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News Briefs
The independent documentary feature film by Mark Sobel
and William Law, "RFK," was highlighted at the opening night of the
Seattle Independent Film Festival on June 6 and was awarded Most Outstanding Documentary. Read more in JFK Lancer's Blog.
Barack Obama has named Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, Jim
Johnson and Eric Holder to lead his search for a running mate. Watch a video of Caroline Kennedy comparing Obama to JFK.
The Mary Ferrell Foundation Press will soon release a
reprint of Gaeton Fonzi's "The Last Investigation". Also in the news on
the Mary Ferrell Foundation website are new CIA Office of Security files on
various individuals and organizations and "The Incomplete Justice Series"
focusing on the RFK assassination by Larry Hancock. The Mary Ferrell Foundation is a non-profit group dedicated to the
exploration of the deeper stories behind the national crises and
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November in Dallas 2008
We are making plans to insure the leading researchers are there to commemorate the 45th anniversary of President Kennedy's death. We hope you are making plans to be with us, the speakers will be excellent, and the program at Dealey Plaza is sure to be memmorable.
Some of the speakers that have committed to presenting their work include: Jim Marrs, Dick Russell, Abraham Bolden, Edward Martino, Jeff Morley, Ian Griggs, Larry Hancock, Stu Wexler, Tyler Weaver, Rex Bradford, Mike Williams, Sherry Fiester, Brian Edwards and Casey Quinlan.
If you have never attended a NID conference, we urge you to join us in November. We promise you will never forget it! See you in Dallas!
Debra Conway and
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November in Dallas
JFK Lancer November in Dallas Conference attendees have had
many opportunities in the past to hear first person accounts of witnesses to the
1963 events in Dallas; including Beverly
Oliver, Jean Hill, Paul O'Connor, Dennis David, Ed Hoffman, Harold A. (Skip) Rydberg, Bobby Hargis, Bill and Jean Newman, James
Tague and FBI Special Agent James Hosty.
However, this year the conference will offer two truly unique first person
experiences, those of Abraham Bolden and Ed Martino.
Abraham Bolden with his first hand experience with his own
experience with the Presidential Detail. Everyone always speculates about
Dallas Secret Service security, if anyone could likely answer questions about
the details routine activities and dedication to JFK it would be Bolden. Here
is what Lamar Waldron and Thom Hartmann wrote about Bolden:
"After an outstanding career in law enforcement, Abraham
Bolden was appointed by John F. Kennedy to be the first African American
presidential Secret Service agent, where he served with distinction. But you
haven't heard about Abraham Bolden during Black History month, because after
helping to prevent JFK's assassination in the weeks before Dallas, Bolden was
arrested on the very day he went to Washington to tell the Warren Commission
about those attempts. Caught in a maze of National Security concerns that only
became clear after four million pages of JFK files were released in the 1990s,
Bolden was sentenced to six years in prison, becoming America's first National
Security Whistleblower." You can read the entire article here:
In Ed Martino, we have someone who actually knew an individual who had first
hand knowledge of the conspiracy - and who observed that knowledge in action on
November 22, 1963. Larry Hancock's book, Someone Would Have Talked, identifies
people with prior knowledge of the conspiracy to murder President Kennedy. Those
persons included a veteran of multiple Castro assassination projects, two
senior CIA's officers, and John Martino, a three-year prisoner of Castro and
organizer of the most explosive Cuban penetration mission ever conducted.
Martino's remarks and motivation are verified by his son, Edward Martino. Here
is an excerpt from Martino's writings:
"We watched the evening news at the dinner table in those
days with a TV in the dining room. A few days before the trip to Dallas, there
was a news cast talking about the trip; that some Texans were not fond of JFK
and that Dallas was very conservative and clearly JBJ country. At one point Dad
said 'If he goes to Dallas they are going to kill him'. Little did I know then
that this statement was a harbinger of the horror to come."
You can read Martino's article in its entirety here:
November in Dallas 2008 will be the first time JFK Lancer has hosted a speaker
who actually served on a JFK Presidential security detail and certainly the
first time there has been a credible speaker who personally knew someone
involved in the conspiracy. Subsequently, November in Dallas 2008 is one conference
you can't afford to miss. Register today to attend November in Dallas 2008.
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Today in History
Henry David Thoreau once said, "It is not enough to be busy.
So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?" Everyday is a busy
one for most working people, and if your job is Commander in Chief of the
United States, it holds unique potential for historical moments. Forty-five
years ago today, June 10, 1963, was a busy day for President John F. Kennedy.
He announced the possible ceasing of U.S. atmospheric nuclear weapons testing, signed
a bill prohibiting wage discrimination toward women, and sent a telegram to
Governor George Wallace of Alabama asking him not to prevent black students
from registering at the University of Alabama.
The Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 was an alarming
confrontation that brought America to the brink of war, and left our relations
with the Soviets fragile at best. On June 10, 1963, Kennedy took the lead in
improving strained associations with the Nikita Khrushchev in a commencement
address at Washington, D.C.'s American University where he proclaimed that the
U.S was pursuing a new "strategy of peace." Describing world peace as the most
important topic on earth, Kennedy announced that the U.S., Britain and the Soviet
Union had agreed to initiate treaty negotiations that would ban atmospheric
nuclear weapons testing. However, while Kennedy made clear that the ban on
nuclear testing was contingent upon other nations making the same commitment
and he did not mention whether the U.S. planned to stop underground or
underwater testing. Two months later, the three superpowers signed a limited
treaty that prohibited nuclear weapons tests in the atmosphere, space or
underwater; not mentioning tests underground.
After delivering the American University speech, Kennedy
returned to the White House, where he signed into law H.R. 6060, establishing
the Equal Pay Act. The Equal Pay Act prohibited, in his words, the
"unconscionable practice of paying female employees less wages than male
employees for the same job." In 1963, women comprised one third of the
workforce; and many of those 25 million women were working mothers and sole
source of income for their family. Yet unbelievably, women working during that
time earned an average of over 40% less than men in the same company who were
performing equal work on jobs requiring equal skill, effort, responsibility,
and working conditions. In his remarks at the June 10th signing, Kennedy asked
Congress to consider increasing funding for day-care centers and proposed
greater tax cuts for working women. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics,
women's salaries have increased dramatically since the EPA's enactment, even so,
the EPA's equal pay for equal work goals have not been achieved. The United
States General Accounting Office states in its 2003 report with all variables
constant except for gender, women still earned an average of about 20.3 percent
less than men did in 2000.
Later that same day, Kennedy addressed another example of
inequity in America - integration in education. Alabama governor, George
Wallace, had repeatedly declared his intent to personally, and physically,
prevent two African American students -Vivian Malone and James A. Hood - from
entering the state university building for registration. The U.S. Supreme
Court, however, had declared segregation unconstitutional in 1954's Brown v.
Board of Education. In a telegram late in the day on June 10th Kennedy asked
Wallace to comply with earlier May 21st and June 5th issued court orders that
specifically recognized the students' right to register at the university.
Kennedy warned Wallace that setting "an example of defiant conduct" would give
the president no option but to activate the Alabama National Guard to enforce
federal law. At the time, Alabama was the only state that had not integrated
its education system. On June 10, 1963, President John F. Kennedy federalized
National Guard troops and deployed them to the University of Alabama to compel
its desegregation. The following day, Governor Wallace yielded to the federal
pressure, and allowed the students to register.
President Kennedy once said, "In the long history of the
world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom
in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I
welcome it." Freedom has a broad range of definitions: from liberation from the
power of another to not being unduly hampered or frustrated. June 10, 1963, was
a day when President Kennedy defended freedom: academic freedom, economic
freedom, and civil freedom. However, I would imagine that to him, June 10th was
just another day at the office.
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LANCER was John F. Kennedy's Secret Service Code name. Use of this formerly secret name represents our efforts to make John F. Kennedy's assassination information available to everyone. JFK Lancer Productions & Publications subscribes to the values of patriotism, excellence, integrity and dedication to the revealing of truth surrounding the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
If you know someone who supports JFK Lancer Productions & Publications principles and objectives, we encourage you to invite them to become a forum member and join an interesting, dynamic and diverse group of individuals who foster understanding of the John F. Kennedy assassination. Additionally, we ask if you know a student or teacher who is qualified, encourage them to complete the linked application for our scholarship to be awarded at the Awards Banquet at November in Dallas 2008. | |
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