C-SPAN3 slowly putting more and more of the AARC conference online. Here's a panel with Jim Lesar, Jerry Policoff, and Andrew Kreig

See it here.

Alan Dale served as host.  I think this was the first panel of the conference.  The panelists were Jim Lesar, Jerry Policoff, and Andrew Kreig.

Then they had the panel with Dan Hardway and Ed Lopez.

Then they had John Newman.  

Look at the prime slot they gave it. 4:02 a.m.! And on Sunday Nov. 2, 2014 as we return to Daylight Savings Time.  Thank god for embedded videos.

So far as I know C-SPAN3 has not aired any of the rest of Friday's events. I could not attend anything on Friday or Saturday.  I heard Jim DiEugenio say on Black Op Radio that Vecciano went longer than planned and it threw the schedule into chaos.  So maybe some things happened later, or not at all.

In addition, there were "break out room" discussions which often clash with whatever is the main event in the main ballroom.  So, no matter what you're going to you will miss some part of the conference.  This can be alleviated if the talks in the break out rooms are recorded.  And if the rooms are really rooms.

At the JFK Lancer conference the breakout rooms were not rooms at all, but a ballroom sectioned off into breakout rooms with some thin, very thin black cloth curtains. So, the sounds of presenters and their audience easily bled into the next space. And I don't think any of them were recorded at all.  This was a tragedy as we had a special guest who rarely if ever talks let alone comes to an event like this, James Jenkins.

For this AARC conference I did see a camera for one event, where Malcolm Blunt spoke.  So, I'm hopeful I'll get to see that eventually.

These are the Friday events as planned.

Jefferson Morley - The CIA and the Culture of Secrecy

A panel discussion with Jefferson Morley, John Newman, and David Talbot via phone.

Anthony Summers - After "Not In Your Lifetime."

Antonio Vecciano

Prof. Ernst Titovets - Oswald was my best friend

Wesley Buell Frazier - "Oswald, friend and family man

Don Thomas - "The Tippit Murder: Rosetts Stone to the Warren Commission Cover-Up"

Bill Simpich - "How Captain Westbrook and the Tippet shooting provide a counter-narrative to the Warren Report"

This was the schedule for Saturday and Sunday.

Peter Kornbluh's presentation is online here.  He has a new book
Back Channel to Cuba

Saturday, September 27, 2014

V.   CUBA AND THE CIA

8:00 AM         

Introductions of Peter Kornbluh and Wayne Smith by Brenda Brody, with example of what The National Security Archive releases have meant to the research community. 

Peter Kornbluh:  “U.S.-Cuba Back-Channel Negotiations After the Bay of Pigs”

Wayne Smith:  “An Inside View of David Atlee Phillips and Antonio Varona from Havana."

  

VI.   SCIENCE AND COVER-UP:  NO MORE LONE ASSASSIN

8:45 AM        

Dr. Cyril Wecht:  "Two Autopsies, Two Cover-ups:  JFK, RFK"

9:15 AM         

Dr. Gary Aguilar:  "Junk Science and the Death of JFK - What We Now Know that We Didn't Know Then.                                                                   

10:00 AM      

Dr. Don Thomas:  "JFK Acoustical Evidence:  Challenge and Corroboration"

10:30 AM       

Dr. Randolph Robertson—“The JFK Assassination: 5 shots + 3 shooters +3 snipers nests = CONSPIRACY”

                                   

*Dr. David Mantik will speak on the JFK autopsy X-rays, photographs and medical evidence in a breakout room following these presentations, after which he will be joined in a panel discussion by Dr. Robertson.    

11:00 AM       

Break

VII.  THE CUBANS, THE CIA, AND THE COVER-UP

11:10 AM       

Joan Mellen—“CIA and the HSCA:  How CIA Controlled the HSCA and the Writing of its Final Report”

12:00               Lunch

VII.  THE CUBANS, THE, CIA, AND THE COVER-UP

1:15 PM          

David Kaiser:  “What We’ve Learned Since The Road to Dallas”

2:00 PM          

Eric Hamburg:  "Conversations with Fabian Escalante and E Howard Hunt - Two views of the Kennedy assassination"

                                                             

VIII.  THE MEDIA AND THE JFK ASSASSINATION

2:45 PM          

Panel:  "Why Won’t the Media Cover the Story?" 

Jefferson Morley, Andrew Kreig, Jerry Policoff, Mal Hyman, Russ Baker

3:30 PM          

Andrew Kreig:   “JFK Cover-Up’s Long Shadow?

IX.  THE WARREN REPORT AND THE WARREN COMMISSION   

4:15 PM          

Russ Baker:  “The Roll of the WC Staff in the Cover-Up"

5:00 PM          

Prof. David Wrone:  “The Warren Report on the Murder of JFK:  Truth or Cover-Up?”

X.  THE WARREN COMMISSION IN ITS OWN WORDS  

5:45 PM          

A reading of the January 22, 1964 Executive Session Transcript by a troupe of professional actors. 

           
Dramatization of the January 22, 1964 Executive Session Tran- script where the commissioners realized that FBI and CIA would never “run out all the leads” and would “have us fold up and quit.”  "They found their man.  There is nothing more to do.” Allen Dulles suggested “this record should be destroyed.”  It wasn’t, but was only transcribed more than a decade later as a result of a Harold Weisberg lawsuit and Congressional pressure. 

           

7:00 PM          

Adjourn for banquet

7:30 PM         

Banquet + Tributes (will include cash bar)

9PM                

Conclusion of Tributes to Bud Fensterwald, Carl Ogelsby, and Harold Weisberg.    

Sunday, September 28, 2014

XI.  NARA AND THE CIA ARE WITHHOLDING JFK RECORDS IN

      VIOLATION OF THE JFK ACT

              

9:00 AM         

Joe Backes:  “Report on JFK Records Withheld until 2017”

10:00 AM       

Lamar Waldron—“Withheld in Full”

10:30 AM       

Rex Bradford:  “The Church Committee and CIA Assassination Plots”

11:00 AM       

Peter Dale Scott (by live closed-circuit hook-up:  “Dallas and Other Deep Events”

12:00 PM        

James Lesar:  “The CIA and NARA Thwart Congress and the JFK Act”

12:30 PM        

Panel Discussion:  Rex Bradford, Joe Backes, LaMar Waldron and Jim Lesar, led by Marie Fonzi:  “Where Do We Go From Here?”

1:30 PM          Conference closes

Breakout Sessions are planned as follows:

Saturday, September 27, 2014

8-8:45 AM     

                        
Pat Speer: "The Single-Bullet Theory, Voodoo Science, and Zombie Lies."

10:15-11 AM

                        
Dr. Grover P. Proctor Jr.: "The Raleigh Call and the Fingerprints of Intelligence"

11:15 AM-Noon

                        
Bill Kelly: "The Air Force One Tapes"

1:15- 2 PM     

Jim DiEugenio: "Who was John F. Kennedy, and Why Was He Murdered?"

3:15-4 PM      

Larry Hancock: "A Political H Bomb - How John Roselli and William Harvey Preempted the Garrison Investigation in Washington, D.C.

2:15-3 PM      

Lisa Pease: "James Jesus Angleton and The Warren Commission"

4-4:45PM       

Walt Brown: "The Dulles Commission - the 50th Anniversary."

5:15-6 PM      

Robert Groden: "A View From the Grassy Knoll"

Sunday, September 28, 2014

 9-9:45 AM     

Marie Fonzi:  "On the Home Front"

10-10:45 AM  

Malcolm Blunt: This will not be a formal presentation, but rather, a Q and A on NARA, Warren Commission files, Church Committee, and CIA documents, etc.,