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AARC 2014 Conference

THE WARREN REPORT AND THE JFK ASSASSINATION : FIVE DECADES OF SIGNIFICANT DISCLOSURES
Thursday September 25, 2014

6:30 PM until conclusion: Meet and greet in our Hospitality Suite (the Presidential Suite). Free to AARC members. Membership can be purchased at the door for $35 less the $25 registration fee discount for members or $10.
7-9 PM Registration
Friday, September 26, 2014
PRELIMINARIES

8:00 AM Introduction: Alan Dale and James Lesar

8:15 AM Alan Dale: Kickoff and Introduction of AARC President James Lesar: “Why This Conference Matters”

8:30 AM AARC Executive Director Jerry Policoff: Acknowledgments to media sponsors

8:45 AM Andrew Kreig: “Current Implications of JFK Assassination Cover-Up”

9:00 AM Alan Dale: “What We Now Know that the Warren Commission Didn’t Know”

9:20 AM Break
THE CULTURE OF SECRECY AND DEMOCRATIC ACCOUNTABILITY

9:30 AM Prof. G. Robert Blakey, Dan Hardway. Edwin Lopez “The HSCA and the CIA: The View from the Trenches and the View from the Top”

Jim Lesar will give an account of new Freedom of Information Act requests submitted to the CIA on behalf of the Prof. Blakey, Dan Hardway Edwin Lopez and the AARC.
THE CULTURE OF SECRECY AND DEMOCRATIC ACCOUNTABILITY (CONTINUED)

11:00 AM Break

11:10 AM Dr. John Newman: “Dark Operations: Deciphering the CIA’s Cuban Secrets.”

This presentation will expose long-protected pseudonyms for some of the CIA’s most notorious officers connected with the JFK case – including David Phillips and Antonio Sforza. It will also preview an important multiple identity in Newman’s forthcoming book, Where Angels Tread Lightly.

12:25 PM Break for Lunch

1:35 PM Jefferson Morley: “The CIA and the Culture of Secrecy”

2:10 PM Panel: Jefferson Morley, Dr. John Newman, and (by phone) David Talbot: “The Continuing Cover-Up: New and Newsworthy”

2:45 PM Anthony Summers: “After Not in Your Lifetime”
STILL LIVING WITNESSES EXPOSE THE COVERUP

3:30 PM Antonio Veciana: “Maurice Bishop, my CIA contact agent, was David Atlee Phillips. The Man I Saw in Dallas Was Lee Harvey Oswald” (Mr. Veciana will speak in Spanish with Fernald Armand as translator. Marie Fonzi will provide an introduction.)

3:50 PM Anthony Summers Moderates Antonio Veciana’s Question and Answer Period

4:10 PM Break

4:20 PM Prof. Ernst Titovets: “Oswald Was my Best Friend”

5:00 PM Buell Wesley Frazier: “Oswald, Friend and Family Man”
BREAKING THE CODE TO THE WARREN COMMISSION COVER-UP

5:30 PM Don Thomas: “The Tippit Murder: Rosetta Stone to the Warren Commission Cover-Up”

6:00 PM Bill Simpich: ” How Captain Westbrook and the Tippit Shooting Provide a Counter-Narrative to the Warren Report”

6:30 PM End of day’s proceedings.
Friday Evening:

Memorials: Tributes to Roger Feinman, Gaeton Fonzi, Sylvia Meagher, Kevin Walsh, John Judge, Earl Golz
Saturday, September 27, 2014
CUBA AND THE CIA

8:00 AM Introductions of Peter Kornbluh and Wayne Smith by Brenda Brody, with example of what National Security Archive releases have meant to the research community.

Peter Kornbluh: “U.S.-Cuba Back-Channel Negotiations After the Bay of Pigs”

Wayne Smith: “An Inside View of David Atlee Phillips from Havana”
SCIENCE AND COVER-UP: NO MORE LONE ASSASSIN

8:45 AM Dr. Cyril Wecht: “Two Autopsies, Two Cover-ups: JFK, RFK”

9:15 AM Dr. Gary Aguilar: “Junk Science and the Death of JFK – What We Now Know that We Didn’t Know Then”

10:00 AM Dr. Don Thomas: “JFK Acoustical Evidence: Challenge and Corroboration”

10:30 AM Dr. Randolph Robertson—”The JFK Assassination: 5 shots + 3 shooters +3 snipers nests = CONSPIRACY”

*Dr. David Mantik will speak on the JFK autopsy X-rays, photographs and medical evidence in a breakout room following these presentations, then he will be joined in a panel discussion by Dr. Robertson.

11:00 AM Break
THE CUBANS, THE CIA, AND THE COVER-UP

11:10 AM Joan Mellen—”CIA and the HSCA: How CIA Controlled the HSCA and the Writing of its Final Report”

12:00 Lunch
THE CUBANS, THE, CIA, AND THE COVER-UP (CONTINUED)

1:15 PM David Kaiser: “What We’ve Learned Since The Road to Dallas”

2:00 PM Eric Hamburg: “Conversations with Fabian Escalante and E. Howard Hunt — Two views of the Kennedy assassination”
THE MEDIA AND THE JFK ASSASSINATION

2:45 PM Panel: “Why Won’t the Media Cover the Story?”

Jefferson Morley, Jerry Policoff, Mal Hyman, Russ Baker, Andrew Kreig (moderator)

3:30 PM Break

3:40 PM Andrew Kreig: “The JFK Cover-up’s Long Shadow”
THE WARREN REPORT AND THE WARREN COMMISSION

4:15 PM Russ Baker: “The Role of the WC Staff in the Cover-Up”

5:00 PM Prof. David Wrone: “The Warren Report on the Murder of JFK: Truth or Cover-Up?”
THE WARREN COMMISSION IN ITS OWN WORDS

5:45 PM A reading of the January 22, 1964 Executive Session Transcript by a troupe of professional actors

Dramatization of the January 22, 1964 Executive Session Tran- script where the commissioners realized that FBI and CIA would never “run out all the leads” and would “have us fold up and quit.” Other early comments: “They found their man. There is nothing more to do.” Allen Dulles suggested “this record should be destroyed.” It wasn’t. It was transcribed more than a decade later as a result of a Harold Weisberg lawsuit and Congressional pressure.

7:00 PM Adjourn for banquet

7:30 PM Banquet + Tributes (will include cash bar)

9 PM Conclusion of Tributes to Bud Fensterwald, Carl Ogelsby, and Harold Weisberg.
Sunday, September 28, 2014
XI. NARA AND THE CIA ARE WITHHOLDING JFK RECORDS IN VIOLATION OF THE JFK ACT

9:00 AM Joe Backes: “Report on JFK Records Withheld until 2017″

10:00 AM Lamar Waldron—”Withheld in Full”

10:30 AM Rex Bradford: “The Church Committee and CIA Assassination Plots”

11:00 AM Peter Dale Scott (by live closed-circuit hook-up: “Dallas and Other Deep Events”

12:00 PM James Lesar: “The CIA and NARA Thwart Congress and the JFK Act”

12:30 PM Panel Discussion: Rex Bradford, Joe Backes, Lamar Waldron and James Lesar, led by Marie Fonzi: “Where Do We Go From Here?”

1:30 PM Conference closes
Breakout Sessions:
Saturday, September 27, 2014

8-8:45 AM Pat Speer: “The Single-Bullet Theory, Voodoo Science, and Zombie Lies.”

10:15-11 AM Dr. Grover P. Proctor Jr.: “The Raleigh Call and the Fingerprints of Intelligence”

11:15 AM-Noon Bill Kelly: “The Air Force One Tapes”

1:15-2:10 PM Jim DiEugenio: “Who was John F. Kennedy, and Why Was He Murdered?”

2:15-3 PM Lisa Pease: “James Jesus Angleton and The Warren Commission”

3:15-4 PM Larry Hancock: “A Political H Bomb – How John Roselli and William Harvey Preempted the Garrison Investigation in Washington D.C.”

4-4:45 PM Walt Brown: “The Dulles Commission–the 50th Anniversary.”

5:15-6 PM Robert Groden: “A View From the Grassy Knoll”
Sunday, September 28, 2014

9-9:45 AM Marie Fonzi: “On the Home Front”

10-10:45 AM Malcolm Blunt: Q&A

This will not be a formal presentation, but rather a Q&A on NARA, Warren Commission Files, Church Committee, and CIA.