This video records the presentation of AARC President Dan Alcorn at the 2023 Wecht Institute Conference in Pittsburgh on the subject of Texas School Book Depository building owner D. Harold Byrd. Alcorn unveils results of his extensive research on Byrd, which found that Byrd was a highly placed military and intelligence contractor, with connections to the highest political levels. The recent 2025 release of secret Kennedy assassination files by the Trump administration adds to the mystery surrounding Byrd. Newly released files reveal that Byrd’s close friend General Jimmy Doolittle served on President Kennedy’s President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (PFIAB) from 1961-63 and advised Kennedy on his desire to reorganize the CIA. Doolittle had previously served on President Eisenhower’s PFIAB, and had served on that body with President Kennedy’s father Joseph P. Kennedy in 1956. Eisenhower tapped Doolittle in 1954 to examine the operations of the CIA, which resulted in the deep Cold War Doolittle Report which called for no-holds-barred CIA activity not limited by norms of civilized human conduct.
You are invited to view this video and try to unravel the mystery of how President Kennedy was murdered from shots said to have been fired from a building owned by a top military and intelligence contractor who was a close friend of one of President Kennedy’s top intelligence advisers.
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Recorded November 2023.
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