Crime Scene Presentations:

Jerry Dealey - A Shooter in the Texas School Book Depository?  

Dealey Plaza and Texas School Book Depository “walk thru”

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 and Moderator of the JFK Lancer Forum, where he tries to assist in local information as much as possible. 

Barry Ernest - The Girl on the Stairs; My Search for a Missing Witness

With a degree in journalism and communications, Barry Ernest honed his skills as an investigative reporter and features writer at newspapers in New York and Pennsylvania. It was a tip from a friend in 1967 that started Mr. Ernest looking for answers to the John Kennedy assassination. The result of those lengthy efforts is his book “The Girl On the Stairs”. His study of this subject over the years has led him to the witnesses of Dallas as well as the documents of the National Archives. He has appeared on numerous radio talk shows and, ironically enough, has been featured in countless newspaper interviews. He also provided research and investigative services for several noted authors on the assassination, including David Lifton, Penn Jones Jr., and Harold Weisberg, the latter considered to have been the leading authority on this case. Mr. Ernest now lives with his wife in Harrisburg, Pa., where he continues to research, write, and maintain his blog while answering the many questions he is asked about the assassination and its missing witness.

Brian Edwards - The Dealey Plaza Ambush: Perception vs. Practicality

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.”

William Orchard – The Shots in Dealey Plaza

William Orchard only exists on official documents. Bill Orchard will be glad to shake your hand and talk about the assassination. However, Bill is a bit self-conscious about having an MA in Marriage and Family Therapy, when he should have an MS is some technical field. Nevertheless, Bill has been reading about the Kennedy assassination for twenty years and he has a respectable library on it. The Shots in Dealey Plaza is his only published work on the assassination and it has been in progress for about two years. Bill is semi-retired as a mental health counselor and he lives on the Alabama Gulf Coast.

Tyler Newcomb - Murder From Within

Tyler Newcomb is the son of legendary JFK researcher and writer Fred T. Newcomb. Tyler and his sister Valerie have taken it upon themselves to publish their father’s underground 1974 manuscript Murder From Within. This is being done as a loving tribute to their father who devoted 7 years of his life and every spare minute and dollar to try and understand what happened 11/22/63. The new and updated "Murder From Within" is being brought to the JFK Lancer convention as the first unveiling of it and it’s release from the publisher, AuthorHouse. Tyler is experienced in lecturing on the material in his father's book having done so at UCLB, Arizona State and other venues. Newcomb will present work on the limousine windshield and new interviews from ARRB Bethesda witnesses.

 

Shooting Studies:

Sherry Fiester - Trajectory Studies of the Fatal Shot

In 1993 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 with 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.

Paul Chambers – The Physics of the Fatal Shot

Chambers is a physicist and ballistics expert currently working as a contractor for NASA. He previously worked as a research physicist for the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C. Chambers has applied his scientific training to a detailed study of the shooting of JFK, in particular, the physics of the fatal head shot as described in “Head Shot: The Science Behind the JFK Assassination.

CIA Studies:

Bill Simpich - Spy Games in Mexico City

 

Larry Hancock – Risky Business / The JFK-Castro Private Communications 

Hancock is a leading historian-researcher in the JFK assassination. He co-authored, with Connie Kritzberg, “November Patriots” and is author of the acclaimed “Someone Would Have Talked”, now in its third, 2010 edition. Hancock has also published a study of the RFK assassination, “Incomplete Justice” and along with Stuart Wexler, will see publication of their new work on the MLK assassination in the spring of 2011. In 2000, Hancock received the prestigious "Mary Ferrell New Frontier Award" for the contribution of new evidence in the Kennedy assassination case. In 2001, he was also awarded the "Mary Ferrell Legacy Award."

 

Texas Studies:

Jim Marrs - Jack Ruby in Dallas

Marrs is a distinguished journalist and author of the “New York Times” bestseller, “Crossfire-the Plot to Kill Kennedy” as well as a number of best-selling books such as “Rule by Secrecy” and his newest 2011 book, “The Trillion Dollar Conspiracy”. Mr. Marrs is a fearless and gifted writer and researcher.

Ian Griggs – Jack Ruby and the DPD

Griggs's interest in the Kennedy assassination goes back to the day it happened and he has been studying it seriously for the past 37 years. He is a frequent visitor to Dallas and has presented research papers and moderated panels regularly at the Assassination Symposium on President Kennedy (ASK), the Coalition of Political Assassinations (COPA), and JFK Lancer's November In Dallas Conference since 1994. Griggs has published work in "The Fourth Decade" and "Assassination Chronicles" research publications. He is very proud to be a founder member and recently elected Life Member of the UK research group Dealey Plaza UK, which celebrates its 16th 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). His first assassination book, "No Case To Answer" was published by JFK Lancer in 2005 and is soon to be issued in an updated edition. He is also at work on a definitive work describing the Dallas Police Department.

Casey Quinlan – The Eyes of Texas

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, Quinlanis co-Author of the book, "Beyond The Fence Line: The Eyewitness Account of Ed Hoffman and the Murder of President Kennedy."

 

Phil Nelson - Then Johnson Connection

Phil Nelson's interest in the darker character traits of Lyndon B. Johnson actually began well before John F. Kennedy's assassination. Even as a sophomore in high school, in 1960, he was intrigued by magazine articles about Johnson which had appeared in a number of news magazines in the period of Johnson's vice presidency; one such incident occurred just weeks after the Kennedy-Johnson administration took office in January, 1961. It involved a radio announcement about the crash of an airplane on Johnson's ranch on February 17, 1961, a Friday, which went unreported until the following Monday. Nelson thought it seemed a little strange when the announcement was made on the high school PA system during English class; the class was assured that the vice president had not been injured, "only" the pilots were dead. If it hadn't been for the numerous additional scandals that subsequently appeared in newspapers for nearly three years after that -- TFX, Billie Sol Estes, Bobby Baker -- the crash of an airplane would have been forgotten with time. After Nelson's graduation from college and service in the Peace Corps in Brazil , he decided that his $1,500 college loan was such a burden that he had to repay as soon as possible, he decided against graduate school and took a job in the insurance industry. Only after retirement did Nelson return to the topic of the Lyndon Johnson, authoring the 2010 book, “LBJ : The Mastermind of JFK’s Assassination”, scheduled for introduction on November 1, 2011.

Other Topics:

Ben Rogers – The Baylor JFK Archives with a focus on the new Armstrong Collection

Director of W. R. Poage Legislative, a research facility that houses congressional records and personal papers related to political history. The Library currently features exhibits: JFK50: Primary, Election, Inauguration and LBJ: Texan, Politician, President. The library began its JFK Assassination Research Collection in 2004 with the papers of Penn Jones, Jr.  There are now papers from not only Penn Jones but also Jack White, John Armstrong, Gary Shaw, John Kelin, Roy Schaeffer, Paul Hoch, Mae Brussells and others.  The collection includes extensive magazines, newspapers and newsletters related to research since 1963.  Most materials are listed online and are open to researchers. See http://www.baylor.edu/lib/poage/jfk/index.php?id=60997.

 

Stuart Wexler – Milteer Revisited

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. His book, co-authored with Larry Hancock, on the MLK assassination will be in print in spring, 2011. 

Jim DiEugenio – JFK’s Foreign Policy…plus

DiEugenio has written two books on the Kennedy assassination.  “Destiny Betrayed” (1992) was the first positive reconsideration of the Jim Garrison investigation in a generation.  “The Assassinations” (2003, co-edited with Lisa Pease) analyzed the murders of RFK, MLK, and Malcolm X, but devoted most its pages to the newly released ARRB documents in the JFK case.  He and Lisa also edited the journal Probe (1993-2000) which focused on the releases of the ARRB and new developments in the King and RFK cases.  Jim has an MA in Contemporary American History from California State University Northridge.  He was asked by Oliver Stone to do a commentary track on the expanded DVD version of his film “JFK”.  

Nancy Weiford - George de Mohrenschildt Revisited

Nancy Weiford has conducted significant research into the political violence of the 1960s for several decades. She has been a recognized source of assistance to authors and researchers. Together with Gordon Winslow, she created and co-edited the Master Researchers’ Directory from 1994-2002. She has fostered further education of the public through presentations to Mensa, local high schools, and various historical conferences. Nancy has written articles in the Third and Fourth Decade, Dealey Plaza Echo and the Kennedy Assassination Chronicles. Relating to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, she has specialized in research covering Michael and Ruth Paine, Marita Lorenz, and George and Jeanne de Mohrenschildt. She has recently completed a two volume biography of George de Mohrenschildt, “The Faux Baron: An Aristocrat’s Journey from the Russian Revolution to the Oil Fields of Texas.”