Dallas, Texas Upcoming Conference Update — The JFK Historical Group

Dallas November 17th-20th Doubletree Inn on Market St. Dallas, Texas

(Schedule subject to change)

Thursday November 17th

8pm-? Meet and Greet with speakers

Friday November 18th

8:00am Opening Prayer- Judyth Baker

8:00am-8:40am David Denton- Intro Documents

8:45am-9:40am Casey Quinlan

9:45am-10:40am Robert Groden

10:45am-11:40am Mal Hyman- Media and the JFK assassination

12pm-100pm Luncheon- Ryan Jones MLK assassination (For those who signed up)

1:10pm-200pm Larry Rivera- Malcom X (Part I)

2:05pm-2:55pm Larry Rivera- Malcom X (Part II)

3:00pm-3:55pm Brian Edwards

4:00pm-4:55pm Phil Nelson

5:00pm-5:55pm Pete Hymans- RFK

5:55pm-7:05pm Dinner (On your own)

7:05pm-8:00pm Panel- Coup in Dallas. Leslie Sharp, Alan Kent, Gary Shaw and Casey Quinlan

8:05pm-9:00pm Gary Shaw

9:00pm-? Social in hotel Lobby

Saturday November 19th

8:00am-8:25am Randy Benson- Why the JFK assassination is still important.

8:30am-9:25am Larry Rivera

9:30am-10:25am Gary Fannin

10:30am-11:25am Vince Palamara

11:30am-12:00pm David Denton

12:20-1:20pm Luncheon featuring-Brian Edwards & Randy Benson (For those who signed up)

1:30-2:25pm Judyth Baker

2:30pm-3:00pm Jack Roth

3:05pm-4:00pm David Knight-Hoffa

4:00pm-4:30pm David Knight- RFK 101

4:35- 4:50pm Project JFK Journey update on the Classified Documents

4:30pm-5:30pm Judyth Baker (Q&A with students in breakout room)

4:55pm-5:50pm Mike Chesser

5:50pm-6:15pm Mixer outside of conference room

6:15pm-8:00pm Speaker’s Dinner featuring Ed Tatro (Buffett line opens at 6:15. Announcements and awards at 6:45.)

8:00pm Closing Prayer by Judyth Baker

Sunday November 20th

8:00am-10:00am Small group Q&A between speakers and guests in the break out room and lobby areas

10:00am-? Project JFK will be offering a tour of Dealey Plaza and a bus tour of important sites(Details to follow)

Tuesday November 22nd

Dealey Plaza remembrance ceremony led by Judyth Baker

Our speaker lineup includes:

JUDYTH BAKER

Judyth Baker is an artist, writer, poet and futurist with degrees in Medical/Cultural Anthropology, Communications, English and Linguistics. She is the author of Me & Lee: How I came to know, love and lose Lee Harvey Oswald, an underground best seller. Her book, David Ferrie, Mafia Pilot (TrineDay 2014), was the first definitive fulllength biography of the enigmatic man called “the key to the Kennedy assassination.” Her third book, Letters to the Cyborgs (TrineDay 2016) is a collection of science fiction short stories using both terror and humor to expose a world plagued by unethical and frightening inventions that exist today. Baker’s fourth book, Kennedy & Oswald: The Big Picture, co-written with Edward Schwartz, was released in 2016.

After nearly two years of specialized training, Baker, promised early entry into Tulane Medical School after a summer internship in New Orleans with the renowned Dr. Mary Sherman, found herself in a project to kill Fidel Castro with lung cancer involving persons such as Lee Harvey Oswald and “Dr.” David Ferrie. Author Edward T. Haslam discovered Baker was the last living witness who could verify particulars of his own decades-long, extensive research into the connections between Sherman’s brutal, unsolved murder on July 21, 1964, the day the Warren Commission came to New Orleans to obtain testimonies on Dr. Alton Ochsner, Lee Oswald, contaminated polio vaccines, David Ferrie, cancer epidemics and the Kennedy assassination. Baker, who had an affair with Oswald, is determined to clear his name.

David Denton has served as a social science professor at Olney Central College since 1990. 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 became interested in the JFK assassination in the late 1980s and for two decades 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 Lee Harvey Oswald. A collection, Essays on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy, was published by Midnight Writer News and is available at www.lulu.com and JFK Historical.com. 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.

DAVID DENTON

Denton holds both bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Eastern Illinois University. He was the 1999 recipient of the OCC Alumnus Award.

CASEY QUINLAN

Casey 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 40 years. He served in the U.S. Army with the 9th Infantry as a combat medical corpsman during the Vietnam War. He has a Bachelor of Science Degree in Social Studies and a Master’s Degree in American History from Emporia State University in Kansas. He is the director of Project JFK/CSI Dallas, a student-oriented educational experience designed for high school and college students and adults exploring the murder of President Kennedy. In 1991, Quinlan was a guest historian for the A & E Network and the History Channel for Oliver Stone’s blockbuster movie, JFK. He was named Outstanding Educator in 1994, 2008, 2011 and 2014 by JFK Lancer, a national research organization. From 1995 to 2014, he was an adjunct instructor at Friends University in Wichita, Kan.; Ottawa University in Ottawa, Kan.; Mid America Nazarene University in Olathe, Kan., and Washburn University in Topeka, Kan. In 2007, he presented Beyond the Fence Line: The Ed Hoffman Story at the National JFK Lancer Conference in Dallas, Texas. His first publication, Beyond the Fence Line: The Eyewitness Testimony of Ed Hoffman and the Murder of President Kennedy, continues to be a best seller.

ROBERT GRODEN

Robert Groden has been researching the assassination of President John F. Kennedy since 1964 and is considered a leading critic of the Warren Commission. Groden has assembled the most photographic and film evidence on the case. He has also investigated the medical evidence and personally interviewed most of the medical professionals present that day. In 1975, Groden showed the Zapruder film live on national television (Good Night America, ABC TV). As a result, he was invited to address the U.S. House of Representatives to present the case for conspiracy via photographic and other evidence. Two days later, a resolution to reopen the investigation was introduced by Representative Thomas N. Downing of Virginia. This led to the creation of the House Select Committee to Investigate Assassinations. Groden was the staff photographic consultant for the life of the committee. He authored the dissenting opinion report for the HSCA photographic panel. He has consulted with other investigations since then. Groden has written eight books on the assassination. He has consulted on numerous documentaries over the years. He worked with Oliver Stone on JFK. Groden continues to investigate the assassination as he feels that “although it may be too late for justice, it is never too late for the truth.”

MAL HYMAN

Mal Hyman is the author of Burying the Lead: The Media and the Assassination of President Kennedy (TrineDay Books, 2019). He has served as an associate professor of sociology at Coker College in Hartsville, S.C. since 1987 and is currently the Coordinator of the Political Science Program. Hyman holds a bachelor’s of arts degree in political science from the University of California, Los Angeles and a master’s of arts degree from the University of California, Riverside. He has an ABD from the University of South Carolina in Government and International Relations. A distinguished educator, Hyman received the South Carolina Governor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching in 1993. He was named Coker College’s Master Professor of the Year in 1992, 1999 and 2012. In 2004, Hyman received a Fulbright Scholarship to study in South Korea.

RYAN JONES

Ryan Jones is a historian for the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tenn., created on the site of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination. His responsibility requires providing the validity of museum interpretation and reviewing scholarly historical content shared by the site. Jones attended the University of Tennessee at Martin and the University of Memphis. He has presented at numerous conferences on topics including the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr., and the civil rights movement.

LARRY RIVERA

Larry Rivera is Chairman of the Oswald Innocence Campaign. Rivera has given interviews about the assassination to Spanish media. He has published many articles on the assassination and has many YouTube videos covering his research. He has given presentations for the OIC, Dr. James Fetzer’s Santa Barbara JFK Conference 2013, on the 50th observance of the assassination, covering the topic of Buell Wesley Frazier. He also was a presenter at TrineDay’s and Judyth Vary Baker’s 2014 JFK conference in Arlington, Texas focusing on the DPD Motorcycle Officers. For Vary Baker’s JFK assassination conferences in 2016 and 2017, he discussed the Doorway Man and Dealey Plaza. Rivera has a degree in computer networking and is an expert at computer imaging technology and facial recognition, using state-of-the-art digital overlays. He translated Judyth Vary Baker’s book, Me and Lee into Spanish, Lee y Yo. Rivera is the author of The JFK Horseman: Framing Lee, Altering the Algens6 and Resolving Other Mysteries.

BRIAN EDWARDS

Brian Edwards has been researching the JFK assassination since 1969 and has interviewed many of the Dealey Plaza eyewitnesses; Dallas police and sheriff’s officers; Parkland doctors and medical personnel who were on duty at Bethesda Medical Center. He holds a Master’s Degree in Criminal Justice from Washburn University and served as an adjunct instructor in Washburn’s criminal justice department from 1994 to 2003. From 1978 to 2001, Edwards served with distinction as a police officer with the Lawrence, Kansas Police Department. His research on the Zapruder film has been cited in several books, including Assassination Science (1998); Murder in Dealey Plaza (2000); The Zapruder Film (2003) and The Hoax of the Century (2004). He is co-author of Beyond the Fence Line: The Eyewitness Account of Ed Hoffman and the Murder of President John Kennedy and is currently collaborating with first-generation researcher J. Gary Shaw on a new book. In November 2017, Edwards testified as an expert witness for the defense in a mock trial of Lee Harvey Oswald at the North Texas School of Law in Houston, Texas. Edwards appears in Oliver Stone’s newest four-hour documentary on the assassination, JFK: Destiny Betrayed.

PHILLIP NELSON

Following college graduation, a stint in Brazil for the Peace Corps and a career in the property-casualty insurance industry, Phillip Nelson retired in 2003, and the idea for a book grew during the ensuing seven years. In that period, after reading dozens of books and other publications – and trips to NARA in College Park, Maryland, and the LBJ Library in Austin, Texas – his first book, LBJ: The Mastermind of the JFK Assassination was first published by Xlibris in 2010. That book traced Johnson’s entire criminal career, including his presidential years. A revised and shortened edition was published in 2011 by Skyhorse Publishing. Then a “sequel,” LBJ: From Mastermind to The Colossus was published in 2014, which focused primarily on Johnson’s tumultuous reign as president and included much of the material that had been removed from the first edition. The third book, Remember the Liberty! – Almost Sunk by Treason on the High Seas, was published in 2017, the fiftieth anniversary of the June 8, 1967 Israeli attack, by TrineDay Publishing. The fourth book, Who REALLY Killed Martin Luther King? The Case Against Lyndon B. Johnson and J. Edgar Hoover, is a reexamination of the original government case against James Earl Ray. It shows that the entire case was based upon made-up “facts” cunningly shaped to “frame” James Earl Ray, the “stalker” who never was.

PETER HYMANS

Peter Hymans, aka “The Glass Gun,” is a Northern California “Baby Boomer” who agonized with the rest of the nation as the four days of the JFK assassination unfolded. At Whittier College, Hymans studied political science, photography and creative writing. As a writer/photographer for the college newspaper, he met and photographed Bobby Kennedy in Los Angeles — two days before his murder. Hymans is the official photographer for several conferences, where he is highly praised for his still photography and video interviews. His solution orientation and devotion to truth captivates and informs in a fresh way and without excessive detail.

J. GARY SHAW

J. Gary Shaw is a retired architect from Cleburne, Texas and a first-generation assassination researcher, who began studying the case on November 22, 1963. In 1966 after reading Penn Jones Jr.’s Forgive My Grief, Volume 1, Shaw met with Jones and the two became close friends and colleagues. Shaw wrote several articles for Jones’ newspaper, The Midlothian Mirror. In 1976, Shaw and researcher Larry Ray Harris published Cover-Up: The Governmental Conspiracy to Conceal the Facts About the Public Execution of John Kennedy. Shaw, along with Larry Howard and Bud Fensterwald, co-founded the JFK Assassination Information Center in Dallas. Shaw was an officer and director of the Assassination Archives and Research Center in Washington, D.C. In 1992, Shaw and Parkland hospital doctor Charles Crenshaw wrote JFK: Conspiracy of Silence which quickly became a New York Times best seller. Recently, Shaw began providing his personal assassination collection to Project JFK/CSI Dallas for research purposes.

RANDY BENSON

Randy Benson is the director, producer and editor of The Searchers. His work has garnered numerous awards, most notably an Academy Award for Best Student Documentary from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Benson received an Eastman Kodak Excellence in Filmmaking Award at the Cannes Film Festival and a First Appearance Award at the International Documentary Film Festival. He has been an instructor of film and video at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University for over a decade, and he serves on Award Juries at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival in Durham, N.C., and the Let’s All Be Free Film Festival in London, U.K.

GARY FANNIN

Gary Fannin wrote/published, The Innocence of Oswald — 50 Years of Lies, Deception & Deceit in the Murders of President John F. Kennedy & Officer J.D. Tippit. It uses official documents from the FBI, CIA, Secret Service, Dallas Police Reports/Affidavits & Autopsy Reports to prove Lee Oswald was unequivocally innocent of all charges filed against him. It also has an accompanying documentary DVD. He just completed his second book, JFK Marked For Death — Who Stood To Lose Had JFK Lived. Fannin has already started his third book, Operation Mockingbird — How The U.S. Government and Media Have Lied about Historical Events. He just completed The American Media & The Second Assassination of President John F. Kennedy — The Jim Garrison Tapes, Pt. 2. This is the follow up to The Jim Garrison Tapes, the 1993 San Sebastian Film Winner by 5-time Emmy winner, John Barbour.

JACK ROTH

Jack Roth is a journalist, documentary film producer and non-fiction book author. He has produced the award-winning documentary films Extraordinary: The Stan Romanek Story (2013), Extraordinary: The Seeding (2019), and Extraordinary: The Revelations (2021). He is also the author of Ghost Soldiers of Gettysburg (2014) and Unknown Down (2016), books that adeptly explore unexplained phenomena. In his latest work, Killing Kennedy: Exposing the Plot, the Cover-Up and the Consequences, Roth interviews researchers, scholars, eyewitnesses and family members of those who were part of the tangled web of U.S. intelligence operations associated with the Cold War and the circumstances surrounding the assassination of John F. Kennedy. The author asks important questions, including why the assassination still matters today and what the lasting ripple effects have been since that fateful day.

DAVID KNIGHT

David Knight has been an academic researcher and lecturer on the murder of President John F. Kennedy since 1989. His is directly affiliated with noted author and teacher Casey J. Quinlan. Quinlan was Knight’s American History and Government teacher in the Olathe district school system in Kansas City. His history classes covered the Cold War and the assassination of President Kennedy and opened Knight’s eyes to search for the truth in American history. He has produced nine documentary films with Project JFK/CSI Dallas. He has produced two documentary films with author William Matson Law entitled The Gathering for his book In the Eye of History along with a DVD and Blu-ray version of the director’s cut. He is a member of JFK Lancer and has been its audio-visual technician and the producer of Lancer’s National and International Conference, November in Dallas (NID), since 2009. He has received numerous awards for his videography and film editing.

ED TATRO

Ed Tatro holds a B.A. Degree in English from Boston University; a Master’s Degree in Urban Education from Boston State College; and a Certificate of Advanced Graduate Studies in Educational Administration from Boston State College. He taught high school English in Quincy, Mass., for 38 years. Tatro is the author of many research articles pertaining to the JFK and RFK assassination conspiracies published in Jerry Rose’s The Third Decade, Penn Jones Jr.’s The Continuing Inquiry, and Ireland’s The JFK Assassination Forum. His work is acknowledged and footnoted in many JFK assassination books including Crossfire by Jim Marrs; Reasonable Doubt by Henry Hurt; Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover by Anthony Summers; Pictures of the Pain by Richard Trask; Destiny Betrayed by Jim DiEugenio; The Assassinations (Probe Magazine) by Jim DiEugenio and Lisa Pease; Reclaiming Parkland by Jim DiEugenio; The Kennedys: Dynasty and Disaster (paperback edition) by John H. Davis; Killing Kennedy by Harrison Livingstone; JFK: The Book of the Film by Oliver Stone and Zachary Sklar; LBJ: The Mastermind of the JFK Assassination (paperback edition) by Phil Nelson; LBJ: from Mastermind to the Colossus by Phil Nelson; David Ferrie by Judyth Vary Baker; Kennedy and Oswald by Judyth Vary Baker and Edward Schwartz; Doug Weldon’s essay in Murder in Dealey Plaza edited by James Fetzer; Self-Portrait of a Scoundrel by Chauncey Holt; Survivor’s Guilt by Vincent Palamara; and JFK and the Unspeakable by James Douglass and many others.

VINCE PALAMARA

Vince Palamara is the leading Secret Service expert and an authority on the Kennedy assassination, as well. He has written five books to critical acclaim: the best-selling Survivor’s Guilt: The Secret Service and the Failure to Protect President Kennedy, JFK: From Parkland to Bethesda, The Not-So-Secret Service, Who’s Who in the Secret Service, and Honest Answers About the Murder of President John F. Kennedy: A new Look at the JFK Assassination. Palamara has appeared on C-SPAN (including DVD), The History Channel for The Men Who Killed Kennedy (VHS/DVD), Newsmax TV, National Geographic Channel (DVD), and on the documentaries A Coup in Camelot (DVD/ BLU RAY), The Assassination of JFK (2021/UK) and The Man Behind the Suit (DVD).

DR. MICHAEL CHESSER

Michael Chesser, M.D. is a neurologist who was motivated to learn more about the assassination of President Kennedy after reading JFK and the Unspeakable in 2013. He was given permission to view the autopsy material at National Archives II in College Park, and he has viewed the purported original x-rays of the skull, the HSCA enhanced x-rays, and also the autopsy photographic prints and the digital images of the photographs. He has also visited the Presidential Library and viewed the pre-mortem x-rays of the president. He will discuss the differences between these images and the images which circulate over the web. He will also discuss his conclusions regarding the nature of the head wounds.

ALAN KENT

Alan Kent, a long-time lay student of the flow of American history with a research emphasis on the roots of political and economic power and violence in the shaping of what has become the current world, developed a deep respect for the importance of primary evidence, when it can be found. His lengthy communication with Hank Albarelli began in 2013, and has been on board the development of this book since. Over decades, Kent performed free-lance research for Albarelli and for multiple authors working toward the unraveling of “deep events” and is honored to be part of what he believes is the most significant effort to probe the assassination of President John F. Kennedy to date.

Leslie Sharp

Leslie Sharp is a freelance researcher and writer working from Santa Fe and Dallas. Born in the Texas Panhandle, she has lived in fifteen cities across the US and the Republic of Ireland in pursuit of a marketing career in luxury hotels and resorts that provide her a unique vantage point from which to observe the Military-Industrial Complex. In the mid-90s she paused to take stock and determined that she would help unriddle the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, a commitment fulfilled in Hank Albarelli’s Coup in Dallas.