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RegistrationWelcome and Introductions by Larry HancockBrent Holland: Ted Sorensen~ The Man Who Saved The World...ReallyDick Russell: Richard Case NagellBarry Ernest: The Search for Victoria AdamsJosiah Thompson: Investigation and TrialBreak for Buffet LunchRollie Zavada: The Zapruder FilmBrian Edwards, Casey Quinlan: “Spread the News” PanelIan Griggs: Jack Ruby & the DPDMark Shaw: Connecting Jack Ruby and Melvin Belli to Joseph KennedyDinner Break, Visit Author TablesPat Speer: The JFK Back Wound: Anatomy of a LieBrent Holland: Abraham Bolden & Chicago

Stuart Wexler: Harold Wiseberg LeadsJim DiEugenio: A Motive for Murder: Kennedy’s Foreign PolicyRuss Baker: Updates from Family of SecretsBill Simpich: Oswald ImpersonationDallas’ Dealey Plaza Televised Ceremony** JFK Lancer Anniversary Observance Break

Joan Mellen: Garrison InvestigationBill Simpich & Larry Hancock: Understanding Oswald & Mexico CityRollie Zavada & Debra Conway: Zapruder Film Study UpdatesDr. David Mantik & Debra Conway: Bethesda Autopsy William Law & Debra Conway: Interviewing Bethesda Hospital WitnessesLarry Hancock & Rex Bradford: The Cover Up Sherry Fiester: Dealey Plaza Shooting Trajectories

Thursday Main Room ScheduleNovember 21 7:30am-9:00pm:

Thursday breakout ScheduleAlternatives to the mainroom activities

Friday breakout ScheduleAlternatives to the mainroom activities

Friday Main Room ScheduleNovember 22 8:00am-9:30pm:

7:30-8:308:30-9:009:00-9:45

9:45-10:3010:30-11:1511:15-12:0012:00-1:301:30-2:152:15-3:15

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**See the Note on Dealey Plaza on page 5

Rex Bradford: The 14-Minute Gap: The Early Days of the Cover-upDonald Thomas: Cross-Talk: the Acoustical Record of Gunfire in the JFK AssassinationJoe Backes: ARRB Investigation and TrialSherry Fiester, Debra Conway, Jim DiEugenio: “How To Answer Big Questions” PanelJoan Mellen: On The Nature of Evidence In The Kennedy AssassinationBreak for Buffet LunchBrian Litman: Tourist Non Grata: The Soviet Experience of Oswald (and Who the KGB Chairman Really Thought Did It)Jim DiEugenio: The HSCA: How Blakey Buried the CasePamela McElwain-Brown: Midnight Blue to Black: The Vanishing Act of the Presidential Limousine SS100X In Broad DaylightScott Kaiser: Cuban-Exile Connections to the JFK AssassinationDinner Break, Visit Author TablesBrian Edwards: The 26 Volumes: Making Sense of the NonsenseEd Tatro: Intriguing Suspects

Casey Quinlan: The Edge of Apocalypse: ColdWar, Cold Warriors, Cold Blooded MurderGlenn Bybee: The Position of the Defense Regarding the Carcano RifleRuss Tarby: Tammi True Remembers Jack Ruby

Ed Tatro: Garrison TrialBill Simpich: OswaldBen Rogers: Poage Library ArchivesTeachers of the Year: Teaching the Kennedy Assassination in the ClassroomBarry Ernest & Debra Conway:TSBD WitnessesStuart Wexler: NAAScott Kaiser & Larry Hancock: Cuba

Bus Tour: Brian Edwards & Casey Quinlan*Meet for Walking TourWalking Tour of Dealey Plaza: Larry HancockBus Tour: Brian Edwards & Casey Quinlan*

Russell Kent: Medical

Saturday breakout ScheduleAlternatives to the mainroom activities

Sunday breakout ScheduleAlternatives to the mainroom activities

Saturday Main Room ScheduleNovember 23 8:00am-9:00pm:

Sunday Main Room ScheduleNovember 24 8:00am-12:30pm:

8:00-9:15

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10:00-10:4510:45-11:15

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Russell Kent: Classical Mistakes in the Medicolegal Autopsy of JFKWilliam Law: Special Guest Jim JenkinsSherry Fiester: Reconstructing the Fatal HeadshotJim Marrs: ConspiracyMary Ferrell - JFK Lancer Banquet, Awards and Auctions (see next page for details)

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* Bus tours are sold out. Ticket required.

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Banquet ScheduleFriday, November 22 6:00-9:30pm:

Alan Dale, our host for the eveningInvocation by Bob CochranEntertainment by Beverly Oliver Welcome and Introductions, Alan DaleRemarks, Larry Hancock and Debra ConwaySpeech by Kerry McCarthyVideo presentation by David KnightSpeaker Recognition, Stu Wexler and Larry HancockTeacher Scholarship Award, Sherry FiesterJFK Lancer - Mary Ferrell Awards, Debra ConwayVideo presentation by Brian EdwardsKeynote Speech by Jeff MorleyAmazing Grace performed by Beverly OliverClosing, Alan Dale

We believe these basic facts:1. There was more than one shooter involved in the assassi-nation 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 bod-ies 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 in-vite you to join us online and help make a difference.

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What is JFK Lancer?We are a historical research company specializing in the ad-ministration 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 Co-Chairman 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 re-searchers from around the world. We subscribe to the values of patriotism, excellence, integrity and dedication to the re-vealing of truth surrounding the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

Our goal is to make research materials concerning Kenne-dy’s assassination easily available to everyone. Our prime concern is the accuracy of history and the true story of the turbulent 1960s.

D-Link Free BusDART’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) 979-1111www.dart.org/dlink

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Conference Guidelines:• 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 Confer-ence room.• You may audiotape presentations for your personal use only. No video-taping without permission.• You may not put recorded material on any websitewithout permission.• Flash cameras are permitted unless they become distract-ing to the speaker.• You must wear your name badge to enter all conference events.• There will be Q&A time whenever possible.• We ask that you be respectful of the views of others.

Note on Dealey Plaza on the 22nd: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 Pres-ident’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.

The Adolphus Hotel is half a mile east on Commerce Street from Dealey Plaza.

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Hang on to your stubsIf 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 youWe 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 Stew-art, Mesha, Karla Abogabir, Denise Tatum and Lori LeckbeeBrian Edwards and Casey Quinlan, David Knight Visual Services, Bob Cochran, Beverly Massegee, Lamar Waldron and George DiCaprio, Last Hurrah Book Store, Jim Dou-glass, Lightning Source, PPG AV, The Adolphus, Kinko’s Grapevine, Ignite Imaging

and a heartfelt thank you goes out to Jfk lancer’s oWn debra conWay for all her years of service to the Jfk re-search 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.

Beckley Rooming House1026 N. Beckley Ave, Dallas, Texas

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 assassi-nation 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 Octo-ber 14 – November 22, 1963 (Day of assassination). He paid $8 per week for sleeping quarters, living room and refrigera-tor privileges.

Tours are available by appointment. Call 469-261-7806.

Amon Carter museum3501 Camp Bowie Blvd, Fort Worth, TX

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 Thurs-

day 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

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Adolphus Hotel

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Drained? There is a charg-ing 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.

The Author Tables, Cash Bar, and the Buffet will all be set up in the Century Room Foyer.

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Special guests

Bob Cochraninvocation 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 Or-leans 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 ori-ented items, especially first-hand items of JFK, Jack Ruby, and Lee Harvey Oswald.

James Douglasauthor 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 Unspeak-able: 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 person-al copy for the signing.

Kathleen “Kerry” McCarthykennedy’s cousin, author

Kathleen Mary McCarthy, named for mother Marylou’s be-loved cousin Kathleen (Kick) Kennedy Harrington, is an ac-knowledged 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 Amer-ica and Europe. Her research has been used for over four de-cades by the JFK Presidential Library. She is a published au-thor 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 Mccarthykennedy’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 Ken-nedy 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 cu-rator, 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 Morleykeynote sPeaker at aWards banquet, Journalist

Morley has written about the JFK story for national publica-tions 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 maga-zine. 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 Observ-er. Morley’s lastest work, Snow-Storm in August was pub-lished by Nan Talese/Doubleday in July 2012.

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Beverly Oliversinger, Performer

We are delighted to have Beverly perform at this year’s con-ference. She is a wonderful performer. Beverly is a profes-sional singer, professional ventriloquist, public speaker and lecturer, published author, and former movie actress (Night-mare on Elm Street). Beverly was one of the closest eye wit-nesses 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”. Bev-erly 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.

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Joe BackessPeakerARRB Investigation and Trial

Joe Backes, the JFK assassination researcher who brought you the latest news from the JFK Assassination Records Re-view 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 Assas-sination And Other Political Crimes.” (justiceforkennedy.blogspot.com)

Russ BakersPeaker, author, JournalistUpdates 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-

porting and writing he brings the best of mainstream meth-ods (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, analy-sis pieces, features, and essays on politics, power, and per-ceptions have appeared in many of the world’s finest pub-lications. 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, Medi-aBistro; 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 BradfordsPeaker, author, archivistThe 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 Mat-ters website and is the President of the Mary Ferrell Founda-tion, the largest searchable electronic collection of materials related to the JFK assassination. Within the research com-munity, 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 of-ficials 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.

Pamela BrownsPeaker, Jfk limo exPertMidnight Blue to Black: The Vanishing Act of the Presiden-tial 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 pre-senting new research at the November in Dallas 2013 Confer-ence. 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 Lim-ousine. 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 spe-cial. Her research was used in the program, and her exper-tise as the limo researcher was acknowledged in the show’s credits. Visit her site (ss100x.com).

Glenn BybeesPeaker, teacherThe Position of the Defense Regarding the Carcano Rifle

Glenn Bybee has been researching and studying the assas-sination 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 Lanc-er - 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 ConwaysPeaker, Jfk lancer President

Since 1995, Debra has worked as a full-time historical re-searcher 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 surround-ing 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 DiEugeniosPeaker, authorA Motive for Murder: Kennedy’s Foreign PolicyThe HSCA: How Blakey Buried the Case

DiEugenio has piloted CTKA (Citizens for Truth in the Ken-nedy Assassination) and its website since was it was orga-nized as a result of the April 1993 Chicago Midwest Sym-posium on Assassination. Along with articles and reviews, DiEugenio has written two books on the Kennedy assassina-tions. “Destiny Betrayed” (1992) was the first positive recon-sideration of the Jim Garrison investigation in a generation. “The Assassinations” (2003, co-edited with Lisa Pease) ana-lyzed the murders of RFK, MLK, and Malcolm X, but de-voted 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 Cali-fornia State University Northridge. He was asked by Oliver Stone to do a commentary track on the expanded DVD ver-sion of his film “JFK”.

Brian EdwardssPeaker, author, ProfessorThe 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 Crimi-nal Justice from Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas. He served as an adjunct instructor for the Criminal Justice de-partment, 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, Kan-sas, 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 ErnestsPeaker, authorThe 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 commu-nications, Ernest honed his skills as an investigative reporter and feature writer at newspapers in New York and Pennsyl-vania. It was a tip from a friend in 1967 that started Mr. Er-nest looking for answers to the John Kennedy assassination.

Ernest’s book has been updated, a forward by David Lif-ton added, and has new cover. The release of this much an-ticipated book is scheduled for early March. It required 35 years of painstakingly diligent searching to uncover Victo-ria 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 es-cape-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 re-consider one of the most controversial assassinations of the 20th century.

Sherry FiestersPeaker, author, forensic sPecialistReconstructing the Fatal Headshot

In 1999, Fiester, a Certified Senior Crime Scene Investigator and Court recognized expert, begin to apply her profession-al expertise to the Kennedy assassination. By using the same Bloodstain Pattern Analysis and Trajectory Analysis tech-niques 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 previ-ous 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 Identi-fication 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 Fer-rell - 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 GriggssPeaker, authorJack 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 regu-larly at the Assassination Symposium on President Kenne-dy (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’ re-search 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 as-sassination book, “No Case To Answer” was published by JFK Lancer in 2005 and is being issued in an updated edi-tion. He is also at work on a definitive work describing the Dallas Police Department.

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Larry HancocksPeaker, author, Jfk lancer chairman

Hancock is a leading historian-researcher in the JFK assas-sination. In 2000, Hancock received the prestigious “Mary Ferrell New Frontier Award” for the contribution of new evi-dence 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 some-thing 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 po-litical 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 HollandsPeaker, authorTed Sorensen~ The Man Who Saved The World...ReallyAbraham 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. In-cluded 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 dis-covered the Soviets had placed offensive nuclear weapons in Cuba. There were missiles that would only take five min-utes 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 KaisersPeaker, authorCuban-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 encoun-ters 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 docu-ments, an exciting puzzle forms around the life of a man who was at once a patriot, an arms smuggler, a revolution-ary leader, an assassin, and a husband and father. In the 1970s Edwin was the military head of an anti-Castro move-ment called Cubanos Unidos, and during his life he was fre-quently 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 ac-complish what he thought was right.

Presented at the conference will be taped conversations with certain individuals in Miami, some never before scene docu-ments 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 as-sociates, (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. (edwinthe-book.com)

Russell KentsPeaker, authorClassical Mistakes in the Medicolegal Autopsy of JFK

Russell Kent has a Bachelor of Science degree in Physiol-ogy 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 Brit-ish 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 LawsPeaker, author, medical evidence sPecialistSpecial Guest Jim Jenkins

William Law is the author of the book, “In the Eye of His-tory,” (new edition, November 2013) that explores the medi-cal 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 Ken-nedy. 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 Novem-ber 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 LitmansPeaker, author, kgb sPecialistTourist 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” to-wards 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 “pen-etrated” the power elite of Soviet media - Pravda, Soviet

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 be-fore 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 mysteri-ous Mexico City trip in September 1963. They included the enigmatic Valery Kostikov – Oswald’s “Comrade Kostin” per the “Warren Report”. Semichastny told Litman private-ly who KGB identified as Kennedy’s assassin to Soviet Pre-mier 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 invest-ments and CEO of digital audio firm PlayMedia. He is writ-ing a memoir entitled “The Spies Who Loved Me (or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the KGB)”.

Dr. David MantiksPeaker, authorBethesda 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 certifica-tion he joined the medical faculty at Loma Linda and super-vised 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 bal-listic evidence. This data has been published in four books.

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Jim MarrssPeaker, authorConspiracy

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 pub-lished 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 na-tional and regional radio and TV shows. He is a former pres-ident 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 web-site. (jimmarrs.com)

Joan MellensPeaker, authorOn 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 work-ings during the fifties and sixties. Detailing the agency’s lies and deceits, Mellen paints a vivid behind-the-scenes pic-ture 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 Rob-ert 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 QuinlansPeaker, author, teacherThe Edge of Apocalypse: Cold War, Cold Warriors, Cold Blooded Murder

Quinlan has been a high school American History and Gov-ernment teacher for the past 36 years. He served in the Unit-ed 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 edu-cational experience designed for high school, college and adults exploring the murder of President Kennedy. Casey has been the featured lecturer at many universities through-out 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 in-structor 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 in-form students of the truth behind the murder of JFK.

Ben RogerssPeaker, library directorWhat’s new at the Paoge Library

Ben Rogers is Director of W. R. Poage Legislative Library, a research facility that houses congressional records and per-sonal papers related to political history. The Library’s cur-rent exhibit is John F. Kennedy: His Life – His Presidency – His Legacy. The library began its JFK Assassination Re-search 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 maga-zines, newspapers and newsletters related to research since 1963. Most materials are listed online and are open to re-searchers. (www.baylor.edu/lib/poage)

Dick RussellsPeaker, author, activistRichard 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 hap-pened to President Kennedy.

For most of the past 20 years, the primary focus of Dick Rus-sell’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 publica-tions, from Family Health to theVillage Voice. He has been a guest on many national TV and radio programs, includ-ing 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 ShawsPeaker, author, tv PersonalityConnecting Jack Ruby and Melvin Belli to Joseph Kennedy: A Fresh Perspective of the JFK Assassination

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 Be-trayals of Joseph P. Kennedy Caused the Assassination of JFK, is to be released later this year. The only authorized bi-ographer 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 cov-er-up. The explanation for how and why they were assassi-nated is revealed by focusing on the actions of Melvin Belli, Jack Ruby’s attorney. The book presents more than 40 eye-witnesses to history never before presented in any investiga-tion 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 SimpichsPeaker, laWyerOswald Impersonation

Simpich is a civil rights attorney and an antiwar activist in the San Francisco Bay Area. The main areas of his law prac-tice 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 documen-tary evidence, rather than firearms, acoustics, and other fo-rensic evidence. His current focus is on Mexico City and the counterintelligence aspects of the JFK case.

Patrick SpeersPeaker, authorThe JFK Back Wound: Anatomy of a Lie

In 2003, Patrick Speer began studying the assassination of President John F. Kennedy full-time. He continues study-ing 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 writ-ten 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 Assassina-tions’ 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 Os-wald 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 TarbysPeaker, author, JournalistTammi 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 assassina-tion.” 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 as-sociates, including:Tony Zoppi, Jewel Brown, Ronnie Dug-ger, 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 Os-wald. 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 TatrosPeaker, authorIntriguing 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 assassina-tion 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 mis-tress, Madeleine Duncan Brown. He contributed research to Senator Sam Ervin’s Watergate investigative committee, the House Select Committee on Assassinations and the Na-tional 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 ThomassPeaker, author, scientistCross-Talk: the Acoustical Record of Gunfire in the JFK As-sassination

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 ap-pointments 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 Entomo-logical 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 gar-nered international attention in 2001 for an article published in the British forensic journal Science & Justice entitled, “Acoustical Evidence in the Kennedy Assassination Revis-ited.”

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In his book, Hear No Evil, Thomas explains the acoustics ev-idence in detail, placing it in the context of an analysis of all the scientific evidence in the Kennedy assassination. Rever-ing no sacred cows, he demolishes myths promulgated by both Warren Commission adherents and conspiracy advo-cates, 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 ThompsonsPeaker, authorInvestigation and Trial

Josiah “Tink” Thompson received his Ph.D. from Yale Uni-versity in 1964. For the next twelve years he taught philos-ophy 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 profes-sor to detective, Gumshoe (1988). Thompson is best known for his enormously influential 1967 book Six Seconds in Dal-las: A Micro-Study of the Kennedy Assassination. Thomp-son’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 Commis-sion scenario for early researchers. A blueprint for a compre-hensive investigation and scientific analysis of a murder, it focuses on the six seconds between the first and last shots that murdered President Kennedy.

Stuart WexlersPeaker, Jfk lancer co-chair, ballistics sPecialistHarold 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

has focused on the issues connected to the chemical analy-sis of the ballistics material since 2000. Wexler has spoken on the subject at JFK Lancer’s NID twice, at the Wecht con-ference 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 collaborat-ed 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 ZavadasPeaker, film sPecialistThe Zapruder Film

Rollie Zavada retired as a Standards Director for Imaging Technologies from Eastman Kodak in March 1990. His back-ground includes product engineer development responsibil-ities 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 techni-cal societies, Mr. Zavada received many awards for his tech-nical achievements including being elected as a life member of the Foundation of Motion Picture Pioneers Inc. Author of the Kodak report to the ARRB.

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Award Winners

Pioneer Awardin aPPreciation for your lifetime of searching for the truth in the study of the assassination of Presi-dent John f. kennedyJerry Policoff, Activism, Independent researcher and jour-nalist, Lancaster, PA; Executive Dir., Assassination Archives & Research Center

Legacy Awardsin aPPreciation for your Permanent additions to the record of the assassination of President John f. kennedyWilliam Law, Bethesda Witnesses, Alan Rogers, Larry Haap-anen

New Frontier Awardsin aPPreciation for your contribution of neW evi-dence and furthering the study of the assassina-tion of President John f. kennedyPamela M. Brown, Limousine studiesBill Kelly, JFK Act Releases

Courage AwardThe Bethesda Witnesses:Dennis David, Jim Jenkins, Paul O’Connor, Jim Sibert

Teachers of the YearMichael Dillerba & Ed SmithMichael and Ed developed a 24-day historical investigation lesson that required 10th grade students to explore, exam-ine, 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 Commis-sion, 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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Another new addition is our Conversations with Alan Dale. Dale has con-ducted interviews with some of the lead-ing experts in the as-sassination evidence studies. These con-versations showcase the incredible insights these researchers have to offer us in our jour-ney of understanding.

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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” So-renson, President

Kennedy’s trusted advisor, speechwriter, and friend, shortly before Sorenson died in 2010. Sorenson’s in-terview 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 in-terviews 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

in the eye of historydisclosures in the Jfk assassination medical evidence

by William laW

In his updated book, William Matson Law set out on a per-sonal quest to better understand the cir-

cumstances underpinning the assassination of John F. Kennedy. His investi-gation 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 Medi-cal 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” Wit-ness, 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 agen-da. 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

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Shadow Warfareby larry hancock

With stuart Wexler

Contrary to its con-temporary image, deniable covert operations are not something new. Such activities have been ordered by

every president and ev-ery 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 opera-tions, detailing the tactics and tools used from the Truman era through those of the contemporary Obama Administra-tions. It also explores the personalities and careers of many of the most noted shadow warriors of the past sixty years, trac-ing the decade-long relationship between the CIA and the military. Shadow Warfare presents a balanced, non-polemic exploration of American secret warfare, detailing its pat-terns, 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

Enemy of the Truth myths, forensics and the kennedy assassi-nation

by sherry fiester

In “Enemy of the Truth” Fiester utilizes various fo-rensic disciplines to dispel assassination mythologies:including simultane-ous headshots, where the shooter for the fatal head shot was located, if the lim-ousine 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 profession-al expertise to the Kennedy assassination. By using the same Bloodstain Pattern Analysis and Trajectory Analysis tech-niques she’s used in court for over 20 years, Fiester answers basic questions concerning the Kennedy assassination. Fies-ter 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

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Nexusthe 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 posi-tion 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 his-torical 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 avail-able, 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 de-cade 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 answera retired english de-tective’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 in-terest in the John F. Ken-nedy 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 limou-sine 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 ex-poses 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


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Someone would have talkedthe cia and Political assassination

by larry hancock

Someone Would Have Talked was written to dem-onstrate with available in-formation, the cover-up, the leaks, Lee Oswald, Jack Ruby and the people that did talk, providing a cohesive and coherent ex-planation of events. And in

doing so this book gives the reader an introduction to the history of the secret war against Castro and against Com-munism 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 Pres-ident. 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 Cas-tro 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 ex-plosive Cuban penetration missions ever conducted.

The initial investigation of President Kennedy’s assassina-tion was hamstrung by a consistent pattern of damage con-trol and evidence management. Actions personally orches-trated by President Johnson prevented a true open-ended criminal investigation of leads suggesting conspiracy in the murder.


at the door of memorya Witness to history and the assassination of President kennedy

by aubrey rike

While in Trauma Room 1, Aubrey Rike found him-self at the center of an un-equaled time in history as he assumed the impromp-tu undertaking of provid-ing assistance to First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy and President Kennedy. Au-brey shares heartbreaking

moments in time that became forever ingrained in his mem-ory, 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 Ken-nedy was brought in after being shot by an assassin. He was the attendant who placed the President’s body into the cas-ket while in Trauma Room 1. Rike led a colorful life, includ-ing 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 Dal-las County Sheriff’s Department. In total, he devoted thirty-five years of his life to the law enforcement profession. Rike passed away on Thursday, April 22, 2010.


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Beyond The Fence Linethe eyeWitness ac-count 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 eyewit-ness account destroys the governmentâ€™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 Hoff-man, 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.”

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 infor-mation for any level of interest in the assassination.


I was Castro’s Prisoneran american tells his story

by John martino

When John Martino died, his son, Doctor Edward Martino, began research-ing the events and persons that were so much a part of his father’s life. Dr. Mar-tino became familiar with the work of Larry Han-cock, 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 fa-ther’s book with the stipulation all proceeds are dedicated to JFK Lancer’s scholarship fund. The foreword is written by Larry Hancock.


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Jim Garrisonhis life and times: the early years

by Joan mellen

A biography of the for-mer District Attorney of Orleans Parish, Louisiana from his 1922 birth in Iowa and service in World War II - he was among those as-signed to Dachau Concen-tration 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 at-tempted to reform the critical political system of New Or-leans 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 Garri-son’s New Orleans investigation of the Kennedy assassina-tion. She has written for a variety of publications, including the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Philadelphia In-quirer, and Baltimore Sun. Mellen is a professor of English and creative writing at Temple University in Philadelphia.


More Titles available for purchasecheck out the retail room for these and others

We Were There, Allen Childs, MDThe Girl on the Stairs, Barry ErnestState Secret, Bill SimpichThey Killed Our President, Dick RussellHear No Evil, Donald Bryon ThomasJFK Has Been Shot, Dr. CrenshawThe Last Investigation, Gaeton FonziBreach of Trust, Gerald McKnightWhere Were You, America Remembers JFK, Gus RussoOur Man in Mexico, Jefferson MorelyDestiny Betrayed, Jim DiEugenioReclaiming Parkland, Jim DiEugenioThe Assassinations, Jim DiEugenioJFK and the Unspeakable, Jim DouglasOn the Trail of the Assassins, Jim GarrisonAssignment: Oswald, Jim HostyCrossfire, Jim MarrsA Farewell to Justice, Joan MellonThe Great Game In Cuba, Joan MellonOur Man In Haiti, Joan MellonLBJ and Conspiracy to Kill Kennedy, Joseph P. FarrellLast Word, Mark LaneBetrayal in Dallas, Mark NorthAct of Treason, Mark NorthThe Poison Partriach, Mark ShawThe War Conspiracy, Peter Dale Scott, Oswald, Mexico, and Deep Politics, Peter Dale ScottMary’s Mosiac, Peter JanneyLBJ The Mastermind of the JFK Assassination, Philip NelsonAccessories After the Fact, Sylvia MeagherA Rose by Many Other Names, Todd C. ElliottSurvivor’s Guilt, Vincent PalamaraAwful Grace of God, Stewart WexlerFamily 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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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.

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

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 Se-cret 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 Lan-ingham 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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john F. Kennedy

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