Notices and Recent Additions to the JFK Web Site
13 November 2007
Link to archival video
from Dallas.
3 June 2007
Review of
Spiegelman et al.'s coming article on NAA in the Annals of Applied Statistics
31 August 2006
Review of Randich and Grant's July 2006 article on NAA in the Journal of
Forensic Sciences
2 September 2005 (and following)
Soviet
broadcasts immediately after the assassination
2 September 2005
Photos of JFK researchers--John
McAdams and Pamela
McElwain-Brown
18 August 2005
Photos of JFK researchers—Rob
Spencer
3 August 2005
Photos of JFK researchers—Steve
Barber
28 September 2004
The Cubana Airlines
Flight of November 22, 1963 (Peter Whitmey, The Fourth Decade,
January 1995)
21 September 2004
The Harmony of
the Physical Evidence (PowerPoint talk given by K.A. Rahn at the AARC
symposium in Washington, 18 September 2004)
17 December 2003
Toni Foster Walking (Another
animation by Alexandre le Bienheureux from the Zapruder film)
9 December 2003
Improved views of the quick forward snap
(Alexandre le Bienheureux, Brussels) This is REALLY important stuff!
6 December 2003
For Your Eyes
Only--Manipulation of evidence by Dallas Police Department (Frank A. Cellura,
2003)
28 November 2003
Forty years
after Kennedy's killing (Peter Whitmey, Vancouver Sun, 22 November
2003)
Camelot! A poem by Del
"Abe" Jones, 24 July 1999 (After John, Jr.)
Neutron Activation and the JFK Assassination (PowerPoint talk given by K.A.
Rahn at the Pittsburgh Symposium, 23 November 2003)
25 November 2003
A Brief Glance A poem
by Del "Abe" Jones, 22 November 2003
21 November 2003
Chance, not
conspiracy, in the death of JFK. Op-Ed article by K. Rahn et al. published
in the Austin Statesman and The Guardian.
16 November 2003
Deception and
Deceit: Media Coverage of JFK's Assassination, by Peter Whitmey, 4 November
2003
27 May 2003
Revised JFK home page
Biography of David
Lifton
24 May 2003
Definitions finished and
expanded.
18 May 2003
Coup
d'État (Medford Evans, AMERICAN OPINION, September 1967)
Chapter V: The Irresponsible and Un-American
Left Wing at the Time of the Death of Mr. Kennedy (Billy James Hargis, The
Far Left, 1964)
Chapter VI: The Enemy Within—"Far
Left" Press (Billy James Hargis, The Far Left, 1964)
Carl Day, Crime Scene Search Unit, who took the fingerprints
from the rifle. Witness statement from
No More Silence, by Larry A. Sneed.
Harry D. Holmes,
the postal inspector who questioned Oswald about his P.O. box just before he
died. Witness statement from
No More Silence, by Larry A. Sneed.
1 May 2003
Vincent Drain, FBI agent who brought the physical evidence to
Washington. Witness statement from
No More Silence, by Larry A. Sneed.
16 April 2003
The Allegations of Cecil Small (Peter
Whitmey, The Third Decade, January
1993)
12 April 2003
Pershing Gervais and the Attempt to Frame Jim Garrison (Peter
Whitmey, The
Fourth Decade, May 1994)
26 February 2003
Bobby Joe Dale, motorcycle officer who knew that the stuck
microphone was at Market Center, not in Dealey Plaza. Witness statement from
No More Silence, by Larry A. Sneed.
25 February 2003
Marrion L. Baker, the
motorcycle officer who encountered Oswald in the lunchroom. Witness statement from No More Silence, by
Larry A. Sneed.
24 February 2003
James Tague, the eyewitness by
the Triple Underpass who was hit in the cheek by a fragment. Witness statement from No More Silence, by
Larry A. Sneed.
17 February 2003
W.G.
"Bill" Lumpkin, one of the lead motorcycle officers in the
motorcade. Witness statement from No More Silence, by
Larry A. Sneed.
Charles Brehm,
the eyewitness who first conceived the single-bullet theory. Statement from No More Silence, by
Larry A. Sneed.
16 February 2003
Physics
and the frontal shot that never was (Monograph on JFK's motions after the
head shot. Debunks the notion of a frontal hit once and for all.)
6 November 2002
Barbara Junkkarinen on the witness
evidence for an early separate hit to JFK (ca. Z190) (Updated essay)
19 October 2002
An overall plan
for more fully describing the critical/scientific method
A critical
method for understanding the JFK assassination (Expanded description)
17 October 2002
A
critical method for validating physical evidence (more to come)
4 May 2002
Reactions from Readers 2002
(Beginning with messages from Ed Redlich, son of the WC's Norman Redlich)
29 April 2002
Critique of Joe
Biles's article on NAA
11 February 2002
Article
in The Knickerbocker News by Mary Woodward, 22 November 1983
Mary E.
Woodward: The First Dissenting Witness, by Peter Whitmey
3 February 2002
The blockbuster video at last! :-) K. Rahn
re-creates Oswald's morning walk with the long, bulky package. Click
here.
Filmed and edited by Greg Jaynes.
28 January 2002
The Man Who Heard Too
Much, by Peter Whitmey (1990 version with updates)
5 January 2002
Updated
Review of Dale Myers's With Malice (2002), by Michael T. Griffith
1 January 2002
ARRB
Deposition of Floyd Riebe, assistant to John Stringer at the autopsy
ARRB
Deposition of Saundra Kay Spencer, who claimed that she developed a second set of
photos from the autopsy
30 December 2001
ARRB
Deposition of Dr. Pierre Finck
ARRB
Testimony of Prof. Art Simon
ARRB
Deposition of John T. Stringer, who photographed JFK's autopsy
22 December 2001
Stavis (Steve)
Ellis, motorcycle officer who saw the first shot miss and hit the south curb
of Elm Street (in Sneed's No More Silence)
17 December 2001
Frequency
distributions of Sb in background WCC/MC bullets. For open-forum purposes;
comments solicited.
5 December 2001
James C. Bowles,
Communications Supervisor, Dallas Police Department, who tells the real story of
the acoustics (in Sneed's No More Silence)
3 December 2001
Officer H. B.
McLain, in Sneed's No More Silence
29 October 2001
Reply
to Art Snyder's note on my March 2001 monograph on NAA
2 October 2001
Art
Snyder's May 2001 Critique of K. A. Rahn's March 2001 monograph on NAA (.pdf
file)
14 September 2001
What
Follows From The Fragments? (K. A. Rahn, 31 August 2001)
Michael
T. Griffith's "Ten Reasons I Reject The Single-Bullet Theory,"
2000
Michael
T. Griffith's "The Shifting Sands of the Single-Bullet Theory,"
2001
Revised
page on the SBT
5 September 2001
Michael
Collins Piper's response to my critical summary of Final Judgment
30 August 2001
Why
the Fragments Weren't Planted (K. A. Rahn, 30 August 2001)
Shows that none of the fragments
analyzed by neutron activation were planted.
26 August 2001
Critical
summary of Michael Collins Piper's Final Judgment (1993)
Critical
summary of Chapter entitled "Dallas" from Michael Milan's The Squad
(1989)
24 August 2001
Andrew
Mason's objections to the SBT
20 August 2001
A selection of articles on T.
Casey Brennan and Conjurella
13 August 2001
W. Anthony
Marsh's critique of Ford and Zaid's paper (See entry of 29July)
Mark Zaid
responds
11 August 2001
"The
Winnipeg Airport Incidents" (Peter Whitmey, The Fourth Decade,
November 1995)
Biography of
Peter Whitmey
"The
Winnipeg Airport Incident" (From The Kennedy Conspiracy, by
Paris Flammonde, Meredith Press, New York, 1969, pages 29–32)
"Richard
Giesbrecht, conspiracy witness" (Entry in Who’s Who In The JFK
Assassination, Michael Benson, Citadel Press, 1993, pages 152–154)
Jean
Hill--The Lady In Red (Peter R. Whitmey, 1994)
10 August 2001
Assassination
research and the pathology of knowledge (Dennis Ford, The Third Decade,
1992)
An experimental psychologist and
Warren Commission critic warns about weaknesses of current research in the JFK
critical community.
8 August 2001
The
Scientific SBT
The NAA and the geometry of Dealey
Plaza establish the single-bullet theory scientifically. Its nomenclature should
now be changed to DBH (double-bullet hit).
Updated
introductory page for the SBT
3 August 2001
The
Winnipeg Airport Incident Revisited (Peter R. Whitmey, The Fourth Decade,
March 1999)
Expanded information on critic John
Bevilaqua
1 August 2001
Jim Ewell,
reporter for the Dallas Morning News, witness statement from No More Silence, by
Larry A. Sneed.
29 July 2001
Eyewitness
testimony, memory, and assassination research (Dennis Ford and Mark Zaid;
1993 Providence Conference)
Hugh
Aynesworth, reporter for the Dallas Morning News, witness statement from No More Silence, by
Larry A. Sneed.
28 July 2001
Critical
summary of
Chapter 44 of Gary Wean's There A FISH In The COURTHOUSE
20 July 2001
Legal
views of the Warren Commission. Five articles from the May 1965 issue of the
NYU Law Review. Highly recommended!
2 July 2001
"The
Warren Commission and the Legal Process" (Richard M. Mosk, Case and
Comment, May–June 1967, pages 13–20)
28 June 2001
The
Case for Assassination Books, by Andrew Winiarczyk (Dateline: Dallas, Volume
1: Numbers 2 & 3, Summer/Fall 1992)
12 June 2001
What
Was Back of Kennedy's Murder? (Evangelist John R. Rice, 1964, shortly after
the assassination)
30 May 2001
The
fatal shot: Was President Kennedy hit from the front? (Bernard Oattes,
Amsterdam, March 1993)
17 April 2001
Joachim
Joesten's "Truth Letter"
15 April 2001
Expanded
biography of Joachim Joesten (with more to come)
13 April 2001
Biography of
Joachim Joesten
11 April 2001
Ballistic
Findings in the John F. Kennedy Autopsy Photographs (Richard Tobias, 2001)
27 March 2001
Written
Assignment 7 (Revilo P. Oliver), PSC404
12 March 2001
We know too
much about the JFK assassination (Short essay by K. A. Rahn, 12 March 2001)
4 March 2001
The
Z-film hurt more than it helped (Short essay by K. A. Rahn, 4 March 2001)
3 March 2001
Neutron
Activation and the JFK Assassination (A monograph by K. A. Rahn on the three
chemical analyses of the bullets and fragments and how the data cement our
understanding of the assassination)
2 March 2001
Do
we need to know the height of the rear head wound?
Which
evidence is essential?
Do
we need to know the height of the back wound?
Written
Assignment 2 (The deed), PSC404
Written
Assignment 3, (WCR 3–5)PSC404
Written
Assignment 4, (Oswald and conspiracy) PSC404
Written
Assignment 5, (WCR App. X–XII) PSC404
Answers
to Written Assignment 2 (The deed)
Answers
to Written Assignment 3 (WCR 3–5)
Answers
to Written Assignment 4 (Oswald and conspiracy)
Answers
to Written Assignment 5 (WCR App. X–XII)
12 February 2001
Revised "A
logical approach to Jack Ruby and possible conspiracy."
31 January 2001
Reading
assignments for PSC404 through early March
Answers
to Written Assignment 1 (Critical thinking), PSC404
Written
Assignment 2 for PSC404 (Overview; The deed)
23 January 2001
The
second week of reading assignments for PSC404
22 January 2001
The
initial E-mail correspondence between Bob Vernon and K. Rahn
21 January 2001
Written
Assignment 1 for PSC404, on critical thinking
18 January 2001
Rough
outline of the logic in PSC404
15 January 2001
The
intellectual desert (for PSC404)
14 January 2001
Differences
between the transcript and the videotape of James Files's "confession"
(Complete)
13 January 2001
The
world of JFK "research" (for PSC404)
Bob
Vernon's bombastic response to my physical critique of the James Files
"confession"
Comments
on Vernon's response
Differences
between the transcript and the videotape of James Files's "confession"
(Incomplete)
4 January 2001
Brief biography
of Robert G. Vernon
Links to materials on James Files and the
alleged conspiracy
Violations of the physical evidence in James Files's "confession."
17 December 2000
Brief biographical material on Dave
Emory, including "Dave Emory's Politics of Acrimony," by Alex
Constantine
"The
President's Commission: Investigating the Kennedy Assassination"
(Chief Justice Earl Warren, Chapter XI of his memoirs, 1977)
Biography of
Billy James Hargis
About
the Author, Dedication, and Chapter
I of The Far Left, by Billy James Hargis, 1964
Two messages added to Thread
8 of "Anatomy
of a Newsgroup Discussion"
16 December 2000
Twenty
simple truths about the JFK assassination
15 December 2000
I am pleased to announce that yesterday the University of
Rhode Island's Faculty Senate made my JFK course a permanent part of the
Political Science Department. It will henceforth be known as PSC404, "The Assassination of John F. Kennedy."
The portions of my JFK site devoted to this course will now be split into
PSC482G (for the 1999 and 2000 courses) and PSC404 (for 2001 and later).
14 December 2000
Chapter
One of "The Mind of Oswald," by Diane Holloway
13 December 2000
Revised "Types
of evidence useful for understanding the JFK assassination"
Revised "A
critical method for understanding the JFK assassination"
10 December 2000
Revised introductory pages to the sections of "Pre-WCR
Reactions to the Assassination":
"Pre-WCR
Reactions to the Assassination"
"Pre-WCR
Reactions from the Center"
"Pre-WCR
Reactions from the Right"
"Pre-WCR
Reactions from the Left"
9 December 2000
"Unofficial
Envoy: An Historic Report from Two Capitals" (Jean Daniel, The New
Republic, 14 December 1963)
"Further
Clarification: Interviews with Kennedy and Castro" (Jean Daniel, The
New Republic, 21 December 1963)
8 December 2000
"Tussle
in Texas" (Saul Friedman, The Nation, 3 February 1964)
"Another
Beginning" (The New Republic, 7 December 1963)
"November
26, 1963" (Wendell Berry, The Nation, 21 December 1963)
7 December 2000
"The
TV Image" (Paul T. David, The Nation, 14 December 1963)
1 December 2000
"'Manchurian
Candidate' in Dallas" (Richard Condon, The Nation, 28 December
1963)
30 November 2000
"A
Most Unstuffy Man" (H. Stuart Hughes, The Nation, 14 December
1963)
29 November 2000
'The Roots of the Agony" (Reece
McGee, The
Nation, 21 December 1963)
26 November 2000
Timeline
of Jack Ruby's Activities, November 20–24,
1963 (Martha Moyer and Betty Windsor)
11 November 2000
A failed quest
10 November 2000
Anatomy
of a newsgroup discussion (equivalent to 55 single-spaced pages)
30 October 2000
"Oswald and the FBI" (Harold Feldman, The Nation, 27 January
1964)
19 October 2000
"The Warren Commission"
(Editorial in The Nation, 2 November 1964)
"Hoover the Vulgarian"
(Editorial in The Nation, 30 November 1964)
18 October 2000
"Then
How About Koch?" (Editorial in The Nation, 2 March 1964)
"The Dallas Rejoinder"
(Editorial in The Nation, 25 May 1964)
"Focus on Chapter V"
(Editorial in The Nation, 12 October 1964)
16 October 2000
"The
Climate of Violence" (Editorial in The Nation, 14 December 1963)
"The
American Condition" (Editorial in The Nation, 21 December 1963)
"The
Warren Commission" (Editorial in The Nation, 28 December 1963)
"Task
of the Warren Commission" (Editorial in The Nation, 20 January
1964)
15 October 2000
"The
Oswald Affair" (Leo Sauvage, Commentary, March 1964)
Revised intro page Pre-WCR
Reactions to the Assassination
Revised intro page Pre-WCR
Reactions by the Left
Revised intro page Pre-WCR
Reactions by the Center
Revised intro page Pre-WCR
Reactions by the Right
"John F. Kennedy"
(Editorial in The Nation, 14 December 1963)
14 October 2000
Biography of Edward Jay Epstein
"Who's
Afraid of the Warren Report?" (Edward Jay Epstein, Esquire,
December 1966)
13 October 2000
Reply
to Curtis Crawford's letter on "The Second Oswald" (Richard
Popkin, The New York Review of Books, 6 October 1966)
Biographical sketch
of David Perry
11 October 2000
Reply
to Popkin's "The Second Oswald" (Josiah Thompson, The New York Review of Books, 6 October 1966)
10 October 2000
Reply
to Popkin's "The Second Oswald" (Curtis Crawford, The New York Review of Books, 6 October 1966)
5 October 2000
Biography
of Ralph Schoenman
3 October 2000
Kennedy
and Lincoln (at the request of Anita Green)
1 October 2000
"The Second Oswald: The Case for a
Conspiracy Theory" (Richard H. Popkin, The New York Review of Books,
28 July 1966)
Biography of
Richard H. Popkin
20 September 2000
Curtis Crawford
A week ago Monday (the 11th of September), I received a very
pleasant surprise. The telephone rang, and who should it be but Curtis Crawford,
the author of 20 Questions for the Warren Report, a radio lecture from 29
September 1964 whose text we have been using in our JFK class. He was mildly
critical of the report, and concluded that "If my balancing of the evidence
is correct, the probability of Oswald's guilt is strong, but it has not I think
been established beyond a reasonable doubt." This reasoned stance should be
contrasted with the much stronger writings of, for example, Mark Lane and other
early critics.
Mr. Crawford and I have a very pleasant conversation for an
hour or so. He had learned that his lecture was part of class from a friend who
had found it when searching the Web to see where or if he appeared. Mr. Crawford
is now living in Charlottesville, Virginia. He is very polite and soft-spoken,
and generally makes his points in the same quiet, rational way as he did in
1964. He applauded my efforts in making an attempt "to teach students to
think impartially and critically about a controverted and impassioned public
issue," adding that " There is no more appropriate test for the
willingness to think well."
When I asked if he had published anything else on the JFK
assassination, he said that there was only a letter from October 1966 to The New York Review of
Books in response to an article that July by Richard Popkin on the Warren Report, the
impossibility of the single-bullet theory, and Popkin's two-Oswald theory. Mr.
Crawford then kindly photocopied this exchange, plus a response to Popkin by
Josiah Thompson, at the UVA library and sent them to me. I will shortly be
posting them for all to see. (As of 11 October 2000, they are all posted—KAR)
He did offer one critical comment, however, which could be
important. He said that my comments on his lecture had not sufficiently taken
into account the situation faced by the early critics, namely the real
uncertainties about much of the important evidence, the contradictions in the
evidence that had not been resolved, and the possibility that evidence had been
tampered with by the authorities. I immediately volunteered to review my
remarks, which appeared as answers to a homework assignment on his lecture, from
his perspective. Since I have come to stress the importance of this early
literature on the assassination, it is essential that I of all people place it
in the proper perspective. Given the general importance of historical
perspective, I will probably write a short essay on my findings. Thanks to Mr.
Crawford for a pleasant and positive conversation.
PSC404
Today I was notified that URI's Political Science Department
has approved my proposal to make my JFK course permanent, and that the next
higher level, the Curriculum Committee of the College of Arts and Sciences, has
also approved the request and sent it to the College of Arts and Sciences for
official college approval. This means that the course should have its permanent
status by the spring semester of 2001, when it is to be offered next. It will
henceforth be known as PSC404, "The Assassination of John F. Kennedy."
The portions of my JFK site devoted to this course will now be split into
PSC482G (for the 1999 and 200 courses) and PSC404 (for 2001 and later).
18 September 2000
Now that the fall semester has begun, I will be adding items
to the JFK site at a much lower rate than over the summer. I hope to be able to
pick up the pace later in the semester.
"The
Warren Commission Report: II. Testimony of the Eyewitnesses." (Fred J.
Cook, The Nation, 20 June 1966)
4 September 2000
Main
Page for Conspiracy Theory
Introduction to
Conspiracy Theory (with definitions).
Bibliography on
Conspiracy Theory
The
line of damage through the neck and into the throat (Removes the last doubts
about the first phase of the SBT.)
3 September 2000
"The Warren Commission Report:
I. Some Unanswered Questions" (Fred J. Cook, The Nation, 13 June
1966)
The
Ten Toughest Issues of the Assassination
30 August 2000
Messages to and from Joseph Nagarya, Bill Powers, Greg Jaynes, and Doug
Fulcher in Reactions from Readers on the
Web
"What the Warren Report Omits: The Vital Documents" (Jacob Cohen, The
Nation, 11 July 1966)
"Those
Missing Exhibits" (The Nation, 14 November 1966)
29 August 2000
New messages to and from William Powers, Thomas Hagan, Doug
Fulcher, and Joseph
Nagarya in Reactions from Readers on the
Web
26 August 2000
"The Warren Commission and Its
Critics" (Jacob Cohen, Frontier, November 1966)
23 August 2000
New message from William Powers in Reactions from Readers on the
Web
22 August 2000
Recent exchanges of messages with Thomas DiPaolo and William
Powers in Reactions from Readers on the
Web
16 August 2000
"The Warren Commission" (Maurice Rosenberg, The Nation, 14
September 1964)
Revised introduction to Legal
Views of the Warren Commission.
Rearranged and expanded introduction to Reaction
to the Warren Report
15 August 2000
"The
truth is way out there"—a
portrait of Jim Marrs (Dallas Observer,6 July 2000)
Declare
victory and change the subject.
14 August 2000
Introduction to
the JFK Abstracts
A ten-step
program for understanding the JFK assassination (under PSC482G)
Biography of Jim
Marrs
11 August 2000
Introductory
remarks on John Kaplan's "The Assassins"
10 August 2000
Expanded introduction to "Reactions
to the Warren Report."
9 August 2000
"The Assassins," by John Kaplan (The American Scholar,
Spring 1967)
5 August 2000
The
three jurists and the physical evidence
4 August 2000
Comments
on three papers from the legal community that consider the Commission's evidence
and conclusions.
2 August 2000
"Death
of a President: The Established Facts" (Lord Devlin, Atlantic
Monthly, March 1965)
1 August 2000
Biography of Vincent
Salandria, with supporting documents and links to others
31 July 2000
Page of definitions
Biography of Josiah
Thompson
"The
Buffs," by Calvin Trillin, The New Yorker, June 1967
30 July 2000
New Section: The
JFK Assassination in Fiction
"A
history of assassination literature," by Art Simon
Expanded introductory page on
"History"
"Dutch
Treat," by John W. Royal (A short story about THE high-level
conspiracy)
"Conspiracy
Buffs," by Edward J. Delaney (A short story about a buff at a JFK
convention)
24 July 2000
Expanded
introduction to Spring 2001's PSC482G
23 July 2000
Additions to Reactions
from readers on the web
Critique of Galanor's Cover-up moved to Critiques
Annotated
version of Minnis-Lynd's "Seeds of Doubt"
22 July 2000
Brief biography of Staughton
Lynd
Longer bio
from The Business Journal
"Seeds of
Doubt", by Jack Minnis and Staughton Lynd, The New Republic 21 Dec 63
"Overcoming
Racism," by Staughton Lynd
Review of Lynd's 1996 book We
Are All Leaders
Expanded biography of Mark
Lane
Expanded Intro
to Pre-WCR Reactions of the Left
18 June 2000
I am pleased to announce the acquisition of about 600 MB of
images and files from W. Anthony Marsh of Somerville, MA. This material will be
known as The Marsh Collection. It can be accessed from the JFK
Home Page or directly from its own index.
It may be months before the materials are fully catalogued, however, for the
number of items is daunting.