Disclosures this summer about President John F. Kennedy’s 1963 assassination are prompting a blistering dispute on whether new “scientific evidence” proves that Lee Harvey Oswald killed JFK as a lone gunman — or whether the claim against Oswald is part of an ongoing media cover-up of the truth. During the historic JFK document dump this […]
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Dr. Cyril H. Wecht, CAPA’s chairman, reprimanded his hometown Pittsburgh Post-Gazette newspaper for besmirching the late comedian Dick Gregory as a “sucker for conspiracy theories” in an otherwise generally favorable editorial published on Aug. 25 assessing Gregory’s life and legacy. Wecht’s letter to the newspaper, known in its locality as the “P-G,” is reprinted below
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CAPA is seeking volunteers to implement ambitious growth in the organization’s size, impact and membership benefits. All such functions will be under a new membership committee to be formed shortly by a decision last week by the CAPA board of directors, meeting by conference call. Among membership benefits will be reduced rates at CAPA’s next
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Long-suppressed documents released last week about the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas show that the city’s mayor at the time had a covert relationship with the CIA. Documents showing the CIA status of the late Dallas Mayor Earle Cabell (shown at left) were among the 3,810 released by the National Archives
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On July 24, 2017 at 8 a.m., the National Archives released a group of documents (the first of several expected releases), along with 17 audio files, previously withheld in accordance with the JFK Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992. CAPA’s leadership applauds the release of records, including release on a rolling basis to advance research
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