The New Orleans Times-Picayune, in its February 23 edition, says Angelico was found guilty on February 22 for his role in publicizing secret grand jury transcripts from the 1969 conspiracy trial of Clay Shaw.
The first annual JFK-Lancer Productions and Publications Conference, "November in Dallas," is set for November 21 through 23, 1996. "We have made every attempt to make the arrangements for this conference reasonably priced and affordable while still having safe, comfortable accommodations," says JFK-Lancer's Debra Conway. "We feel ... we've met that goal."
The conference fee is $80.00 if paid by October 1, 1996, and $100.00 after that. The fee includes presentations, panels, and discussions on Thursday November 21 from 3:00pm - 9:00pm; Friday, November 22 from 9:00am-11:30am and 2:00pm-9:00pm; and Saturday from 9:00am-9:00pm. Children under 12 are free. Students 13-18 years old may attend for $50.00 if paid by October 1, 1996, $70.00 after. Daily rates will also be available.
A Rememberance Ceremony is scheduled for 12:30pm November 22 in Dealey Plaza.
More information on speakers and topics will be forthcoming.
Papers may be submitted to:
George Michael Evica, program chairpersonJFK Lancer says the Grand Hotel is offering a special conference rate of $69.00 per room. This rate applies to single, double, triple, and quad occupancies. Call 1-800-421-0011 to reserve a room; say you are with the JFK Lancer group.
107 N. Beacon St.
Hartford CT 06105Email: evica@uhavax.hartford.edu
Phone: 1-860-232-9673
Vending or organization information tables are available. Call Tom Jones at 214-264-2007 for more information, or email: jfklancr@flash.net. The deadline for reserving Vendors tables is October 15, 1996.
For more information call Debra Conway at 714-699-2744, or email jfklancr@exo.com. Information is also available at JFK Lancer's Web page at:
COPA says the theme of the conference is "Opening the Files: What's Out? What's Not?" It is scheduled for the weekend of October 18-20 at the Omni Shoreham Hotel. This is the same venue as the 1995 national conference.
Speakers, researchers, films, and the latest evidence will highlight the conference. In an announcement mailed in March, COPA stated, "Further details and a Call for Papers will appear in upcoming mailings and publications of the Coalition."
COPA is also announcing a weekend of activities coinciding with the thirty-fourth anniversary of the JFK assassination. "The Killing of a President" is scheduled for November 22-24, 1996, in Dallas, at the Paramount Hotel. COPA says "The Killing of a President" will include organization meetings, working panels, films, speakers, and commemorative events.
For more information, called (202) 785-5299.
Interested parties are invited to submit research papers; those papers chosen will be scheduled for presentation and discussion in Conference sessions from 1 p.m. Friday to noon Saturday.
Saturday, the keynote speaker is Peter Dale Scott.
Registration fee: $75, covering conference costs.
Housing: inexpensive campus housing will be available at the conference site.
In your response, indicate if 1) you are interested in attending and 2) if you are interested in presenting a paper: if so, please indicate the topic of the proposed paper.
Send your name and address (and paper topic) to:
The Fourth DecadeA packet of information and registration materials will be sent to those who respond to this announcement no later than April 15th, 1996.
State University College
Fredonia, NY 14063
A Madison doctor has some startling information about the murder of President John F. Kennedy---information that could tie in with James [sic] Garrison's probe of the assassination, The Capital Times has learned.
In an interview with The Capital Times, the doctor asserted that a New Orleans hospital patient told of an assassination plot involving a man called "Jack Rubenstein" four days before the President was killed.
The doctor, Wayne Owen, a native of Louisiana, is taking his residency training at a Madison hospital. He said that ten other medical students at Louisiana State University (LSU) heard the patient's remarks. Two of the former medical students have since been called to testify by New Orleans Dist. Atty. James Garrison in his investigation of the assassination.
"My wife and I have been living with this thing for over four years now," the doctor said. "All we'd like to know is that something is being done about it--- that somebody is looking into it."
Dane County Circuit Judge Richard Bardwell had earlier been informed by Dr. Owens' friends of his experience. Bardwell, who has been a student of the Warren Commission report on the assassination, said he would see Garrison about it when he visits New Orleans next month.
Bardwell is scheduled to attend the national district attorneys convention in New Orleans from March 12 to 17 and intends to visit Garrison while he is there.
"This is the most fantastic story I've ever heard," Bardwell said. "If it's a coincidence, it would have to be a one in a million shot."
The doctor's story goes like this:
While an intern at LSU, Dr. Owen and ten of his classmates were assigned to visit rooms and patients in Jackson Memorial Hospital near Mandanville, La.
On Tuesday, Nov. 19, 1963, the 11 interns were making their hospital rounds when they came upon a room into which three men had been brought following an automobile accident.
The men had been picked up by Louisiana State Police, were presumed drunk, and transported to the hospital. One of the three also had a bullet wound in his stomach.
The man with the bullet wound soon died. But the other two men had only minor injuries. While the interns checked the patients, one of them casually remarked that he knew of "a plot to kill Jack Kennedy."
He went on to tell the 11 startled medical students that one of the men involved in the plot was a man called "Jack Rubenstein."
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"We all just laughed It off, thinking the man might be spouting off for some reason," Owen explained.
The doctor recalls that he told his wife of the patient's remarks that evening, "but we all just laughed, about it."
Four days later, Nov. 22, 1963, John Kennedy was assassinated. Then two days later, a Dallas nightclub operator, Jack Ruby, killed the alleged assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald. It was soon learned that "Jack Rubenstein" was the real name of Jack Ruby.
"We were all so startled we didn't really know what to do," the doctor said.
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He continued that he and some other interns went back to the hospital immediately to see the two patients. But both had been released.
"We went down to the hospital files to find their records so we could see what were their names," the doctor continued, "But the records of the two men were missing."
"There was no explanation for the missing records," the doctor related. "We were all convinced that something was terribly wrong."
Several interns, including Owen, informed authorities in New Orleans about the experience.
"We were all assured that something would be done about it by the FBI or someone," he continued. "Yet we never heard anything."
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Owen said he was "gratified" to learn that two of the interns have since been called to testify by Garrison.
"I found this out when I went to New Orleans on a fishing vacation recently," he said. "I also talked to several other people, but no one could---or would---tell me what happened with our information."
The doctor is convinced the remarks of the patient had some bearing on the assassination.
"It couldn't have been some strange coincidence," the doctor said. "Besides, the man was stone sober when he was laying there and told us about it." The doctor said that he has no information on whether New Orleans or federal officials have ever been able to find the two patients or learn of their names.
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Owen isn't sure that Garrison has uncovered a plot to kill the President, but he feels the district attorney "has something."
Garrison appeared on NBC's "Tonight" show Wednesday night and repeated his charges that the Warren Commission's report was a "whitewash" to "ease the fears of Americans."
The district attorney contended the plot to kill the President included the CIA and several other groups including "right wing extremists."
Garrison showed pictures of men who allegedly had been captured in connection with the assassination and were released by Dallas police.
He went on to read testimony from Mrs. Julia Mercer who contended she saw Ruby at the assassination scene and then charged that the Warren Commission changed her testimony to suit the report.
The district attorney said that many people are skeptical of his investigation "but history will bear out everything I say."
"This is very interesting," said Investigator Andrew Sciambra. "It corroborates information we have already been working on - it fits in exactly."
Sciambra related that Garrison and other members of the New Orleans district attorney's office have been in close contact with Jackson Memorial Hospital, near Mandeville, La., the place where a patient allegedly told Dr. Owen and 10 other doctors of the plot four days before the assassination occurred.
The doctor told The Capital Times that one of three men brought to the hospital after an auto accident while was an intern told him and 10 other interns that the man knew of a plot to kill President Kennedy. The patient mentioned that a man name "Jack Rubenstein" was involved in the plot.
The doctor added that no one took the remarks seriously until Kennedy was assassinated. By that time, one of the three men had died, and the other two bad been released. When the interns went to check the hospitals files to field out the patients' names. they discovered the records were missing, Dr. Owen said.
In a story in the Wisconsin State Journal this morning, Dr. Owen was described as being "shaken by the inaccurate statements of The Capital Times." According to the Journal's story, Dr. Owen said he did not know of "three men" and actually heard the story from a professor of psychology who had been treating a woman patient in the hospital. The woman told the professor about the plot four days before the assassination, the Journal story said.
Dr. Owen's story, however, was told to others besides The Capital Times. Dane County Circuit Judge Richard Bardwell was told the story by the doctor several months ago as were several other persons who have since contacted this newspaper.
The Capital Times first learned of the story from a caller who asked to remain anonymous, The caller's story was confirmed in all details in an interview by this reporter with the doctor. There were no statements originated by The Capital Times. All statements were made by Dr. Owen.
Garrison's office, which was told of the story early Thursday by The Capital Times, is "greatly interested," according to Sciambra. He said the office will contact Dr. Owen for further information.
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