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Issues of balance, history and JFK Research

This past week I had a chance to chat with Chuck Ochelli about some of the issues which continue to concern me as we try to move the realities of the assassination beyond the official story line of the Warren Commission report and into a more responsible history of the event.

Decades have been spent in deconstructing material contained in the Warren Commission Report, even as compared to its 26 Volumes. At this point professional historians could, if they chose to do so, write a true history of the issues with the initial DPD and FBI investigations as well as the presidential autopsy all as presented in the Commission report – and do so in part with documented materials from the Commission itself. Such a work could soundly document why the presentation of a Lone Nut assassin deserves to be treated skeptically by history.

My issues are with the conspiracy side of the coin, the reality of Oswald’s direct involvement – if any – and the fact that we are not handling that with the same rigor and, truth to say skepticism. that has been used with the Warren Commission deconstruction. We have not held ourselves to the same standards of fact checking, documentation, citations and historical analysis that we demanded from the Warren Commission. 

Which means that even if we manage to persuade people that the official story is in doubt, we continue to do a poor job of offering alternatives that would stand up to the measurements of historical treatment.

My issues have surfaced most recently in regard to the Rob Reiner series of podcasts, which are being received very positively, provide great entertainment and I consider to be woefully lacking as actual history. Chuck and I discussed some of the reasons why, and why I have become so concerned about the differences between entertainment, journalism and history as time passes….you will find that discussion at the follow link to his web site.

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End of the Year Update

I had a chance to do a show with Chuck Ochelli this week that provides an update on what I have been doing this year, and where I’m going in 2024 - in regard to both my JFK and UFO/UAP work. 

We also spent a great deal of time chatting on the challenge of the Oswald monograph I’m working on, my intention of making it as balanced as possible, and the implications of that in regard to making it more a work of history than purely JFK research. I’ve come to realize to do that its going to need to grow substantially, and I really need to do a reset and add a great deal more context to present the conflicting views of the official vs. the skeptics view of the man.

If you are interested you will find that conversation at the following link:

Conference and Conversations

I recently had another chat with Robbie on his Out of the Blank podcast, we talked about the recent Lancer conference and the state of JFK research. We also engaged in an extended conversation of some controversial topics – some of it on my evolving view of Lee Harvey Oswald and the extent that both the Warren Commission and the JFK community have tended to make him into a one dimensional figure and something less than an individual in his own right. A treatment I view as also extended to his wife Marina, especially in regard to her Warren Commission interviews which were either cherry picked or tossed out if they individual remarks did not match the view of Oswald being sought to support the official story of the assassination or various conspiracy scenarios.

I’ll be commenting more on that in the future as I return to work on my monograph on Oswald in Three Dimensions, in the meantime you can find the podcast at the link below. Also, if I appear to be cold during the interview – yes, Robbie catches me early in the morning for these chats and I really do hate winter…

UFP/UAP Studies

Those who follow this blog may have taken note of the fact that much of my research and writing over the past 5 years has been related to very serious study of this subject. While you read a great deal about it in the media and Congress is all over the place on it, doing hard core studies, writing papers, going though peer review and actually getting the work out in the public domain requires intensity, patience and a lot of pure slogging.

At this point one team that I work with has published two intentions studies, both related to UAP’s in the military domain. We have finished peer review and are in the process of publishing a third, looking at the same database, but in regard to the public domain. And we are deeply into our fourth paper, which will pull it all together and address what we have found to be a clear transition in UAP focus.

In the meantime, yet another paper that I have been involved with over several years, has just been published; its a detailed study of a variety of physical, electromagnetic and kinematics characteristics exhibited by truly unidentified objects, and can be found here:

https://zenodo.org/records/10287332

Warning, it is a deep read, not the sort of thing you find in the media or on Youtube. On the other hand it examines some very important questions and provides a through overview of exactly distinctive the characteristics of UFOs/UAPs truly are – with obvious implications.

JFK Lancer Conference 2023

As we commemorate the passing of President Kennedy, sixty years following his death in Dallas Texas, I wanted to give a bit of a report on this year’s conference – which occurred over three days last weekend.

The conference was extremely well attended with over 200 in attendance in person and more than 250 signed up for online viewing. Being there in person was a true experience with that many people in the presentation room, hallways and book room. In general the attendees were much more interactive with each other, and I had the opportunity for chatting and questions almost continually.

With possibly the largest number of presenters ever – enabled by virtual and pre-recorded presentations as well as a decision to forego breaks and provide box lunches – I certainly won’t attempt to cover all the topics but for me some of the most interesting were newer subjects such as John Davies talk on the national security response to the assassination, Rob Clark and Joe Borelli speaking on what may well have been an effort to keep Marina Oswald under very ,high level covert surveillance following the assassination, Alex Harris on the information in the DCA films and my friend Stu Wexler’s review of missing autopsy materials at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology.

Jeff Meek revisited the subject of the House on Harlandale, which still perplexes me and leaves me at a loss as to how a by then well known Castro supporter outed by the DRE in New Orleans would be involved with the broad exile community in Dallas. It leaves me searching for the best “impersonation” incident in Dallas as a possible answer.

Greg Doudna revisited the Walker shooting incident and Gayle Nix Jackson and Doug Campbell joined in a discussion of his presentation and the incident itself. Its one of the areas I am still wrestling with as I move forward with my Oswald monograph and in truth a workable scenario involving Oswald with the shooting is easier for me to conceptualize than Oswald actually being at the House on Harlandale.

One thing I do know, and spoke on myself, is the need to continually reexamine what has written in JFK literature (including my own early works like Someone Would Have Talked) based on the newest information available from record and document releases in order to ensure we pursue a historical story rather than the story we might each be inclined to find based on our worldviews or politics.

UFOs/UAPs on “Rebelliously Curious”

I was fortunate enough to have the opportunity to do an extended interview with Chrissy Newton who works with the Debrief News Site and it is now available on YouTube. Chrissy and all the Debrief folks are extremely knowledgeable on the subject and that always makes for an excellent dialog. If you would like to take a look at it the interview can be found at:

JFK Lancer Conference 2023

Here is the most current information on the conference, hopefully I will see a number of you in Dallas this year, the 60th year following the assassination of President Kennedy. I will be presenting, involved with a couple of panels, and delivering the keynote for the Banquet on Saturday night. The details to date on speakers, and the conference itself (including the day rate which many have asked about) follows below:

27th Year of JFK Lancer’s November in Dallas Conferences  JFK Lancer 2023 In-Person & Virtual Conference
Friday, Nov. 17th, Saturday, Nov. 18th, Sunday, Nov. 19th
Lorenzo Hotel, Dallas, Texas
Register at jfklancerpublications.com

Tickets can be purchased at jfklancerpublications.com. Choose between in-person or virtual attendance via assassinationconference.com.

We are proud to present an esteemed lineup of speakers and they will be speaking to a broad range of topics — some still to be announced

Alan Dale & John Newman – TBA Alex Harris – TBA Andrew Kiel – TBA Bart Kamp – Prayer Man, More Than a Fuzzy Picture Bill Simpich – Twelve Persons of Interest Brent Holland -Ted Sorenson and JFK Carmine Savastano – Official Destruction and Alteration of the JFK Assassination Evidence Casey Quinlan – TBA Chuck Ochelli – Introducing speakers, breakout room presentations David Boylan – Sylvia Odo and Her Visitors David Boylan & Larry Hancock – The Red Bird Leads Dick Russell – Revelations from the new JFK files and the Rob Reiner-Soledad O’Brien podcast series Doug Campbell, Larry Hancock, & David Boylan – Walker Panel Eric Hunley & Mark Groubert – TBA Greg Doudna – Walker Shooting James Corbett – JFK: From Mongoose to Gladio Janet Groden & Robert Groden – TBA Jeff Meek – Buddy Walthers: A Bullet Found, A House in Town Jim Gochenaur – The Deposition Johnny Cairns – Assassination 60 Larry Schnapf – TBA Matt Douthit – November 22, 1963: The Other Murder – The Death of Officer Tippit Monica Perez-Jimenez – The Dictator’s Daughter Mike Swanson – TBA Paul Bleau – The Chokeholds: A Modern/Legalistic Approach to Proving There Was a Conspiracy in the Murder of JFK Rex Bradford – State of the JFK Records Rex Bradford & Stu Wexler – The Improvement of Accessing Records through the Years Rob Clark & Joe Borelli – The Martins Robert (Reynolds) Nelson – The Don Reynolds Story Stuart Wexler – TBA Vince Palamara – Landis Claims

Registration Information:

In-Person Conference Only $179.99
In-Person Conference and Digital Download $219.99
Student Price $34.99
Virtual Conference Only $70.99
Virtual Conference and Digital Download $124.99
Daily Price: Friday $50.00 Saturday $80.00 Sunday $60.00

The “In-Person Conference” price covers the whole weekend of speakers, including the Banquet Dinner on the 18th, as well as being able to watch the replay digitally until November 30th.

The “In-Person Conference and Digital Download” price covers the whole weekend of speakers, including the Banquet Dinner on the 18th, access to the digital replay until November 30th, and a digital download starting the first week of December. As an added bonus you will also receive one free month of Lancer’s new streaming platform (Coming Soon)!


The Daily Conference Price includes access to that specific day of conferences.
To receive the “Student Price,” please use your student email address as verification. You will have access to everything listed in the in-person conference-only price. If you would like to purchase the digital downloads at a discounted price, send an email to jfklancerproductions@gmail.com before ordering.

The “Virtual Conference Only” price will give you access to the conference online, and access to re-watch the presentations until the 30th of November. The Conference and Digital Download price gives you access to the Conference online, the ability to re-
watch the presentations until the 30th of November, and the ability to download the digital files starting the first week of December.

Hotel Discount Link: https://www.reseze.net/servlet/SendPage?hotelid=1744&skipfirstpage=true&page=36176

Secret Service Agent Revelations

If you follow the JFK assassination you no doubt have picked up on a good deal of current press coverage in regard to an upcoming book which relates the discovery of a bullet purportedly resting on the backseat of the Presidential Limousine at Parkland Hospital in Dallas. The bullet was reportedly picked up by an agent who did not report it or enter it into evidence but rather simply placed it on the President’s stretcher inside the emergency room.

This is not an entirely new revelation given that we have statements from a number of people in regard to “missing fragments or bullets” which where recovered from the limo either in Dallas or upon its return to Washington – but which were all “handed off to people” rather than being officially collected into evidence, hence breaking any chain of custody. The story is also clouded by the fact that the descriptions differ and none seem to be an exact match for the single whole bullet officially in evidence – CE399

I did a show with Chuck Ochelli, along with Alan Dale, last evening and if you want to get some further background and context on this contemporary news story you will find the interview here:

UFO/UAP Intentions Study

Well its been some four years in progress, and involved literally hundreds of hours of work by a dedicated team, but the peer reviewed papers on our studies of UFOs/UAPs in the military domain are both now public. The newest, our intentions study, is extensive, dense and as thoroughly documented as we could make it. Our assessment includes definite indications of intelligence and a very specific focus within the military domain – but you can read that for yourself with the link in the press release.

https://www.explorescu.org/post/scu-announces-conclusion-of-two-part-study-of-uap-activity-and-post-ww-ii-us-atomic-warfare-assets

As always, I’ll look forward to questions and discussion – and the team is now eight months underway into extending the study into the public domain, so back to that.

JFK Lancer Conference 2023

The following is an update on the conference, including the times for Friday and Saturday, The speaker schedule is a work in progress, dependent on the speaker’s travel needs as well as final decisions on who will present in person vs. through remote access. Information on the hotel has been added and you may not contact them for the special conference rates available to attendees:

Unravel the Mysteries at the 27th Annual JFK Lancer November in Dallas Conference! 

November 17th – 19th, 2023

Lorenzo Hotel, Dallas, Texas

Join us as we commemorate the 60th anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s legacy and delve into the enigmatic world surrounding his untimely assassination. This year, we’re thrilled to offer both in-person and virtual attendance options, ensuring everyone can be part of this historic event.

In-Person and Virtual Options: Choose to attend in person at the Lorenzo Hotel in Dallas, Texas, or participate virtually through assassinationconference.com.

Hotel Room Discount: Use this link [https://www.reseze.net/servlet/SendPage?hotelid=1744&skipfirstpage=true&page=36176](https://www.reseze.net/servlet/SendPage?hotelid=1744&skipfirstpage=true&page=36176) to book your room at the Lorenzo Hotel for exclusive conference rates.

Mark your calendars and be part of this captivating journey as we unravel the truths surrounding the JFK assassination and honor the 60th anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s legacy. Don’t miss this opportunity to engage in intellectual exploration and be part of a community dedicated to seeking truth.

The Friday session will begin at noon and go until 8 pm. The Saturday session will begin at 9 am in the morning and break at 4:30 pm to allow the hotel time to set up for the Saturday evening banquet – which will begin at 6 pm. The exact times for Sunday are still being finalized.