RANDY BENSON is a former member of the Coalition on Political Assassinations (COPA), former Board Member of Citizens Against Political Assassinations (CAPA), and Board Member of the JFK Assassination Dallas Conference. He’s the producer and director of the JFK research film, The Searchers, winner of the Orson Welles Prize at the Tiburon International Film Festival. He is currently in pre-production on the followup film, The Searchers: Into The Fire. He teaches film and video at Duke University’s Center for Documentary Studies in Durham, NC.

PRESENTATION
And We Are All Mortal: An Analysis of JFK's Peace Speech and Why It Matters

DESCRIPTION
President Kennedy's Commencement Address at American University on June 10, 1963, was not just an expression to the world of his vision for a lasting peace but to the forces opposed to him it was the final nail in his coffin.