Fans of history and courtroom drama will be treated to an insightful and entertaining mock trial, in which a Harris County judge, prosecutors, and defense attorneys try the landmark case: State of Texas v. Lee Harvey Oswald using 21st century techniques in front of Harris County jurors. |
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Thursday, Nov. 16 and Friday, Nov. 17
9 a.m. – 5 p.m.Register at www.stcl.edu/oswaldSouth Texas College of Law Houston
Garrett-Townes Auditorium
1303 San Jacinto Street, Houston, TXEVENT OPENING: Reception and dinner with Alec Baldwin
Thursday, Nov. 16
The Sam Houston Hotel
1117 Prairie Street, Houston, TX
6:00 – 8:30 p.m. Reception, dinner, presentation by Alec Baldwin |
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Mock Trial Participants:
Judge:
- The Honorable Jay T. Karahan ’83, presiding judge, Harris County Criminal Court at Law, No. 8; and STCL Houston alumnus
Prosecuting Attorney:
- Gus E. Pappas, ’88, partner, Dabney & Pappas; and STCL Houston alumnus
Defense Counsel:
- Robert K. Tanenbaum (shown in photo), trial attorney, novelist, and former mayor of Beverly Hills, Calif.; former deputy chief counsel for the House Select Committee on Assassinations
- Lawrence P. Schnapf, Schnapf LLC; CAPA board member; New York-based environmental attorney; adjunct professor, New York Law School
- Bill Simpich, San Francisco-based civil rights attorney; author of “State Secret: Wiretapping in Mexico City, Double Agents, and the Framing of Lee Oswald”
Expert Witnesses:
- Robert N. McClelland, M.D., member of the team of surgeons who worked to save President John F. Kennedy’s life at Parkland Hospital in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963; professor emeritus, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
- Cyril H. Wecht, M.D., J.D., chair of CAPA; one of the nation’s leading forensic pathologists; former president, American Academy of Forensic Science and American College of Legal Medicine; member, Forensic Pathology Panel of the House Select Committee on Assassination
- Gary Aguilar, M.D., member, CAPA board of advisors; one of only a handful of non-government physicians allowed privileged access by the Kennedy family to J.F.K.’s still-restricted medical and autopsy evidence housed at the National Archives; and ophthalmologist
- David W. Mantik, M.D., Ph.D., leading expert on the medical evidence in the J.F.K. assassination; Palm Desert, Calif.-based radiation oncologist
- Donald B. Thomas, Ph.D., prolific author, “The Acoustical Evidence in the Kennedy Assassination Revisited” and more than 100 scientific journal articles, book chapters and books
- Clifford Spiegelman, Ph.D., distinguished professor of statistics at Texas A&M University, and author of over 100 scientific publications. Author of the award-winning paper recognized by the American Statistical Association, “Chemical and Forensic Analysis of JFK Assassination bullet lots: A second shooter possible?”
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Sponsored by Citizens Against Political Assassinations (CAPA) and
South Texas College of Law Houston.For more information, go to www.stcl.edu/oswald |
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