Conference Update - Pogo @
Dealey Plaza
As
November 22 falls on a Friday this year, as it did when JFK was killed, there
should be a certain astronomical affinity in the air, as if the planets are all
alighned for something special to happen.
And once again, as for the past few decades, there will be two conferences in Dallas that weekend.
And once again, as for the past few decades, there will be two conferences in Dallas that weekend.
As Walt
Kelly’s Pogo once said: “We have met the enemy and he is us.”
After
months of hangling, meetings, conference calls, debates and a lingering
antimosity, the CAPA November in Dallas Conference is finally set in stone. Oliver Stone will be there, receive CAPA’s “Profiles
in Courage” Award and address the post Conference dinner on Saturday night at
the Courtyard Marriott on Houston Street, one block from Dealey Plaza.
Dr. Wecht
will also address Judyth Vary Baker’s conference across town on Friday morning,
while the CAPA legal committee will hold a mock Texas Court of Inquiry that
will be observed by those who register for the conference.
So far
CAPA has had a National Press Club press conference that featured Judge John
Tunheim, the former chairman of the Assassinations Records Review Board (ARRB),
a mock trail at the Texas School of Law in Houston, and a reunion of five
Parkland doctors at the Old Red Courthouse at Dealey Plaza last November, so
this conference and the mock Texas Court of Inquiry will be the fourth major
event sponsored by CAPA, and the hardest to produce.
A Texas
Court of Inquiry (TCI) is a legal venue unique to Texas that has only been
invoked a few times. It cannot convict anyone, but can legally exonerate
someone who has been wrongfully accused or convicted of crimes, and sometime
after this dry run, the case will be tweeked, fine tuned and then presented
before a Texas Municipal Court judge who will be asked to convene a real Texas
Court of Inquiry.
While
the CAPA legal committee wanted to make their case in private, before a Texas
Municipal Judge who will be present at the Mock TCI, so as not to be interfered
with or allow their unique approach to be obstructed by opposition, they were
prevailed upon to permit those who register for the conference to attend and
observe the proceedings that will also be filmed for review and posterity.
From the
experience of the past few weeks, it isn’t the opposition we have to worry
about, it’s us.
Much of
the hangling was over the fact that CAPA’s chairman Dr. Cyril Wecht, was asked
to make a presenation to Judyth Vary Baker’s (JVB) competing conference across
town, as he did last year. He agreed, and they will present him with an award
as well, much to the consternation of the legal committee, who complained that
he was not only supporting a competing conference, but in effect, was endorsing
a number of questionable characters who will also be attending and making
presentations there.
These
same people also held a conference outside of Washington D.C. the very same
weekend that Jim Lesar’s Assassination Archives and Resarch Center (AARC) held
a very important conference in Bethdsda a few years ago. While a part of the
AARC event, Dr. Wecht left for a few hours in order to address the other
conference, where he later said he was surprised to learn that his presentation
was followed by Roger Stone, and later by Professor Jim Fetzer.
Dr.
Wecht bristles at the idea that because he shared the same stage with them that
he endorses their ideas. “Stone is a no good, dirty trickster and son of a bitch,
and Fetzer is an asshole.”
“But
when I’m in the middle of a serious battle,” he said in true Braveheart fashion,
“I don’t look around the battlefield to see whose fighting on my side.”
As for
JVB, Wecht says, “I don’t care if she slept with Oswald or not. That’s not my
business. She organizes a large conference, twice as many people attend as
anywhere else, so maybe we should hire her to organize our conference?”
I
attended JVB’s conference for a few hours last year and listened to Bob
Tannenbaum, Dr. Wecht, Dick Russell and Judge James Bothello, who was Oswald’s
bunkmate at Atsugi in the Marines, four aces for you.
And I don’t know if she slept with Oswald either, and don’t really care, and don’t endorse her story, but she does have the official city permit for the 12:00-12:30 pm Memorial Service at Dealey Plaza, that will include remarks by Dr. Wecht.
After
the Dealey Plaza memorial service and moment of silence, the CAPA conference
will resume and continue through Saturday night, featuring – Dr. Wecht, Dr.
Gary Aguilar, Professor John Newman, Bill Simpich, Rolf Mowatt-Larssen, Jim
DiEugenio, Burt Griffin, Judge Brandon Birmingham, forensics expert Cliff
Spiegelman, and oh, yea – Oliver Stone. Others will be added as the program is filled out.
At some point in the proceedings I hope to give an update on the latest research on Valkyrie and Pathfinder at Dealey Plaza, an article on which may appear in the next issue of Garrison magazine, a slick new Deep Political publication that is making waves.
I'm also going to push for a Congressional Briefing on the JFK Act to be held in Washington D.C. sometime early in the new year.
At some point in the proceedings I hope to give an update on the latest research on Valkyrie and Pathfinder at Dealey Plaza, an article on which may appear in the next issue of Garrison magazine, a slick new Deep Political publication that is making waves.
I'm also going to push for a Congressional Briefing on the JFK Act to be held in Washington D.C. sometime early in the new year.
Then
there’s a panel of JFK records Archivists – Stephen Fagin of the Sixth Floor
Museum, City of Dallas Archivist John Slate, Mary Goolsby from Baylor’s Poague
Library and Britney Crawford, the Acting Director of the JFK Collection at the
NARA. The Poague Library has a lot of JFK researcher's material, but then stopped accepting JFK material when the archivists changed hands. Now Mary Goolsby is in charge, and she wants to resume accepting JFK material, god bless her.
Hopefully they will form a JFK Internet Consoritum of JFK assassination
records with others - including the AARC and Mary Ferrell, and push for JFK Act Oversight Hearings in Congress.
Debra
Conway of JFK LANCER, who has been presenting a conference in Dallas every
November for the past two decades, will be manning the memorabilia, books and
video store at the CAPA conference.
The TCI
and CAPA Conference will be filmed and recorded, and available for downloading with
DVD packages available afterwards.
Live
Streaming is being considered but the technical details have not yet been
worked out. If you know how to live stream – be our guest to do it, if you can
do it right.
To support
CAPA, donate to our cause or register for the conference, please go to our
website and click on the orange link “CAPA November in Dallas
Conference.”
Join,
donate or register for the Conference: https://capa-us.org/
Conference
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