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 Government at Marysville High School in Marysville, Kansas.

Brian K. Edwards has been researching the JFK assassination since 1969 and has read over 300 books on the subject. From 1981-1997, he served as a police officer with the Lawrence, Kansas Police Department, and was a senior member of the Department’s Tactical Response Team. Edwards 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 Quinlan have sponsor

The authors write eloquently about their subject, “

Ed Hoffman is an ordinary man who happens to a deaf mute. In less than one hour after the assassination, Ed had communicated to his dentist, a few friends, his father, and his wife, the tragic events he had seen in Dealey Plaza. In order to communicate with others, Ed must rely on his use of hand-written notes, gestures and sign language. Ed communicates on a different level than those who have the ability to hear and speak.

We have prepared this book, not to convince the skeptics, but to provide meaningful documentation to the researcher and to the student of history. Our goal is report the facts, with documentation, and to offer some linguistic analysis of the problem of sign language transliteration. We invite the reader to examine the presented evidence in order to reach their own conclusions.”