As details emerge in the Colorado shooting incident, they are reminiscent of other assassin suspects, including John Hinckley, who was under the care of a Colorado psychiatrist just before the Reagan shooting. The psychiatrists who care for them, the institutions they are treated in, and those who interview them afterwards commonly have ties to the…
This document concerns Jack Ruby, the man who silenced Lee Harvey Oswald. Ruby, who began his organized crime career with Al Capone’s mob in Chicago as a runner figured in to many parts of history. When the McClelland commission on organized crime subpoenaed mob boss San Giancana for corruption of the waste handlers union in…
The National Declassification Center of the National Archives and Records Administration will hold its third annual Open Forum on August 29, from 10:00 am to 12:00 noon at the National Archives Building, 9th and Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC. This agency was created by President Obama’s January 2009 Executive Order on classification and declassification, and…
Like all but a few of the Dallas reporters, Eddie Barker bought into the official story of the assassination being promoted by the FBI and the national press that Lee Harvey Oswald was the lone assassin. He imagined that Oswald did it to impress Marina with his manhood. But like other theories of motive for…
Why It’s Important to Release the JFK Assassination Records Now William Kelly http://jfkcountercoup.blogspot.com/2012/07/why-its-important-to-release-jfk.html The great debate on the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President Kennedy is not between Conspiracy Theorists and Lone Nutters as expected, it is over the release of the remaining still secret records that the government refuses to open to the…
COPA’s Dallas conference participants for many years have heard presentations from Ben Rogers, the director of the Poague Library collections and have pooled cars to visit the library at Baylor University following each conference. Ben has been a wonderful host and he is scanning these materials for posterity. Visit their site at http://www.baylor.edu/lib/poage/jfk/index.php?id=60315 Mary Ferrell…
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Rep. John Lewis, Civil Rights Icon, on the Struggle to Win–and Now Protect–Voting Rights in U.S. Democracy Now! 7/10/2012 http://www.democracynow.org/2012/7/10/civil_rights_icon_rep_john_lewis#transcript A witness to history that is surrounded by political assassinations. Rep. John Lewis began the current Congressional session saying he wanted to release the files on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and would introduce the…
Nixon, Watergate, and the JFK assassination BY RUBEN CASTANEDA · JULY 2, 2012 · Baltimore Post Examiner· Was Richard Nixon afraid that the Watergate scandal would reveal the killers of John F. Kennedy? Dozens of stories have been written recently commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Watergate break-in. The journalistic heroes of the story, Bob Woodward and Carl…
People 2012 Robert Groden: The Plaza Man By Jim Schutze Thu., Jun. 28 2012 at 2:59 PM Dallas Observer http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/unfairpark/2012/06/robert_groden_people_2012.php In this week’s Dallas Observer, we profile 30 of the metro area’s most interesting characters, with new portraits of each from local photographer Mark Graham. See the entire Dallas Observer People Issue here On November…
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