50th anniversary of FBI agents assassinating President Kennedy
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November 16-18, 2012 — The Adolphus 1321 Commerce Street — Dallas, TX 75202
800-221-9083 — Fax: 214-651-3563
Speakers and Guests for the 2012 Conference
Special note: Many of the books shown below will be available for sale and author signing at the conference.
Joe Backes - The Texas Trip Research
BackesJoe 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."
Russ Baker - Military Intelligence Angles
BakerRuss Baker is an award winning investigative journalist. He has written for the "New Yorker", "Vanity Fair", the "New York Times", "The Nation", "The Los Angeles Times", "The Washington Post", the "Village Voice", and "Esquire", and has served as a contributing editor to the "Columbia Journalism Review". He is the founder of WhoWhatWhy/the Real News Project; a nonpartisan, nonprofit news organization, operating at www.whowhatwhy.com. Baker invites you to visit his news website.
Bob Cochran - Banquet and Dealey Plaza Invocations
CochranCochran is based in Washington State and 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.
Jerry Dealey - Tours
dealeyBorn and raised in Dallas, Jerry Dealey is a member of the famous Dealey family in Dallas. Dealey Plaza is named for his ancestor, George Bannerman Dealey (1859–1946), an early publisher of the Dallas Morning News and civic leader. Dealey attended school in Denver in fall of 1963, but returned every year in the summer to live with his father. Dealey is a Dallas historian, and has written a book on the history of Dallas; Dealey’s, "Dallas Morning News"; and Dealey Plaza called "D In the Heart of Texas". Dealey is a Docent at the Old Red Courthouse Museum, and the Dallas Historical Society "Hall of State" in Fair Park. He also gives tours of Dallas, and the assassination related sites. Dealey specializes in the history and politics of Dallas and is an active member and Moderator of the JFK Lancer Forum, where he provides local and historical information.
David Denton - Preparing for the 50th Anniversary
a social science instructor at Olney Central College, became interested in the JFK assassination in the late 1980s and for the last decade has attended historical symposiums on the subject in Dallas, Texas. He has interviewed several people associated with the case and has researched hundreds of documents related to both Kennedy and suspected assassin Lee Harvey Oswald. In 2001, he began teaching a course on political assassinations of the 1960s, which explores the deaths of President John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. Denton has brought nationally-recognized experts on the JFK assassination to the area in connection with the class. Denton has given numerous presentations on the JFK assassination across Illinois and Indiana at both public libraries and forums. He participated in the Illinois Humanities Council speakers’ bureau from 1995 to 2002, giving presentations on Oswald, the JFK assassination and the Vietnam War. In recent years, Denton directed an oral history project exploring the Vietnam War, 25 years later. The work, funded through the Illinois Humanities Council, features interviews with 125 veterans from Illinois and across the nation. The resulting 600-page document was distributed to local libraries. Denton also produced the video documentary, “Victory on the Homefront: Remembrances of Lawrence and Richland Counties During World War II". The IHC-funded project includes interviews with Lawrence and Richland County residents, detailing the activities, sacrifices and patriotism they experienced while living on the homefront. Denton holds both bachelors and master’s degrees from Eastern Illinois University. He was the 1999 recipient of the OCC Alumnus Award.
Jim DiEugenio - Garrison Updates, also, Oswald, Ruth and the Rifle
DiEugenioDiEugenio 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 - Down in Front?
edwardsEdwards has been studying the JFK assassination since 1969 and has read over 300 books on the subject. From 1978-1997, he worked as a police officer in Kansas. He was assigned to the patrol division and served eight years 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. From 1996 to 2005, 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 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.” Website
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Barry Ernest - The Girl on the Stairs
ernestWith a degree in journalism and communications, Barry Ernest honed his skills as an investigative reporter and features 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. The result of those lengthy efforts is his book “The Girl on the Stairs”. His study of this subject over the years has led him to the witnesses of Dallas, as well as the documents of the National Archives. He has appeared on numerous radio talk shows and, ironically enough, has been featured in countless newspaper interviews. He also provided research and investigative services for several noted authors on the assassination, including David Lifton, Penn Jones Jr., and Harold Weisberg, the latter considered to have been the leading authority on this case. Mr. Ernest now lives with his wife in Harrisburg, Pa., where he continues to research, write, and maintain his blog while answering the many questions he is asked about the assassination and its missing witness.
Lee Farley - The Bledsoe quandary
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Born and raised in Liverpool, England I have been interested in the Kennedy assassination since I was approximately 15 years old, almost 25 years. In my early 20's the interest began to turn into something of an obsession and I started building a quite substantial book collection.My notes that accompanied my reading became quite extensive and I knew the obsession would not end until I knew who Lee Harvey Oswald really was. I was right. Today I am a member of John Simkin's Education Forum and have been working with other interested parties in trying to figure out which parts of the official assassination narrative are not true and why the official story was built the way it was built. I have focused my research on some of the micro-activities of Lee Oswald both pre and post assassination and at the conference I will be explaining why Lee Oswald's movements immediately after the assassination were incredibly important to authorities and how and why they ultimately ended up lying about them. I am currently working on a book and will hopefully have something ready in 2013.
Sherry Feister - Enemy of the Truth: Witness Myths
FiesterIn 1995 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 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 upcoming 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. Website
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Special Guest, Dr. Toni Glover - Dealey Plaza Witness
GloverAntoinette G. Glover (Dr. Toni Glover) is the Associate Professor and Director of the Writing Program at the University of Scranton. She received both her Bachelor’s degree and Master’s degree in English and Theatre from the University of Texas at Arlington. Glover then went on to accomplish her doctorate degree at the University of Texas at Dallas. Dr. Toni Glover teaches both Composition (Writing 107) and Strategies Teaching Writing (Writing 310) for the English department at The University of Scranton. In addition to helping students learn the art of writing, Dr. Glover also does some writing herself. She is the co-author and editor of “Negotiating a Meta-pedagogy: Learning from Other Disciplines” which addresses the training of teachers of composition, and reveals the most current research in rhetoric and composition. Along with this book, Dr. Glover also co-edited the textbook “Voices” with fellow University of Scranton professor, Bonnie Markowski. “Voices” is a guide to effective writing that is used throughout the University of Scranton’s composition program. Dr. Glover is also involved with a foundation in conjunction with The Women's Resource Center that rescues the pets of abused women and children. Most often, the abused do not want to leave their pets with the abuser. It is called Safe Haven and is a foster service for the pets of the abused so they feel comfortable leaving their pets.
GloverStanding on a concrete pedestal at the corner of Houston and Elm Streets in Dealey Plaza, eleven-year-old Toni Glover watched the Presidential motorcade standing on a pedestal from the moment the limo turned onto Houston Street, to the second it went under the Triple Underpass making her a very young witness the Kennedy assassination. She is currently working on researching people's emotional reaction and how it effected them throughout their lives. (Bell film frame)
Special Guest, Pat Hall - Oswald's Apartment
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The current owner of the 1026 N Beckley rooming house. This is where Oswald was staying from October 14 - November. 1963. The Dallas Police found the address by cross checking a telephone number given by Ruth Paine as a number to reach Oswald in case his wife Marina went into labor. Their baby Audrey Marina Rachel was born October 20th.
Larry Hancock - 48 Hours / What it tells us
hancockHancock 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. Larry's Blog
Peter Janney - The Mary Meyer Murder
JanneyJanney grew up in Washington, D.C. during the Cold War era of the 1950s and 1960s. His father Wistar Janney was a senior career CIA official. The Janney family was intimately involved with many of Washington’s social and political elite. Families that included Mary and Cord Meyer, as well as other high-ranking CIA officials such as Richard Helms, Jim Angleton, Tracy Barnes, Desmond FitzGerald, and William Colby. A graduate of Princeton University, Janney earned a Doctoral degree in psychology at Boston University in 1981. He has been a practicing psychologist and consultant for over 30 years. In 2002, he completed an MBA degree at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business. “Mary's Mosaic” is his first book. Janney currently resides by the sea in Beverly, Massachusetts.
Barry Krusch - Impossible / The Case Against Lee Oswald
KruschKrusch has a Bachelors degree in Psychology from Emory University located in Atlanta Georgia, and a Masters degree in Education from Hunter college in New York City. Krusch also attended law school at the University of Georgia for a year. After working as an investigator for Atlanta Legal Aid for four years and a Paralegal for four years, Krusch has worked as an instructional designer, senior instructional designer, and project manager for the last twenty years. His client list includes Bank of America, Wachovia, American Express, Chase, Hartford Life, Knowledge Transfer International, Procter & Gamble, and many others. In 2002, he was responsible for the preliminary instructional design and editing of 52 audio books for Drive2Learn, Inc.. Krusch is also author of several books. His first book, "The 21st Century Constitution", published in 1992 by Stanhope Press, was reviewed by New York Law School professor Richard Bernstein in his book "Amending America". In that book, Professor Bernstein stated that the The 21st Century Constitution "may well be the most thoughtful and thorough reframing of the Constitution yet attempted." His second book, "Would the Real First Amendment Please Stand Up?" was published in 1996. According to the online directory Excite, "If you've got the time, we've got an online book for you. Barry Krusch examines the 1st Amendment in detail and attempts to put the Supreme Court's revisions of the Constitution into a form the layperson can understand." As a result of his works on the Constitution, Krusch has appeared on the Tom Snyder radio show, as well as C-SPAN. He is also listed as an encyclopedia entry in the Encyclopedia Of Constitutional Amendments. Krusch's latest book is "Impossible: The Case Against Lee Harvey Oswald", divided into three volumes. This extensive work, over 1000 pages, demonstrates conclusively that the notion of a "lone assassin" in the Kennedy assassination is a complete myth, in no way justified by the evidence, and that therefore any case against Lee Harvey Oswald based on the notion of a lone assassin must completely fail.
Jim Marrs - Ruby Revisited
MarrsA native of Fort Worth, Texas, 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, 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. 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 ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, CSPAN, the Discovery, Learning and History Channels, This Morning America, Geraldo, Montel Williams, Today, Tech TV and The Larry King, George Noory and Art Bell radio programs along with 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. Jim's website
Casey Quinlan - Oswald and the Coca Cola Caper
CaseyQuinlan was born and raised in the greater Kansas City area and 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, including; the Alf Landon Lecture Series at Kansas State University; The William Allen White School of Journalism at the University of Kansas; The Student Lecture Series at Pittsburg State University in Pittsburg, Kansas, Student Activities at Johnson County Community College in Overland Park, Kansas, and a Historical Lecturer, on a number of occasions, for the Kansas State Historical Society in Topeka, Kansas. He was named "Outstand Educator" in 1994 and in 2008 by JFK Lancer. From 1995 to 2006, Quinlan was an adjunct instructor at Friends University in Wichita, Kansas; Ottawa University in Ottawa, Kansas; Mid America Nazarene University in Olathe, Kansas and Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas. Quinlan continues his teaching profession as a middle level and high school instructor in the Wellsville school district just south of the Greater Kansas City area. 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 blockbuster movie, "JFK". In 2007, Quinlan presented "Beyond the Fence Line: The Ed Hoffman Story" (published by JFK Lancer) and 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. His latest lecture series;" The Eyes of Texas", unveils the people behind the murder of President Kennedy, along with his new program, "Lee Oswald and the Great Coca Cola Caper" explains where Lee Oswald actually was during the murder of President Kennedy. Website
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Ben Rogers - What's new in the Pogue Library Archives
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 currently features Kennedy and Johnson exhibits: JFK50: Primary, Election, Inauguration and LBJ: Texan, Politician, President. The library began its JFK Assassination Research Collection in 2004 with the papers of Penn Jones, Jr. The W. R. Potage Legislative Library now hosts papers from not only Penn Jones, but also Jack White, John Armstrong, Gary Shaw, John Kelin, Roy Schaeffer, Paul Hoch, Mae Brussells and others. A new collection from the Mary Ferrell Foundation will be a part of the Library soon. 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. Poage
Bill Simpich - The Mexico City Solution Is In Our Hands
simpichSimpich 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". Simpich 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. Simpich‘s study of the JFK case focuses on the documentary evidence, rather than firearms, acoustics, and other forensic evidence. His current focus is Mexico City and the counterintelligence aspects of the JFK assassination investigation.
Ed Tatro - Anecdotes
tatroEd Tatro taught high school English for 38 years specializing in science-fiction; mystery and horror; satire and comedy; creative writing; media and propaganda; and the origin, history and poetry of rock music. He also taught college and adult education courses for thirty years specializing in the JFK assassination, subliminal messages in advertising, the influence of rock music on drug abuse, backward messages in music, and plagiarism in music. Tatro is a distinguished author of over thirty mystery and horror short stories, literary essays, and poems published in many national magazines. A long time researcher and expert in many areas of the assassination research, he has authored many research articles pertaining to the JFK assassination conspiracy; publishing in Jerry Rose's "The Third Decade", Penn Jones's "The Continuing Inquiry", and Ireland's "The JFK Assassination Forum". Tatro has been acknowledged/footnoted in many JFK assassination books including "Crossfire" by Jim Marrs; "Reasonable Doubt" by Henry Hurt; "Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover" by Anthony Summers; "Destiny Betrayed" by Jim DiEugenio; "The Assassinations" (Probe Magazine) by Jim DiEugenio and Lisa Pease; "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; Doug Weldon's essay in "Murder in Dealey Plaza"; and "JFK and the Unspeakable" by Jim Douglass. Tatro was also the original editor of "Texas in the Morning", the memoirs of LBJ's mistress, Madeleine Duncan Brown. He was editor of the Bugliosi chapter in "Biting the Elephant" by Doctor Rodger Remington and 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). Tatro attended Clay Shaw's trial for one week in New Orleans, February, 1969, and was given access to the court exhibits by Judge Edward Haggerty and was a Minor consultant to Oliver Stone's film, "JFK". Tatro was also responsible, via the LBJ Library, of the release of the rough drafts of NSAM #273, which he shared with L. Fletcher Prouty, who then shared them with Oliver Stone for "JFK". He testified before the Assassination Records Review Board, March, 1995, in Boston, Massachusetts and was responsible, via the ARRB, for the release of the unidentified print found on a box in the alleged sniper's nest in the Texas School Book Depository. Tatro was a consultant to Nigel Turner's "The Truth Shall Set You Free," part VI of "The Men Who Killed Kennedy” series and consultant to Nigel Turner's "The Smoking Guns," part VII of "The Men Who Killed Kennedy" series. He was the primary recruiter and participant in Nigel Turner's "The Guilty Men," Part IX of "The Men Who Killed Kennedy" series.
