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JFK Lancer's Annual|
Hi Everyone! I'm back from the Crown Plaza hotel where we held the 2004 November In Dallas JFK Lancer research conference. We had three days of fantastic information, discussion, and commaraderie -- what an experience! We had a very moving tribute to Mary Ferrell last night at the Banquet where Mary's family attended. Banquet Pictures
 Mr and Mrs Ianno, Stefania Ianno, and Debra Conway at the NID 04 Banquet. Stefania was awarded the Mary Ferrell Student of the Year Scholarship for 2004  Beverly Oliver Massegee sings
at the Dealey Plaza ceremony.
Thanks to everyone for their work and contributions to making this year's conference such a success. Congratulations to Larry for another tremendous effort. Thanks, Debra Hi folks, hopefully some of the attendees will post here to give their views of the conference and in particular what they felt was new or educational content. I'd like to see those who attended the early bird Thursday evening "where are we now" research overview session with Rex Bradford, William Law and myself give their impressions on our remarks about how far we truly have come in 40 years. For myself, I was more than pleased by the speakers who exceeded my hopes and were all extremely cooperative thoughout. I probably learned the most from Stu Wexler and Tom Pinkston in their updated presentation on Neutron Activation Analysis and from William Law and Colin McSween on their presentations about Parkland and Bethusda. There is absolutely no substitute for William Law's primary research with the witnesses at Bethusda, especially his ground breaking work with the FBI agents. So many of the things we could only speculate about for 30 plus years are now in the historical record thanks to William. Jeff Morley's update on his findings in regard to CIA officers and obfuscation was of course interesting to me but I also enjoyed his objective remarks about the overall pursuit of truth from the perspective of an investigative journalist. In the end though perhaps the most inspirational remarks were from the student researcher, Stephania Lannis, a most remarkable young lady, who won this years Mary Ferrell - JFK Lancer Student of the year award. Her remarks at the testimonial banquet and later at the Plaza ceremony are what we all need to hear to confirm that the time, energy and resouces we spend in this quest for historical accuracy and truth are really worth it. And, as usual, the most valuable time I spent personally was the time in the hallways, restaurant, and other meeting places where the real networking and research gets done....usually up until about 1AM. Thanks to all, I hope we see other posts and I'll let someone else post about Mark Sobel and his fantastic movie! -- Larry |
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have any questions, please email the conference chairpersons.
The November In Dallas Committee is working hard to put together
an excellent November program. We look forward to seeing you
in Dallas! Chaired by Larry Hancock, Co-chaired by Debra Conway |