The AARC is now dedicating a year-round series of lectures and presentations by distinguished authors, historical researchers and notable personalities associated with the study of political assassinations.
These talks are offered with the purpose of having on-going access to important research developments as they emerge in our quest to become better educated about the tragic mechanisms by which our lives and times are influenced.
In the words of the distinguished British scholar Malcolm Blunt, speaking about the death of President Kennedy, “Jesus Christ, what we lost when we lost that man.”
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DOUG CAMPBELL:
MOST LIKELY TO GO ROGUE
Doug Campbell is the creator, producer, and host of the invaluable and informative The Dallas Action presented by Wall Street Window. He co-hosts Quick Hits with the proficient podcaster Rob Clark. He is a popular speaker and essayist on the complex areas associated with deep analysis of the national security state and the JFK story.
DR. RANDY ROBERTSON
PARKLAND vs. BETHESDA; A REQUIEM
Dr. Robertson is a Board-certified Diagnostic Radiologist and is one of very few medical professionals outside of governmental review panels to have been given permission via the Kennedy family to see and review the original autopsy materials held at the National Archives. He has testified before the House of Representatives Legislation and National Security Subcommittee on Government Operations on the Effectiveness of the President John F. Kennedy Record Collections Act of 1992 in November 1993 in Washington DC. He is member of the AARC Board of Directors.
LARRY HANCOCK
IN DENIAL: THE BAY of PIGS –
DECISIONS AND DENIABILITY
Noted author, historian, lecturer, Larry Hancock gives a brilliant and detailed chronology of the lead up to and long-term consequences of the 1961 Bay of Pigs operation. With permission granted by the author, this lecture is presented in three parts as an excerpt from Larry Hancock’s must-read 2020 publication, In Denial: Secret Wars with Air Strikes and Tanks?
PAT SPEER
THE SPIRIT OF JUSTICE
AND THE KENNEDY ASSASSINATION
(a story in three parts)
Pat Speer has been researching and writing about the assassination of President Kennedy since 2003. He has made numerous appearances on internet radio shows and at conferences. His video series, The Mysterious Death of Number 35, can be found at patspeer.com, along with numerous writings on the case, which expose the many flaws and deceptions in the reports and conclusions of the Warren Commission (1964) and House Select Committee on Assassinations (1979).
GREG R. PARKER
SIRHAN SIRHAN: PEACE, LOVE AND UNDERSTANDING AMONG THE PSYCHEDELIC FASCISTS
Greg R. Parker is an Australian researcher/writer. He is the highly respected author of Lee Harvey Oswald’s Cold War. He is the founder of the ReopenKennedyCase (ROKC) forum which is no longer operating but remains viewable online as a valuable research resource.
DAN ALCORN
BYRD, von ALVENSLEBEN and the DOOLITTLE REPORT
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.
BILL SIMPICH
NOVEMBER 1959 – NOVEMBER 1963
KENT BIFFLE and the FORT WORTH PRESS
Bill Simpich: Civil Rights attorney, author of ground-breaking articles focusing on the hidden intricacies of the CIA, a leading and insightful analyst of the intelligence files associated with Lee Harvey Oswald’s enigmatic episode in Mexico City seven weeks prior to President Kennedy’s assassination. Bill’s eBook, State Secret, was published in 2013 and may be read in its entirety courtesy of Bill and the Mary Ferrell Foundation: State Secret: Wiretapping in Mexico City, Double Agents, and the Framing of Lee Oswald.
BILL SIMPICH
The Dallas Journalists & Law Enforcement that Molded the Assassination Coverage
Bill Simpich continues with part 2 of his research into the complicity of journalists in the JFK assassination, the careers that profited from this crime, and what happened to the journalists who tried to take a stand – with a special focus on two Dallas/Fort Worth journalists, Kent Biffle (Part 1) and Thayer Waldo (Part 2), and their relationship with both the case and the Oswald family from 1959 to 1967. There will also be an emphasis on how a few law enforcement officers like Dallas police officers George Lumpkin, Pat Gannaway, and Jerry Hill, Assistant DA Bill Alexander, and local Secret Service agent Mike Howard succeeded in manipulating the national media into demonizing Lee Oswald as the lone assassin in the first hours after the assassination and afterwards.
CHARLES R. DRAGO
AUTUMN TOO LONG:
OBSERVATIONS IN A TIME OF FADING LIGHT
Charles R. Drago is an author, screenwriter, jazz critic, media host and festival producer, and radical historian focused on the political assassinations of the 1960s and related deep events. He has lectured and published widely on the latter topics at scholarly conferences and meetings and in scholarly journals throughout the United States.
Mr. Drago contributed the “Introduction” to A Certain Arrogance by George Michael Evica, a book-length investigation of U.S. intelligence manipulations of liberal religious and educational institutions during the Cold War. Professor Evica referred to him as “the conscience of JFK research community.” He is also the author of the “Afterword” to Coup in Dallas, by H.P. Albarelli, Jr..
Mr. Drago is the creator of Autumn Too Long and Phantoms of the 7th, limited series for premium cable, and the author of the novel Mairh: A False History, all works in progress.
DAVID TALBOT
The JFK Assassination at 60:
What Did We Know and
When Did We Know It?
David Talbot founded Salon in 1995 and is the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Devil’s Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA and the Rise of America’s Secret Government and Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years.
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