John Judge, Executive Director of COPA has been invited to address these students in early March.
Brattleboro students learn from JFK investigators
Feb 14, 2012 8:59 PM
By Adam Sullivan – WCAX.com
Students in Brattleboro [VT] are learning about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy from those close to the tragedy and the investigation.
Tuesday, social studies students at the high school heard from Dr. Cyril Wecht, a forensic pathologist and an early critic of the autopsy on JFK. He answered questions from the children via Skype.
At the beginning of the year, students picked the topic that they are now researching.
Firsthand experience with people who were there, eye witnesses to the assassination for example or freedom riders from the civil rights movement; I don’t think it gets any better than that, for kids to be able to bump heads with people who participated in one way or another,” said Bill Holiday, the social studies teacher.
A Secret Service agent on Kennedy’s detail, as well as those who worked in the building from which Lee Harvey Oswald is said to have fired the fatal shot, are also on the schedule.
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