Recent additions to the JFK web
(Most recent first)
30 April
List
of topics for the final exam
25 April
"What
do many pieces of weak evidence add up to?" (Draft of an earlier essay
now completed)
24 April
Review
session and class presentations
23 April
Instant
conspiracy theories for the photos of Elian Gonzales being taken from Miami
"The
minimum physical evidence must all be genuine" (More possible criticisms added)
19 April
"The
minimum physical evidence must all be genuine" (Possible criticisms and
responses added)
Testimony
of Johnny Calvin Brewer to the WC
Testimony
of Julia Postal to the WC
Testimony
of Warren H. (Butch) Burroughs to the WC
Testimony
of Lee E. Bowers, Jr., to the WC
18 April
"The
major logical postulates of this course"
16 April
"Whose
predictions have come true?"
13 April
"The
brown paper bag and witness evidence"
11 April
"The
types of evidence most available in the JFK assassination" (Companion
to "The right way and the wrong way to use evidence")
"The
right way and the wrong way to use physical evidence" (Revised
slightly)
10 April
The
story behind the story (of Dwight Macdonald's critique of the WC Report)
A
biographical sketch of Dwight Macdonald (As book review of A Rebel In
Defense Of Freedom)
9 April
"The
right way and the wrong way to use evidence"
"A
Lawyer's Notes on the Warren Commission Report" (Alfredda Scobey,
former staff member of the Warren Commission)
"The
Conspiracy Theories" (Pamela Colloff and Michael Hall, Texas Monthly,
November 1998)
8 April
Final
Report of the ARRB
6 April
How
a high-speed bullet damages an organ
5 April
"A
Critique of The Warren Report" (Dwight Macdonald's great article in Esquire,
March 1965. Includes the healthy dose of humor—but
not about the assassination— that is so lacking on other works on it.)
3 April
The
minimum physical evidence must all be genuine (Updated)
2 April
The
minimum physical evidence must all be genuine (External comments solicited)
28 March
Rex
Bradford's presentation to the class on 22 March 2000 (further expanded)
26 March
Possible
topics for the paper/presentation
Rex
Bradford's presentation to the class on 22 March 2000 (expanded and
corrected)
21 March
Toward
an epistemology of the JFK assassination (transparencies from PSC482G's
spring 1999 conference)
Answers
to the midterm exam
6 March
Biography of
Roger Feinman (including a brief history of the dispute between him and
David Lifton)
Between the
Signal and the Noise (Roger Feinman's 1993 book on David Lifton, removed
from this web in January 2000 and now reinstated)
David Lifton's
two 1993 responses to Feinman's book (removed from this web in January 2000
and now reinstated)
5 March
The
split in the Left
I.
F. Stone's attack on the Left
Ray
Marcus's reaction
Jim
DiEugenio's lament on the Left and The Nation
Todd
Gitlin on the Left and other reactions
C.
Sharrett's review of Art Simon's Dangerous Knowledge
This
course's distinctive approach to the evidence
List
of topics for the midterm exam
2 March
Biography of
Stewart Galanor
"The
power of the physical framework" (Updated draft)
Assignment
20--Curtis Crawford
29 February
Updated
"A logical approach to Jack Ruby"
Answers
to Assignment 17
Logical
reasoning versus legal reasoning
Assignment
19--Herbert L. Packer
27 February
"Warren
Report: Case for the Prosecution" (Murray Kempton, The New Republic,
10 October 1964)
"A
Measure of the Achievement" (Herbert L. Packer, The Nation, 2
November 1964)
About
Herbert L. Packer
Answers
to Assignment 16
Assignment
18, WCR 9 (Jack Ruby)
26 February
"20
Questions for the Warren Report" (Curtis Crawford, WBAI-FM, 29 Sept.
1964)
Testimony
of Linnie Mae Randle to WC
Testimony
of Buell Wesley Frazier to WC-1
Testimony
of Buell Wesley Frazier to WC-2
Testimony
of Lieutenant J. C. Day to WC
Affidavits
of Lieutenant J. C. Day
Testimony
of Commander James J. Humes to WC
Testimony
of Commander J. Thornton Boswell to WC
Testimony
of Lt. Col. Pierre A Finck to WC
Testimony
of Mark Lane to WC-1
Testimony
of Mark Lane to WC-2
Testimony
of Bonnie Ray Williams to WC
Testimony
of Abraham Zapruder to the WC
Testimony
of James Tague to the WC
The
power of the physical framework (draft)
24 February
A
logical approach to Jack Ruby
Ruby's
WCR Testimony 1
Ruby's
WCR Testimony 2 (Lie-detector test)
Answers to Assignment 14
Answers
to Assignment 15
21 February
Answers
to Assignment 13
Answers
to Assignment 8
The
Case for a Bunched Jacket (A three-part essay by John Hunt, Jr.)
A logical approach to the location of Kennedy's back wound
Folder on JFK's throat wound
A
logical approach to the origin of Kennedy's throat wound
List of
logical summaries
A
logical approach to the question of conspiracy
20 February
"On the Trail of a
President's Killers II" (New Times 1977-2)
"On the Trail of a
President's Killers III" (New Times 1977-3)
"How Could It
Happen?" (Editorial from The New Republic, 7 December 1963)
"When
Castro Heard the News" (Jean Daniel, The New Republic, 7
December 1963)
Folder
for Tippit shooting
A
logical approach to the Tippit shooting
Folder
for Kennedy's back wound
17 February
A
logical approach to the single-bullet theory
Editorial
from The New Yorker (7 December 1963)
"On
the Trail of a President's Killers" (New Times, 1977-1)
"The
Warren Commission: An Editorial" (Commentary, January 1964)
Answers
to Assignment 11
Answers
to Assignment 12
Answers
to Assignment 7
Updated "List
of strong evidence"
15 February
"The
Secret State" (Address by Carl Oglesby to the Massachusetts Libertarian
Party, 19 December 1991)
"That Manchester
Book" (New Times, 1 February 1967)
"The
Assassination of John F. Kennedy: A Formal Debate Between Gerald Posner and
Peter Dale Scott," 1993
14 February
"The
Warren Commission Was Right" (David Belin, Skeptic of Sept/Oct
1975)
13 February
"The
Case Against Mr. X" (Leo Sauvage, The New
Leader, 3 January 1966)
Biography of M
.S. Arnoni (Publisher of Minority of One in the 1960s)
List of
strong evidence in the JFK assassination (partial, but a good start)
Answers to
Assignment 6 (Warren Commission 2)
Answers to
Assignment 9 (Mark Lane's "Brief for the defense")
Answers
to Assignment 10 (M. S. Arnoni)
Assignment
12 (Warren Report 3)
Assignment
13 (Warren Report 4)
Assignment
14 (Warren Report 5)
Assignment
15 (Warren Report 6)
Assignment
16 (Warren Report 7)
Assignment
17 (Warren Report 8)
12 February
"Oswald's
Case Against the Warren Commission" (Leo Sauvage, The New Leader,
December 1965)
11 February
"Discounting the Critics" (W. David Slawson and Richard M. Mosk,
Skeptic
of Sept/Oct 1975)
10 February
Introduction
to special issue of Skeptic magazine, Sept/Oct 1975
"The
Question That Keeps Coming Back" (Henry B. Burnett, Jr., Skeptic
of Sept/Oct 1975)
"The
Dissenters Ask Too Much" (James J. Kilpatrick, Skeptic of
Sept/Oct 1975)
Assignment
11 (The Soviet Union's New Times)
8 February
Assignment
10 (M. S. Arnoni)
6 February
Assignment
9 (Mark Lane)
4 February
Assignment
8 (Revilo P. Oliver)
Zapruder
frames around the second head motion
1 February
What
Howard Brennan really saw (his full 1964 WC testimony and the provocative
first two chapters from his 1988 book)
Assignment 7 (Howard Brennan; advisory only)
30 January
"Did
Someone Alter the Medical Evidence?" (Fred T. Newcombe and Perry Adams,
Skeptic, September/October 1975--The essence of the body-alteration
theory that David Lifton published five years later)
Sequence
of events reported by six witnesses in first two limousines
Observations
of six Secret Service agents
29 January
"The
Warren Commission's Case Against Oswald," (Leo Sauvage, The New
Leader, November 1965)
"Notes
for A New Investigation" (Sylvia Meagher, Esquire, December
1966)
28 January
Various
MS Word versions of assignments and answers
Answers
4 (HTML)
The Sibert and
O'Neill report on the autopsy
Folder on Peter
Dale Scott
27 January
Assignment
5
Assignment
6
Two recent
communications from outside
26 January
Answers
3
Zapruder
frames of the killing sequence
Can
you see the quick forward snap?
"Why
the Zapruder film is authentic": Josiah Thompson at JFK Lancer, 20
November 1998
JFK
LINE Media Alert on CE 567: Article by Mark Sobel
Folder on Mae
Brussel
25 January
External comments on this
course (partial)
Assignment
4
24 January
Answers
2
Humes
deposition to ARRB (file equivalent to 70 pages of single-spaced text)
23 January
Assignment
3
22 January
AP
article on CE 567
Joe
Backes letter in response to AP article
NARA's
internal notice of impending report
Joe
Backes's "Mystery Conclusions"
Joe Backes's "A New Look at CE 567"
21 January
Administrative
folder with URI locations of reports from the Warren Commission and the House
Select Committee on Assassinations
NARA's
Reexamination of bullet fragment CE 567
NARA
Report on CE 567
20 January
Outline
of the web
Assignment
2
Answers to
Assignment 1
19 January
Boswell
Deposition to ARRB
18 January
Assignment
1
Introductory
Questionnaire
Neutron-Activation
Analysis and the John F. Kennedy Assassination (K. A. Rahn, 1995)
17 January
Syllabus
16 January
"The
Triumph of Caliban" (Karl E., Meyer, The New Leader, 12 October
1964)
"The
Other Witnesses" (George and Patricia Nash, The New Leader, 12
October 1964)
Helen
Markham's Testimony to the Warren Commission
Testimony
of Seymour Weitzman to WC
Testimony
of Marrion L. Baker to WC
Affidavit
of Marrion L Baker
Testimony
of Domingo Benavides to WC
Testimony
of Howard L. Brennan to WC
Affidavit
of Howard L. Brennan
Text
of Warren Report (only one appendix so far)
15 January
Thomas Buchanan's "In
Defense of a Theory." (15 January 2000)
Leo Sauvage's "As I
Was Saying" (15 January 2000)
Bio of Thomas Buchanan
(15 January 2000)
14 January
Extensive footnotes activated in Jeff Schwartz's M.A. Thesis "Postmodernity,
History, and the Assassination of JFK"
12 January 2000
Leo Sauvage's "Thomas
Buchanan, Detective."
Bio of Leo Sauvage
Annotated
compendium of published comments on NAA and the JFK assassination (Very large document in six parts)