JFK Files

tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7404027242467268372009-12-15T10:33:27.440-05:00JFK FilesJohn F. Kennedy Assassination News, Commentary & OpinionDale K. Myershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17079679710654429737noreply@blogger.comBlogger119125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-740402724246726837.post-54107841620751556512009-12-08T08:11:00.002-05:002009-12-08T08:16:22.132-05:00Doctor who attended JFK in Dallas has died

by TERRY WALLACE / Associated Press Writer © 2009 The Associated PressDALLAS — Dr. Malcolm Oliver Perry II, who attended to President John F. Kennedy at Parkland Memorial Hospital after he was shot in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963, has died. He was 80.The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, the teaching hospital for Parkland, said Monday that Perry died Saturday in Tyler after a battle

Dale K. Myershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17079679710654429737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-740402724246726837.post-56023239843814974812009-11-28T12:44:00.002-05:002009-11-28T12:47:00.500-05:00Veteran CBS News Producer Bernard Birnbaum Dead at 89

CBS News.com There's been a death in the CBS News family: Former producer Bernard Birnbaum died on Thanksgiving Day at the age of 89. Birnbaum had been at CBS News since 1951, and was a producer for "Sunday Morning" since 1990. Throughout his distinguished career at the network, during which he received seven Emmy Awards, Bernie Birnbaum covered many of the most remarkable events of the past

Dale K. Myershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17079679710654429737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-740402724246726837.post-1361022799605953382009-11-22T11:07:00.003-05:002009-11-22T11:17:13.870-05:00The JFK Assassination in History

by DALE K. MYERSWant to know how the JFK assassination will be remembered by history?Here’s what a concerned citizen wrote ten days ago:“The controversy surrounding JFK`s assassination will go on forever as long as the government stonewalls on its release of every bit of information still sealed and as long as they continue to employ individuals to counter any new conspiracy information and label

Dale K. Myershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17079679710654429737noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-740402724246726837.post-88020572929288420332009-11-22T10:56:00.003-05:002009-11-29T22:34:52.341-05:00James W. Sibert, A Witness to History

Former FBI agent Jim Sibert, 91, holds a photo of President John F. Kennedy in his limousine just before he was killed in Dallas. ANDREW WEST/NEWS-PRESS.COMby GLENN MILLER / News-Press.comSouth Fort Myers resident Jim Sibert has answered the questions for 46 years, ever since the night the FBI special agent observed the autopsy of President John F. Kennedy.Over the years, Sibert, 91, has been

Dale K. Myershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17079679710654429737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-740402724246726837.post-76684010773007495942009-11-18T20:42:00.004-05:002009-11-18T20:54:43.573-05:00Replica 1963 Dallas police squad car to honor officer slain by Lee Harvey Oswald

This restored replica of a 1963 Ford Galaxie police car will serve as a memorial to J.D. Tippit, the Dallas officer slain by Lee Harvey Oswald, and other officers killed in the line of duty. JEFFREY PORTER/DMNby STEVE BLOW / Dallas Morning NewsAs another Nov. 22 approaches, a fresh round of attention is sure to focus on Kennedy, Oswald and Ruby.And once again, scant attention will be paid to

Dale K. Myershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17079679710654429737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-740402724246726837.post-16628663501734341472009-11-11T23:44:00.002-05:002009-11-11T23:48:36.919-05:00JFK Investigation Photos Now Online

by ERIC KREINDLER / NBC Dallas-Fort Worth NewsPhotographs taken by Dallas police and used as evidence in the criminal investigation following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy are now available for public viewing.The University of North Texas Libraries' Digital Projects unit placed the photographs in its Portal to Texas History. UNT recently received a grant from the Summerlee

Dale K. Myershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17079679710654429737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-740402724246726837.post-43665309461002312092009-11-08T00:42:00.001-05:002009-11-08T00:44:45.739-05:00Jack Ruby's hat commands $53,775 at Kennedy assassination item auction

by WENDY HUNDLEY / The Dallas Morning News Jack Ruby’s signature fedora commanded $53,775 Saturday at an auction of items linked to the assassination of John F. Kennedy.The gray felt hat, worn by Ruby when he shot Lee Harvey Oswald, prompted spirited bidding during the auction, said Doug Norwine of Heritage Auction Galleries in Dallas. Several collectors were vying for the item, which was

Dale K. Myershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17079679710654429737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-740402724246726837.post-15972159157605714632009-11-07T10:17:00.002-05:002009-11-07T10:22:20.644-05:00Items tied to Kennedy assassination to be auctioned in Dallas

by AVI SELK / The Dallas Morning NewsCalling all Kennedy connoisseurs.If you've got John F. Kennedy assassination fascination (and money to burn), Heritage Auction Galleries wants you to come down today and get yourself some souvenirs from Dallas' "weekend of destiny," as they call it.The gallery's got a decade's worth of Jack Ruby remnants – from the hat he lived in to the chains he died

Dale K. Myershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17079679710654429737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-740402724246726837.post-53431049022525983092009-11-05T20:34:00.002-05:002009-11-05T20:42:56.882-05:00Dartmouth Professor finds that iconic Oswald photo was not faked

DARTMOUTH COLLEGE OFFICE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS / PRESS RELEASE Dartmouth Computer Scientist Hany Farid has new evidence regarding a photograph of accused John F. Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald. Farid, a pioneer in the field of digital forensics, digitally analyzed an iconic image of Oswald pictured in a backyard setting holding a rifle in one hand and Marxist newspapers in the other. Oswald and

Dale K. Myershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17079679710654429737noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-740402724246726837.post-39257917247406756092009-10-11T09:58:00.002-04:002009-10-11T10:23:57.883-04:00TV Alert: "JFK: 3 Shots That Changed America"

Part 1 of "JFK: 3 Shots That Changed America" airs 9-11 p.m. EST Sunday, October 11; Part 2 airs Monday, October 12 on The History Channel (check local listings).by KEVIN McDONOUGH / Syndicated TV Columnist OK, I groaned a little when I got the press material for "JFK: 3 Shots That Changed America" (9 p.m., Sunday, History Channel, concluding Monday). I thought I had seen every scrap of footage

Dale K. Myershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17079679710654429737noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-740402724246726837.post-88008274090556265162009-09-07T10:23:00.003-04:002009-09-07T10:29:07.497-04:00Irving buys Paine House, made infamous by Lee Harvey Oswald

by BRANDON FORMBY / The Dallas Morning News Autry Lewis stood in front of his Irving home on a November morning waiting for a ride. The man who sometimes stayed at Ruth Paine's house across the street was waiting for his ride, too.Lewis didn't see what the man grabbed from Paine's garage before he hopped into a friend's car that Friday morning. But Lewis learned from television broadcasts hours

Dale K. Myershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17079679710654429737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-740402724246726837.post-40722608293259425562009-08-06T10:01:00.004-04:002009-08-06T11:08:38.594-04:00The Dallas-Cuba Connection - 2009 Update

by GUS RUSSODocuments released last week under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIPA) detail a secret CIA-National Archives (NARA)-State Department investigation of Cuban intelligence officer Fabian Escalante and reveal, among other things, that Escalante had an indirect connection to accused presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, and that my revealing conversation with former Assassinations

Dale K. Myershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17079679710654429737noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-740402724246726837.post-22194138111876158862009-08-05T00:47:00.002-04:002009-08-05T00:49:56.457-04:00New Reading Room Project at The Sixth Floor Museum

by DALE K. MYERSCorgan Associates, Inc., one of the largest U.S.-based architectural firms focused on planning and design, has been selected to design the new Reading Room for The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza. Corgan will be renovating the former administrative offices in the former Texas School Book Depository, providing greater access to the museum’s growing collection of 35,000 items

Dale K. Myershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17079679710654429737noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-740402724246726837.post-16708139235605728022009-07-17T20:34:00.002-04:002009-07-17T20:39:17.567-04:00Walter Cronkite, Dead at 92

by BRIAN STELTER / New York TimesWalter Cronkite, an iconic CBS News journalist who defined the role of anchorman for a generation of television viewers, died Friday at the age of 92, his family said.“My father Walter Cronkite died,” his son Chip said just before 8 p.m. Eastern. CBS interrupted prime time programming to show an obituary for the man who defined the network’s news division for

Dale K. Myershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17079679710654429737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-740402724246726837.post-1527834840185776722009-05-26T22:55:00.006-04:002009-05-26T23:23:50.345-04:00The Song Remains The Same

by DALE K. MYERSIf you haven’t been paying attention to the Kennedy assassination debate lately, don’t worry. You’ve heard it all before.Two months ago, Zapruder film alterationists (the miniscule few who believe Abraham Zapruder’s 8mm film of the Kennedy assassination is an altered fraud) squared off against the Zapruder film genuinists (those who accept the Zapruder film as an unaltered

Dale K. Myershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17079679710654429737noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-740402724246726837.post-37992515949399747972009-03-24T22:37:00.002-04:002009-03-24T22:40:56.334-04:00Defendant in dispute over JFK window has died

ASSOCIATED PRESSOne of the two men involved in a dispute over who owns the "sniper's perch" from which Lee Harvey Oswald fired on President John F. Kennedy has died.An attorney for 81-year-old Aubrey Mayhew said Tuesday his client died over the weekend at a hospice care facility in Nashville, Tenn.Caruth Byrd sued Mayhew, arguing that he inherited the window from his father, who owned the Texas

Dale K. Myershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17079679710654429737noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-740402724246726837.post-58628847796716516642009-03-01T10:15:00.002-05:002009-03-01T10:18:49.543-05:00Unending 'Pane' of JFK Slaying: 3 Snipe Over Who Owns Oswald Window

by HUGH AYNESWORTH / New York PostYesterday, like every day, dozens of tourists aimed their cameras at the spot on the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository building where Lee Harvey Oswald infamously crouched on Nov. 22, 1963.But they're looking at the wrong window.The sixth-floor, southeast-corner window where Oswald shouldered his mail-order rifle at President John F. Kennedy's

Dale K. Myershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17079679710654429737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-740402724246726837.post-91498320985999864672009-02-24T08:17:00.002-05:002009-02-24T08:23:36.718-05:00Trial over JFK 'sniper's perch' dispute is postponed

by ROY APPLETON / The Dallas Morning News Ownership of the "sniper's perch" from the Texas School Book Depository remains an open question.Caruth Byrd and Aubrey Mayhew each say they possess the sixth-floor window through which Lee Harvey Oswald purportedly fired on President John F. Kennedy.Byrd sued Mayhew almost two years ago after both had tried to sell their windows on eBay, asserting that

Dale K. Myershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17079679710654429737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-740402724246726837.post-8637553345104468942009-02-23T15:59:00.002-05:002009-02-24T08:23:48.039-05:00Hearing Delayed: Nashville man in dispute over JFK assassination perch

ASSOCIATED PRESSDALLAS (AP) — A dispute between two men who both claim to own the "sniper's perch" where Lee Harvey Oswald positioned himself to fire on President John F. Kennedy will go to court next month.State district Judge Gena Slaughter was set Monday to begin hearing testimony to determine the owner of the actual sixth-floor window from the Texas School Book Depository, but instead moved

Dale K. Myershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17079679710654429737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-740402724246726837.post-10974003688101188312009-02-21T09:06:00.006-05:002009-02-21T09:23:51.498-05:00Which Is the Real JFK 'Sniper Perch'?

by ANN ZIMMERMAN / Wall Street JournalA decades-long dispute over who owns the authentic "sniper's perch" -- the window where Lee Harvey Oswald propped his rifle to take his fatal shots at President John F. Kennedy -- lands Monday in a Dallas court.Figure 1. The window owned by Aubrey Mayhew. (Mick Mayhew)The dispute centers on the origins of windows removed at separate times from the sixth floor

Dale K. Myershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17079679710654429737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-740402724246726837.post-4650347666878535842009-02-07T09:50:00.003-05:002009-02-07T09:56:48.908-05:00Francis X. O'Neill Dead at 85; FBI agent witnessed JFK's autopsy

by J.M. LAWRENCE / Boston GlobeRetired FBI agent Francis X. O'Neill Jr., who was one of the last surviving investigators who observed President John F. Kennedy's autopsy in 1963, has died.Mr. O'Neill, who lived in Brewster, died of a stroke Tuesday (02/03) in Cape Cod Hospital, according to his family. He was 85.For decades, Mr. O'Neill battled conspiracy theorists about the JFK assassination. He

Dale K. Myershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17079679710654429737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-740402724246726837.post-17073816833203265442009-02-05T23:10:00.003-05:002009-02-05T23:18:00.721-05:00CIA Files on Covert Officer Remain Secret

by DALE K. MYERSAccording to journalist and author Jefferson Morley, CIA lawyers continue to block his Freedom of Information Act request for access to files pertaining to deceased former agent George Joannides, whose 1963 exploits allegedly crossed paths with presumed Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald.In a Washington Independent article this week, Morley reports a sworn declaration, filed in

Dale K. Myershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17079679710654429737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-740402724246726837.post-19778422251094408352009-01-22T18:39:00.005-05:002009-02-04T17:57:40.194-05:00Bill Winfrey: Dallas Morning News photographer captured history

by JOE SIMNACHER / The Dallas Morning News Bill Winfrey was a self-taught photographer who twice captured historic images for The Dallas Morning News. On April 2, 1957, he captured a deadly funnel cloud as it ripped a path across Oak Cliff and, on Nov. 22, 1963, he took what many consider the definitive photo of a manacled Lee Harvey Oswald raising his fist, seemingly in defiance.Bill Winfrey

Dale K. Myershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17079679710654429737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-740402724246726837.post-84773831682246405722008-12-13T11:46:00.007-05:002009-02-04T18:04:07.890-05:00Holland-aise Sauce: More Grousing From the Sidelines

by GUS RUSSOThere’s this term that I love, “ill-informed gadfly,” that seems as though it was coined with Internet scribe Max Holland in mind. In his latest “Gotcha!” screed, "The Underwood Hoax," Kennedy assassination buff Holland, or “Mad Max,” as I like to call him, seeks to solidify his growing reputation as a man so unable to add anything new to the assassination story that he resorts to

Dale K. Myershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17079679710654429737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-740402724246726837.post-72188610759293928282008-12-08T11:07:00.003-05:002009-02-04T18:06:28.867-05:00JFK Lawsuit Tests Washington’s Culture of Secrecy

by JEFFERSON MORLEY / WashingtonIndependent.comLast month dozens of public interest groups welcomed the election of Barack Obama with a call to reverse eight years of secrecy and restore openness in the executive branch.It won’t be easy. While the non-profit National Security Archive and other groups are seeking an executive order to revitalize the Freedom of Information Act, the culture of

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