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Solving the Great American Murder Mystery: A National Symposium on the 40th Anniversary of the JFK Assassination
Posted on: 10/02/
PITTSBURGH, Oct. 2 -- The Cyril H. Wecht Institute of
Forensic Science and Law and Dusquesne University School of Law will host a
national four-day conference on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy
this November, on the 40th anniversary of the event.
"Solving the Great American Murder Mystery: A National Symposium on the
40th Anniversary of the JFK Assassination" will be held Thursday, Nov. 20
through Sunday, Nov. 23, at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh. Among the
event's presenters and panelists will be most of the case's top investigators
and independent researchers, as well as some of the world's preeminent
forensic scientists and legal experts.
"Our intention is to provide an impartial, academic forum in which to
clarify and advance our collective understanding of the JFK case and its
impact on the practice of criminal law and forensic science," said Cyril
Wecht, chairman of the Institute's Advisory Board and a longtime assassination
researcher. "In addition, we intend to explore what might still be learned
about the murder of our 35th president based upon modern-day forensic
scientific techniques and legal and investigative avenues."
Confirmed faculty include former Parkland Hospital neurosurgeon Dr. Robert
Grossman, who viewed the president's head wounds but was never called to
testify about his findings; U.S. Senator Arlen Specter, who originated the
"single-bullet theory" while serving as a junior counsel to the Warren
Commission in ; attorney and activist Mark Lane, one of the earliest
critics of the Warren report and author of the critique Rush to Judgment;
private investigator Dr. Josiah Thompson, author of the re-investigation
of the case, Six Seconds in Dallas; attorneys Robert Tanenbaum and Gary
Cornwell, who served as deputy counsels to the House Select Committee on
Assassinations in the late s; forensic pathologists Dr. Michael Baden and
Cyril Wecht, respectively head and minority member of the HSCA's forensic
pathology panel; U.S. District Court Judge John Tunheim, chairman of the -
98 Assassination Records Review Board; and Dr. Henry Lee, one of the world's
leading criminalists and a consultant to the ARRB.
"We are pleased and honored to be able to offer a program of such
tremendous historical significance and featuring faculty of such a high
caliber," said Duquesne University Law School Dean Nicholas P. Cafardi. "I am
certain that this conference will be of interest to a wide range of scholars
and practitioners in the areas of law, medicine, law enforcement,
criminalistics and many other fields."
The names and biographies of additional conference faculty, a full
schedule and information on registration, continuing education credit,
accommodations and other matters, are available at www.jfk.duq.edu .
To sign up for the symposium's mailing and/or e-mail lists, call Ben Wecht at
or e-mail .
Established at the Duquesne University School of Law in the fall of ,
The Cyril H. Wecht Institute of Forensic Science and Law collaborates with
other schools across the university to offer graduate degree and professional
certificate programs in forensic science and law to a diverse group of
students with backgrounds in nursing, law enforcement, pharmacy, business, the
environmental sciences and psychology. The Wecht Institute hosts an annual
conference that brings together local and national experts from a wide variety
of disciplines in an effort to shed light upon a particular set of issues. As
the first and only forensic science program housed at a law school, the
institute is nationally unique.
Source: Duquesne University
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