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Volunteers Sought For CAPA Membership Planning, Growth

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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Newly Released JFK Murder Files Prompt Disputes, ‘Jigsaw Puzzle’ Solutions

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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National Archives Begins Online Release of JFK Assassination Records

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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Dr. Cyril Wecht Supports Accused RFK Killer’s Petition Seeking New Trial

The famed forensic pathologist, author, consultant, and medical school professor Cyril H. Wecht, M.D., J.D. released the following statement in conjunction with a petition by Sirhan Sirhan last week to the Organization of American States (OAS) seeking a new trial or evidentiary hearing on charges that Sirhan acted alone and fired the fatal shot killed

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CAPA Covers Former JFK Death-Probers Privacy Suit Against CIA

A report this week that several key former staffers of the last official assassination investigations of President John F. Kennedy (JFK) have sued the CIA shows the continued vitality of such probes and the need for CAPA’s ongoing summary of political assassination news from around the world. As amplified below, Courthouse News reporter Brandi Buchman

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