TWO-DAY MOCK TRIAL: STATE OF TEXAS V. LEE HARVEY OSWALD
The courtroom drama that never had a chance to occur will now be held live. Featuring world-renowned J.F.K assassination experts.
Fans of history and courtroom drama will be treated to an insightful and entertaining mock trial, in which a Harris County judge, prosecutors, and defense attorneys try the landmark case: State of Texas v. Lee Harvey Oswald using 21st century techniques in front of Harris County jurors.
South Texas College of Law Houston
Garrett-Townes Auditorium 1303 San Jacinto Street, Houston, TX
EVENT OPENING: Reception and dinner with Alec Baldwin Thursday, Nov. 16
The Sam Houston Hotel 1117 Prairie Street, Houston, TX
6:00 – 8:30 p.m. Reception, dinner, presentation by Alec Baldwin
The Honorable Jay T. Karahan ’83, presiding judge, Harris County Criminal Court at Law, No. 8; and STCL Houston alumnus
Prosecuting Attorney:
Gus E. Pappas, ’88, partner, Dabney & Pappas; and STCL Houston alumnus
Defense Counsel:
Robert K. Tanenbaum, trial attorney, novelist, and former mayor of Beverly Hills, Calif.; former deputy chief counsel for the House Select Committee on Assassinations
Lawrence P. Schnapf, Schnapf LLC; CAPA board member; New York-based environmental attorney; adjunct professor, New York Law School
Bill Simpich, San Francisco-based civil rights attorney; author of “State Secret: Wiretapping in Mexico City, Double Agents, and the Framing of Lee Oswald”
Expert Witnesses:
Robert N. McClelland, M.D., member of the team of surgeons who worked to save President John F. Kennedy’s life at Parkland Hospital in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963; professor emeritus, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Cyril H. Wecht, M.D., J.D., chair of CAPA; one of the nation’s leading forensic pathologists; former president, American Academy of Forensic Science and American College of Legal Medicine; member, Forensic Pathology Panel of the House Select Committee on Assassination
Gary Aguilar, M.D., member, CAPA board of advisors; one of only a handful of non-government physicians allowed privileged access by the Kennedy family to J.F.K.’s still-restricted medical and autopsy evidence housed at the National Archives; and ophthalmologist
David W. Mantik, M.D., Ph.D., leading expert on the medical evidence in the J.F.K. assassination; Palm Desert, Calif.-based radiation oncologist
Clifford Spiegelman, Ph.D., distinguished professor of statistics at Texas A&M University, and author of over 100 scientific publications. Author of the award-winning paper recognized by the American Statistical Association, “Chemical and Forensic Analysis of JFK Assassination bullet lots: A second shooter possible?”
Donald B. Thomas, Ph.D., prolific author, “The Acoustical Evidence in the Kennedy Assassination Revisited” and more than 100 scientific journal articles, book chapters and books
