Letter to Representatives and Senators regarding release of the JFK assassination records

Dear Members and Supporters:

In keeping with CAPA’s mission to bring truth about the assassination and to try to do something about it, CAPA is encouraging our members and supporters to join with other organizations to make our voices heard on this matter in congress. We have attached a letter written by Larry Schnapf which you can use to send to your Representatives and Senators. All you need do is insert the names of your state members of congress. You may, of course, write your own letter, but we thought it would be helpful to have one already written that you can use. Click in the yellow bar at the top to enable editing.

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We don’t get many chances to actually do something about the assassination and this is one of them. We hope you will participate in this effort.

“One person can make a difference, and everyone should try.” JFK

Best regards
CAPA Board

Main CAPA 2021 Conference – 11/20-21,2021

The day begins with a panel discussion “The JFK Assassination and the Media,” a topic that has not been discussed and investigated by the mainstream media. Andrew Kreig will chair the panel. Participants in the panel will be Dr. Cyril Wecht, Russ Baker, James Wagenvoord, and Jacob Hornberger.

Tink Thompson and Gary Aguilar will present a talk titled: Major Breakthrough in JFK Case – Josiah Thompson’s new book “The Last Second in Dallas”

James Wagenvoord will speak about his experiences working at Life magazine in 1963. He has much to share since he was at the epicenter of the magazine responsible for much of the news about the assassination. Title of the talk is “My LIFE Story and LIFE’s Life Story.”

Edward Sproul is a director and producer of video, has been staff producer/director at Merrrill Lynch and is an experienced film maker and technical expert. Sproul will give his opinion on the disinformation that has affected some of the research around the JFK assassination. The focus will be on the Zapruder film as an example of how confusion has crept into analysis and he will give some methods that can be used to approach the data in a different way. He will briefly discuss the technology necessary to alter films and hypothesize on how some of the divergent opinions about it came to be.

Stephen Jaffe is the last living investigator on the staff of New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison in the 60’s. Jaffe was also one of the producers of the feature film “Executive Action” in 1973. And, for the first time, for the CAPA audience, Jaffe will show a new documentary that he produced with his late partner, author and attorney, Mark Lane. It’s entitled, “A Rush to Judgment,” Updated, after Lane’s best-selling book and includes some rare interviews with witnesses Lane interviewed in 1966. It also includes historic new interviews. Jaffe will also show a brief, almost never seen documentary film about the making of “Executive Action” with interviews of the stars (Burt Lancaster, Robert Ryan and Will Geer, as well as the executive producer Edward Lewis). Jaffe will take questions via Zoom.

Russell Kent, who spoke last year about the House Select Committee on Assassinations Forensic Pathology Panel, will speak about his new book, “JFK Medical Betrayal.”

Jim Di’Eugenio will speak about the ARRB, Kennedy and his assassination in “JFK Revisited,” (Oliver Stone’s new documentary.)

David Montague was head of investigations for the United States JFK Assassination Records Review Board and will speak about his time in that position.

Bill Kelly will present a talk on The Wheaton-Jenkins Connection. Gene Wheaton, former policeman and military intelligence officer who served in the Army, Marines and Air Force, and earned a presidential citation for his security work in the middle east, describes his association with Carl Jenkins, a business partner in a CIA propriety airline and housemate. Wheaton informed the ARRB that Jenkins and his associates acknowledged participation in the assassination of JFK. Four interviews Matt Ewhling conducted with Wheaton will be condensed and William M. Law’s interview with Wheaton will be presented, documents Wheaton provided the ARRB will be displayed and two recent interviews with Jenkins will be discussed. (This Talk has been added by the CAPA Board, not the Program Chair.)

Dr Cyril Wecht will speak about his latest book, “The JFK Assassination Dissected.”

We will also have a panel on the history and status of withholding of the JFK assassination records. David Montague will chair the panel; participants are Bill Kelly, Michael Nurko, Andrew Kreig and Jacob Hornberger.

We are again planning a special day for high school, college, and law school students. This will be held online, as it was last year, on Friday, November 19. (In order to gain free access, The registration fee for all attendees of the regular conference will include attendance for the student day but will require registration.

We want to get more young people interested in this tragic event that changed the course of our country and hopefully enlist them in our cause. We are planning a program that will give them the opportunity to see what President Kennedy was like as a person and a president and educate them about the truth of the assassination. The event will be free to students attending high schools, universities and law schools. If anyone has suggestions for schools or national organizations you think might be interested, please send an email to visionsoffrance@cox.net and I will send out invitations. David Denton, History Professor at Olney Central College and head of the JFK Historical Group, will introduce the program and will be available to answer questions from the students after the program. The conference will last approximately sevenhours including breaks.

To register for the conference, please go here, Register for 2021 CAPA Conference. The fees for the conference and various options are provided there.

Please note that CAPA is a 501 (c) 3 non-profit Private Foundation, which means that your payment to CAPA is considered a donation and can be deducted as a charitable expense on your income tax return. As you can see on the CAPA website, annual dues to become a member of CAPA can be as little as $50.

CAPA Advocates Disclosure On Political Assassinations

Americans deserve prompt and thorough disclosure of the facts surrounding the nation’s major assassinations, according to a new research group on the occasion of the annual “Sunshine Week,” celebrated by open government advocates beginning March 13.

As an initial goal, Citizens Against Political Assassinations (CAPA), a non-partisan umbrella group, seeks withheld records pertaining to the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy in 1963, and the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Senator Robert F. Kennedy, both in 1968.

“CAPA seeks release of the remaining JFK records with a minimum of redactions, which can obscure vital information,” said CAPA Chairman Cyril H. Wecht, M.D., J.D., a prominent expert in forensic pathology for five decades. “We shall also file Freedom of Information Act requests and similar legal actions to enforce the law and undertake public education efforts to show the importance of disclosure to new generations.” Wecht is a consultant, medical school professor, author, and former county coroner for two decades in Pennsylvania.
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