Ed Dorsch

    Ed Dorsch was born in Baltimore, and is now 49 years old. He was educated at University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). He is an Army brat—his father, now a retired noncommissioned officer, was stationed at the Aberdeen Proving Grounds in 1964, where many of the rifle tests were conducted. Mr. Dorsch currently lives in Nottingham, Maryland, and works as an analyst for a major lending institution.
    He became interested in the JFK assassination 1990. At that time he believed the Warren Commission. One day he picked up an book on the assassination at a church flea market and wondered what was going on and whether the facts stated in the book were accurate. As he read, he listed the questions that came to him, most of which centered on statements that he wanted to confirm. As he read that first book and others, he had difficulty following them because they jumped from topic to topic and failed to focus on the physical evidence, which he considered the backbone of the case. By the time he had accumulated about 40 pages of questions and answers, he knew he had to write his own book. He has worked on it ever since then.
    His website with his book has been up for about eight months now (December 1999) and has logged about 4800 hits. He has received numerous E-mail messages both pro and con. In addition, he has assisted several college students with projects on the assassination and/or its key individuals. He is also asked to answer assassination questions sent to JFK Lancer, which they forward to him (and others).
    Dorsch is now “a solid conspiracy believer,” primarily because he cannot believe in the physical evidence. He believes that the physical evidence contains “far too many legal and common sense question marks” and that “belief in the ‘lone gunman’ scenario requires far more blind faith, in the face of multiple coincidences and/or "errors" in evidence discovery and handling, than [he] can accept as non-sinister in nature.”
    He also cannot accept “the basic mathematical probability that a presidential motorcade would by chance be set up to pass within rifle range of an assassin who merely went to work hoping to shoot the president and that basic Secret Service protocols would be ‘missing’ at exactly that spot.”
    Dorsch's book is entitled The Kennedy Assassination for the novice. It is divided into the following sections (links are directly to his web site):

Table of Contents (Cover Page)  http://pages.prodigy.net/whiskey99/
Introduction  http://pages.prodigy.net/whiskey99/introduction.htm
Chapter 1: Why Do We Need to Know  http://pages.prodigy.net/whiskey99/chapter1.htm
Chapter 2: The Controversy  http://pages.prodigy.net/whiskey99/chapter2.htm
Chapter 3: The Physical Evidence  http://pages.prodigy.net/whiskey99/chapter3.htm
Chapter 4: The Autopsy  http://pages.prodigy.net/whiskey99/chapter4.htm
Chapter 5: Conclusions  http://pages.prodigy.net/whiskey99/chapter5.htm
Chapter 6: Theories  http://pages.prodigy.net/whiskey99/chapter6.htm
Epilogue and Bibliography  http://pages.prodigy.net/whiskey99/bib.htm