (patspeer.com), Speer discusses a number of
aspects beyond the medical evidence. Among the topics of
discussion are the eyewitness evidence, the paraffin cast of
Oswald’s cheek, and the paper bag purportedly used by Oswald to transport his rifle into the building. Speer made an
appearance at the 2009 COPA Conference in Dallas, and was
the recipient of the JFK Lancer--Mary Ferrell New Frontier
Award in 2012.
Russ Tarby
Speaker, Author, Journalist
Tammi True Remembers Jack Ruby
An award-winning newspaperman from Upstate New York,
Russ Tarby began researching Jack Ruby after conducting a
1996 interview with Peter Dale Scott titled “Sex, Drugs and
JFK: Tracing underworld connections to the 1963 assassination.” Now a columnist for Eagle Newspapers in Syracuse,
N.Y., Tarby’s articles have been published over the years by
the Dallas Observer, Buffalo Beat, Albany Metroland, the
Ithaca Times and The Post-Standard in Syracuse. Several
of his essays on the JFK murder appeared on John Kelin’s
Fair Play website. Tarby has interviewed several Ruby associates, including:Tony Zoppi, Jewel Brown, Ronnie Dugger, Madeleine Duncan Brown, and more recently Nancy
“Tammi True” Myers.
Tarby will be interviewing former Carousel Club dancer
Tammi True, now known as Nancy Myers, about her work
as a dancer at Jack Ruby’s Carousel Club from 1961-1963.
Tammi shares her observations about Jack’s character and
personality and her opinion about his murder of Lee Oswald. Presentation will include photographs of Tammi with
Jack, other Carousel entertainers, Tammi onstage in the
1960s and a video clip from her new film, True Tales.
Ed Tatro
Speaker, Author
Intriguing Suspects
Tatro taught college and adult education courses for 30
years specializing in the JFK assassination. He is the author
of many research articles pertaining to the JFK assassination conspiracy published in Jerry Rose’s The Third Decade,
Penn Jones’s The Continuing Inquiry, and Ireland’s The JFK
Assassination Forum. He has been acknowledged in many
JFK assassination books including Destiny Betrayed by Jim
DiEugenio, The Kennedys: Dynasty and Disaster by John H.
Davis, Killing Kennedy by Harrison Livingstone, JFK; The
book of the film by Oliver Stone and Zachary Sklar; and JFK
and the Unspeakable by Jim Douglass. He is the original
editor of Texas in the Morning, the memoirs of LBJ’s mistress, Madeleine Duncan Brown. He contributed research
to Senator Sam Ervin’s Watergate investigative committee,
the House Select Committee on Assassinations and the National Academy of Sciences (JFK acoustical analysis project).
He testified before the Assassination Records Review Board,
March, 1995, in Boston, Massachusetts. He is responsible,
via the ARRB, of the release of the unidentified print found
on a box in the alleged sniper’s nest in the Texas School Book
Depository (CE 1301). He was also responsible, via the LBJ
Library, of the release of the rough drafts of NSAM #273. He
was a consultant on The Men Who Killed Kennedy series.
Donald Thomas
Speaker, Author, Scientist
Cross-Talk: the Acoustical Record of Gunfire in the JFK Assassination
Don Thomas is a scientist with the U.S. federal government.
He received his doctorate from the School of Agriculture at
the University of Missouri and has held post-doctoral appointments at the University of Arizona and the University
of Nebraska. He is currently President of the Coleopterists
Society and a subject editor for the Annals of the Entomological Society of America. He has authored or co-authored
more than 100 scientific publications, including books and
book chapters in the field of entomology. Dr. Thomas garnered international attention in 2001 for an article published
in the British forensic journal Science & Justice entitled,
“Acoustical Evidence in the Kennedy Assassination Revisited.”
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In his book, Hear No Evil, Thomas explains the acoustics evidence in detail, placing it in the context of an analysis of all
the scientific evidence in the Kennedy assassination. Revering no sacred cows, he demolishes myths promulgated by
both Warren Commission adherents and conspiracy advocates, and presents a novel and compelling re-interpretation
of the “single bullet theory.” More than a scientific tome,
Hear No Evil is a searing indictment of the government’s
hand-picked experts, who failed the public trust to be fair
and impartial arbiters of the evidence.
Josiah Thompson
Speaker, Author
Investigation and Trial
Josiah “Tink” Thompson received his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1964. For the next twelve years he taught philosophy at Yale and Haverford College. In 1976, he resigned
his full professorship at Haverford and took up work as a
private investigator in San Francisco. In 1979, he opened his
own agency specializing in criminal defense. In a 35-year
career, Thompson has investigated numerous high-profile
murder cases, including work for the Symbionese Liberation
Army defendants in a bank robbery/murder in Carmichael,
California and for Timothy McVeigh in the Oklahoma City
bombing. He has written two books on the Danish thinker,
Soren Kierkegaard, and a memoir of his jump from professor to detective, Gumshoe (1988). Thompson is best known
for his enormously influential 1967 book Six Seconds in Dallas: A Micro-Study of the Kennedy Assassination. Thompson’s book is a classic reference work and was used by the
House Select Committee on Assassinations. Out of print and
much coveted by researchers and collectors, Six Seconds in
Dallas offered plausible alternatives to the Warren Commission scenario for early researchers. A blueprint for a comprehensive investigation and scientific analysis of a murder, it
focuses on the six seconds between the first and last shots
that murdered President Kennedy.
Stuart Wexler
Speaker, JFK Lancer Co-Chair, Ballistics Specialist
Harold Wiseberg Leads
Wexler is a teacher of World History, AP Government at
Hightstown High School, Hightstown, NJ. He has been a
JFK assassination researcher for about fifteen years where he
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has focused on the issues connected to the chemical analysis of the ballistics material since 2000. Wexler has spoken
on the subject at JFK Lancer’s NID twice, at the Wecht conference in 2003, and at the AARC conference in 2004, three
of those times opposite Dr. Kenneth Rahn, NAA advocate,
from the University of Rhode Island. Wexler has collaborated with chemist Tom Pinkston since approximately 2000 on
the same subject matter. Wexler’s other Kennedy interests
focus on Oswald, his background and associates leading
up to November 22nd. His book, The Awful Grace of God,
co-authored with Larry Hancock, on the MLK assassination
will be in print in spring, 2011.
Rollie Zavada
Speaker, Film Specialist
The Zapruder Film
Rollie Zavada retired as a Standards Director for Imaging
Technologies from Eastman Kodak in March 1990. His background includes product engineer development responsibilities to introduce KODACHROME II films, Chairman of the
Society of Motion Picture and television Engineers (SMPTE)
16&8 Standards Committee during the transition from 16
to 18 fps velocity for silent movie films and four terms as
SMPTE Engineering Vice President. A Fellow of four technical societies, Mr. Zavada received many awards for his technical achievements including being elected as a life member
of the Foundation of Motion Picture Pioneers Inc. Author of
the Kodak report to the ARRB.
Visit our retail room
Many of the authors listed here have their books
available in the Retail Room.
This weekend only
every book is 20 percent off
Don’t forget to get your favorite author to sign your
copy of their book. Check the schedule to see when
the author tables will be set up in the main hall.
award winners
Pioneer Award
In
appreciation for your lifetime of searching for
the truth in the study of the assassination of
dent John
F. Kennedy
Presi-
Jerry Policoff, Activism, Independent researcher and journalist, Lancaster, PA; Executive Dir., Assassination Archives
& Research Center
Legacy Awards
In
appreciation for your permanent additions to
the record of the assassination of
F. Kennedy
President John
William Law, Bethesda Witnesses, Alan Rogers, Larry Haapanen
New Frontier Awards
In
appreciation for your contribution of new evi-
dence and furthering the study of the assassination of
President John F. Kennedy
Pamela M. Brown, Limousine studies
Bill Kelly, JFK Act Releases
Courage
Award
The Bethesda Witnesses:
Dennis David, Jim Jenkins, Paul O’Connor, Jim Sibert
2013 JFK Lancer
Mary Ferrell
Award Winners
Teachers
of the Year
Michael Dillerba & Ed Smith
Michael and Ed developed a 24-day historical investigation
lesson that required 10th grade students to explore, examine, and critically question The Warren Report on the JFK
assassination. The lesson was a culminating activity meant
to demonstrate a student’s ability to think like a historian,
which they had artfully woven into curriculum throughout
the year. In this activity, students took the persona of the
grand jury analyzing evidence sited in The Warren Commission, and were charged with the task of determining who
ultimately shot JFK. The teachers are working towards a
District-wide program being introduced in each high school.
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Build your own media collection
We would love the opportunity to help you build a media
collection that would best suit your needs. JFK Lancer has
hundreds of DVD’s and CD’s full of helpful information.
Come visit the Retail Room, and we can put together a collection featuring:
Presentations by your favorite speaker
Conference speaches from a certain year
Specific research topics you’re studying
With so much great information available, we know there
is a collection that’s perfect for you. You can use the order
form in your registration packet as a guide for choosing
your collection.
Kennedy
assassination
chronicles
Document and Research
Collections on Disk
These digital archives contain
high-quality scanned documents,
and where possible, are fully
searchable. Also included are
document summaries, articles by
experts on the topic and weblinks
for even further information.
previous
conferences on dvd
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JFKLancer.com
On our site, you will
find a world of incredible resources
to help you in your
studies. Our newest
additions
include
The JFK Curator, a
collection of the finest resources we’ve
found on the web.
Scouring through
dozens of sites can
be daunting. Finding reliable information can be even harder. The JFK Curator is designed to
do the searching for you.
Another new addition is our Conversations with Alan
Dale. Dale has conducted
interviews
with some of the leading experts in the assassination evidence
studies. These conversations showcase
the incredible insights
these researchers have
to offer us in our journey of understanding.
Robert Chapman Collection
This weekend, you have the rare
opportunity to purchase collectables from the Robert Chapman
collection. He was an avid collector of memorabilia such as
signed first edition books, photographs and much more. Make
sure you stop by the Retail Room
and take a look.
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in the eye of history
Disclosures in the JFK
Assassination Medical
Evidence
By William Law
In his updated book,
William
Matson
Law set out on a personal quest to better
understand the circumstances underpinning
the assassination of John
F. Kennedy. His investigation began with a key
component of the events
of November 22, 1963 and
the days that followed: the autopsy on the president’s body
at the National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland.
He contacted those who were involved with Bethesda in
various aspects of the aftermath of the assassination; In the
Eye of History: Disclosures in the JFK Assassination Medical Evidence comprises conversations with individuals who
agreed to talk:
Dennis David, Paul O’Connor, James Jenkins, Jerrol Custer,
Saundra Spencer, Ex-FBI Special Agents James Sibert and
Frances O’Neill, Harold Rydberg, The “White House” Witness, Colin McSween, Doug Horne (new), Dr. Ronald Jones
and Dr. Robert McClelland
Law allows these witnesses to tell it as they remember it
without attempting to fit any pro- or anti-conspiracy agenda. The reader is the judge of these eyewitness accounts
and their implications. There are new forewords by Noel
Twyman, Author “Bloody Treason” and Tom Pearcy, US
State Department Historian.
Publisher: JFK Lancer Publishing (2013)
Available for pre-order
JFK Assassination
From The Oval Office
To Dealey Plaza
By Brent Holland
In his new book,
Radio Host Brent
Holland held the
last interview with
Theodore “Ted” Sorenson,
President
Kennedy’s trusted advisor,
speechwriter, and friend,
shortly before Sorenson
died in 2010. Sorenson’s interview is insightful, with
a no-holds-barred sense of
urgency to share his insider knowledge in what turned out
to be his last interview.
“Considering the number of enemies that he had, in the
military and intelligence circles in the United States, Lord
knows they had reasons to get rid of him.”
Host and author Holland shares not only his intuitive interviews but gives the reader a mixture of prose and astute
commentary with every chapter. Holland goes head-to-head
with major players in the Kennedy assassination research
circles, Mark Lane, Lee Oswald’s only legal representative,
James DiEugenio, and includes high impact, first-person
witness accounts such as Dr. Robert McClelland, a Parkland
Hospital doctor who tried to save JFK’s life, Dealey Plaza
witnesses, James Tague and Beverly Oliver Massegee, and
Abraham Bolden, the first African-American Secret Service
Agent hand-picked by JFK.
Publisher: JFK Lancer Publishing (2013)
Available for pre-order
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Shadow Warfare
By Larry Hancock
With Stuart Wexler
Contrary to its contemporary
image,
deniable
covert
operations are not
something
new.
Such activities have
been ordered by
every president and every administration since
the Second World War.
In many instances covert
operations have relied on
surrogates, with American
personnel involved only at a distance, insulated by layers of
deniability.
Shadow Warfare traces the evolution of these covert operations, detailing the tactics and tools used from the Truman
era through those of the contemporary Obama Administrations. It also explores the personalities and careers of many of
the most noted shadow warriors of the past sixty years, tracing the decade-long relationship between the CIA and the
military. Shadow Warfare presents a balanced, non-polemic
exploration of American secret warfare, detailing its patterns, consequences and collateral damage and presenting
its successes as well as failures. Shadow Wars explores why
every president from Franklin Roosevelt on, felt compelled
to turn to secret, deniable military action. It also delves into
the political dynamic of the president’s relationship with
Congress and the fact that despite decades of combat, the
U.S. Congress has chosen not to exercise its responsibility to
declare a single state of war - even for extended and highly
visible combat.
Publisher: Counterpoint (March 18, 2014)
Available for pre-order
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Enemy of the Truth
Myths, Forensics and
the Kennedy Assassination
By Sherry Fiester
In “Enemy of the Truth”
Fiester utilizes various forensic disciplines to dispel
assassination mythologies:
including
simultaneous headshots, where the
shooter for the fatal head
shot was located, if the limousine stopped and more.
No matter how credible unsubstantiated claims may appear
at first glance, unless proven correct, they are still myths.
While mysterious and convoluted claims concerning the
Kennedy assassination may capture attention, the need for
authentication cannot be allowed to fall by the wayside.
Otherwise, the melodramatic and exaggerated message of
the myth becomes the focus rather than forensically proven
truths.
In 1999, Fiester, a Certified Senior Crime Scene Investigator
and Court recognized expert, begin to apply her professional expertise to the Kennedy assassination. By using the same
Bloodstain Pattern Analysis and Trajectory Analysis techniques she’s used in court for over 20 years, Fiester answers
basic questions concerning the Kennedy assassination. Fiester has testified as an expert in crime scene reconstruction
and bloodstain pattern analysis in over 30 judicial districts
in the states of Louisiana, Mississippi and Florida.
Publisher: JFK Lancer Publishing (2012)
Available now at the retail tables or on the website
resources
Nexus
The CIA and Political
Assassination
By Larry Hancock
Hancock describes his
book saying in essence that
this work deals with “what
happened” rather than
“how could something like
that happen?”
How can you take a position that CIA officers were
involved and yet maintain
that it was not an act of the
Agency as a whole? The
only way to respond to that question is to engage in a historical study of how political assassination evolved within
the Central Intelligence Agency. How did it start; how was it
conducted; how will you recognize it when you see it; who
gave the orders? And perhaps most importantly, who were
the people actually involved in such actions?
While many of those questions were quite mysterious for
a considerable time, much detailed research is now available, including that of various Congressional investigations
of the 1970’s, as well as a host of actual documents on the
subject of Agency political assassination. Only in the last decade have biographies and oral histories on some of the key
Agency personnel allowed us deeper insights into internal
social networks. These are the things that never showed up
in memos, and often were never sanctioned as a designated
project. That meant waiving normal agency internal security
procedures and virtually all oversight. In other words, the
way such things were done made them extremely deniable.
Publisher: JFK Lancer Publishing (2011)
Available now at the retail tables or on the website
no case to answer
A Retired English Detective’s Essays and
Articles on the JFK
Assassination
By Ian Griggs
Griggs has been involved
in the JFK assassination
research
-concentrating
on eyewitness interviews
- since 1970. As a former
police officer in England
for 23 years, his main interest in the John F. Kennedy assassination case
has revolved around the
Dallas Police Department, the Texas School Book Depository
sixth floor crime scene, the alleged assassination rifle and
the manner of Oswald’s identity line-ups were conducted.
Seven new chapters and new photos include information on
who found the rifle on the sixth floor, claims that the limousine driver shot the president and new witness interviews.
These specialized aspects of the case are comprehensively
covered in this book.
“No Case To Answer is a major advance in dealing with
two of the chief “monsters” of the Kennedy assassination.
Ian Griggs’ research enumerates a variety of long-standing
myths in regard to events, evidence and people, resolving
numerous issues in a clear and concise manner. Beyond that,
however, Ian’s professional experience surfaces and he exposes many of the key issues of evidence as well as methods
which should have been addressed decades ago as part of
a real criminal investigation of the assassination.” - Larry
Hancock
Publisher: JFK Lancer Publishing (2010)
Available now at the retail tables or on the website
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Someone would
have talked
The CIA and Political
Assassination
By Larry Hancock
Someone Would Have
Talked was written to demonstrate with available information, the cover-up,
the leaks, Lee Oswald,
Jack Ruby and the people
that did talk, providing a
cohesive and coherent explanation of events. And in
doing so this book gives the reader an introduction to the
history of the secret war against Castro and against Communism during the 1960s, an introduction that is vital to an
appreciation of the individuals, and their motivations.
The book deals with specific people who talked about their
personal knowledge of a conspiracy in the murder of a President. These individuals include four men associated with
the CIA’s JM WAVE station in Miami Florida. Two of them
were senior CIA officers, one a veteran of three years of Castro assassination projects and the other a three year prisoner
of Castro - and an organizer and participant, along with a
former U.S. Ambassador, in one of the most potentially explosive Cuban penetration missions ever conducted.
The initial investigation of President Kennedy’s assassination was hamstrung by a consistent pattern of damage control and evidence management. Actions personally orchestrated by President Johnson prevented a true open-ended
criminal investigation of leads suggesting conspiracy in the
murder.
Publisher: JFK Lancer Publishing (2010)
Available now at the retail tables or on the website
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at the door of memory
A Witness to History
and the Assassination
of President Kennedy
By Aubrey Rike
While in Trauma Room 1,
Aubrey Rike found himself at the center of an unequaled time in history as
he assumed the impromptu undertaking of providing assistance to First Lady
Jacqueline Kennedy and
President Kennedy. Aubrey shares heartbreaking
moments in time that became forever ingrained in his memory, one that came as an opportunity to offer kindness and
caring to a slain President and his grieving widow. Now, he
has now opened that door of memory and asked us to step
through.
Rike, in 1961, went to work for the O’Neal Funeral Home
& Ambulance Service. While employed with O’Neal’s, Rike
was at Parkland Memorial Hospital when President Kennedy was brought in after being shot by an assassin. He was
the attendant who placed the President’s body into the casket while in Trauma Room 1. Rike led a colorful life, including driving race cars, and performing as a rodeo clown. In
1967, he dedicated his life to public service as a police officer.
He gained experience both as a police officer and fire fighter
while serving with the Highland Park Police Department
for 26 years. On retirement, he went to work for the Dallas County Sheriff’s Department. In total, he devoted thirtyfive years of his life to the law enforcement profession. Rike
passed away on Thursday, April 22, 2010.
Publisher: JFK Lancer Publishing (2008)
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resources
Beyond The Fence Line
The
Eyewitness Account of Ed Hoffman
and the Murder of
President Kennedy
By Casey Quinlan &
Brian Edwards
On November 22, 1963,
President John Kennedy
was murdered in front
of hundreds of people in
Dealey Plaza. Ed Hoffman
saw the man who fired the
fatal shot that killed the
President and it was not Lee Harvey Oswald. His eyewitness account destroys the government’s version of a lone
gunman shooting from the Texas School Book Depository.
Foreword by Jim Marrs. Investigative reporter and author
Jim Marrs writes in the book’s Foreword, “After learning of
Ed Hoffman’s life, his integrity and his clear view of a man
with a rifle on the Grassy Knoll, the reader will more fully
understand why Ed’s uncle, Dallas Police Lt. Robert Hoffman, even today believes that Ed’s life would have been in
danger if he had made his story plainly understandable to
the authorities in 1963. This danger would not have come
from Lee Harvey Oswald.”
I was Castro’s
Prisoner
An American Tells His
Story
By John Martino
When John Martino died,
his son, Doctor Edward
Martino, began researching the events and persons
that were so much a part of
his father’s life. Dr. Martino became familiar with
the work of Larry Hancock, author of “Someone
Would Have Talked”, and
in 2006 made the courageous decision to publicly identify
himself and provide a series of remarks about his personal
observations in Cuba with his father and of his father’s life
after his release from prison; including November 1963.
Dr. Martino has provided permission to republish his father’s book with the stipulation all proceeds are dedicated
to JFK Lancer’s scholarship fund. The foreword is written
by Larry Hancock.
It is not too late to bring the truth about the assassination
into a court of law, not before a commission of important
and politically astute men, but before a jury of American
citizens. The conspirators were hoping that no one would
see the activity behind the picket fence, but someone did.
The irony is that the only eyewitness to their activity that
afternoon has a hearing disability. The book contains over a
hundred photographs and diagrams, annotated with information for any level of interest in the assassination.
Publisher: JFK Lancer Publishing (2008)
Available now at the retail tables or on the website
Publisher: JFK Lancer Publishing (2008)
Available now at the retail tables or on the website
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Jim Garrison
More Titles available for purchase
His Life and Times: The Check out the retail room for these and others
Early Years
We Were There, Allen Childs, MD
By Joan Mellen
A biography of the former District Attorney of
Orleans Parish, Louisiana
from his 1922 birth in Iowa
and service in World War
II - he was among those assigned to Dachau Concentration Camp the day after
its liberation - to his years
confronting the corrupt
politics of Louisiana. Jim
Garrison would become
the only public official ever to bring anyone before the bar
of justice for the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
This is the story of the man who took on that task. It explores
Garrison’s populist and democratic values, and how he attempted to reform the critical political system of New Orleans in the 1960s, particularly the abuses of B-drinking and
other crimes rampant in the French Quarter. Additional new
information on Lee Oswald’s return from Russia.
Mellen is the bestselling author of twenty books, including
A Farewell to Justice, her biographical study of Jim Garrison’s New Orleans investigation of the Kennedy assassination. She has written for a variety of publications, including
the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, and Baltimore Sun. Mellen is a professor of English
and creative writing at Temple University in Philadelphia.
Publisher: JFK Lancer Publishing (2008)
Available now at the retail tables or on the website
The Girl on the Stairs, Barry Ernest
State Secret, Bill Simpich
They Killed Our President, Dick Russell
Hear No Evil, Donald Bryon Thomas
JFK Has Been Shot, Dr. Crenshaw
The Last Investigation, Gaeton Fonzi
Breach of Trust, Gerald McKnight
Where Were You, America Remembers JFK, Gus Russo
Our Man in Mexico, Jefferson Morely
Destiny Betrayed, Jim DiEugenio
Reclaiming Parkland, Jim DiEugenio
The Assassinations, Jim DiEugenio
JFK and the Unspeakable, Jim Douglas
On the Trail of the Assassins, Jim Garrison
Assignment: Oswald, Jim Hosty
Crossfire, Jim Marrs
A Farewell to Justice, Joan Mellon
The Great Game In Cuba, Joan Mellon
Our Man In Haiti, Joan Mellon
LBJ and Conspiracy to Kill Kennedy, Joseph P. Farrell
Last Word, Mark Lane
Betrayal in Dallas, Mark North
Act of Treason, Mark North
The Poison Partriach, Mark Shaw
The War Conspiracy, Peter Dale Scott,
Oswald, Mexico, and Deep Politics, Peter Dale Scott
Mary’s Mosiac, Peter Janney
LBJ The Mastermind of the JFK Assassination, Philip Nelson
Accessories After the Fact, Sylvia Meagher
A Rose by Many Other Names, Todd C. Elliott
Survivor’s Guilt, Vincent Palamara
Awful Grace of God, Stewart Wexler
Family of Secrets, Russ Baker
* Don’t miss meeting several of authors who will be
present at the conference for book signings!
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appian way
message from
George & Leonardo DiCaprio
of
Appian Way Productions
And Thom Hartman and Lamar Waldron,
the authors of Legacy of Secrecy
and The Hidden History of the JFK Assassination
Greetings to the attendees, speakers and organizers of JFK Lancer 2013. We hope you will follow with interest
our attempt to create a feature film about the JFK assassination and it will be greeted with a wave of interest from
the discerning scholars who make the trip to Dallas each year. We hope, as well, the film arouses a wide-spread
demand for the release of all the JFK assassination files that are still being withheld from public scrutiny.
In the meantime,
Please visit this link to sign the
White House Petition calling for all
the files to be released and also for a
pardon to be granted to former Secret Service Agent Abraham Bolden.
http://wh.gov/lZurV
“Legacy of Secrecy: The Long Shadow
of the JFK Assassination” — asserts
that Mafia godfather Carlos Marcello
confessed to Van Laningham to having
ordered JFK’s assassination. As part of a
dangerous and long-secret undercover
operation, the FBI positioned Van Laningham to become confidant to Marcello,
who ruled organized crime in Louisiana
and most of Texas for decades. During
the days following the assassination, at
least a dozen of Marcello’s associates were
questioned by the FBI. Nevertheless,
Marcello’s name never appeared in the
Warren Report.
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“All this will not be finished
in the first one hundred days.
Nor will it be finished in the
first one thousand days . . .nor
even perhaps in our lifetime on
this planet. But let us begin.”
john F. Kennedy
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