MARK SHAW, former network television personality and legal analyst for USA Today, ESPN and other networks, is the author of more than 20 books. His latest, The Poison Patriarch: How the Betrayals of Joseph P. Kennedy Caused the Assassination of JFK, is to be released later this year. The only authorized biographer of Jack Ruby's attorney Melvin Belli, Shaw's books include biographies of Jonathan Pollard, Thomas Merton, Mike Tyson and former Hitler Youth Leader Ursula Martens. Shaw lives in Superior, Colorado with his wife Wen-ying Lu and their beloved Labrador, Black Sox.

The Poison Patriarch is the first book to create a plausible scenario connecting those who caused the John F. Kennedy and Lee Harvey Oswald assassinations to occur, as well identifying those who participated in the cover-up. The missing link for five decades to a logical explanation for how and why they were assassinated is revealed by focusing for the first time on the actions of Melvin Belli, Jack Ruby's attorney. Shaw's new book presents more than forty eyewitnesses to history never before presented in any investigation or publication, as well as multiple  previously ignored FBI files. Based on seven years of research, Shaw, the only authorized biographer of Melvin Belli (Melvin Belli: King of the Courtroom, 2007) focuses on Belli's actions during the few years prior to the assassinations. He also answers questions never before addressed regarding how Belli became Ruby's attorney and why, based on secret motives, Belli utilized the illogical psychomotor epilepsy insanity defense at trial dooming Oswald's assassin to a death sentence. Shaw compelling presentation is one you won't want to miss.

The Poison Patriarch: How the Betrayals of Joseph P. Kennedy Caused the Assassination of JFK is now available for preorders. Mark's website is www.markshawbooks.com 

Zapruder Frames

RONALD ZAVADA is the author of the Kodak Report to the ARRB.  He retired as Standards Director for Imaging Technologies from Eastman Kodak in March 1990.  His background included product engineer development responsibilities to introduce KODACHROME II films, serving as Chairman of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) 16 & 8 Standards Committee during the transition of movie camera silent film velocity from 16 to 18 fps, and four terms as the Society's Engineering Vice President.  A Fellow of four technical societies,  Zavada has received numerous awards for his technical achievements - including being elected as a Life member of the Foundation of Motion Picture Pioneers Inc. 

Zavada, who has a towering reputation in film, was part of the Kodak team that developed the very film Zapruder used in his camera on November 22nd. Over an eighteen-month period in the late 1990s, Zavada personally examined the Zapruder film and its first generation copies, interviewed the technicians who worked on the film on November 22nd, and performed experiments with cameras of the same make and model as Zapruder's. Although not tasked specifically by the ARRB with authenticating the film, the results of his exhaustive examinations, interviews, and experiments led Zavada to conclude that the original of the film and its first generation copies were genuine and unaltered. 

The empirical analysis is enforced by the physical evidence of early copies and/or by publication or selected frames of the assassination scenario. Simply stated, there is no detectable evidence of manipulation or image alteration on the "Zapruder in-camera-original" and all supporting motion picture technology reproduction constraints together with the documented chronology of film events precludes any forgery. 

JFK Lancer is honored to have Zavada present evidence to prove the technology, time, preplanning with specialized expertise, and processing facilities were simply not available for alteration.