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)

 

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