A Joint Statement on the Kennedy, King and Malcolm X
Assassinations and Ongoing Cover-ups:
1- As the House
Select Committee on Assassinations concluded in 1979, President John F. Kennedy
was probably killed as the result of a conspiracy.
2- In the four
decades since this Congressional finding, a massive amount of evidence compiled
by journalists, historians and independent researchers confirms this
conclusion. This growing body of evidence strongly indicates that the
conspiracy to assassinate President Kennedy was organized at high levels of the
U.S. power structure, and was implemented by top elements of the U.S. national
security apparatus using, among others, figures in the criminal underworld to
help carry out the crime and cover-up.
3- This stunning
conclusion was also reached by the president’s own brother, Attorney General
Robert F. Kennedy, who himself was assassinated in 1968 while running for
president -- after telling close aides that he intended to reopen the
investigation into his brother’s murder if he won the election.
4- President
Kennedy’s administration was badly fractured over his efforts to end the Cold
War, including his back-channel peace feelers to the Soviet Union and Cuba and
his plan to withdraw U.S. troops from Vietnam after the 1964 presidential
election.
5- President
Kennedy has long been portrayed as a Cold War hawk, but this grossly inaccurate
view has been strongly challenged over the years by revisionist historians and
researchers, who have demonstrated that Kennedy was frequently at odds with his
own generals and espionage officials. This revisionist interpretation of the
Kennedy presidency is now widely embraced, even by mainstream Kennedy
biographers.
6- The official
investigation into the JFK assassination immediately fell under the control of
U.S. security agencies, ensuring a cover-up. The Warren Commission was
dominated by former CIA director Allen Dulles and other officials with strong
ties to the CIA and FBI.
7- The corporate
media, with its own myriad connections to the national security establishment,
aided the cover-up with its rush to embrace the Warren Report and to scorn any
journalists or researchers who raised questions about the official story.
8- Despite the
massive cover-up of the JFK assassination, polls have consistently shown that a
majority of the American people believes Kennedy was the victim of a conspiracy
-- leading to the deep erosion of confidence in the U.S. government and media.
9- The CIA
continues to obstruct evidence about the JFK assassination, routinely blocking
legitimate Freedom of Information requests and defying the JFK Records
Collection Act of 1992, preventing the release of thousands of government
documents as required by the law.
10- The JFK assassination was just one of
four major political murders that traumatized American life in the 1960s and
have cast a shadow over the country for decades thereafter. John F. Kennedy,
Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy were each in his own
unique way attempting to turn the United States away from war toward
disarmament and peace, away from domestic violence and division toward civil
amity and justice. Their killings were together a savage, concerted assault on
American democracy and the tragic consequences of these assassinations still
haunt our nation.
Dr. Gary Aguilar
Daniel Alcorn
Russ Baker
Alec Baldwin
G. Robert Blakey
Denise Faura Bohdan
Abraham Bolden
Rex Bradford
Douglas Caddy
Rodnell Collins
Debra Conway
David Crosby
Edward Curtin
Dr. Donald T. Curtis
Alan Dale
James DiEugenio
James Douglass
Laurie Dusek
Daniel Ellsberg
Karl Evanzz
Richard Falk
Isaac Newton Farris Jr.
Marie Fonzi
Libby Handros
Dan Hardway
Jacob Hornberger
Douglas Horne
Gayle Nix Jackson
Stephen Jaffe
James Jenkins
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Bill Kelly
Andrew Kreig
John Kirby
Rev. James M. Lawson Jr.
Jim Lesar
Edwin Lopez
David Mantik
Dr. Robert N. McClelland
Mark Crispin Miller
Jefferson Morley
John Newman
Len Osanic
Lisa Pease
William F. Pepper
Jerry Policoff
Rob Reiner
Abby Rockefeller
Dick Russell
Mort Sahl
Vincent Salandria
Martin Sheen
Lawrence P. Schnapf
E. Martin Schotz
Paul Schrade
Peter Dale Scott
John Simkin
Bill Simpich
Oliver Stone
Dan Storper
David Talbot
Kathleen Kennedy Townsend
Adam Walinsky
Benjamin Wecht
Dr. Cyril H. Wecht
Betty Windsor
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Biographies:
Gary L. Aguilar, MD, is a private practicing
ophthalmologist in San Francisco, a clinical professor of ophthalmology at the
University of California-San Francisco, and the vice chief of staff at Saint
Francis Memorial Hospital. One of the few physicians outside the federal
government who has ever been allowed to review President Kennedy's
still-restricted autopsy photographs and X-rays, Aguilar has delivered lectures
on JFK's autopsy evidence before numerous medical and legal conferences. With
coauthor Cyril Wecht, MD, JD, Aguilar has published articles on the Kennedy
case in journals such as The American Scholar and the Journal of the American
Medical Association, and has contributed chapters to several anthologies
exploring the JFK assassination. Dr. Aguilar’s writings on various aspects of
the Kennedy case are available online, most notably a multipart essay that
examines the five investigations of Kennedy's medical and autopsy evidence that
have been conducted by the U.S. government. https://history-matters.com/essays/jfkmed/How5Investigations/How5InvestigationsGotItWrong_5.htm
Daniel Alcorn was a law partner of the late Bud
Fensterwald, co-founder of the Assassination Archives and Research Center
(AARC). He has served on the AARC board since 1992, and was a founding director
of the Coalition on Political Assassinations (COPA) on behalf of AARC, and
served on COPA's board until the end of the Assassination Records Review Board
process in 1998. Alcorn has represented requesters in precedent-setting Freedom
of Information Act cases in the trial and appellate courts in Washington, D.C.,
including cases related to the JFK assassination, the Martin Luther King Jr.
assassination, allegations of misconduct in the FBI crime laboratory, death
squad activity in Central America, intelligence abuses, and PTSD, among other
issues.
Russ Baker is the founder, editor-in-chief and CEO
of WhoWhatWhy, a nonprofit news organization devoted to covering stories and
angles ignored by the media. WhoWhatWhy has a special team poring over
thousands of declassified JFK records. Baker is the author of Family of
Secrets: The Bush Dynasty, America's Invisible Government, and the Hidden
History of the Last Fifty Years.
Alec Baldwin has appeared in numerous productions
onstage, in films and on television. He has received a Tony nomination (A
Streetcar Named Desire, 1992), an Oscar nomination (The Cooler, 2004) and has
won three Emmy awards, three Golden Globes and seven consecutive Screen Actors
Guild Awards as Best Actor in a Comedy Series for his role on NBC-TV's 30 Rock.
His films include The Hunt for Red October, Glengarry Glen Ross, Malice, Blue
Jasmine, and Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation. He has authored three books: A
Promise to Ourselves; his memoir, Nevertheless; and You Can’t Spell America
Without Me, with Kurt Andersen. He serves on numerous boards related to the
arts, the environment and progressive politics.
G. Robert Blakey is retired as the William J. &
Dorothy K. O'Neill Professor of Law (now emeritus) at the Notre Dame Law
School, where he taught criminal law, the law of terrorism, and jurisprudence.
He also was a professor of law and the director of the Cornell Institute on
Organized Crime, where he taught criminal law in the law school. Blakey also
served as a special attorney in the Organized Crime and Racketeering Section of
the United States Department of Justice. From 1977 to 1979, he was the chief
counsel and staff director, United States House Select Committee on
Assassinations.
Denise Faura Bohdan is a lawyer, film producer and
the daughter of Fernando Faura, author of The Polka Dot File on the Robert F.
Kennedy Killing: The Paris Peace Talks Connection, chronicling the search for
an alleged conspirator in the assassination of RFK. Faura’s investigation in
1968 is regarded by most researchers as one of the most important, linking
Sirhan Sirhan to co-conspirators. Ms. Bohdan is producing a film on his
investigation to shine more light on the assassination and conspiracy. Her
previous film work focuses on human rights abuses, freedom of speech and
pursuit of justice.
Abraham Bolden was the first African-American
assigned to the White House Secret Service Detail, at President Kennedy's
personal request. When he later tried to testify to the Warren Commission about
rampant misconduct in the Secret Service, he was punished for his courage by a
trumped-up bribery charge that resulted in his imprisonment for over three
years. He is the author of a 2008 memoir, The Echo From Dealey Plaza.
Rex Bradford pioneered the digital dissemination of
declassified JFK assassination documents, over 1.5 million pages of which are
available at www.maryferrell.org.
He is president of the Mary Ferrell Foundation.
Douglas Caddy is a Houston-based attorney and the
author of six books, most recently his memoir Being There: Eyewitness To
History. In 1959, he published an article in the National Review that began a
long friendship with founding publisher William F. Buckley as they worked
together to help found what’s now known as the modern conservative movement. In
1960, Caddy was elected as the founding national director of Young Americans
For Freedom. His conservative activism made him an early campaigner for 1964
Republican presidential nominee Barry Goldwater. Caddy then worked in
Washington, DC, as an attorney involved in many high-profile cases. In one, he
became the original defense attorney for the Watergate burglars. His legal work
has included cutting-edge research and whistle-blowing on the JFK
assassination, Koreagate, CIA influences and other justice-related issues.
Rodnell Collins, Malcolm X’s first cousin, is the
founder of the Malcolm X, Ella L. Little Collins Family Foundation and curator
of the childhood home that he and Malcolm shared in Duxbury, Massachusetts. Now
a national historic landmark, Collins is working on turning it into a museum.
Collins’s memoir, Seventh Child, tells Malcolm’s story from a family member’s
point of view. Most recently Collins participated in the 50th anniversary
commemoration of the famous Oxford Union debate, “The Night Malcolm Spoke Out.”
Debra Conway is the president of JFK Lancer
Productions and Publications, a historical research company specializing in the
administration and assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
David Crosby is a musician and songwriter. He has
been speaking out about the JFK assassination since the 1960s, including
onstage with the Byrds at the legendary Monterey Pop Festival in 1967.
Edward Curtin is a sociologist who teaches at
Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts. He is a widely published essayist who
has written extensively about the assassinations of John and Robert Kennedy and
Martin Luther King Jr.
Dr. Donald T. Curtis is a retired oral and
maxillofacial surgeon who participated in the resuscitation attempt of
President Kennedy at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas.
Alan Dale is executive director of the Assassination
Archives and Research Center. He is the host of JFKConversations.com.
James DiEugenio is the author of The JFK
Assassination: The Evidence Today, and editor of Kennedysandking.com.
James Douglass is the author of JFK and the
Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters.
Laurie Dusek has served as legal counsel to Sirhan
Sirhan in a pro bono capacity for the last 11 years.
Daniel Ellsberg was a national security consultant
to the Kennedy White House. Later he leaked the Pentagon Papers. A senior
fellow of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, he is the author of The Doomsday
Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner and a memoir, Secrets, which
became the subject of the Oscar-nominated documentary The Most Dangerous Man in
America. He is also a key figure in Steven Spielberg's film about the Pentagon
Papers, The Post.
Karl Evanzz is the author of six books, including
two highly acclaimed studies of the Nation of Islam: The Judas Factor: The Plot
to Kill Malcolm X (1992) and The Messenger: The Rise and Fall of Elijah
Muhammad (1999). A literary and film consultant, Evanzz worked on Malcolm X:
Make It Plain (Blackside Productions, 1994) and Ali (2001), starring Will
Smith. Evanzz worked at the Washington Post for 32 years in its news department
before retiring in 2008.
Richard Falk is professor of international law,
emeritus, at Princeton University and author of Power Shift: On the New Global
Order (2016).
Isaac Newton Farris Jr. is the nephew of Dr. Martin
Luther King Jr. He has served as the president and CEO of the Martin Luther
King Jr. Center and in 2011 was elected president and CEO of the Southern
Christian Leadership Conference, the organization founded by Dr. King. Farris
currently serves as senior fellow of the King Center where he not only
continues to write, research and lecture on the life, philosophy, and legacy of
Martin Luther King Jr., but also on how Kingian nonviolence should guide
American society as we confront the social, religious, economic and war issues
of America and of the world today.
Marie Fonzi is the widow of Gaeton Fonzi, a top
investigator on both the Senate and House Committees that probed the death of
President Kennedy in the 1970s. Marie wrote the preface and afterword of the
2016 paperback edition of The Last Investigation, Fonzi's inside story of this
fateful Congressional drama.
Libby Handros is an award-winning TV producer and
documentary filmmaker. Since beginning her career on the PBS team that produced
Inside Story, the first regularly scheduled examination of the American press
ever to appear on television, she has gone on to develop and produce over one
hundred hours of prime-time programming on a wide array of subjects. Along with
director John Kirby, Handros produced the critically acclaimed documentary
feature The American Ruling Class and Cape Spin: An American Power Struggle,
among other films. Currently she is Kirby’s producing partner on Four Died
Trying, a multi-part series on the political murders of John Kennedy, Malcolm
X, Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy, which changed the course of
history.
Dan Hardway, a graduate of Cornell Law School, has
practiced law for the past 37 years. His firm, based in Cowen, West Virginia,
focuses on representing nonprofit organizations, especially Christian churches
and ministries, and Freedom of Information Act litigants. From 1977 to 1978,
Hardway worked as a researcher for the House Select Committee on
Assassinations, and assisted Ed Lopez in writing the section of the committee
report titled, “Oswald, the CIA, and Mexico City.”
Jacob Hornberger is founder and president of The
Future of Freedom Foundation, a libertarian nonprofit educational foundation,
and the author of The Kennedy Autopsy.
Douglas Horne served for three years on the staff of
the Assassination Records Review Board (ARRB), from 1995-1998. He was hired by
the ARRB as a senior analyst on the Military Records Team, and was later
promoted to the position of chief analyst for Military Records; while on the
ARRB staff, Mr. Horne ensured the release of historical records on Cuba and
Vietnam policy; played a key role in the sworn depositions of ten JFK autopsy
witnesses; and became the primary ARRB point-of-contact for all matters related
to the Zapruder film. He is the author of the five-volume work Inside the
Assassination Records Review Board (2009), and the e-book JFK's War with the
National Security Establishment: Why Kennedy Was Assassinated (2014).
Gayle Nix Jackson is the granddaughter of Orville
Nix, the man who took the film of the JFK assassination opposite from Abraham
Zapruder. Following three decades of research on the background of the
government's loss of this film, she has written two books, Orville Nix: The
Missing JFK Assassination Film and Pieces of the Puzzle: An Anthology.
Stephen Jaffe was an investigator and photo-analyst
for New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison 1967-68, testified before the
Rockefeller Commission, was an associate producer/technical advisor for the
film Executive Action, associate producer/technical adviser for documentaries
The Garrison Tapes and the sequel by filmmaker John Barbour, and is the
producer of the new documentary, A Rush to Judgment: Conspiracy in America,
with Mark Lane. Jaffe was an investigator for the Lane Law Firm for the past 50
years and has written numerous articles on the assassination of President
Kennedy.
James Jenkins was a medical corpsman assigned to
work with pathologists on the autopsy of President Kennedy at the Bethesda
Naval Hospital. He reports his eyewitness account in his book At the Cold
Shoulder of History, co-written with William Matson Law.
William Klaber was the producer of The RFK Tapes, a
1993 public radio documentary on the murder of Senator Robert Kennedy. In 1997
he co-authored, with Philip Melanson, the book Shadow Play, which examined the
evidence of police misconduct in the RFK murder investigation, evidence found
in the LAPD’s own files that was finally made public in 1988.
Bill Kelly is a co-founder of the Committee for an
Open Archives and the Coalition on Political Assassinations. He was the
recipient of the 2013 Mary Ferrell Award for his work on the Air Force One
radio transmission tapes. He is currently the coordinator of the research
committee for Citizens Against Political Assassinations. His blog is http://JFKCountercoup.blogspot.com
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is the author of American
Values: Lessons I Learned From My Family.
John Kirby made his directorial debut with the
Tribeca Festival-award-winning film The American Ruling Class, made for the BBC
and the Sundance Channel. He is currently directing and editing Four Died
Trying, a multi-part documentary series on the extraordinary lives and
calamitous deaths of John Kennedy, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr. and
Robert Kennedy.
Andrew Kreig is a Washington, DC-based nonprofit
executive, attorney, author and commentator who edits the non-partisan Justice
Integrity Project, which examines the performance of legal institutions. Its
work includes publication of a multi-part “Readers Guide to the JFK
Assassination” that highlights the topic’s leading books, films, archives,
events and news developments.
The Reverend James M. Lawson Jr. was a long-time
collaborator with Martin Luther King Jr. and, after the Reverend King, the
major teacher in the non-violent struggles for desegregation and justice. Rep.
John Lewis called him “the architect of the non-violent movement.”
Jim Lesar is president of the Assassination Archives
and Research Center, a nonprofit organization whose goal is to disclose
information on political assassinations to the public. During the past 49 years
Lesar has litigated more than 200 Freedom of Information Act cases, resulting
in the release of several hundred thousand pages of documents prior to the
enactment of the JFK Records Act. He then testified before several House and
Senate committees in favor of greatly expanded release of withheld government
records pertaining to the assassination of President Kennedy. After the passage
of the JFK Act, Lesar testified several times before the Assassination Records
Review Board (ARRB) regarding the definition and scope of the term
“JFK-assassinated-related” records. In 2006, in a suit in which he represented
journalist and author Jefferson Morley, he won a significant precedent that
subjected the CIA’s ultra-secret operational files to judicial review. This
ultimately resulted in the disclosure of significant operational records, and
in the process the CIA admitted under oath that it had hired a case officer
linked to Lee Harvey Oswald’s pre-assassination activities to undermine the
investigation of the House Select Committee on Assassinations.
Edwin Lopez is an attorney practicing in New York.
He has served as the general counsel at the Rochester City School District and
is currently on the faculty of the Yang Tan Employment and Disability Institute
at the Industrial Labor Relations School at Cornell University. In 1977 and
1978 he was a researcher for the U.S. House of Representatives Select Committee
on Assassinations (HSCA), where he was involved, among other areas, in the
research and investigation of anti-Castro Cuban groups, their possible
involvement in the assassination of President Kennedy, possible Cuban government
complicity in the assassination of President Kennedy, Lee Harvey Oswald’s
activities in Mexico City and the performance of the Central Intelligence
Agency (CIA) in monitoring and reporting those activities. With the assistance
of other staff members, he wrote the HSCA’s “Lopez Report.”
David Mantik holds an MD from the University of
Michigan and a PhD in physics from the University of Wisconsin. He is former
faculty member in the physics department at the University of Michigan and in
the radiation oncology department at Loma Linda University. He is the author of
JFK's Head Wounds (an e-book).
Dr. Robert N. McClelland is professor emeritus in
the Department of Surgery at The University of Texas Southwestern Medical
Center in Dallas, an adjunct professor of law at Dedman School of Law at
Southern Methodist University, and a member of the attending staff at Zale
Lipshy University Hospital. Previously, he served for 30 years as the UT
Southwestern Medical Center’s Alvin W. Baldwin Chair in Surgery, where he had
first come to work as an instructor in surgery in 1962. Two years prior to
that, Dr. McClelland had begun his career on the senior attending staff at
Parkland Memorial Hospital, where his duties would include the attempt to save
the life of President Kennedy on Nov. 22, 1963. While working on the mortally
wounded JFK, Dr. McClelland saw clear evidence that the president had been
struck by bullets from the front and rear, indicating more than one shooter was
involved. The gruesome injury to the back of JFK’s head was caused by a bullet
exiting the skull rather than entering it, McClelland determined, suggesting it
was fired from the front of the presidential limousine, instead of from the
rear, where Lee Harvey Oswald was allegedly shooting from the sixth floor of
the Texas School Book Depository building.
Mark Crispin Miller is a professor of media, culture
and communication at New York University, and author of several books,
including Fooled Again: The Real Case for Electoral Reform. As editor of Discovering
America, a book series published by the University of Texas Press, he
commissioned Lance DeHaven-Smith to write Conspiracy Theory in America, and his
Forbidden Bookshelf series, published by Open Road Media, has revived dozens of
essential books long out of print, and many of them killed at birth, including
works by I.F. Stone, Peter Dale Scott, Christopher Simpson, Ralph McGehee and
Gerald Colby.
Jefferson Morley is the founder of The Deep State, a
news blog that illuminates the influence of secret intelligence agencies. He
worked for 15 years as an editor and reporter at the Washington Post. He is the
author of Ghost: The Secret Life of CIA Spymaster James Jesus Angleton and of
Our Man in Mexico, a biography of the CIA’s Mexico City station chief Winston
Scott.
Major John M. Newman, U.S. Army (retired), is
adjunct professor of political science at James Madison University. He is the
author of JFK and Vietnam, Oswald and the CIA and the multi-part series The
Assassination of President Kennedy: Volume I, Where Angels Tread Lightly;
Volume II, Countdown to Darkness, and Volume III, Into the Storm.
Len Osanic is host of Black Op Radio and producer of
The Collected Works of Col. L. Fletcher Prouty.
Lisa Pease is the author of A Lie Too Big to Fail:
The Real History of the Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy. Based on more than
two decades of investigative research, Pease’s recently published book has
already been hailed as “the magnum opus of RFK assassination research” by
acclaimed Kennedy biographer James Douglass.
Dr. William F. Pepper is an American lawyer, English
barrister and best-selling author. His legal career has included representation
of governments and heads of state, and teaching human rights law at Oxford
University. A political activist, Pepper was a 1960s friend and supporter of
Robert F. Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The King family asked his help
to address their doubts about the guilt of accused assassin James Earl Ray.
Pepper’s investigation concluded that Ray was a patsy. Representing both the
imprisoned Ray before his 1998 death and the King family pro bono, Pepper then
won a Memphis civil jury verdict in 1999 for the family concluding the murder
was a conspiracy. Pepper authored three books on the evidence, most recently The
Plot to Kill King (2016). In 2007, Pepper began representing pro bono Robert F.
Kennedy’s accused assassin Sirhan Sirhan based on similar evidence that Sirhan
did not fire any of the shots that struck RFK. Along with other RFK friends,
Pepper has advocated for Sirhan to be released on parole and/or granted a
first-ever hearing to examine the relevant scientific evidence.
Jerry Policoff has been a JFK assassination
researcher since 1966, specializing in the role of the media. Widely published
in magazines and book anthologies, Policoff covered the House Select Committee
on Assassinations for New Times magazine, breaking many exclusives. He is the
former executive director of the Assassination Archives and Research Center.
Rob Reiner is an actor and director best known for
his role in the iconic TV show All in the Family and for his films A Few Good
Men, When Harry Met Sally, and This Is Spinal Tap. His 2017 political thriller
Shock and Awe was the first Hollywood movie to examine the tragic run-up to the
U.S. invasion of Iraq. Reiner is now developing a docudrama TV series on the
Kennedy assassinations.
Abby Rockefeller has participated in the sponsoring
and organizing of several conferences concerning the assassination of John F.
Kennedy.
Dick Russell is the author of three books on the
assassination of President Kennedy: The Man Who Knew Too Much; On the Trail of
the JFK Assassins; and They Killed Our President!, with Jesse Ventura.
Mort Sahl is an entertainer and political satirist.
He helped write speeches for John F. Kennedy's presidential campaign, and later
worked closely with New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison to solve the
Kennedy assassination, even though doing so severely damaged his career.
Vincent J. Salandria is a Philadelphia attorney who
began studying the Kennedy assassination on November 23, 1963. One of the
original critics of the lone assassin concept, he is the author of False
Mystery, an anthology of his essays incriminating the national security state
for the murder of JFK.
Martin Sheen is an actor and activist.
Lawrence P. Schnapf is the principal attorney of
Schnapf LLC and an adjunct professor at the New York Law School. He serves on
the board of Citizens Against Political Assassinations.
E. Martin Schotz is the author of History Will Not
Absolve Us: Orwellian Control, Public Denial and the Murder of President
Kennedy.
Paul Schrade is a former United Auto Workers
official who knew both of the Kennedy brothers and worked in their campaigns.
He was wounded in the hail of gunfire that mortally wounded Senator Robert F.
Kennedy. Schrade, who has spent decades researching the RFK assassination,
believes that Sirhan Sirhan did not fire the shots that struck Kennedy and is
working for his release from prison.
Peter Dale Scott is a professor emeritus of English
at the University of California, Berkeley. His books include Deep Politics and
the Death of JFK; Oswald, Mexico, and Deep Politics; The War Conspiracy: JFK,
9/11, and the Deep Politics of War; The American Deep State; and Poetry and
Terror.
John Simkin established the Spartacus Educational
website in 1999, an important section of which was devoted to the Kennedy
assassination. He is the author of the e-book Assassination of John F. Kennedy
Encyclopedia.
Bill Simpich, a civil rights attorney, is on the
board of the Mary Ferrell Foundation. He is the author of the e-book State
Secret.
Oliver Stone is an Academy Award–winning director
and screenwriter best known for his movies Platoon, Born on the Fourth of July,
Wall Street and JFK. His 1991 feature JFK provoked a nationwide uproar about
the Kennedy assassination that led to Congressional passage of the 1992 JFK
Records Collection Act and the release of thousands of important previously withheld
government documents.
Dan Storper is the founder and CEO of the world
music company Putumayo. He is writing a book about the political struggles of
the 1960s.
David Talbot is the author of the New York Times
bestsellers Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years and The Devil’s
Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA and the Rise of America’s Secret Government.
He is the founder and original editor-in-chief of Salon and a former senior
editor of Mother Jones magazine.
Kathleen Kennedy Townsend is the eldest of Robert F.
and Ethel Kennedy’s children. She is the former lieutenant governor of
Maryland. She has taught foreign policy at the University of Pennsylvania and
the University of Maryland and is currently a research professor at Georgetown
University, where she founded the Center for Retirement Initiatives.
Adam Walinsky served in the United States Department
of Justice in 1963-64. He joined Robert Kennedy’s campaign for U.S. Senate in
1964, and then served as counsel and speechwriter for the senator through the
presidential campaign of 1968. He was one of the coordinators of the Vietnam
Moratorium of 1969-70, and was the Democratic nominee for Attorney General of
New York in 1970. He practiced law in New York City until 1994, serving as
chairman of the New York State Investigations Commission in 1979-81. Walinsky
created and led the Police Corps, a federal program that offered scholarships
to college students who agreed in return to train intensively for six months, and
then serve four years in a state or local police force. Police Corps programs
were created in 30 states, and although funding ended in 2004, many of its
graduates are still serving in law enforcement and other civic endeavors across
the country. From 2008 to 2012, he led a complete retraining of the Police
Department in Baltimore, Maryland. He served in the United States Marine Corps
Reserve.
Benjamin Wecht is the administrator of Duquesne
University's Cyril H. Wecht Institute of Forensic Science and Law, managing an
internationally acclaimed center for professional and general education that
presents public seminars on the assassination of President Kennedy and other
urgent topics. He also serves as managing member of the Forensic Sciences and
Law Education Group, a business dedicated to disseminating educational video
products and online resources relating to topics at the interface of forensic
investigation and historical inquiry.
Dr. Cyril H. Wecht is past president of the American
Academy of Forensic Sciences and the American College of Legal Medicine. He is
a clinical professor of pathology at the University of Pittsburgh School of
Medicine and adjunct professor of law at Duquesne University. Dr. Wecht served
as a consultant or expert witness on several major JFK inquests, including New
Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison’s prosecution of Clay Shaw, the
Rockefeller Commission and the House Select Committee on Assassinations.
Betty Windsor was a close friend of Dallas
Times-Herald journalist Jim Koethe, who was murdered in his home in 1964 while
working to solve the JFK case. Since the reporter’s murder, she has worked to
solve both the Koethe case and the JFK case. Many researchers consider her the
most important source on the events in Dallas during that era.
The last surviving Kennedy brother, Sen. Edward M.
Kennedy, said on May 9, 1975 that he would favor a new investigation if there
is new evidence in the assassination of his brother Robert or in the
assassination five years earlier in his brother John.
"'Obviously it is painful for the family.' Ted
Kennedy said, 'but the first consideration ought to be on the basis of what new
evidence is available.'"
Ralph Blumenfeld, "The Death of RFK", San
Antonio Express, July 20, 1975.
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