Friends,
The Dallas regional meeting of the Coalition on Political Assassinations is just around the corner, from Friday, November 20 to Sunday, November 22. Here is the final version of our flyer, our speaker schedule and our speaker biographies. It promises to be a great weekend of speakers and events. C-SPAN has shown some interest in covering it, so I am following up on that. We should be able to livecast some of our featured speakers at our website during the weekend, so peek in for those events at www.politicalassassinations.com if you are not going to attend.
In addition to our keynote speakers, Jim Douglass and Walt Brown, we will have award-winning film documentarian Randy Benson with his latest cuts from The Searchers, a film on the JFK researchers. Our resource room will feature the latest books, including those by our speakers, and DVDs on all the assassinations, thanks to JFK Last Hurrah Books. We will be showing a series of assassination documentary films on both Friday and Saturday night after 10:00 pm. We have a lunch for the early birds on Friday at 12:00 noon at the Hotel Lawrence restaurant, and a dinner that night at the Rodeo Bar & Grill, just off the main lobby at the Adolphus at 5:30 pm, before our keynote speaker at 7:00 pm.
Once at the Hotel Lawrence, local shuttle service is available to West End restaurants and other nearby sites. Also, to and from the DFW Airport there is a cheap DART Light Rail train that stops at the Reunion Square and AMTRAK Union Station, just across the street diagonally from our hotel. Otherwise there is shuttle service from 800-BLUE-VAN. Hotel Lawrence is at the intersection of Houston and Jackson Streets.
Our location is right off Dealey Plaza, down the street from the Texas School Book Depository, now the Sixth Floor Museum. There is a Dealey Plaza webcam that runs all the time at http://www.earthcam.com/jfk/, so you should be able to see the crowd during our Moment of Silence on the Grassy Knoll at 12:30 pm CST on Sunday, November 22. Remember that all our schedule times are Central Standard as well if you are watching us livecast this weekend. DVD recordings of all the events will be available soon afterwards this year, we have a three-camera shoot going on currently, for a donation of $50 or more to COPA. After the conference, we will carpool to Baylor University's Poague Library in Waco, TX to see the Penn Jones, Jr. collection and other JFK assassination materials archived there, courtesy of Ben Rogers, the director.
On Monday, November 23 at 6:30 pm CST I will be speaking at the Dallas Peace Center on the topic "There Must Be Some Way Out of Here: The Rise of the Military-Industrial Complex, the Permanent War Economy and the Future of Humanity". Those still in Dallas are welcome to attend on a donation basis. We will also be recording and perhaps livecasting that talk at www.judgeforyourself.com, my website.
Next February 21st, COPA will co-sponsor a panel on the assassination of Malcolm X at the Dr. Betty Shabazz and Malcolm X Memorial and Educational Center in Harlem, at the site of his murder. This will mark the 45th anniversary of his death. This will be our third year of presenting such panels and the best information on this case. We are also working hard to get the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Records Act introduced and passed this year. It is moving toward that, and once there is a bill number I will get it out to all of you to get your members to co-sponsor it, to press for hearings, along with a review of the JFK Records Act it is based on, and for passage.
Thanks for all your support and interest. Hope to see you in Dallas this weekend.
John Judge, for COPA
-- John Judge Coalition on Political Assassinations (COPA) PO Box 772 Washington, DC 20044 copa@starpower.net
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National organization of medical and ballistic experts, academics and authors, researchers and interested individuals investigating major political assassinations in America and abroad. Responsible for creation and implementation of the JFK Assassination Records Act. Promoting a Martin Luther King Records Act and a grand jury process to reopen all the major assassinations.
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