Rex Bradford
Rex Bradford is a computer game developer whose interest in the JFK assassination
and technology experience led him to develop the History Matters
web site. He is creating the largest electronic archive of JFK documents
at the Mary Ferrell Foundation, which now houses over 600,000 pages
of reports and documents. Rex is also Vice-President of the Assassination
Archives and Research Center.
Topic: The Mary Ferrell Foundation’s, Webster’s new documents.
Web sites: http://www.history-matters.com / http://maryferrell.org
Jerry Dealey - Born and raised in Dallas, as a member of the Dealey
family that Dealey Plaza was named after and that owned the Dallas
Morning News. Was in school in Denver in fall of 1963, but returned
every year in the summer to live with his father. Is a Dallas historian,
writing a book on the history of Dallas, Dealeys, Dallas Morning News,
and Dealey Plaza. Is a Docent at the Old Red Courthouse Museum, and
the Dallas Historical Society "Hall of State" in Fair Park.
Also gives tours of Dallas, and the Assassination related sites. Specializes
in the history and politics of Dallas. An active member of the Lancer
Forum, where he tries to assist in local information as much as possible.
Brian Edwards
Brian K. Edwards has been studying the JFK assassination since 1969
and has read over 300 books on the subject. From 1978-1997, he worked
as a police officer in Kansas. He was assigned to the patrol division
and served eight years on the police department’s tactical
response team. He received his Bachelor’s and Master’s
degree in Criminal Justice from Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas.
From 1996 to 2005, served as an adjunct instructor for the criminal
justice department, 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 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,
Kansas, 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. Co-Author of the new
book, “Beyond The Fence Line: The Eyewitness Account of Ed
Hoffman and the Murder of President Kennedy.”
TOPIC: Material from “Beyond the Fence Line: The Ed Hoffman Story”
Sherry Fiester
In 1993 Sherry Gutierrez Fiester, a Certified Senior Crime Scene Investigator
and Court recognized expert, begin to apply her professional expertise
to the Kennedy Assassination. By using the same Bloodstain Pattern
Analysis and Trajectory Analysis techniques she’s used in court
for over 20 years, Sherry answers basic questions concerning the
Kennedy Assassination. The result has been several NID Presentations,
the development of 4 expanded presentations and several articles
of interest to the assassination researcher. This year she will presenting
new information concerning the fatal headshot, while including blood
spatter and trajectory analysis from previous 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 Identification 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. In 2003, Fiester was presented with
the Mary Ferrell - 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.
Topic: Trajectory Analysis of a Shot from the Front
Paul Foreman
Foreman was an active duty Los Angeles Police Officer when Bobby Kennedy
was gunned down in the kitchen of the Ambassador Hotel in June of
1968, the night Kennedy won the California primary. His aikido instructor,
Robert Koga, who taught at the Academy and who still trains police
nationwide through the Koga Institute in Fallbrook, California, was
a close family friend of Thomas Noguchi, the great forensic scientist
who performed the autopsy on RFK. Foreman has worked as a writer,
book publisher, and bookstore owner, and in the mining business.
One of his books, “Sugarland,” a novel about Texas prisons
influenced Judge William Wayne Justice in his famed “Ruiz vs.
Estelle” case. A recent long poem: Karl Rove vs. Karl Marx
has been filmed twice, and has been seen by several members of Congress.
The poem was also included in a documentary on the “New McCarthyism
in America,” done by the Italian filmmaker, Andrea Frezza,
which was shown on Rome television.
Topic: The Case for Reopening the LAPD’s Investigation of the
Robert Kennedy assassination.
John Kelin
Kelin’s interest in the Kennedy assassination dates to 1976,
when he attended a lecture by Mark Lane. Between 1994 and 2000 he published “Fair
Play” magazine. In 1999 he received JFK Lancer’s “New
Frontier” award and has been listed in several editions of the “Master
Researcher Directory.” In 2000 he began researching the earliest
critics of the Warren Report, a study resulting in “Praise from
a Future Generation: The Assassination of John F. Kennedy and the First
Generation Critics of the Warren Report” published last year
by Wings Press.
TOPIC: Material from “Praise from a Future Generation”
WEBSITE: http://wingspress.com/Titles/PRAISE.html
Ian Griggs
Griggs’ interest in the Kennedy assassination began on 22nd November
1963, and he has been studying it seriously for the past 35 years.
He is a frequent visitor to Dallas and has presented research papers
and moderated panels regularly at ASK, COPA, Fourth Decade and JFK
Lancer since 1994. He is very proud to be a founder member, and a recently-elected
Life Member, of the UK research group Dealey Plaza UK, which celebrates
its tenth anniversary this year. Griggs’ research 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). The first book, “No Case To Answer,” published
by JFK Lancer Productions & Publications. It features 27 essays
and articles in which he looks at aspects of the assassination and
cover-up through the eyes of an English detective. He hopes to follow
this with his definitive work on the Dallas Police Department next
year.
Topic: Who Really Found the Rifle in the TSBD
William Law
Law is an accomplished layman historian with many, many important interviews
conducted including Bethesda witnesses Ex-FBI Special Agents James
Sibert and Frances O’Neill, and James Jenkins. Author of one
of the most important books on the medical evidence, “In the
Eye of History: Disclosures in the JFK Assassination Medical Evidence” (2004),
2009 will bring Law’s upcoming oral history of the RFK assassination
witnesses in book, and also documentary format with filmmaker Mark
Sobel.
Topic 1: (Sat.) With Colin McSween, Wound reconstruction and What It
Tells Us.
Topic 2: (Sun) Robert Kennedy Witnesses Update
WEBSITE: http://www.jfklancer.com/catalog/law/
Edward R. Martino
Martino holds a Doctorate in Psychology and currently works as a computer
programming specialist. He is the son of John Martino, a self-confessed
participant in the Kennedy conspiracy, identified to and investigated
by the House Select Committee on Assassinations. Edward and his father
were both taken prisoner during a visit to Cuba in 1959, Edward remaining
in custody for several days and his father was imprisoned in Cuba for
some 39 months. Edward was witness to certain of John Martino’s
activities with Cuban exiles and to visits of a variety of individuals
to the Martino home. He was also a witness to certain remarks by his
father before, on and following November 22, 1963. Ed’s father’s
book will be available from JFK Lancer at the November conference.
Topic: John Martino, observations and insights
Gerald McKnight
McKnight is a professional historian and author of “The Last
Crusade: Martin Luther King Jr., The FBI, And The Poor People’s
Campaign” (1998); and the widely acclaimed Breach of Trust: How
the Warren Commission Failed the Nation and Why ; (2005), considered
one of the most important books on the documentary record of the Warren
Commision. In the book, “In Breach of Trust,” McKnight
argues that the commission embraced the politically safe lone-gunman
theory from the outset and therefore slanted its investigation, ignored
crucial leads and discounted contradictory evidence and witnesses.
McKnight worked closely with Harold Weisberg during his years of research
and was instrumental in the transfer and establishment of the Weisberg
archives at Hood College.
Topic: Insider sessions and the failure of the Warren Commission.
Colin McSween
McSween holds licences & certificates in Embalming, Funeral Directing,
Thanatology (New England), Biblical Studies & Liberal Arts. He
has consulted in JFK research to Dr. Charles Crenshaw, William Law,
Matthew Smith & David S. Lifton. He’s been an invited speaker
by relatives of the late Earl Warren. He is past professor of Funeral
Sciences, Anatomy, Medical Terminology, Death Studies, Pathology, Restorative
Art & Reconstructive Mortuary Surgery. He is proficient on the
JFK Limousine, Firearms in the JFK Assassination & the JFK Medical
Evidence & other areas. A member of ACTRA & UBCP, Colin has
served as Technical Consultant in TV & Film, was a technical consultant
to “The X Files” in which he also portrayed JFK’s
Secret Service Chaffeur. Author with Aubrey Rike of the new book, “At
the Door of Memory, Aubrey Rike and the Assassination of President
Kennedy.”
Topic 1: “A Closer Look: The JFK Parkland Hospital Admission
Notes” (What do they tell us ?)
Topic 2: Wound reconstruction and what it tells us. (With William Law)
Randy Owen
Owen was born and raised in Welland, Ontario, Canada just
a short distance across the border from Niagara Falls and Buffalo,
New York. His award-winning broadcasting career began with two consecutive
awards for having the top mark in radio class at college. In 1988,
he became the first person to win both national Canadian country
music awards for on-air personality of the air in the same year.
This year, he became the first recipient of JFK Lancer’s “Researcher
of the Month” award. Owen’s research into the JFK assassination
began at age eleven. In 1970, while researching a school project,
he began reading about the assassination and hasn’t stopped
since. His collection includes over 350 books and unpublished manuscripts,
over 500 hours of video (including live coverage of the assassination),
hours of audio (including Dallas Police and Air Force One radio
transmissions), over 1,000 newspaper and 800 magazine articles.
Owen has served as a consultant to the JFK Assassination Exhibit
and Research Centre in Niagara Falls, Ontario, and been a presenter
at the 1993 JFK Assassination Symposium in Sudbury, Ontario. He’s
been on several radio and television programs including the “Shirley” and “Larry
King” talk shows. Owen has also made written contributions
to “The Third Decade” and “The Fourth Decade” journals
and through several posts on the JFK Lancer website.This year,
Owen has been asked to be the Master of Ceremonies for the Banques,
and a speaker. The evidence he has to present has been described
by author Larry Hancock as “explosive.”
Casey
Quinlan
Casey J. Quinlan was born and raised in Kansas City and has been
a high school teacher for over 32 years in Kansas. Quinlan served
in the United States Army with the 9th Infantry as a medical corpsman
during the Vietnam War. He earned a Bachelor of Science in Education
and a Master’s degree in American History from Emporia State
University in Emporia, Kansas. He is co-director of Project JFK/CSI
Dallas, a student-oriented historical experience for high school
and college students. Quinlan has been the featured speaker at many
colleges throughout the Midwest, including the Alf Landon Lecture
Series at Kansas State University; the William Allen White School
of Journalism at the University of Kansas; and the Johnson County
Community College in Overland Park, Kansas. Quinlan has served as
a guest historian for the A&E network, the History Channel, and
for Oliver Stone’s movie, JFK. In 1995, Quinlan was named the
Outstanding Educator of the Year by JFK Lancer. From 1997, Quinlan
has served as an adjunct instructor at Friends University in Wichita,
Kansas; Ottawa University in Overland Park, Kansas and Washburn University’s
Criminal Justice Department in Topeka, Kansas. Today, Quinlan teaches
American History at Basehor-Linwood High School in Bonner Springs,
Kansas. Co-Author of the new book, “Beyond The Fence Line:
The Eyewitness Account of Ed Hoffman and the Murder of President
Kennedy.”
TOPIC: Material from “Beyond the Fence Line”
John A. Sanders
is an award-winning screenwriter who has spent the last year researching
and writing an historical mini-series about the life of mobster Johnny
Rosselli. A student of the JFK assassination since the early ‘70s,
John jumped at the chance to explore the life of this well-respected “emissary
to the underworld,” and began to uncover new evidence regarding
his role in Dallas. Previously, John has been an international business
systems consultant, an industrial psychologist, a marketing executive,
and directed quality improvement efforts for the California State
University system.
Topic: The FBI surveillance on John Rosselli
M. Wesley Swearingen
served in the U.S. Navy during WWII, earned a BS degree from Ohio State
University and jointed the FBI under J. Edgar Hoover. The California
Attorney’s for Criminal Justice gave Swearingen the President’s
Award for Courage, Commitment, Unswerving Effort and United Effort
for his work in reversing the conviction of Geronimo Pratt and has
helped in other efforts to counter injustices created by acts of
the FBI and authored “FBI Secrets” an expose of corruption
and wrong-doing in the Bureau. He is a licensed California Private
Investigator and resides in California. He will be speaking on h
Topic: His new 2008 book, “To Kill A President.”
Stu Wexler
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 analysis of the ballistics material since 2000. Wexler
has spoken on the subject at JFK Lancer’s NID twice, at the
Wecht conference 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 collaborated 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. Most recently he has
also worked on both the Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr.
assassinations.
TOPIC: Ambassador Hotel RFK Assassination Photos Controversy
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