Updates

The Conference is called "JFK: His Life, His Death, His Legacy," and will be held on November 19-23, 1998, at the Dallas Grand Hotel. Scheduled speakers include top assassination researchers, including Archivist Mary Ferrell, Authors George Michael Evica, author of "And We Are All Mortal"; Jim Marrs, author of "Crossfire"; E. Martin Schotz, author of "History Will Not Absolve Us"; Josiah Thompson, author of "Six Seconds In Dallas"; William Turner, author of "The Fish Is Red" and former FBI Agent; "Nixon" Producer Eric Hamburg, JFK family member Kerry McCarthy (the first Kennedy family member to attend an assassination conference), the former Director of the (JFK Act) Assassination Records Review Board, Jeremy Gunn; medical technicians from the President's autopsy; forensic and ballistic experts and actual assassination witnesses. Also, Howard Moytl with MPI, producer of the new Zapruder Film Documentary. Our current listing of speakers is listed below.

Contact JFK Lancer:
Debra Conway
debra@jfklancer.com
949-699-2744
949-699-2755 fax

OPEN WORKSHOPS (Thursday, Nov. 19)
8:30 - 12:00 noon Newcomers and Students
Glen Vasbinder-Jamie Sawa
1:00 - 5:00pm Using Primary Source Documents
Ed Hoffman-with translator, RON FRIEDRICH
Art and Margaret Synder-Reconstructing Z-313
Anna Marie Kuhns-Walko
others TBA

Our 1998 Speaker's list is almost complete. Our transcendent rule for accepting a presentation proposal? That the presentation significantly advance our knowledge of the JFK assassination. We have also allowed 30 minutes for most all speakers to make their presentations. We feel these rules will once again make the JFK Lancer Conference one of prestige and merit.

Among the premiere presentations for this Conference are an outstanding group of special guest speakers; a challenging double panel on the Zapruder Film featuring leading experts; and both a first-class Medical Evidence panel and Bethesda Hospital Witnesses Panel. And look for a few surprises!

HONORED GUEST SPEAKERS
Jeremy Gunn, former Executive Director and General Counsel, JFK Assassination Records Review Board
Eric Hamburg, producer of the movie "Nixon," formerly of Senator Kerry's ofc.
Bethesda witnesses: Paul O'Connor and Dennis David
Kerry McCarthy, John Kennedy's cousin and family historian
Howard Moytl with MPI, producer of the new Zapruder Film Documentary
E. Martin Schotz, author of book "History Will Not Absolve Us"
Josiah Thompson, author of 'Six Seconds In Dallas"
William Turner, author of "The Fish Is Red" and former FBI Agent

Progressive Panels:
JFK: Promises and Programs
Another Look At the Paines
Medical Evidence Panel, including the newly released depostitions
Zapruder Film Panel, presenting both sides of the alteration issue
US Intelligence, the JFK Assassination, and the Truth
Conference Speakers and Panelists:
Madelaine Brown, with Jim Fetzer- Dallas Remembrances
Debra Conway-Intelligence Tactics
Angus Crane-Defining Assassin and the Oswald Exception
Bill Drenas-The Tippit Mystery
Charles Drago-Lancer Independent News Exchange; The Continuing Relevance
George Michael Evica- Beyond the 81 Promises; Intercept II
Stewart Galanor-The Grassy Knoll Witnesses and the Fake Secret Service
Ian Griggs-TBA
Larry Hancock and Glen Cressy-The Crisman Enigma
Carol Hewitt, Steve Jones, Barbara LaMonica, Nancy Wertz- Another Look At the Paines
Connie Kritzberg-Remembering 11-22-63
David Lifton-Medical Panel; Zapruder Panel
William Law-Bethesda Witnesses' Oral History Project
David Mantik, PhD, MD-Medical Panel and Zapruder Panel
Jim Marrs, The New Order
Martha Moyer-Jack Ruby
Roger Peterson-Dealey Plaza Ceremony
Jerry Rose-TBA
Peter Dale Scott-More Deep Politics
Martin Shackelford-Zapruder Panel
Sherry Sullivan- The CIA's Forgotten Families
Noel Twyman- More Bloody Treason; Medical Panel; Zapruder Panel
Hal Verb-Zapruder Panel
Lamar Waldron-Operation Freedom
Anna Marie Kuhns-Walko-TBA
Doug Weldon-The Windshield and the Coverup
Jack White-Photography
William Xanttopoulis- A Legal View of the Warren Report

NOTE: topics, times and speakers will be added and updated as confirmed.
Abstracts are still being reviewed and can be submitted to:
George Michael Evica
107 N. Beacon St.
Hartford, CT 06105
phone/fax:860-523-8504
email: evicajfk@aol.com

or:Debra Conway
25172 Calle Pradera
Lake Forest, CA 92630
phone: 949-699-2744
fax: 949-699-2755
email: debra@jfklancer.com

Conference fees and registration forms are available on the conference web site or by request.
http://www.jfklancer.com/Dallas98.html

The existence of additional photographs -- believed taken by White House photographer Robert L. Knudsen during or after the autopsy at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md. -- raised new questions about how the autopsy was conducted, a subject of intense debate for 35 years.

But the new evidence sheds no light on the whereabouts of the second set of pictures.

Kennedy was killed Nov. 22, 1963. The following year, a commission chaired by then-Chief Justice Earl Warren concluded the killer was Lee Harvey Oswald and that he acted alone and was not part of a conspiracy. That conclusion has been challenged ever since.

"One of the many tragedies of the assassination of President Kennedy has been the incompleteness of the autopsy record and the suspicion caused by the shroud of secrecy that has surrounded the records that do exist," said the Assassination Records Review Board, which made the new testimony public.

The board, created by Congress to collect all pertinent records concerning Kennedy's murder, said the doctors who conducted the autopsy may have had the best of intentions -- protecting the privacy of the Kennedy family. But "the legacy of such secrecy ultimately has caused distrust and suspicion," the board said.

One set of autopsy photographs, now at the National Archives, has been known to exist for years, and some of the pictures have been widely published. But the new testimony documents the existence of another set.

In 1997, the review board located Saundra K. Spencer, who worked at the Naval Photographic Center in 1963. She was shown the archives' autopsy photos and concluded they were not the pictures she had helped process.

Those she had worked with, she said, had "no blood or opening cavities." They were "quite reverent in how they handled it," she said.

She theorized that a second photographer took pictures of a cleaned-up corpse and speculated that was done at the request of the Kennedy family in case autopsy pictures had to be made public. "The only thing I can think of is that a second set of autopsy pictures was shot for public release, if necessary."

The film was brought in, she said, by an agent she believed was with the FBI. "When he gave us the material to process, he said that they had been shot at Bethesda and they were autopsy pictures."

She was told, she said: "Process them and try not to observe too much, don't peruse."

Knudsen's widow, Gloria, told the review board that her husband told her that photographing the dead president was "the hardest thing he had ever had to do in his life."

He appeared before the House Select Committee on Assassinations, which in the late 1970s reopened the official investigation into the killings of both Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr., and his widow said he later told her that four or five of the pictures the committee showed him did not represent what he saw or photographed that night and that one of them had been altered.

"His son Bob said that his father told him that 'hair had been drawn in' on one photo to conceal a missing portion of the top-back of President Kennedy's head," according to a review board memo about a meeting with Knudsen's family.

Gerald Posner, author of Case Closed, a 1993 book that argues that the Warren Commission's central conclusion -- that Oswald alone killed Kennedy -- is correct, [said] the new information was important and would "give grist to the conspiracy theorists for the next two generations."

"There's such controversy over the wounds on President Kennedy and the discussion over what the autopsy doctors have discussed and said and what the autopsy photos show that the existence of any additional photographs could be significant," he said.

Added David Lifton, author of Best Evidence, a 1981 book concerning medical evidence about the assassination, "It's of tremendous significance that there's another camera and its existence and its product have been concealed all these years,' Lifton said. "We've got a credible paper trail about another camera and film but no pictures."

From THE DAILY TELEGRAPH --- a quality broadsheet:

Abraham Zapruder's home movie of President Kennedy's assassination went on sale in America yesterday in a digitally- enhanced video format. Distributors hope to sell 100,000 copies at £12 each.

From THE SUN --- popular tabloid:

Ghouls in America are flocking to buy a film of President Kennedy's brains being blown out.

As I say, no further comment necessary!

* More TBA

CALL FOR PAPERS: Assassination Research/Academic abstracts

George Michael Evica-
107 N. Beacon St., Hartford, CT 06105 phone/fax:860-523-8504
email: evica@uhavax.hartford.edu

CONFERENCE FEES:
* Adults: Workshop* $20; $125 until August; $150 until October 31st; additional late fees will apply in November.
* Students/young people 13-18 yrs: Workshop* $15; Conference $75 until August 31st; $100 until October 31st; additional late fees will apply in November.
* College Students: Workshop* $20; $85 until August; $110 until October 31st; additional late fees will apply in November.
(*Workshop fee waived if attending the entire conference.)
* Group Rates available-20 person minimum.
* Daily Rates: 13-18 and college students: $25.00; others by arrangement.
* Bus Tour: $35. each (registration in advance only) Sunday, November 22th lasting for approximately 2 hours. Narrated, informative tour of the assassination related sights.
* Awards Dinner: $20 each (registration in advance only) JFK Lancer-Mary Ferrell Awards Ceremony and Dinner, November 21st.

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Dallas Grand Hotel
1914 Commerce Street Dallas, Texas 75201-5205
Toll free 1-800-421-0011 to reserve your room.
1-214-474-7000 direct Fax 1-214-742-1337

The Grand Hotel is offering a conference special rate of $79.00 per room (single, double, triple, or quad occupancy). Please inform reservations that you are attending the JFK Lancer conference to qualify for this rate. Register Early! Hotel space is limited.

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