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JFK Assassination Debate: This website enables people interested in the most important murder case of the 20th century to ask questions and to submit comments on the case. Recent discussions have concerned CIA Disinformation, Deaths of Witnesses, Don B. Reynolds and LBJ, James Files, Who killed JFK?, John Martino, Zapruder Film, Robert Kennedy and the Death of JFK, Lee Bowers, Billie Sol Estes, William Pawley, Earlene Roberts, David Sanchez Morales, Buddy Walthers, William Pitzer and the Men Who Killed Kennedy television series. If you have views on this subject, register with the International Education Forum and join the debate.
JFK Assassination Image Galleries: In Robin Unger's excellent website you can find a series of galleries: Dealey Plaza (images showing the motorcade, and the confusion which surrounded the bystanders after the assassination; Bethesda Autopsy ( the autopsy performed on Kennedy at Bethesda Naval Hospital); Parkland Hospital (crowds outside the hospital, and the presidents limousine after the assassination); Dallas Police Department (photographs inside the DPD); Air Force One (inside AF1 at love field and the arrival of JFK's coffin); Texas School Book Depository (images showing the inside of the TSBD); Lee Harvey Oswald (photographs of his assassination and autopsy photo) and Mixed Images (Babushka Lady, Umbrella Man, etc.)
The Taking of America: Richard E. Sprague first published 'The Taking of America' in 1976. He has now placed an updated version on the web. As he says in his introduction: "This book is not about assassinations, at least not solely about assassinations. It is not just another book about who murdered President Kennedy or how or why. It is a book about power, about who really controls the United States policies, especially foreign policies. It is a book about the process of control through the manipulation of the American presidency and the presidential election process. The objective of the book is to expose the clandestine, secret, tricky methods and weapons used for this manipulation, and to reveal the degree to which these have been hidden from the American public."
Assassination of President Kennedy: A detailed look at the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. There are biographies of 554 people involved in the case: Major Figures (160), Important Witnesses (68), Investigators (174) and Possible Conspirators (152). Other sections include: Reports (4), Organizations and Operations (28) and Key Issues (10). The website also looks at the possibility that different organizations such as the Mafia, CIA, FBI, Secret Service, KGB and the John Birch Society might have been involved in the planning of the assassination. Other possibilities such as anti-Castro activists, Texas oil millionaires and the Warren Commission's lone-gunman theory are also looked at. The website has an activity section and a forum where students and teachers can enter into debate with the author of the material, other investigators and witnesses to the events of 1963.
Photographic Archive of the Assassination of JFK: James Richards has studied the assassination of John F. Kennedy for the last 15 years. During this time he has established a large collection of photographs on the subject. The function of this website is to present photographic images relating to the assassination of John F. Kennedy. The images presented here cover many aspects including material captured on the day, to suspects, organizations and connected individuals who played a part in history. This ongoing project so far includes photographs of Operation Tilt, Interpen, Alpha 66, Dealey Plaza, Assassination Aftermath, Lee Harvey Oswald, Jack Ruby, JFK's Visit To Miami Stadium, Presidential Motorcade, Dallas Police Department, Organized Crime and Connections, CIA Personnel, Agents & Assets and Anti-Castro Personnel.
Coup D'Etat in America: Alan J. Weberman's website details the tramp theory of the Kennedy Assassination. According to Weberman: "There have been many attempts to destroy this theory, most notably by Oliver Buck Revell who floated a false news story alleging that the tramps had been identified when FBI documents clearly indicated the tramps who Revell named were picked up shortly after the Kennedy assassination and the second set of tramps, who are the subject of my study, were picked up about an hour after the killing. What I have learned is that one person cannot fight the FBI, the CIA and the rest of the establishment intent on covering up the fragility of American democracy during the Cold War. What I have witnessed boggles my mind - threats, drugging of a Congressmen, phony photo analysis's, Senators kicked upstairs to get them off the investigation, lawsuits, the Director of the FBI ordered my investigation quashed on paper, talking to the Washington Post to kill stories on and on."
Martin Shackleford Archive: Martin Shackleford has investigated the assassination of John F. Kennedy for over 30 years. His primary focus has been on the photographic evidence. He has also written a large number of articles on the case and for many years was a major contributor to Fair Play Magazine. This website provides access to some of these articles. This includes articles on Gerald Posner, Oswald's defection to the Soviet Union, Clay Shaw's involvement in anti-Castro activities in New Orleans and the failure of the HSCA to resolve the medical issues in the assassination.
Warren Commission: After the death of John F. Kennedy, his deputy, Lyndon B. Johnson, was appointed president. He immediately set up a commission to "ascertain, evaluate and report upon the facts relating to the assassination of the late President John F. Kennedy." The seven man commission was headed by Chief Justice Earl Warren and included figures such as Gerald Ford, John J. McCloy and John Sherman Cooper. Ten months later the Warren Commission reached the conclusion that the shots which killed President Kennedy and wounded Governor Connally were fired by Lee Harvey Oswald. The online version of the report allows you to discover how the Warren Commission came to this decision.
House Select Committee on Assassinations: In 1978 a committee in the United States was set up to look into the assassination of John F. Kennedy. The report is now available on the web and includes the testimony of John Connally, Nellie Connally, Marina Oswald, Earl Ruby, Santos Trafficante, Richard Helms, Dr. Cyril H. Wecht, Gerald Ford, John J. McCloy, John Sherman Cooper, Nicholas Katzenbach, Richad Helms, Thomas J. Kelley, J. Lee Rankin, Dr Charles S. Petty, Jacqueline Hess and Jack Revill.
The Kennedy Assassination: It has been called the crime of the century. On November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy had his life ended by an assassin's bullet, as he rode in a motorcade through the streets of Dallas, Texas. No crime has stirred more controversy in the annals of history, even from inside the government itself. In 1964, the Warren Commission found that Kennedy was the victim of a sole assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald. The author of this website disagrees and supports the view that a group of professional killers from outside the U.S., hired by the Mafia, carried out the assassination.
History Matters Archive: This excellent reference site brings to the electronic realm scanned images of paper reports, transcripts, and other documents, along with streaming audio and photographs. Much of this material has been declassified since the passage of the 1992 JFK Assassination Records Collection Act. These new documents contain a wealth of surprising material which will change the debate about the Presidency of John F. Kennedy as well as his murder. Two main categories of electronic documents and related materials are now available. The first is records directly relating to the assassination of President Kennedy and its subsequent investigations, and includes much new material released by the Assassination Records Review Board. The second set consists of records related to Vietnam foreign policy during the Kennedy administration, which contain surprising "new" facts regarding 1963 policy.
Assassination of John F. Kennedy: John McAdams' website provides a comprehensive overview of the issues, with pages on Dealey Plaza, the Single Bullet Theory, Lee Harvey Oswald, Jack Ruby, the movie "JFK," Jim Garrison's New Orleans investigation, and theories linking the assassination to the CIA and the Vietnam War. A key purpose of the site is to debunk the conspiracy theories and conspiracy factoids that have dominated public perceptions of the assassination. Thus it is especially useful to people who have read mostly conspiracy books, or seen one or more conspiracy videos, or seen the movie "JFK" and want to know the "rest of the story." There are numerous primary sources, including Oswald's own political writings, witness testimony, FBI reports, video and audio clips, and numerous photos.
Prouty Reference Site: Colonel L. Fletcher Prouty spent 9 of his 23 year military career in the Pentagon. In 1955 he was appointed the first "Focal Point" officer between the CIA and the Air Force for Clandestine Operations per National Security Council. In this capacity Prouty was at the nerve center of the Military-Industrial Complex at a time unequalled in American History. He has written on these subjects, about the JFK assassination, the Cold War period, and Vietnamese warfare, and the existence of a "Secret Team". This website is a focal point where researchers can locate and retrieve articles, books, videos, and tapes on a variety of subjects which Fletcher has written and participated in.
The Murder of President Kennedy: Nearly 40 years later, the historical truth of the assassination of President Kennedy remains unresolved. While the passage of time has certainly muted the urgency of the debate, there are still few historical questions which engender as much interest and passion as the proverbial question: Who killed JFK? In this article by Rex Bradford looks at some of the evidence that has become available since the passing of the 1992 JFK Assassination Records Collection Act. Bradford ends his excellent article with the words: "In the end, the question "who killed JFK?" is not the most important question anyway. How our society has failed itself miserably by never even attempting to find the real killers, and how it has failed to come to grips with the obvious reality of a powerful conspiracy and subsequent cover-up—these are the real issues which matter nearly forty years later."
Dealey Plaza Revisited: Although the assassination of President John F. Kennedy occurred 40 years ago, the controversy over the events surrounding the assassination has never died down. This website was produced by Helen Thompson of Texas Monthly. She visits the crucial sites connected with the assassination, from Lee Harvey Oswald's boarding house on West Beckley to the site of the infamous backyard photographs. The tour of Dealey Plaza provides you with photographs and descriptions of these sites, along with comments from four assassination experts about the importance of events that took place in Dallas on 22nd November, 1963.
Unconventional Warrior: In 1963 Daniel Marvin volunteered for Counter Insurgency and Guerrilla Warfare training. As a member of the Special Operations Forces, he was involved in assassinating enemies of the United States. In May 1995, Marvin claimed to have been solicited by an agent of the Central Intelligence Agency to "terminate" William Pitzer, a key witness to the autopsy of President John F. Kennedy. On his website Marvin, the author of the Expendable Elite, provides details of his life as a soldier and secret agent.
JFK Lancer: The goal of JFK Lancer Productions is to make research materials concerning President John F. Kennedy's assassination easily available to everyone. Our prime concern is the accuracy of history and the true story of the turbulent 1960s. The organization sponsors special events both for the research community and for young people and educators to further this investigation. JFK Lancer gives two Scholarship awards each year, one for a teacher and one for a student, to those who teach and study the assassination and presidency of JFK.
The Men Who Killed Kennedy: Since 1988 Nigel Turner has produced a series of television documentaries under the heading: The Men Who Killed Kennedy. The latest of these documentaries is called the Love Affair and includes a long interview with Judyth Baker. In 1963 Baker moved to New Orleans and became involved in a CIA project to kill Fidel Castro. In this programme Baker claims that this conspiracy involved Lee Harvey Oswald, David Ferrie and Dr. Mary Sherman. In her interview, Baker explains how some members of this group took part in the assassination of John F. Kennedy. In this detailed article, John MacAdams takes a critical look at Judyth Baker's story.
Assassination Science: James H. Fetzer is the author of several books on the Kennedy Assassination. His website contains information on a whole range of subjects. Articles include, Zapruder Film Hoax, Pearl Harbor, Truth vs. Fiction, Enron and 9/11, Assassination as a Tool of Fascism, Decoding Propaganda, America's Matrix, Fascism in America, Freedom and Security, Conspiracy Theories, Bogus War on Terrorism, Assassination as a Tool of Fascism, Bush and Bin Laden and the Death of Paul Wellstone.
JFK Murder Solved: In 1992, a Beaumont, Texas FBI agent, Zack Shelton, informed Houston criminal attorney Don Ervin that there was a man in prison that he believed to have knowledge of the assassination of John F. Kennedy. James E. Files claimed that he had been recruited by David Atlee Phillips of the CIA. According to Files others involved in the assassination included Sam Giancana, Johnny Rosselli and Charles Nicoletti. This websites provides a detailed study of the case including the confessions of James Files and Chauncey Holt.
Academic JFK Assassination Site: Kenneth A. Rahn is currently Professor Emeritus of Oceanography Center for Atmospheric Chemistry Studies at the University of Rhode Island. He is also interested in the assassination of John F. Kennedy and is the author of this website. It takes its "academic" name from the fact that it attempts to approach the assassination in a way that is as scholarly, dignified, and rigorous as possible. This site presents a great deal of material on all sides of the JFK assassination. However, according to Rahn: " This site shows that the proper investigative techniques lead inevitably to the strong conclusions that JFK was almost certainly killed by a lone gunman firing from the Texas School Book Depository, that he was almost certainly acting alone, and that he was almost certainly Lee Harvey Oswald."
JFK and Cuba: A few days before his assassination, President Kennedy was planning a meeting with Cuban officials to negotiate the normalisation of relations with Fidel Castro, according to a newly declassified tape and White House documents. The rapprochement was cut off by the assassination of Kennedy. This new evidence suggests that Castro saw Kennedy's killing as a setback. He tried to restart a dialogue with the next administration, but Lyndon Johnson was at first too concerned about appearing soft on communism and later too distracted by Vietnam to respond.
Fair Play Magazine: Between 1995 and 2000 John Kelin has produced Fair Play, a bi-monthly magazine devoted to the JFK assassination. With the help of Deanie Richards and the JFK Place website, 35 of these magazine are now available online. This includes articles on Roger Craig, Gaeton Fonzi, Lee Harvey Oswald in Mexico City, Ruth and Michael Paine, HSCA and JFK's Skull Wound, Perry Russo, Shots, Trajectories and Wounds, Sylvia Meagher, Richard Case Nagell, Grassy Knoll, James Files, Zapruder Film, Single Bullet Theory and Kerry Thornley.
Electronic Assassinations Newsletter: Each issue of this excellent journal concentrates on a theme or specialized topic relating to cold war era political assassinations in the United States. The first issue took a close look at Gerald Posner and his 1993 book Case Closed. According to the editor of this newsletter: "Case Closed was a slick, lawyerly presentation of the lone assassin theory in the death of JFK." Issue 2 is entitled New Discoveries in Recently Released Assassination Files and includes articles such as CIA Files and the Pre-Assassination Framing of Lee Harvey Oswald (Peter Dale Scott) and The House Select Committee on Assassinations and the Autopsy Photographic Evidence (Gary L. Aguilar).
Camera Obscura Experiment: Probably, the ultimate, undeniable and much more accurate experiment in purpose to break definitively a myth in JFK assassination. The question is: Mary Moorman was she on the road or on the grass when she shot her Polaroid picture? Consequently, is the Zapruder Extant film faked or not, at least with regard to the place where Mary Moorman was? Belgian Researcher Marcel Dehaeseleer has been attempting to answer this question by experimenting with a fundamental photographical principle called "Camera Obscura". The experiment was conducted on the 20th Nov. 2003, on Dealey Plaza by Rick Janowitz, Jack White and Scott Myers. This website describes the results of this experiment.
JFK Lancer Online: This is one of the largest websites on the life and death of John F. Kennedy available in the web. This includes sections on JFK: The Man, The President, JFK Speeches, Bay of Pigs and the Cuban Missile Crisis. The main section deals with the assassination of JFK and features articles by researchers such as Debra Conway, Martin Shackelford, Doug Horne, Ian Griggs, George Michael Evica and Vince Palamara. JFK Lancer is also the publisher of the Kennedy Assassination Chronicles (1995-2002) and some of this material is now available online.
J.P. Tippit: Oak Cliff Press has announced the launch of a comprehensive website honoring the life and memory of Dallas Police Officer J.D. Tippit who was murdered on November 22, 1963, forty-five minutes after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Dale K. Myers, an award-winning animator and author, produced the website after working closely with family and friends of the slain patrolman. "This is a long overdue honor that I'm very proud to be a part of," Myers said. "Unfortunately, much of the information available on the Internet today regarding Officer Tippit's life and death is completely false. Hopefully, this website will bring a much needed dose of reality to the subject."
JFK Online: This website on John F. Kennedy is run by David Reitzes. Much of the material concerns the assassination of Kennedy. Reitzes is highly critical of the research carried out by people such as Jim Garrison, Nigel Turner, David Lifton, James H. Fetzer and David Mantik. His website also contains the interesting article One Hundred Errors of Fact and Judgment in Oliver Stone's JFK. It also includes reviews of books, documentaries and feature films on the assassination.
Lyndon Baines Johnson Library: Last week the LBJ Library released 23 hours of Johnson's telephone conversations recorded between April and July 1966. The library has now made available a total of 464 hours of phone conversations. Claudia Anderson, the library's senior archivist, said Johnson was more of a phone person than a writer. In a conversation with Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas - a Johnson nominee to the court - Johnson expressed concern that Robert Kennedy was using polls to suggest a link between Johnson and the assassination of President Kennedy. Johnson said pollster Lou Harris operated at the whim of Robert Kennedy. "He's got everybody raising questions about it," Johnson said. "And 2 percent of them think that I did it."
Dark Corners: This website currently describes three aspects ancillary to the assassination of President Kennedy: the death of navy man William B. Pitzer; faces of people in Dealey Plaza resembling men who have been linked to the case; and the "sniper's nest." Also, links are provided to: information on In the Eye of History: Bethesda Hospital Medical Evidence in the JFK Assassination, a soon-to-be-published book of interviews with William Law of witnesses to the Kennedy autopsy (edited by Allan Eaglesham); and the web page of JFK/Deep Politics Quarterly, a JFK research journal edited by Walt Brown.
Someone Would Have Talked: Forty years after John Kennedy's murder in Dallas, the event remains a part of the American conscious. Polls show the majority of the public still believes there was some sort of conspiracy involved in his assassination and the average person thinks it just might be exposed once the government releases all the confidential documents relating to the case. Larry Hancock has spent the last few years examining the documents that have been released and his book, Someone Would Have Talked, is the best account we have so far on the assassination of JFK. This website allows you to engage in conversation with Larry Hancock about his research.
JFK History: No crime in the history of this nation has been more misrepresented and misunderstood than the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Robert Harris's website attempts to correct a few errors and answer once and for all, the critical question of whether this President was the victim of a conspiracy. The site has a great deal of material on the Zapruder Film and includes an analysis of all the shots that were fired during the attack. There is also an excellent collection a of images and documents that relate to the case.
Cuban
Information Archives: The main purpose of the Cuban Information Archives
is to provide primary source materials pertaining to Cuban Exile activities
as they pertain to their struggle to wrestle Cuba from Fidel Castro. As Gordon
Winslow, the founder of this website points out: "The propaganda machines
of Cuba, the Cuban Exile community and the United States Government have added
to the misunderstanding. The documents presented here are one way to help the
reader sift through that "propaganda", even though many of the documents
are propaganda.... To distinguish what is real and what is fiction is left to
the reader by placing references for the documents and by presenting contradictory
documents. Readers can see where the errors, accidental and designed, are made
and have the opportunity to either accept or reject a particular opinion."
JFK Assassination Research: Clint Bradford's website is an ideal source for JFK assassination research materials. This includes over 250 JFK-related texts and files in a simple, "click and download" method. Material is organized under headings such as Russian Documents, the Zapruder Film,the Paschall Film, Scene of the Crime, Priscilla and Lee, the Zavada Report, Dealey Plaza Photos, Kerry McCarthy and Captain Fritz's Notes. Clint Bradford website also includes a popular chat forum.
The Medium, the Message and the Myth: If historians have a responsibility to be ‘myth-slayers’, how do history teachers guard against our pupils swallowing whole chunks of history by Hollywood? How do we encourage pupils to apply the same critical thinking skills to a film as they would a written text? This seminar by Dale Banham (Holbrook High School, Suffolk) and Russell Hall (Kesgrave High School, Suffolk) uses an in-depth study of JFK to explore how to encourage pupils to think about films at a deeper level, integrate film clips into serious in-depth enquiry work, and to use film to broaden pupils’ understanding of historical interpretations If you want to take part in this seminar, register with the Education Forum and join the debate.
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