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JFK
Lancer presents the 18th Annual International Conference
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JFK
Lancer presents our 2012 Annual International Conference
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Nov8
Special note: Many of the books shown below will be available for sale and author signing at the conference. |
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Joe
Backes - The Texas Trip Research |
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Russ
Baker - Military Intelligence Angles |
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Bob
Cochran - Banquet and Dealey Plaza Invocations  Cochran
is based in Washington State and has been an avid JFK enthusiast
all of his life. An unusual turn of events put Bob in New Orleans,
Louisiana during the JFK assassination and witnessed firsthand
the hate for JFK prevalent in that City. Bob also lived in New
Orleans in the 1970's where he attended Warren Eastin Senior
High School that was the same school Lee Harvey Oswald attended.
He is now a collector of JFK and conspiracy oriented items, especially
first-hand items of JFK, Jack Ruby, and Lee Harvey Oswald. |
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Jerry
Dealey - Tours Born
and raised in Dallas, Jerry Dealey is a member of the famous
Dealey family in Dallas. Dealey Plaza is named for his ancestor,
George Bannerman Dealey (1859–1946), an early publisher
of the Dallas Morning News and civic leader. Dealey attended
school in Denver in fall of 1963, but returned every year in
the summer to live with his father. Dealey is a Dallas historian,
and has written a book on the history of Dallas; Dealey’s, "Dallas
Morning News"; and Dealey Plaza called "D In the
Heart of Texas". Dealey is a Docent at the Old Red Courthouse
Museum, and the Dallas Historical Society "Hall of State" in
Fair Park. He also gives
tours of Dallas, and the assassination related sites. Dealey
specializes in the history and politics of Dallas and is an
active member and Moderator of the JFK
Lancer Forum, where he provides local and historical information. |
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Denton - Preparing for the 50th Anniversary a social science instructor at Olney Central College, became interested in the JFK assassination in the late 1980s and for the last decade has attended historical symposiums on the subject in Dallas, Texas. He has interviewed several people associated with the case and has researched hundreds of documents related to both Kennedy and suspected assassin Lee Harvey Oswald. In 2001, he began teaching a course on political assassinations of the 1960s, which explores the deaths of President John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. Denton has brought nationally-recognized experts on the JFK assassination to the area in connection with the class. Denton has given numerous presentations on the JFK assassination across Illinois and Indiana at both public libraries and forums. He participated in the Illinois Humanities Council speakers’ bureau from 1995 to 2002, giving presentations on Oswald, the JFK assassination and the Vietnam War. In recent years, Denton directed an oral history project exploring the Vietnam War, 25 years later. The work, funded through the Illinois Humanities Council, features interviews with 125 veterans from Illinois and across the nation. The resulting 600-page document was distributed to local libraries. Denton also produced the video documentary, “Victory on the Homefront: Remembrances of Lawrence and Richland Counties During World War II". The IHC-funded project includes interviews with Lawrence and Richland County residents, detailing the activities, sacrifices and patriotism they experienced while living on the homefront. Denton holds both bachelors and master’s degrees from Eastern Illinois University. He was the 1999 recipient of the OCC Alumnus Award. |
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Jim
DiEugenio - Garrison Updates, also, Oswald,
Ruth and the Rifle  DiEugenio
has piloted CTKA (Citizens for
Truth in the Kennedy Assassination) and its website since
was it was organized as a result of the April 1993 Chicago
Midwest Symposium on Assassination. Along with articles and
reviews, DiEugenio has written two books on the Kennedy assassinations. “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 Pease also edited the journal "Probe" (1993-2000)
which focused on the releases of the ARRB and new developments
in the King and RFK cases. DiEugenio 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”. |
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Brian
Edwards - Down in Front? 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. Edwards is the co-Author of the book, “Beyond
The Fence Line: The Eyewitness Account of Ed Hoffman and the
Murder of President Kennedy.” Website |
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Barry
Ernest - The Girl on the Stairs 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. |
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Lee
Farley - The Bledsoe quandary 
Born and raised in Liverpool, England I have been interested in the Kennedy assassination since I was approximately 15 years old, almost 25 years. In my early 20's the interest began to turn into something of an obsession and I started building a quite substantial book collection.My notes that accompanied my reading became quite extensive and I knew the obsession would not end until I knew who Lee Harvey Oswald really was. I was right. Today I am a member of John Simkin's Education Forum and have been working with other interested parties in trying to figure out which parts of the official assassination narrative are not true and why the official story was built the way it was built. I have focused my research on some of the micro-activities of Lee Oswald both pre and post assassination and at the conference I will be explaining why Lee Oswald's movements immediately after the assassination were incredibly important to authorities and how and why they ultimately ended up lying about them. I am currently working on a book and will hopefully have something ready in 2013. |
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Sherry
Feister - Enemy
of the Truth: Witness Myths |
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Special
Guest, Dr. Toni Glover - Dealey Plaza Witness  Antoinette
G. Glover (Dr. Toni Glover) is the Associate Professor and
Director of the Writing Program at the University of Scranton.
She received both her Bachelor’s degree and Master’s
degree in English and Theatre from the University of Texas
at Arlington. Glover then went on to accomplish her doctorate
degree at the University of Texas at Dallas. Dr. Toni Glover
teaches both Composition (Writing 107) and Strategies Teaching
Writing (Writing 310) for the English department at The University
of Scranton. In addition to helping students learn the art
of writing, Dr. Glover also does some writing herself. She
is the co-author and editor of “Negotiating a Meta-pedagogy:
Learning from Other Disciplines” which addresses the
training of teachers of composition, and reveals the most current
research in rhetoric and composition. Along with this book,
Dr. Glover also co-edited the textbook “Voices” with
fellow University of Scranton professor, Bonnie Markowski. “Voices” is
a guide to effective writing that is used throughout the University
of Scranton’s composition program. Dr. Glover is also
involved with a foundation in conjunction with The Women's
Resource Center that rescues the pets of abused women and children.
Most often, the abused do not want to leave their pets with
the abuser. It is called Safe Haven and is a foster service
for the pets of the abused so they feel comfortable leaving
their pets. |
 Standing
on a concrete pedestal at the corner of Houston and Elm Streets
in Dealey Plaza, eleven-year-old Toni Glover watched the Presidential
motorcade standing on a pedestal from the moment the limo turned
onto Houston Street, to the second it went under the Triple
Underpass making her a very young witness the Kennedy assassination.
She is currently working on researching people's emotional
reaction and how it effected them throughout their lives. (Bell
film frame) |
Special
Guest, Pat Hall - Oswald's Apartment   The current owner of the 1026 N Beckley rooming house. This is where Oswald was staying from October 14 - November. 1963. The Dallas Police found the address by cross checking a telephone number given by Ruth Paine as a number to reach Oswald in case his wife Marina went into labor. Their baby Audrey Marina Rachel was born October 20th. |
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Larry
Hancock - 48 Hours / What it tells us Hancock
is a leading historian-researcher in the JFK assassination. 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. He co-authored, with Connie Kritzberg, “November
Patriots” and is author of the acclaimed “Someone
Would Have Talked”, now in its third, 2010 edition. Larry has
a new book
"NEXUS: Political Assassinations
and the CIA"
that includes new information and analysis on "The CIA and
Extreme Deniability",
"The Culture of the Agency", and "Spy Games in Mexico
City". Hancock describes his book saying in essence that this
work deals with "what happened" rather than "how
could something like that happen?" How can you take a position
that CIA officers were involved and yet maintain that it was not
an act of the Agency as a whole? The only way to respond to that
question is to engage in a historical study of how political assassination
evolved within the Central Intelligence Agency Hancock has also
published a study of the RFK assassination, “Incomplete Justice”
and along with Stuart Wexler, co-authored the publication of their
new work on the MLK assassination "The
Awful Grace of God" in the spring of 2011. Larry's
Blog |
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Peter
Janney - The Mary Meyer Murder  Janney
grew up in Washington, D.C. during the Cold War era of the
1950s and 1960s. His father Wistar Janney was a senior career
CIA official. The Janney family was intimately involved with
many of Washington’s social and political elite. Families
that
included Mary and Cord Meyer, as well as other high-ranking
CIA officials such as Richard Helms, Jim Angleton, Tracy Barnes,
Desmond FitzGerald, and William Colby. A graduate of Princeton
University, Janney earned a Doctoral degree in psychology at
Boston University in 1981. He has been a practicing psychologist
and consultant for over 30 years. In 2002, he completed an
MBA degree at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business. “Mary's
Mosaic” is his first book. Janney currently resides by
the sea in Beverly, Massachusetts. |
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Barry
Krusch - Impossible / The Case Against Lee Oswald Krusch
has a Bachelors degree in Psychology from Emory University
located in Atlanta Georgia, and a Masters degree in Education
from Hunter college in New York City. Krusch also attended
law school at the University of Georgia for a year. After working
as an investigator for Atlanta Legal Aid for four years and
a Paralegal for four years, Krusch has worked as an instructional
designer, senior instructional designer, and project manager
for the last twenty years. His client list includes Bank of
America, Wachovia, American Express, Chase, Hartford Life,
Knowledge Transfer International, Procter & Gamble, and
many others. In 2002, he was responsible for the preliminary
instructional design and editing of 52 audio books for Drive2Learn,
Inc.. Krusch is also author of several books. His first book, "The
21st Century Constitution", published in 1992 by Stanhope
Press, was reviewed by New York Law School professor Richard
Bernstein in his book "Amending America". In that
book, Professor Bernstein stated that the The 21st Century
Constitution "may well be the most thoughtful and thorough
reframing of the Constitution yet attempted." His second
book, "Would the Real First Amendment Please Stand Up?"
was published in 1996. According to the online directory Excite, "If
you've got the time, we've got an online book for you. Barry Krusch
examines the 1st Amendment in detail and attempts to put the Supreme
Court's revisions of the Constitution into a form the layperson
can understand."
As a result of his works on the Constitution, Krusch has appeared
on the Tom Snyder radio show, as well as C-SPAN. He is also listed
as an encyclopedia entry in the Encyclopedia Of Constitutional
Amendments. Krusch's latest book is "Impossible: The Case
Against Lee Harvey Oswald", divided into three volumes. This
extensive work, over 1000 pages, demonstrates conclusively that
the notion of a "lone assassin" in the Kennedy assassination
is a complete myth, in no way justified by the evidence, and that
therefore any case against Lee Harvey Oswald based on the notion
of a lone assassin must completely fail. |
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Jim
Marrs - Ruby Revisited  A
native of Fort Worth, Texas, Marrs earned a Bachelor of Arts
degree in journalism from the University of North Texas in
1966 and attended Graduate School at Texas Tech in Lubbock
for two years more. He has worked for several Texas newspapers,
including the Fort Worth "Star-Telegram", where beginning
in 1968 he served as police reporter and general assignments
reporter covering stories locally, in Europe and the Middle
East. After a leave of absence to serve with a Fourth Army
intelligence unit during the Vietnam War, he became military
and aerospace writer for the newspaper and an investigative
reporter. Since 1980, Marrs has been a free-lance writer, author
and public relations consultant. He also published a rural
weekly newspaper along with a monthly tourism tabloid, a cable
television show and several videos. In 2007, Marrs retired
from the University of Texas at Arlington where he had taught
a course on the Kennedy assassination since 1976. In 1989,
his book, "Crossfire: The Plot That Killed Kennedy",
was published to critical acclaim and reached "The New
York Times" Paperback Non-Fiction Best Seller list in
mid-February 1992. "Crossfire:
The Plot That Killed Kennedy", became the basis for the
Oliver Stone film "JFK" where Marrs served as a chief
consultant for both the film’s screenplay and production.
An award-winning journalist, Marrs is listed both in "Who’s
Who in the World" and "Who’s Who in America." Marrs
has won several writing and photography awards including the
Aviation Aerospace Writer’s Association’s National
Writing Award and Newsmaker of the Year Award from the Fort
Worth Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. In
1993, Marrs received Freedom Magazine’s Human Rights
Leadership Award. Marrs has appeared on ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN,
CSPAN, the Discovery, Learning and History Channels, This Morning
America, Geraldo, Montel Williams, Today, Tech TV and The Larry
King, George Noory and Art Bell radio programs along with numerous
national and regional radio and TV shows. He is a former president
of the Press Club of Fort Worth and a current member of the
Society of Professional Journalists, Sigma Delta Chi, and the
Investigative Reporters and Editors. Jim's
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Casey
Quinlan - Oswald and the Coca Cola Caper  Quinlan
was born and raised in the greater Kansas City area and has
been a high school American History and Government teacher
for the past 36 years. He served in the United States Army
with the 9th Infantry as a Medical Corpsman during the Vietnam
War and has a Bachelor of Science in Social Studies and a Master’s
Degree in American History from Emporia State University, located
in Emporia, Kansas. He is the director of "Project JFK",
a student-oriented educational experience designed for high
school, college and adults exploring the murder of President
Kennedy. Casey has been the featured lecturer at many universities
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; The Student Lecture
Series at Pittsburg State University in Pittsburg, Kansas,
Student Activities at Johnson County Community College in Overland
Park, Kansas, and a Historical Lecturer, on a number of occasions,
for the Kansas State Historical Society in Topeka, Kansas.
He was named "Outstand Educator" in 1994 and in 2008
by JFK Lancer. From 1995 to 2006, Quinlan was an adjunct instructor
at Friends University in Wichita, Kansas; Ottawa University
in Ottawa, Kansas; Mid America Nazarene University in Olathe,
Kansas and Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas. Quinlan continues
his teaching profession as a middle level and high school instructor
in the Wellsville school district just south of the Greater
Kansas City area. He has been studying the assassination of
President Kennedy for over 45 years and has read over 1000
books. In 1991, Quinlan was a Guest Historian for the A&E
Network and the History Channel for Oliver Stone’s blockbuster
movie, "JFK". In 2007, Quinlan presented "Beyond
the Fence Line: The Ed Hoffman Story" (published by
JFK Lancer) and this publication continues to be a best seller.
He has been a featured lecturer at the JFK Lancer Conference
since 2007. He and Brian Edwards received the JFK Lancer 2011
“New Frontier Award” for their continued efforts to write and
inform students of the truth behind the murder of JFK. His
latest lecture series;" The Eyes of Texas", unveils
the people behind the murder of President Kennedy, along with
his new program, "Lee Oswald and the Great Coca Cola Caper" explains
where Lee Oswald actually was during the murder of President
Kennedy. Website |
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Rogers - What's new in the Poage Library Archives Ben Rogers is Director of W. R. Poage Legislative Library, a research facility that houses congressional records and personal papers related to political history. The Library currently features Kennedy and Johnson 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. The W. R. Poage Legislative Library now hosts papers from not only Penn Jones, but also Jack White, John Armstrong, Gary Shaw, John Kelin, Roy Schaeffer, Paul Hoch, Mae Brussells and others. A new collection from the Mary Ferrell Foundation will be a part of the Library soon. The Library's collection includes extensive magazines, newspapers and newsletters related to research since 1963. Most materials are listed online and are open to researchers. |
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Bill
Simpich - The Mexico City Solution Is In Our Hands Simpich
is a civil rights attorney and an antiwar activist in the San
Francisco Bay Area. The main areas of his law practice are
government misconduct and toxic tort violations. He also writes
for publications such as "Truthout", "Counterpunch" and "OpedNews".
Simpich considers the assassination cases to be a poorly understood
area of civil rights violations. To preserve cold cases, he
is preparing a proposed JFK Preservation of Evidence Act that
would be applicable in both of these areas of the law and administered
by a citizen panel similar to the ARRB. Simpich‘s study
of the JFK case focuses on the documentary evidence, rather
than firearms, acoustics, and other forensic evidence. His
current focus is Mexico City and the counterintelligence aspects
of the JFK assassination investigation. |
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Ed
Tatro - Anecdotes |
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