CAPA 2024 Speaker Bios

Mark E. Adamczyk, an attorney based in Naples, FL, attended Tulane University in New Orleans from 1996 to 2000, where he researched JFK assassination and the New Orleans connections. Beginning in 2017, he focused on the JFK Assassination Records Collections Act of 1992, working to ensure complete disclosure and transparency.

Paul Bleau holds an MBA from McGill University and taught business administration for 18 years at St. Lawrence College. His long track record of research presentations about the JFK assassination includes these outlets: KennedysandKing, BlackOp Radio, the documentary JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass, the “Oliver Stone comes to Quebec City” 2022 event in 2022, numerous JFK Assassination Conferences, and as co-author of The JFK Assassination Chokeholds.

Jerome R. Corsi, Ph.D., earned his doctorate in government from Harvard University in 1972 and has since published more than thirty books on economics, history, and politics, including six New York Times best-sellers, two at number one. From 2004 to 2016, he as a senior editor at WorldNetDaily.com, where he authored hundreds of articles. His books include Who Really Killed Kennedy? (WND Books, 2013.)

Matt Crumpton. Matt is an attorney/entrepreneur. He was featured in the Paramount Plus film, JFK: What the Doctors Saw, is a co-author of The JFK Assassination Chokeholds, and is the creator and host of the Solving JFK podcast. He owns a campground and plays in a 90s rap cover band when he isn’t deep in JFK Assassination literature.

Jim DiEugenio has written, contributed to or co-edited five books on the assassinations of the sixties.  The last book he contributed to is entitled The JFK Assassination Chokeholds.  He is the editor and publisher of the website Kennedys and King.com. Jim also wrote the screenplays for Oliver Stone’s films JFK Revisited and JFK: Destiny Betrayed.

Brian K. Edwards has been researching the JFK assassination since 1969 and has accumulated and read over 600 books on the case. He has interviewed the majority of the Dealey Plaza eyewitnesses; Dallas police officers and detectives who were directly involved in the investigation. In addition, he has interviewed many of the doctors and medical personnel who were inside Trauma Room 1 at Parkland Hospital. He has also interviewed several of the navy corpsmen who were on duty at Bethesda Naval Medical Center. Brian has given hundreds of presentations on the assassination throughout the United States and since 2001 has been a regular presenter at the JFK Lancer Conference in Dallas. He was a frequent contributor to many JFK assassination-related publications. He holds a master’s degree in criminal justice from Washburn University and from 1994 to 2001 served as an adjunct instructor with the criminal justice department at the school. Mr. Edwards served as a police officer with the Lawrence Kansas Police Department and was assigned to the department’s crime scene search team as a crime scene photographer; was an instructor in the police academy; field training officer, and one of the department’s self-defense instructors. From 1983 to 1990, Mr. Edwards served on the department’s counter-assault team. His original research on the Zapruder film has been cited in several books.  He is the co-author of Beyond the Fence Line and is currently working on his second book entitled, Lancer is Down: A Tactical Analysis of the Ambush in Dealey Plaza.

Jacob G. Hornberger is founder and president of libertarian Future of Freedom Foundation (FFF).  His books include: The Kennedy Autopsy; The Kennedy Autopsy 2; Regime Change; The JFK Assassination; The CIA, Terrorism; Cold War: The End of the National Security State; and, most recently, An Encounter with Evil: The Abraham Zapruder Story.

FFF has also published JFK’s War with the National  Security Establishment: Why Kennedy was Assassinated by Douglas Horne and two books by Jefferson Morley: CIA &JFK: The Secret Assassination Files and Morley v. CIA: My Unfinished JFK Investigation. FFF has hosted two conferences on the JFK Assassination, one  of which featured Academy-Award-winning director Oliver Stone. The videos from those conferences can be seen on FFF’s website. FFF’s website also has an excellent five-part presentation by Douglas Horne entitled, “Altered History.”

Mr. Hornberger was born and raised in Laredo, Texas, and received his B.A. in economics from Virginia Military Institute and his law degree from the University of Texas. He was a trial attorney for twelve years in Texas. He also was an adjunct professor at the University of Dallas, where he taught law and economics. In 1987, Mr. Hornberger left the practice of law to become director of programs at The Foundation for Economic Education, publisher of The Freeman.  In 1989, Mr. Hornberger established The Future of Freedom Foundation

Andrew A. Iler is a Canadian lawyer and co-author of The JFK Assassination Chokeholds. He has considerable experience in administrative law, litigation and regulatory compliance, and has a specific interest in the JFK Records Act, having researched and written extensively on the subject. 

Stephen Jaffe was a staff investigator for New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison, and a forensics analyst exclusively assigned to the JFK case in 1967-1968. Jaffe served as a liaison between Garrison’s office and French Intelligence in 1968. He later testified before the Rockefeller Commission in March 1975.

Andrew Kreig, J.D., M.S.L, a founding CAPA board member, is an investigative reporter, attorney, radio host and non-profit executive based in Washington, DC, where he edits the Justice Integrity Project, whose site includes comprehensive links to books, articles, films and archives about 1960s assassinations for JFK, RFK, MLK and Malcolm X. Author of three books, he leads the pro-democracy Justice Integrity Project. He has written and spoken widely about political assassinations and related issues.

David W. Mantik, M.D., Ph.D., and Jerome Corsi have recently published The Final Analysis. Mantik completed a Ph.D. in physics at UW-Madison, a post-doctoral fellowship at Stanford, and an MD at Michigan. He is now in his fifth decade as a radiation oncologist. He has made nine visits to the National Archives.

Dr. David R. Montague is the Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs-Student Success at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock; and is a tenured, Full Professor of Criminal Justice. In his first career, he worked for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) as a federal drug diversion investigator, and the U.S. JFK Assassination Records Review Board (ARRB) as the agency’s senior investigator. He has lectured on Asset Forfeiture at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia and delivered almost 270 presentations at conferences and events in 8 countries. He has authored one textbook and one biography that received the 2022 Georgia Author of the Year Award and was featured on Good Morning America. He earned a PhD at Howard University, an MA at The George Washington University, and a BA at Morehouse College.

Lawrence P. Schnapf is an environmental attorney based in New York City with over 40 years of national environmental experience and is the principal of Schnapf LLC. Also, he is an adjunct professor of environmental law at New York Law School. A  past chair of the Environmental Law Section of the New York State Bar Association and the ABA Committee on Environmental, Energy and Natural Resources Law, he has written numerous articles on environmental law and is the author of “Managing Environmental Liability.” Interested in the JFK Assassination since the day it occurred in 1963, he has spoken and litigated on many relevant evidentiary issues and developed a JFK Assassination website (https://jfkcsi.com) and a Facebook page “JFK: The Hard Evidence or Junk Science “at: https://www.facebook.com/groups/337920816220010. 

Gary Shaw is a retired architect and a 45+ year researcher/critic of the JFK assassination investigation and conclusions. He is a former director of the JFK Assassination Information Center in Dallas and the Assassination Archives and Research Center in Washington. He is considered one of the world’s leading authorities on the John F. Kennedy assassination and is the author of a previous book on the subject, Cover Up: The Governmental Conspiracy to Conceal the Facts About the Public Execution of John Kennedy.

Prof. Ernst Titovets, M.D., Ph.D., is a researcher, author, translator and interpreter who authored a 527-page memoir Oswald: Russian Episode focused on his memories within the Soviet Union involving his close friend Lee Harvey Oswald. Born in Siberia, Titovets graduated from the Minsk Medical Institute and undertook post-graduate research in biochemistry. Also, he was a member of the Belorussian National Sailing Team, where he won top places in sailing competitions. He earned his advanced degrees from the Academy of Sciences of Belarus and from the St. Petersburg State University, Russia. Appointed to several scientific research councils, he has authored or co-authored six research books, 14 patents and over 400 research papers. As an interpreter, he translated three books. He has delivered lectures in Great Britain, the USA, France, Spain, Japan and Russia. Upon publication of his Oswald book in limited editions before a recent new edition, he was invited as a key speaker at major JFK research conferences in Dallas (2013) and metro Washington, DC (2014).  He works as a principal researcher at the Republican Research and Clinical Centre of Neurology and Neurosurgery in Minsk, Belarus.

John R. Young was born and raised in Fort Smith, Arkansas. He and his wife of 34 years have two children and three grandchildren, who are the light of their life. John had an interest in the John Kennedy assassination from an early age. He started seriously researching the assassination in 1989 when he met his hero Penn Jones Jr. Since that day John has interviewed dozens of witnesses, including Secret Service Agents and Marina Oswald. He became very dear friends with several lifelong researchers that helped him open doors into his own research. He joined a research group in Dallas in mid-90’s and have spent thousands of hours interviewing, researching and investigating the murder of President Kennedy. The End of Innocence is his research work compiled into a 500-page book, complete with almost 1,000 pictures. Through his book, one can learn things about the assassination that our history books didn’t tell us.