SPEAKERS

BRIAN K. EDWARDS has been researching the JFK assassination since 1969 and has read over 600 books on the case. He has interviewed numerous Dealey Plaza eyewitnesses; Dallas police and sheriff’s officers; Parkland doctors and medical personnel who participated in the President’s autopsy at Bethesda Medical Center. He has given hundreds of presentations on the assassination and since 2001 had been a regular presenter at the JFK Lancer Conference in Dallas.

Brian holds a Master’s Degree in Criminal Justice from Washburn University and served as an adjunct instructor in Washburn’s criminal justice department from 1994 to 2003. From 1978 to 2001, Mr. Edwards served with distinction as a police officer with the Lawrence Kansas Police Department. During his time on the department he was assigned as a field training officer, firearms instructor and served as the department’s senior crime scene photographer. From 1983 to 1997, was assigned to the department’s assault team as a counter-sniper.

His research on the Zapruder film has been cited in several books, including Assassination Science (1998); Murder in Dealey Plaza (2000); The Zapruder Film (2003) and The Hoax of the Century (2004). He is co-author of Beyond the Fence Line: The Eyewitness Account of Ed Hoffman and the Murder of President John Kennedy and recently  collaborated with first-generation researcher J. Gary Shaw on a new book about Roscoe White, Admitted Assassin by Ricky White (As Told To J. Gary Shaw & Brian K. Edwards).

In November 2017, Mr. Edwards testified as an expert witness for the defense in a mock trial of Lee Harvey Oswald at the North Texas School of Law in Houston, Texas. In 2019, Mr. Edwards collaborated and appears in Oliver Stone’s 4-hour documentary on the assassination, JFK: Destiny Betrayed.

PRESENTATION
A New, Old Witness

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CORY HUGHES is a former police officer and crime scene investigator turned Kennedy assassination researcher. After spending several years on World War II, Cory began to research the Kennedy assassination full time in July of 2018. He began his book, A Warning From History, during the summer of 2021 and completed it in October 2023. Cory does a daily podcast on the Kennedy assassination called Cory Hughes Bloody History and a daily Substack on World War II. He also co-hosts a weekly news analysis podcast called Day Zero along with Charlie Robinson. Cory resides in beautiful Fort Collins Colorado.

PRESENTATION
Shooters, Shooters, Everywhere a Shooter!

DESCRIPTION
Cory will cover all the known shooters as well as the Pergola Guys, the Triple Underpass suspects, and all the other suspected shot origin locations and who was a spotter, shooter and cleaner.

JIM FETZER, Ph.D, former Marine Corps officer, is McKnight Professor Emeritus on the Duluth Campus of the University of Minnesota and co-founded (with Mike Palecek) of moonrockbooks.com. Jim began serious research on JFK in 1992 and published three collections of expert studies that cracked the cover-up, especially by exposing how much of the “official evidence” presented by The Warren Commission was fabricated, altered or faked.

A leading expert on the assassination of our 35th President relates some of the most devastating evidence that Oswald was framed to conceal a powerful conspiracy from the American people. Background: Jim Fetzer, Ph.D., a former Marine Corps officer and retired professor of philosophy, has pioneered collaborative research on JFK since 1992 with the best qualified experts to ever study the case. His books include ASSASSINATION SCIENCE (1998), MURDER IN DEALEY PLAZA (2000), THE GREAT ZAPRUDER FILM HOAX (2003), and JFK: WHO, HOW AND WHY (2017).

He founded Scholars for 9/11 Truth in late 2005 and, since his retirement in 2006, has devoted himself to bringing together experts to examine the politically controversial events of our time. While editor of Moon Rock Books, six of the twelve volumes published, on Sandy Hook, the Boston bombing, Orlando and Dallas, Charlottesville, Parkland and (even) the moon landing, have been banned by amazon.com. Jim’s websites include his blog, jameshfetzer.org, and https://www.bitchute.com/channel/jim_fetzer. He hosts “The Raw Deal” on Revolution.Radio M/W/F and has been taking Sandy Hook to the courts in Wisconsin and (even) to SCOTUS.

PRESENTATION
Z PANEL: Examining the Zapruder Film

DESCRIPTION
Dr. Fetzer will prsent Researcher DAVID MANTIK'S PowerPoint presentation he delievered on the Zapruder Film at a recent conference entitled The Great Zaruder Film Hoax.

ABOUT DAVID MANTIK
David W. Mantik received his doctorate in physics from the University of Wisconsin and was a member on the physics faculty (as assistant professor) at the university before leaving for medical school. He completed his internship and residency in radiation oncology at LAC/USC Medical Center in Los Angeles.

He has also completed fellowships in physics at the University of Illinois and in biophysics at Stanford University, and a junior faculty clinical fellowship with the American Cancer Society.

Mantik has carried out extensive research into the assassination of John F. Kennedy. This includes detailed studies of Kennedy autopsy X-rays and the Zapruder Film. In 1993 Mantik disclosed that after examining the autopsy X-rays at the National Archives they had been altered and "that there were 2 shots which struck the head, and that the magic bullet is anatomically impossible".

Mantik, along with Robert Livingston, Charles Crenshaw, Ronald F. White and Jack White, contributed to Assassination Science (edited by James H. Fetzer). Mantik also contributed Paradoxes of the The Medical Evidence Decoded, The Zapruder Film Controversy and The Silence of the Historian to Murder in Dealey Plaza (2000) and The Dealey Plaza Home Movies to The Great Zapruder Film Hoax (2003).

DR. JEROME CORSI received his Ph.D. from Harvard University’s Department of Government in 1972. From 1972 to 1982, he worked as a university professor, with his final faculty appointments at the University of New Mexico and subsequently at the University of Denver. From 1976 to 1980, Dr. Corsi conducted a National Science Foundation randomized field test in New Mexico, proving telephone hearings met due process standards in unemployment and welfare administrative fair hearings. He also published game-theoretic articles in scientific journals and received a national security clearance to work with the U.S. State Department on terrorism.

For the next 25 years, Dr. Corsi worked in financial services, creating two bank marketing companies that each reached sales totals of $1 billion annually in annuities and $1 billion in mutual funds. Since 2004, Dr. Corsi has written over 30 books on politics and economics, two of which were #1 New York Times bestsellers. In 2021, he founded Corstet, LLC, a company dedicated to developing telemedicine administrative software for medical services in the United States. In the Spring 2023, Corstet LLC plans to launch two telemedicine companies: (1.) HablaConUnMD.com, a telemedicine Internet website designed to allow Spanish-speaking patients to teleconference with Spanish-speaking licensed medical doctors to receive medical care at an affordable price, and (2.) GetLongevityMeds.com, a telemedicine Internet website designed to offer those interested in living longer and better telephone consultations with licensed physicians expert in prescribing longevity perscriptions, as well as access to top-quality longevity supplement products.

He is the author numberous books, with two about the JFK assassination:  The Final Analysis with David Mantik, M.D., Ph.D, and Who Really Killed Kennedy?. Both available at Dr. Corsi's website, TheTruthCentral.com.

PRESENTATION
The Final Analysis

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AMERICA'S UNTOLD STORIES (AUS) with Eric Hunley and Mark Groubert explores history and pop-culture that is often unknown, obscure, or overlooked. Eric and Mark have done the "deep dive" on the JFK assassination - from J. D. Tippett to Ruth Paine.

ERIC HUNLEY is the host of Unstructured and the eponymous YouTube Channel Eric Hunley where he interviews a WIDE variety of folks from body language experts, to YouTube lawyers, to folks in 3 letter agencies https://youtube.com/erichunley.

MARK GROUBERT, the self-defined Forrest Gump of pop-culture has lived through more events than a dozen folks have in their lifetimes. He's an investigative reporter/features writer for the LA Weekly and was editor of The Weekly World News in 2002. He's also written for Penthouse Magazine, High Times, LA City Beat, and many other publications. From 1994 to 2001 Groubert penned more than ten screenplays including The Recruit (2003), starring Colin Farrell and Al Pacino, and served as a script doctor on dozens of others.

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Jim Garrison's Tonight Show Confrontation: The JFK Assassination Cover-Up

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Jim Garrison's appearance on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson following the NBC program "The JFK Conspiracy: The Case of Jim Garrison" was a pivotal moment in American television history. Garrison, vehemently criticizing the federal government and the CIA, presented his evidence and theories surrounding the JFK assassination, challenging the Warren Report's findings. He offered pictures of arrested suspects never shown before, asserting their connections to the CIA and suggesting a governmental cover-up led by the administration at the highest levels.

This episode stirred controversy, raising questions about transparency, truth, and the lengths to which governments might go to protect secrets. Garrison's assertions and Carson's probing questions left audiences intrigued, confused, but most importantly, questioning the official narrative of one of the most tragic events in American history. This historical appearance underscores the ongoing debate about the JFK assassination and the quest for truth amid a landscape of speculation and secrecy.

This footage was thought to be lost for decades!

JOHN COSTELLA received his Ph.D. in theoretical particle physics from the University of Melbourne, Australia, in 1994. Between 2001 and 2003 he carried out intensive investigations of digital copies of the Zapruder film of the JFK assassination, ultimately proving that it is a highly sophisticated forgery.

Since 2012 he has worked as a software engineer and data scientist at Facebook (now Meta). His image processing research has powered all the photos on Facebook since 2013 and Instagram since 2015. John and his wife Sally are now dual citizens and live in Washington DC. His JFK work is available at johncostella.com/jfk and in The Great Zapruder Film Hoax (2003, ed. James H. Fetzer).

PRESENTATION
Z FILM PANEL: Examining The Zapruder Film

DESCRIPTION
In 2002 John concluded that the Zapruder film is a highly sophisticated forgery. He presented my findings in Duluth, MN, in May 2003, and documented them later that year in The Great Zapruder Film Hoax. He also created a simple introduction to his work for his website, which he will go through in this presentation.

LARRY RIVERA was born in Alaska, the son of a career military man who served as a CID officer in the Army. He was in Germany on 11/22/63, age 6, and will never forget his father’s reaction upon hearing of JFK’s assassination. He has made a lifelong study of the JFK assassination, making his first trip to Dealey Plaza in 1991. He attended the ASK Symposium in 1993 for the 30th anniversary.

He has given interviews about the assassination to Spanish media. Larry has published many articles on the assassination and has many YouTube videos covering his research. He has given presentations for the OIC and Dr. James Fetzer’s Santa Barbara JFK conference 2013, on the 50th observance of the assassination, covering the topic of “Buell Wesley Frazier”; at TrineDay’s and Judyth Vary Baker’s JFK conference 2014 in Arlington, Texas on the “DPD motorcycle officers”; and for Judyth Vary Baker’s JFK assassination conferences 2016 and 2017 on “Doorway Man” and “Dealey Plaza”.

Larry has a degree in Computer Networking and is an expert at computer imaging technology and facial recognition, using state of the art digital overlays. Currently, he helps host the Internet radio show “The New JFK Show” with Gary King and Jim Fetzer, conducting interviews and discussing new information on the JFK assassination.

Larry is the author of The JFK Horsemen, published by Moonrock Books, where his sets the record straight about "doorway man" and other aspects of the assassination of JFK in Dealey Plaza.

MIKE MACHANSKA - Larry will be joined by Mike during his portion of the Z Panel.

PRESENTATION
Z FILM PANEL: Examining The Zapruder Film

DESCRIPTION
The JFK Horsemen: Dead Men - Do Speak! The Newcomb Tapes vs the Zapruder Film
Larry will present a study of the Z film versus the Fred Newcomb tapes which were finally transcribed in 2014 and are the basis of The JFK Horsemen published in 2018 which changes everything we have been lied to about what really happened on Elm Street. Larry will also cover the LIMO STOP portion of the Z film. He will be joined by Mike to discuss the FACTS around the "altering" of the film.