FROM: M. Duke Lane, 76004,2356 TO: Anthony Marsh [J], 72127,2301 DATE: 11/24/94 5:47 AM Re: News & Files Following are several news items regarding the JFK assassination and the recent death (11/21/94) of Dr Marion T. "Pepper" Jenkins, the ER physician who pronounced JFK dead. "Dr. Pepper" died Monday of stomach cancer, one day short of 31 years of that fateful day. May he rest in peace. Before posting these (following), I thought I'd also let you know that I've downloaded about 785K of a total of 76 articles from such sources as HARPERS, US NEWS & WORLD REPORT, THE NEW REPUBLIC, TIME and several other "general interest" magazines available through the Magazine Database (GO MAGDB) here on CIS, as well as several from such sources as the Houston POST, the Washington TIMES and POST and other newspapers; I got disconnected from the host of the Detroit FREE PRESS, which seems to have some rather interesting articles. I'm ZIPping these up into a single file which I'm happy to send to anyone who wants it; unfortunately, I can't make any selective filters (e.g, "I only want the TIME articles"); you can either have them all or none. I'm guessing the ZIPped files will reduce to about 200-300K. Let me know if you want them. Meanwhile, here's today's "JFK News." Enjoy. --Duke Washington Times (WT) - Thursday, November 17, 1994 WT (c) 1994 Washington Times. All rts. reserv. 07821004 Washington Times (WT) - Thursday, November 17, 1994 Edition: Final Section: M WASHINGTON WEEKEND CALENDAR TOP PICKS Page: M9 Word Count: 413 TEXT: LECTURES The National Archives never stops coming up with interesting ideas for lectures on American history. Richard Reeves, author of the celebrated and compelling "President Kennedy," discusses "The Young Presidents: The Perils of John F. Kennedy and Bill Clinton" at noon on Nov. 22, the 31st anniversary of the Kennedy assassination. The Archives is located at Pennsylvania Avenue and Seventh Street NW, and the program is free. For information, call 202/501-5000. CAPTION: Photo, Bill Clinton and John F. Kennedy - seen here as student and president in 1963 - will be discussed in a National Archives lecture on Nov. 22. Memory of JFK waning in Dallas Conspiracy buffs seem less in WT (c) 1994 Washington Times. All rts. reserv. 07825011 Memory of JFK waning in Dallas Conspiracy buffs seem less intense Washington Times (WT) - Monday, November 21, 1994 By: Hugh Aynesworth - THE WASHINGTON TIMES Edition: Final Section: A Page: A1 Word Count: 908 TEXT: DALLAS - DALLAS - Millions of people have trekked through Dealey Plaza, the place where John F. Kennedy was murdered on Nov. 22, 1963. They've taken thousands of photographs of the "grassy knoll" and the Texas School Book Depository. This past weekend, unlike some previous anniversaries, there seems a perceptibly more subdued tone. "It's because these people don't really remember," says Bob Douglas, an assassination buff from Los Angeles, as he peddles a $3 tabloid newspaperb that purports to give "the real truth" about the assassination. "They weren't even born yet, most of them," he says. "How could they really feel it?" Two conventions, just blocks from the site, have fueled this year's influx of searchers. One group is composed of hard-core conspiracy theorists, the other a national conclave of high school journalism students. Six blocks to the east, the Assassination Records Review Board held an all-day session Friday to elicit speculation about what of the still-embargoed records of the assassination investigation should be released, and how and when. The board asked for testimony concerning the existence of relevant records, but was inundated by authors and self-styled investigators who wanted to promote their own theories. One participant said he had been told that an Army intelligence unit from Fort Hood had killed the president and had set up videotaping operations beforehand at several sites surrounding Dealey Plaza. Asked to name his informant, he demurred, saying he's afraid of getting the person in trouble. He urged the panel to get President Clinton to rescind any orders of secrecy so that his informant could come forward. A Houston television producer, whose TV documentary, with a version on CD-ROM for computers, is due out soon, told the board he believes a federal prison inmate who had confessed to him was "one of the assassins." Beyond these speculations, the 31st anniversary walk-up is calm compared with earlier years. Despite the fact that Oliver Stone's fiction-as-fact 1992 movie, "JFK," bred a new generation of doubters of the official investigation, there no longer remains an overwhelming presence in Dealey Plaza. Absent is an intensity once readily apparant. Two JFK assassination "museums" that peddled coffee mugs, ashtrays, conspiracy books and autopsy photographs, have folded, leaving only vendors like Mr. Douglas and assorted experts and theorists to hawk their own history of the events. The author of one of the most successful pro-conspiracy books is said to be trying to sell a UFO treatise as well. Says one bemused Fort Worth reporter: "That alone should tell you there's not much more money in this quest." Not so long ago, they came to Dealey Plaza with a purpose - and a vengeance. In the mid-1960s, fired up by the first of the conspiracy theorists, most seemed certain the accused assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, couldn't have fired three shots from that sixth-floor perch. There was widespread talk of multiple assassins. One could feel the boundless energy and intensity of the searchers as they slowly traversed the layout, peering this way and that, often taking notes, taking pictures of each other, usually tape-recording thoughts and measurements. Often the groups of threes and fours would splinter off, as if to grab a bit of solitude and one-on-one reverence. To many, it was close to a religious experience. There were always the promoters - those who claimed they knew what the government had covered up. For a couple of dollars, they would tell their story, showing disdain of any who questioned their scenarios, some more fanciful than others. On Nov. 22, 1974, one peddler carried an armload of tabloids with huge headlines that read, "KENNEDY ALIVE, HELD PRISONER AT PARKLAND!" Reaching into his large duffel bag, he offered two books postulating that CIA and Russian KGB agents had killed JFK. He was asked to explain how these twob stories - one with JFK alive, the other with JFK dead - could both be true. "I don't ask questions," he snapped. "I just provide information." Sometimes as many as 30 persons showed up on Nov. 22, claiming they had been present when Kennedy was shot. Jim Bowie, a former Dallas County assistant district attorney, once said he thought it amazing so many people were in Dealey Plaza on Nov. 22, 1963. "That day it looked like only three or four hundred," he said, dryly, "but each year we find there were another thousand standing there. I wonder how many will have been there by the year 2000." One such claimant was hauled away in 1970 by acquaintances who claimed the man wasn't even in Texas when the president was killed. He had just mesmerized a group of Oregon students with his eyewitness "recollections." "He was still in college in Wisconsin," said one as they pulled him into a nearby car, "and we're not letting him get away with this tacky exhibition." Others showed little or no restraint. Tabloid newspapers, slide shows, impromptu speeches and for-sale interviews often turned Nov. 22 into a carnival-like extravaganza. The most extravagant of all was Nov. 22, 1983, when publisher Larry Flynt, gliding by the scene at exactly 11:30 a.m. in a black convertible limousine, raised up his crippled and paralyzed body, groaned and splashed a large bottle of catsup over his head - symbolic, someone might conclude, of the brutality inflicted on Kennedy by two shots to the head precisely 20 years to the minute before. R0023926-112194 Doctor who tried to save JFK, dies at 77 WT (c) 1994 Washington Times. All rts. reserv. 07827055 Doctor who tried to save JFK, dies at 77 Washington Times (WT) - Wednesday, November 23, 1994 By: FROM WIRE DISPATCHES AND STAFF REPORTS Edition: Final Section: NATION AMERICAN SCENE Page: A12 Word Count: 52 TEXT: DALLAS - Dr. Marion Thomas "Pepper" Jenkins, who declared President Kennedy dead in the Parkland Memorial Hospital emergency room in 1963, has died at 77. Dr. Jenkins, who also treated Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Ruby, died of stomach cancer Monday, one day short of the 31st anniversary of the assassination. a0715-112394 ZAPRUDER FILM ON LIST OF `IMPORTANT' MOVIES US (c) 1994 USA Today. All rts. reserv. 07819047 ZAPRUDER FILM ON LIST OF `IMPORTANT' MOVIES USA Today (US) - TUESDAY November 15, 1994 By: Marco R. della Cava Edition: FINAL Section: NEWS Page: 01A Word Count: 156 TEXT: Eight millimeters and 486 grainy frames does not a classic make - unless you're a movie called Zapruder. The endlessly analyzed footage of President Kennedy's 1963 assassination, taken by Abraham Zapruder, joins E.T. in the Library of Congress' vault of films deemed culturally, historically or aesthetically important. The Zapruder film is the first amateur movie on the list, which now numbers 150. "It was very important to represent the whole body of amateur film which is important to our heritage," says David Francis of the Library of Congress. This is "probably the most famous amateur film of all time." Among other new entries: Off-beat buddy dramas The African Queen (1951) and Midnight Cowboy (1969). A 1933 pre-Disney version of Snow White, starring Betty Boop. "I feel strongly about every film that's made," says Roddy McDowall, actor and member of the National Film Preservation Board, which helps choose the films. "Even ones that are considered kitsch." Copyright 1994 Gannett Co., Inc. DESCRIPTORS: LIBRARY OF CONGRESS; ABRAHAM ZAPRUDER; JOHN F KENNEDY; SUBJECT TERMS: MOVIE; LIBRARY; PRESERVATION; ASSASSINATION NEW IN PAPERBACK - NEW IN PAPERBACK. WP (c) 1994 Washington Post. All rts. reserv. 2222480 NEW IN PAPERBACK - NEW IN PAPERBACK. The Washington Post, November 20, 1994, FINAL Edition Section: BOOK WORLD, p. x12 Story Type: Review Line Count: 56 Word Count: 621 ALSO JUST OUT President Kennedy: Profile of Power, by Richard Reeves (Touchstone, $15)