AARC PRESIDENT DAN ALCORN: ARTICLES, POSTS, LECTURES
Dan Alcorn: Formerly a law partner of AARC co-founder, the late Bud Fensterwald, has served on the AARC board since 1991, and was a founding director of the Coalition on Political Assassinations (COPA) and served on COPA’s board until the end of the Assassination Records Review Board process in 1998. Dan has represented requesters in precedent setting Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) cases in the trial and appellate courts in Washington, D.C., including cases related to the JFK assassination, the Martin Luther King, Jr. assassination, allegations of misconduct in the FBI crime laboratory, death squad activity in Central America, and intelligence abuses, among other issues.
Partner 1985-1999, Fensterwald & Alcorn, A Professional Corporation specializing in Litigation, Constitutional Law/Freedom of Information, International Law, Labor & Employment/Security Clearances.
Admitted to the bar, 1980, Virginia. 1984, District of Columbia. Director: Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority, 1990-1996. Vice-Chairman, 1994-1996 . Member: District of Columbia Bar, Virginia State Bar. Founder, Dulles Corridor Rail Association, 1998. Director, Assassination Archives and Research Center, 1992- 2023. President, Assassination Archives and Research Center, 2023. DANIEL ALCORN has been listed as an AV lawyer by Martindale-Hubbell. Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers Executive Director Stuart Statler called Mr. Alcorn, “a lawyer’s lawyer” after his work on the FBI Crime Lab FOIA case. On the C-SPAN Networks: Daniel S. Alcorn, as a Board Member for the Assassination Archives and Research Center is featured on three videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 1997 House Committee as a Counsel for the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.
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New Find
30 AUG., 2025 | This 1933 article from the New York Times tells the story of Werner von Alvensleben’s attempted assassination of an Austrian official. The article describes von Alvensleben as a Prussian Nazi. Von Alvensleben visited Dallas in late 1963 at the invitation of Texas School Book Depository building owner D.H. Byrd.
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Item from the memory hole:
The date on my iphone is August 23, 2025 which reminds me of another
August 23 thirty-two years ago in 1993. On that date the JFK Records
Act required federal agencies to gather records on the JFK assassination
and forward them to the National Archives. Agencies were in various
states of compliance with this deadline, and the news media were paying
attention.
At that time I was a director of AARC following Bud Fensterwald’s
unexpected death in April 1991. Jim Lesar was serving as President of
the organization.
As August 23 approached the news media interest picked up even
more and AARC received several interview requests. After Jim was booked
up, I was asked to handle an inquiry from CNN. It turned out that CNN
wanted a representative from AARC to appear on their lead news show and
sit with anchor Bernard Shaw ( I later wondered if CNN knew the ARRC was
not the National Archives). I hustled to CNN’s studio on Capitol Hill
and was quickly ushered to the anchor’s desk. I focused my comments on
the Oswald CIA 201 file that had been released in redacted form by CIA.
I noted the mysteries of Oswald’s military career and “defection” to the
USSR. CNN anchor Bernard Shaw was interested and sympathetic, and
during a break he asked me to update him with what we were learning.
When I arrived home I found that relatives in Missouri had seen me
on CNN. I am not sure my 15 minutes lasted even that.
I followed up with Bernard Shaw but never heard back from him.
That was August 23, 1993.
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AARC President Dan Alcorn: Summary of JFK Case Status
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AARC President Dan Alcorn: JFK’s PFIAB (President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board) and the CIA
Spies in the Congo by author Dr. Susan Williams Reviewed by AARC President Dan Alcorn
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AARC LECTURES: DAN ALCORN: BYRD, von ALVENSLEBEN and the DOOLITTLE REPORT
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DANIEL S. ALCORN: MULTIPLE APPEARANCES, C-SPAN
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