*Dallas JFK Assassination Conferences and Meetings 2008:
*COPA Conference 2008: "The Assassination of John F. Kennedy: The Death of Democracy" Annual Regional Meeting November 21-23 (Friday - Sunday) 45th anniversary of his assassination in Dallas Regional Meeting of COPA in Dallas, TX Hotel Lawrence, 302 S. Houston St. (on the corner of Houston and Jackson Streets, downtown and 2 blocks south of Dealey Plaza Phone: 214-761-9090. Toll Free Reservations: 877-396-0334. COPA rate is $79 per night for single or double on the 21st and 22nd. Use the group code COPA08 when you call. Moment of Silence, Grassy Knoll, November 22, 12:30 pm. Speakers: TBA. Registration on site A dvd of the last Dallas conference is available with a $50 donation to COPA.
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*The Cyril H. Wecht Institute of Forensic Science and Law and Duquesne University School of Law present
Making Sense of the Sixties A National Symposium on the Assassinations and Political Legacies of Martin Luther King Jr., Robert F. Kennedy and John F. Kennedy
Oct. 3-5, 2008 Power Center Ballroom Duquesne University Pittsburgh, PA
Forty years after the brutal and untimely deaths of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. and presidential hopeful Robert F. Kennedy, and 45 years after the relatively better known assassination of President John F. Kennedy, questions still abound about the circumstances of their murders. Furthermore, amidst the current climate of political cynicism and apathy, historians and voters alike ponder what these men might have become, and what their political legacies are even today, on the cusp of another historic presidential election. From matters of ballistics and trajectories to questions of conspiracy and cover-up, these three cases present fascinating and important topics for students of all ages. Following up on their historic 2003 conference on the JFK assassination, The Cyril H. Wecht Institute of Forensic Science and Law and Duquesne University School of Law are convening many of the top experts on these men and their murders for three days of presentations and panel discussions. Among the confirmed speakers to date are:
Michael M. Baden, M.D. Chairman, Forensic Pathology Panel, U.S. House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA)
James DiEugenio Author, Destiny Betrayed; co-author of The Assassinations
Isaac Ferris, Jr. CEO, The Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change
Robert J. Joling, J.D. Attorney and co-author, An Open & Shut Case
Robert Blair Kaiser Author, R.F.K. Must Die! Chasing the Mystery of the Robert Kennedy Assassination
Dan E. Moldea Author, The Killing of Robert F. Kennedy
Lisa Pease Chief Archivist, Real History Archives; co-editor, Probe Magazine; co-author of The Assassinations
William Pepper Sirhan Sirhan attorney, former James Earl Ray attorney, and author, An Act of State: The Execution of Martin Luther King
David Talbot Author, Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years
Robert K. Tanenbaum Author, attorney and Deputy Chief Counsel, HSCA
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