A Spys Disinformed Propagation of the Assassination

 A Spy’s Disinformed Propagation of the Assassination 

By Billkelly3@gmail.com

Former CIA agent Bruce Held is writing a blog post on a Spys View of American History, the details of which clearly indicate can be classified as very distinct disinformation and black propaganda.

Bruce Held’s post on his 60 Years Ago Today blog falsely claims that Lee Harvey Oswald was inspired to kill the President after reading Daniel Harker’s September 9th 1963 Associated Press (AP) article published in the New Orleans newspaper reporting  on Harker’s September 7th interview with Fidel Castro at the Brazilian embassy in Havana. Held calls attention to the article that is indeed a significant piece of assassination evidence, although he misinterprets it.

 Harker’s AP article is the most frequently used source for those who try to pin the Dealey Plaza donkey tail on Fidel Castro, but is also an important lead into the nefarious counter-intelligence operations that have a bearing on the assassination.

Held writes: “Castro had made an impromptu appearance at a reception hosted by the Brazilian Embassy in Havana on Saturday evening, 7 September. He took the initiative to approach an American journalist named Daniel Harker and offered him a quick interview. In the interview Castro said, ‘We are prepared to fight them and answer them in kind. United States leaders should think that if they are aiding terrorist plans to eliminate Cuban leaders, they themselves will not be safe. Let Kennedy and his brother Robert take care of themselves since they, too, can be the cause of an attempt which will cause their deaths.’”

The article published in the New Orleans Times Picayune on page 7 of the September 9th edition, has a headline that refers to Castro’s rant against the US government approved terrorist attacks against Cuban industrial targets by the CIA paid and trained Cubans that operated out of the JMWAVE station, notably the Pathfinders. Some of them were captured and tortured and admitted that the CIA paid and trained them. Some, like those who were captured in the late October raid by the CIA raider ship Rex, head high powered rifles with scopes, that CIA raider ship Captain Rolando Martinez said “weren’t for shooting rabbits.”  

Castro knew they were gunning for him, he just didn’t know if the Kennedy brothers had approved those CIA backed assassination missions, and there is no documented proof that they did, while there is documented proof that JFK had two backchannel communications going with Castro, one at the UN and another with French journalist Jean Daniel.

When Castro’s comments to Harker were quoted over the media, a handful of men (FitzGerald, his two assistants Bruce Cheever and Samuel Halpern and possibly one or two others) at the Cuban desk in the basement of the CIA headquarters at Langley knew that the date of the interview – September 7th, and the location – the Brazilian embassy, were significant indications that Castro knew about the meeting between Dr. Rolando Cubela (AMLASH) and Desmond FitzGerald’s agent Nestor Sanchez in Bolivia that very day. And the fact that a Cuban businessman had warned the CIA that Cubela was a “dangle,” a fake agent attempting to lure those who opposed Castro out into the open.

Held continues: “Castro made these threatening comments because he knew that a senior Cuban government official was meeting in Brazil at that very time, 5-8 September, with a senior CIA officer named Nestor Sanchez. The senior Cuban official, Rolando Cubela, volunteered to assassinate Castro and establish a new Cuban government that was less hostile to the United States. Sanchez told Cubela that his proposal would be brought to the attention of the “highest levels” of the US government and promised a response at their next meeting, scheduled for 29 October in Paris.”

What Held doesn’t tell you is that Nestor Sanchez’s boss and case officer Desmond FitzGerald, who had replaced William Harvey as head of the Cuban desk, personally met with Cubela in Paris and convinced him that the Kennedys did approve of assassinating Castro when in fact FitzGerald later testified that he never told them, or CIA director John McCone, who he knew to be Catholics who opposed murder on principle. While FitzGerald has the name associated with the Kennedys of Boston, the looks and charisma, he was not a Kennedy nor did he inform them of the Castro assassination operation.

According to Held, “By speaking to Harker, Castro had gone out of his way to warn the CIA that he knew about the ongoing discussions with Cubela. Unfortunately, we ignored the warning. What we found out some years later was that Cubela was a double agent. He was not working with the CIA; he was working for Cuban Counterintelligence.  Everything the CIA would ask Cubela to do would be immediately reported back to Castro.”

Yes, we agree that Cubela “But in the Harker interview, Oswald must have felt that Castro was speaking directly to him.”

But, and it’s a BIG But – we haven’t even established that Oswald actually read that issue or that article.

Held: “Five months before he had attempted to assassinate Edwin Walker in an effort to earn a place for himself in Cuba.”

But how is the Walker shooting related to Cuba, or an effort to earn a place for himself in Cuba? That is not established either. Oswald told Marina he tried to kill Walker because he was a fascist like Hitler who should have been assassinated as well. Nothing about Cuba.

Held:  “Just two weeks before he had renewed practicing with his sniper rifle,”

But wait a minute, the Warren Report concluded that Oswald didn’t practice with the rifle, nor did he ever purchase or have ammunition.

Held: “….explaining to his wife, ‘Fidel Castro needs defenders. I’m going to join an army of volunteers. I’m going to become a revolutionary.’”

Wow, I never heard that before. And it’s not footnoted, other than claiming Marina said it and I don’t believe she did.

“The threats against President Kennedy from Castro himself would have a profound impact on Oswald - - and, in 11 weeks, on the nation.”

But were they threats or a warning?

The Murder, Inc. that LBJ referred to was the mechanism “we were running a Murder, Inc. in the Caribbean,” and while Castro did have spies everywhere, including infiltrating JMWAVE, he tried and executed his opponents (ala American William Morgan), and didn’t have a mechanism like our Murder, Inc. – aka ZRRIFLE, that could do it.

The obvious question isn’t whether Oswald knew of the Harker interview, and Castro’s statements, or if Castro attempted to retaliate against JFK, but whether the Murder, Inc. Boys at JMWAVE redirected their target from Castro to JFK, as they certainly hated him as much as they did Fidel Castro.

And we know from the comments of Desmond FitzGerald after being informed of the assassination, wondering if his Cubans were involved, and the recently released Heath Memo, that there were those in the CIA itself who also suspected this immediately after the assassination and conducted an investigation of the JMWAVE station, the results of which have not been forthcoming. 

More on Disinformation at Dealey Plaza

In Deep Politics III Peter Dale Scott writes:

“In the days after the murders in Dallas, the U.S. Was flooded with dubious stories, most of them swiftly discredited, linking Oswald to either a Cuban or Soviet conspiracy. Those which most preoccupied the FBI and CIA all came out of Mexico. These stories exhibited certain common characteristics.  -  They all came from either directly from an intelligence source, or from someone in the hands of an intelligence agency  -  The Stories changed over time, to support either a pro-conspiratorial hypothesis (“Phase One”) or a rebuttal of this (“Phase Two”).-  The Warren Commission was led to believe that the“Phase One”stories were without basis. In fact a number of unresolved anomalies suggest that behind them was some deeper truth, still not revealed.- In retrospect, these stories should not have been taken seriously. In fact the CIA was able to rely on them, not as a source of truth, but as a source of coercive influence over the rest of the government. It will help us to understand what was going on if we refer to the stories, not as 'information' or even as 'allegations,' but as MANAGED STORIES. To say this leaves open the question of who were the ultimate managers?”

Scott: “I do wish to argue that these managed stories, fleeting and insubstantial though they are, were of central importance in determining the outcome of the Kennedy assassination investigation. In succeeding years, furthermore, the discredited 'Phase-One' stories have been revived to manipulate public opinion, even after the CIA and FBI had agreed on a 'Phase-Two' interpretation of Oswald's movements in Mexico City. In 2013, for example, the discredited Garro story of the twist party was revived in a mainstream book by Philip Shenon.”

Newman: “The plot to assassinate President Kennedy was designed to deceive both people in the government and the public at large.  A convincing trail of evidence was established to make it appear that the Kennedy brothers’ plan to overthrow Castro had been turned around and used against them by Fidel himself, resulting in the assassination of President Kennedy."

“There is an unstated corollary principal in the game of deception that Allen Dulles was kind enough to give us.  Once a “single piece” of a black operation has been compromised, the entire fabric of that operation can potentially unravel.”

You can't understand what happened at Dealey Plaza unless you understand the fundamentals of psychological warfare, disinformation and black propaganda – because that's the part of the Dealey Plaza operational plan that failed, that failed in its contention that Castro Cuban Communists were responsible for the assassination, and because it failed it gives us a good glimpse into the Looking Glass and brings us very close to those who designed the plan, especially the part that failed.

https://jfkcountercoup.blogspot.com/2015/06/disinformation-at-dealey-plazq.html

https://jfkcountercoup.blogspot.com/2015/04/list-of-psychwar-black-prop-ops.html

 

For an opposing perspective here’s a Naval War College Review of a book “Disinformation, Misinformation and the ‘Conspiracy” to Kill JFK Exposed” (Hamden, Conn. Archon Books, 1987) that dismisses all conspiracy theories and concludes JFK was killed by a deranged lone nut.

https://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4213&context=nwc-review

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More Disinformation and Black Propaganda - from the CIA

More Disinformation and Black Propaganda at Dealey Plaza – Castro on the Grassy Knoll

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Proof of the Plot and a Conspiracy - Disinformation and Black Propaganda Were Used 

By Bill Kelly – Billkelly3@gmail.com

The evidence and proof there was a conspiracy to kill President Kennedy in Dallas is contained in the disinformation and black propaganda campaigns to blame the murder on Fidel Castro of Cuba. It is what the CIA calls “an active measure” as these media campaigns continue today, as most recently exhibited by Bruce Held, in his continuing series “A Spys Guide to American History.”

https://bruceheld.substack.com/p/60-years-ago-today-the-plot-begins

In it, Held writes on – September 9, 2023 that, “Lee Harvey Oswald got the idea of assassinating President Kennedy 60 years ago today. Up until that day he was desperate to get to Cuba but he was well disposed toward the President. Indeed, he and his wife Marina had a photo of Kennedy alongside a photo of Fidel Castro on their mantel piece. That all changed on Monday morning, 9 September 1963, when Oswald read an interview of Castro which made the front page of the New Orleans Times Picayune as well as every other major newspaper in the US.”

Hold on right there, as Oswald told Michael Paine, “you have to read between the lines” to get the full story from blatent propaganda. First off, Oswald was very “well disposed toward the President,” in fact liked him a lot, and everyone who knew Oswald also knew that. It is also a false assumption that Oswald killed the President he liked so well, as there is a lot of information available that indicates he was not even on the sixth floor of the building at the time of the shooting and was, as he claimed to be, a patsy.

In addition, we do not know for a fact that Oswald even read the article in question, that was not on the front page of the New Orleans Times Picayune, but on page 7. We also know for a fact that the very frugal Oswald did not subscribe to his hometown newspaper, and did not buy it frequently, if at all, as fellow employees at the Texas School Book Depository said Oswald read discarded copies left around the lunchroom by others.

The news article written by Daniel Harker of the Associated Press (AP) of his three hour long interview with Castro at the Brazilian embassy two night previous – on September 7, 1963, is indeed an important piece of the JFK assassination puzzle, but not as it is deliberatly misinterpeted by those who propagate the “Castro did it” disinformation.

 Here we are using the classic definition of  “disinformation” – delibertly false information distributed by an intelligence source in support of a covert intelligence operation, so it is not only false, but is promoted by sources that can be traced to an intelligence agency or network.

The idea that Castro was behind the assassination of JFK is not only clearly classified as disinformation, but is also black propaganda – as defined by the CIA’s Paul Linebarger, who wrote the Army’s manual on Psychological Warfare and Propaganda during the Korean War. He continued to teach the concepts to CIA officers and agents as a professor of the John's Hopskins Center for International Studies. The term “disinformation” comes from the Soviet’s “Dizinformation” agency while “propaganda” stems from the Vatican’s department for the propagating the faith.

[For more on Disinformation at Dealey Plaza see:

[https://jfkcountercoup.blogspot.com/2015/06/disinformation-at-dealey-plazq.html ]

Linebarger broke propaganda down into five different types, ranging from white – a press release,  to shades of grey and black – with black being the attribution of a covert intelligence action to the enemy, in this case the covert action being the assassination and the enemy being Castro.

As the first fake conspiracy theory to surface in the media in the immediate aftermath of the murder, what Peter Dale Scott calls the “Phase One Cover Story,” the idea that Castro had JFK killed was very distinct disinformation and black propaganda widely promoted by many – dozens of CIA officers, agents and their assets, including those in the media.

After Oswald was arrested, blamed for the murder of the President and a policeman and his basic background became widely known, District Attorney Henry Wade went to dinner at a fancy Dallas restaurnat and left it for his assistant DA William Alexander to write up the indictment of Oswald.

Thanks to Vincent Bugliosi (Reclaiming History), we know that at that time, Alexander was communicating with Phildadelphia Inquirer Washington DC editor Joseph Goulden, who was trying to get Aldexander to charge Oswald with killing the President to “further a communist conspiracy.” While Bugliosi doesn’t tell you, Goulden was then a media asset of CIA official David Atlee Phillips, and now oversees Phillips’ archives. So Phillips and Goulden were two of the earliest proponents of the assassination being the result of a “communist conspiracy.”

When LBJ learned of this, when he was back at his VP office in the Executive Office Building, he had his aide call the Attorney General of Texas – and had him track down DA Wade at his dinner table, and have him return to his office to confront Alexander and make sure he did not charge Oswald with “furthering a communist conspiracy." That led directly to PDS’s “Phase Two Cover Story,” the equally false but more palatable deranged lone nut scenario, that most Americans still do not believe.

When HSCA investigator Dan Hardway interviewed David Phillips he asked Phillips why a number of his associates and intelligence assets tried to blame Castro immediately after the assassination, and while Phillips acknowlded knowing them, he didn’t know why they tried to blame Castro.

But that Oswald was the shooter in the window must be accepted as a principle for the “Castro did it” aspect to be even considered, so both cover stories are still in play, at least as far as Bruce Held and company are concerned.

The fact that this very clear and distinct disinformation and black propaganda effort of the assassination being the result of a Cuban Communist Conspiracyy continues today, even after being proven false. That makes it not only an “active measure” but one that is current and not ancient history, as Bruce Held and the CIA would have us believe.

It would take quite a long time to run down all of those who promote this discredited conspiracy theory, but some deserve at least a little attention. I put them in two categories – the self acknowledged CIA agents and those without clear intelligence connections but who propagate this theory.

Besides Bruce Held, who I presume we will be hearing more from as he runs down his “Sixty Years Ago Today” the CIA’s Mockingbird taught the orchestra to play, there’s a number of others. One is Brian Latel, who wrote a book on a former Cuban radio technician who manned the Cuban-Russian radio listening post. When he defected he claimed that Castro himself instructed him to listen to the radio broadcasts from Texas when the President was there, that to Latel is proof that Castro knew the assassination would take place. Well to any reasonable, rational person, that would tell them Castro knew the President would be in Texas, not a state secret, and not that he would be assassinated.

[For more on Latell - https://jfkfacts.org/former-cia-analyst-brian-latell-cuban-intelligence-officers-were-complicit-in-kennedys-death/  /   https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/16059536  /        https://www.csmonitor.com/Books/chapter-and-verse/2012/0319/JFK-assassination-Did-Castro-know-before-it-happened ]

Then there’s Bob Baer, the CIA agent and his LAPD nodding sidekick who apparently had unlimited funding for his TV series JFK Declassified: Tracking Oswald.

 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JFK_Declassified:_Tracking_Oswald /  https://jfkcountercoup.blogspot.com/2017/05/jfk-declassified-episode-2-more-dis.html ]

Baer traveled to Minsk and Mexico City to try to prove that Oswald was a Communist agent secretly run by the KGB and Castro. His only proof that Oswald was controlled by Castro agents is the fact that he attended a bull fight in Mexico City where he could have secretly met Cuban agents among the tens of thousands of spectators. The only proof Oswald actually attended a bullfight is a postcard he ostensibly brought back from Mexico found among his effects after the assassination. Some proof.

Besides the admitted CIA agents, I hate to write "former CIA agents" because that would be an oxymoron, - David Atlee Phillips, Bruce Held, Brian Latel and Bob Baer, there’s a number of others who chime in the Mockingbird choris without direct ties to the agency – most notably Gus Russo, Phil Shenon and James Johnson.

I knew Russo very well when we shared lunchs together while lobbying for the JFK Act in Washington, and he came across as a truly independent researchers like myself, until, as John Judge told me, Russo was seen having lunch with some high level CIA officials. He then changed his tune to the Castro did it theme, got a book contract for “Brothers In Arms” (  https://jfkfacts.org/the-problem-with-politicos-jfk-conspiracy-theory/  ), and then another book on the Chicago mobsters.

Former New York Times reporter Phil Shenon went on the Castro did it trail at the request of a former Warren Commission lawyer who he refuses to identify (but is probably Arlen Spector or Sam Stern), and wrote a book on his campaign – “A Cruel and Shocking Act.” In it Shenon tries to make the claim that while in Mexico City Oswald attended a”Twist Party” with Syliva Duran, members from the Cuban embassy and two American “Gringos,” one a famous actor who Duran refused to identify.

[ For the CIA’s review of Shenon’s book https://www.cia.gov/static/Review-Cruel-and-Shocking.pdf  ]

Well I identified them from CIA phone intercepts as actor Richard Beymer (West Side Story/ The Longest Day) and former NYC bar owner and later Catholic priest Bradley Pierce, who told me that they were in Mexico at the time of the assassination and not when Oswald was there.

[ My take on the Twist Party:  https://jfkcountercoup.blogspot.com/2015/04/a-cruel-and-shocking-twist.html ]

Then there’s James Johnson, a former Church Committee lawyer who recently wrote “Murder, Inc.” that was published during the Covid crisis so it didn’t get much publicity, and he zeros right in on the CIA plots to kill Castro and what LBJ called “Murder, Inc. in the Caribbean,” that WE were running, not Castro. But instead of focusing on the JMWAVE based mechanisms our CIA set up to kill Castro, Johnson says that the obvious question is whether Castro retaliated and had JFK killed. No, the obvious question is whether Our mechanisms set up to kill Castro were redirected to JFK in Dallas, but Johnson doesn’t bother to go there.

As Jefferson Morley says, Johnson is a different type of fish than self acknowledged CIA agents Phillips, Latel, Baer and Held. But like Russo and Shennon, he still propagates the false illusion of Castro’s complicity, when we know as an established fact that Castro had nothing to do with the Dealey Plaza operation. That is other than to be a victim, like Oswald, of the disinformationa and black propaganda campaign to take the blame for the conspiracy. And there certainly was a conspiracy, one still going on.

How do we know Castro was not behind the Daley Plaza operation – the conspiracy? Well for one we have the reports of the late Jean Daniel, a French reporter who was with Castro at the time of the assassination and observed his immediate reaction – shock and saying “This is very bad.” Daniel, as he reported in The New Republic, had spent time with President Kennedy earlier and JFK gave Daniel a message for Castro, one of possible reconcellation, which coincided with the back channel negotiations between Castro and JFK that were then ongoing at the UN.

In addition, just as the Cuba-Soviet lisenting post monitored American radio communications, the National Security Agency (NSA) monitored all foreign broadcasts, tapped telephones and installed electronic devices (bugs) in all communist embassies abroad. They got the immediate reactions of the Communist officials of the news of the assassination and knew that Castro was not involved.

A representatvie of the Warren Commission, as well as members of the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) personally met with and interviewed Castro and came away with the conviction that he had nothing to do with the murder of the President.

So the idea Castro was behind the assassination conspiracy is clearly  disinformation and black propaganda and were used as part of the assassination operation from its beginnings and today is proof that whatever you believe occurred at Dealey Plaza, it was a covert intelligence operation and thus a conspiracy. 

And now we have Bruce Held’s 60 Years Ago Today – Oct. 16 – Oswald starts work at the TSBD, that is also full of disinformation and propaganda, so it looks like I will have to just follow this guy around and correct him as he goes along.

[ https://bruceheld.substack.com/p/60-years-ago-today-oswald-starts ]

What Bruce Held quotes from Daniel Harker’s September 7-9^th 1963 interview with Castro really is a significant assassination record, and deserves a much closer review than what Bruce Held gives it, the subject of my next article.

More to come – Stay Tuned. 

JFK Confrences November 2023 - 60 Years On

 JFK CONFRENCES - 60 YEARS ON 

           Regardless of the subject, conferences are important exchanges of information, and usually precede major events. CIA academic assets sponsored conferences on Guatemala in the 50s shortly before they held a coup there, and on Cuba before the Bay of Pigs. 

In the summer of 1963 the CIA's Catherwood Foundation and Pan Am Society co-sponsored a conference of Cuban journalists in exile at the University of Miami (JMWAVE), that I'd like to get more information on, if anyone has the time and inclination to dig into that, send me what you learn. 

John Judge took me to my first JFK Assassination Conference in the late 1970s at New York University (NYU) Law School in Manhattan and introduced me to Penn Jones, Fletcher Prouty, Mae Brussell, Ralph Schoeman and Sylvia Meagher, all of whom I would get to know better over the years that became decades. 

From the time books are written, edited, formatted, printed, marketed and distributed, the information they contain are about two years behind the state-of-the art knowledge, regardless of the subject, which is why presentations at conferences and symposiums are much more up-to-date and valuable. 

It was the ASK Conference on JFK in Dallas in the early 1990s, that I believe was instigated by Gary Shaw, when things began to really take shape, as it was put together by a professional conference company, which sparked John Judge to suggest that we form our own organization to sponsor conferences and the first meeting of COPA - the Coalition on Political Assassinations at the West End Pub in Dallas. 

COPA sponsored two major national conferences in Washington D.C. in its first two years, one at the Sheraton Hotel, where the ghost of Earl Warren still roamed the halls as that's where he lived when he was in Washington. Then COPA began to sponsor annual "regional" conferences in November, and Memphis and LA in regards to MLK and RFK assassinations. 

It was at the second COPA conference when Debra Conway began what would become JFK Lancer, "to educate the next generation of researchers," and she began to hold annual conferences in Dallas that competed with COPA. With the death of John Judge COPA was disbanded but CAPA - Citizens Against Political Assassinations was created under the chairmanship of Dr. Cyril Wecht. 

This November CAPA will be co-sponsoring a JFK conference at the Wecht Institute for Forensic Pathology and Law at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, while JFK LANCER and Olney, Illinois College professor David Denton's JFK Historical Group will hold two conferences in Dallas, each of which has their own attributes. 

The Wecht Conference, organized by Dr. Wecht's competent son Ben, is being called a 'symposium," which in ancient Greece, meant to eat, drink and discuss an important subject together, which is what they will do to honor Dr. Wecht on opening night, and over box luncheon discussions with Robert Groden and Rob Reiner on the following two days. 

As for the presentations to be made, some are scheduled to be making presentations at more than one of the conferences. 

The Pittsburgh Conference will end  Friday night, while the Dallas events will continue into Sunday. 

CHRIS GALLOP LUNCHEON SYMPOSIUM 

In addition, Chris Gallop will hold his 11th annual luncheon symposium at 3132 Milan Street in Fort Worth - that will cost $65, that includes a catered lunch, and feature first generation researcher J. Gary Shaw, former policeman and SWAT team sniper Brian Edwards, Jeff Meek, film maker and professor Randy Benson ("The Searchers"), and Dr. Michael Marcades, son of Rose Cherame. Shaw, the best of the best researchers, will possibly talk about his new book Admitted Assassin, that revives the Roscoe White story, one that I thought had nuggets of truth but was swept under the rug. 

To register for the Gallop Luncheon - cjgallop@yahoo.com - 817-291-1891 

The JFK LANCER program at the Lorenzo Hotel is being put together by Conway's efficient assistant Gabriella and researcher Larry Hancock, while Denton took over the Judyth Vary Baker conference at the Doubletree Hotel, both of which are always well attended. While the Lorenzo is a short hop to Dealey Plaza, the Doubletree, on Market Street, is in another neighborhood and a cab or Huber ride away. 

JFK LANCER 

The 27th annual JFK LANCER will run from Friday, November 17 to Sunday, November 19, and include Larry Hancock, who is always a few steps ahead of me in our research, and recently completed a study of UFO reports over US Air Force bases. 

The primary speaker, in my opinion is Dr. John Newman, author of JFK and Vietnam, is writing a series of books on the JFK assassination that are so-far engrossing, along with Alan Dale. 

Others on the Lancer agenda include Alex Harris, Andrew Kiel, Bart Kemp ("Prayer Man"), Brent Hall, Carmine Savastano, Chuck O'Chelli, Eric Hunley, Mark Groubert, James Corbett, Jeff Meek, Jim Gochenaur, Johathan Cairnes, Mathew Douthit (Tippit) Monica Perez Jimenez (the dictator's daughter), Mike Swanson, Paul Bleau, who will give "a modern legislative approach to proving a conspiracy." Rob Clark and Joe Borelli will talk about "the Martins," and there are certainly a few of them. 

Robert Reynolds Nelson will discuss the Don Newlson story, and Secret Service expert Vince Palamara will give his take on the recent exposed Paul Landis story. 

Larry Hancock and David Boylan have been working together of late and will do presentations on Sylvia Odio and the suspicious events at Redbird Airport and participate in a panel on the Walker Shooting with Greg Douda, who will make a separate presentation on the subject. 

Stu Wexler, whose New Jersey high school social studies class got the Emmett Till bill passed by Congress, an amazing feat, will also be there to discuss accessing records at the National Archives. 

Both Bill Simpich and Larry Schanapf are also scheduled to be at both the Wecht Conference and at LANCER, and while Simpich is slated to talk about those who set up Oswald, a subject he has done in the past, and Schnapf will discuss the Walker bullet in Pittsburgh, I'm sure they will get into the details of their still hot and active federal court case in San Francisco - Mary Ferrell vs. Biden and NARA. 

Mary Ferrell's Rex Bradford is also set to talk about the state of the research, and exciting but sorry state it is in. 

Jefferson Morley is listed as a speaker, but he recently said that he will be going to Pittsburgh, though he could possibly do both. 

Dick Russell, who has taken time off from JFK to write a biographies of - x - and presidential candidate RFK, Jr. 

Prices are set at $180 for the walk in conference, or $220 with digital download, Students pay $35 and $70. The virtual and digital download are $125. 

For more info on the JFK LANCER conference -  JFK Lancer and gabriella.jfklancer@gmail.com 

Note: As I learn more about the topics and abstracts of talks I will add them here. 

JFK HISTORICAL GROUP 

The JFK Historical Group

David Denton's JFK Historical Group has their Project JFK- CSI Dallas that attests to be "a reexamination of the research with fresh eyes and technology," and "The Journey on the Trail of Truth in the JFK Assassination." 

It will include Ed Trato, Gary Shaw, William Law, David Knight, Brian Edwards, Casey Quinlan, Judyth Vary Baker, William Klaber, Randy Benson, Chana Willits, Rick Russo, Kris Millegan, Ryan Jones, Larry Rivera, Gary Fannin, Mal Hyman, Pete Hymans and Greg Bernham, all seasoned researchers. 

( BK Note: When I learn of their topics or get an abstract I will add it here.)

THE WECHT SYMPOSIUM - THE JFK ASSASSINATION AT 60 - 22^ND Annual Symposium 

https://www.duq.edu/academics/colleges-and-schools/science-and-engineering/academics/departments-and-programs/forensic-science-and-law/cyril-h-wecht-institute-of-forensic-science-and-law/the-annual-symposium.php

Note: College Students who attend the Wecht Conference can obtain 12 course credits for doing so.

WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER  15 –

Keynote Introduction Ken Gormley, J.D. Keynote address – Dr. Barbara Perry, PhD – “Why JFK’s Camelot Endures – And Why It Still Matters.”

Alec Baldwin – “Why JFK’s Assassination Will Not Go Away.”

THURSDAY, NOV. 16

Criminalistics, Forensic Science and Medicine –

Gary Aguilar, MD and Josiah Thompson, Ph.D., Doug DeSalles, MD, Bill Simpich, Esq.  – “Converging Lines of Evidence in the Case for Two Headshots”

Paul Landis, USSS Ret. – with James Robenalt, Esq.  “The Final Witness: A Kennedy SS Agent Breaks His Silence After Sixty Years.”

Doug Horne  (USN R) – “Two Brain Exams”

Brian Rosella, M.S. – “Forensic Modeling of Human Reactions and a JFK Assassination Timeline”

Box Lunch – Order by Nov. 1

Robert Groden (By Zoom) – “Documenting the Authenticity of the Zapruder Film”

Lawrence Schnapf, Esq. – “Gaging the Authenticity of the General Walker Bullet”

Donald Maue “Audio Forensic Analysis of the JFK Assassination”

David Mantik, MD, PhD – “As Easy as 1-2-3-4-5 Understanding the JFK Assassination”

Russell Kent – “Unmasking the Rockefeller Committee Medical Panel”

CAPA DINNER RECEPTION

Citizens Against Political Assassinations will host a reception on Duquesne’s campus to honor Dr. Cyril Wecht with a Profile in Courage award and to hear film director and producer, Irving Nestor, present findings of his Dealey Plaza 3D scan.

Registration is due Friday, Oct. 13. $40/plate dinner fee is separate from cost of the Symposium.

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17 – History, Politics and the Future

Benjamin E. Wecht, M.A.

Pamela Marshall, Ph.D.

Dr. John Newman, Ph.D. “The Assassination of President Kennedy: Understanding the Cold War Context.”

Jefferson Morley – “The CIA and JFK: What 30 Years of Reporting Tells Me.”

Mark de Valk, Ph.D., M.A. – “Carousel Contortionists: Jack Ruby, His Strippers, and their Moving Horses.”

Daniel Alcorn, Esq. – “New Findings About TSBD Building Owner David Harold Byrd.”

R. Andrew Kiel – “Edgar Hoover and Lyndon Johnson and How they Obstructed Justice.”

Rob Reiner (by Zoom) – “Who Killed JFK?”

James DiEugenio – “The Death of JFK and the Rise of the Neocons in U.S. Foreign Policy”

Robert Menz, M.A. – “An Inside Perspective on the Relationship Between Lee Oswald and the Paines.”

Greg R. Parker (via pre-recorded Zoom) – “Lee Oswald – The Patchwork Kid.”

David Montague, Ph.D. – “Lessons from the Assassination Records Review Board: The Value of Investigative Research with Respect to National Security.”

Donald Urda, J.D. and Michael Volbach, MA, MS – “Our Method of Teaching the Assassination: Inspiring the Next Generation of Researchers.”

David Talbot (via Zoom) – “Why Our Side is Losing the Media War.”

Ellen Gawalt, Ph. D.  – Closing Remarks 

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As far as I'm concerned, I was not asked to address any of the conferences, and while I want to attend the Wecht conference in Pittsburgh, I haven't committed myself to do that, yet. 

I believe that Dallas is done, we have been there many times before, and while it will always be the second biggest tourist attraction in Texas, after the Alamo, and someone will always continue the Moment of Silence at the Grassy Knoll at 12:30 on November 22 for as long as our civilization survives, I think that the emphasis should be focused on Washington D.C. 

That's where the evidence and government records are kept at the NARA, where Congress and the Oversight Hearings should be held, and where the answers to the outstanding questions are. 

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