Dealey Plaza UK
The 17th Dealey Plaza UK Canterbury Seminar held at Canterbury Christ Church University 27th / 28th April 2019
Photo: The History Place
Presenters:
Michele Metta (video link) Larry Hancock (audio link) Bart Kamp Jim DeBrosse (audio link) Phil Hopley Paul Brown Malcolm Blunt Jason Wilcox Jeff Meek (audio link)
Auctioneer: Mike Dworetsky
The 17th Dealey Plaza UK Canterbury Seminar 27th / 28th April 2019
Welcome I am delighted to welcome you all, especially those attending for the first time, to Canterbury Christ Church University to this our seventeenth Dealey Plaza UK International Weekend Seminar. I really hope that you all have a very enjoyable few days, and find the event an interesting and absorbing occasion.
Once again we are exceptionally lucky to have a fantastic line-up of speakers to present papers to us on a wide variety of subjects, both from our own members, and several from overseas.
A very warm welcome goes to Phil Hopley who has flown in from Australia especially to be with us and to present a paper this weekend. Phil will be talking to us about the Fair Play for Cuba Committee which as you know was a Group apparently supported by Lee Harvey Oswald. The Committee was set up to try to get the US Government to end its economic boycott of Cuba. (Angleton & Harvey took a close interest in its activities).
Michele Metta, who very unfortunately could not be with us in person this weekend, is an author and award winning Italian Journalist who lives and works in Rome. We will be showing a documentary that Michele has made, based on his book “CMC - The Italian Undercover CIA and Mossad Station and the Assassination of JFK”. We will then tie up with him over the phone for a live Q & A session. At this point he also has some extremely important information that he would like to pass on to us, that he has only very recently discovered. We will be the first audience to learn of this research.
Larry Hancock, a well known researcher, historian, and published author, has been a regular contributor to our seminars both in person, and over many years, very successfully, by telephone link. I am delighted to say that Larry will again be presenting to us. He will be talking on the subject of “Gene Wheaton”. As some of you may remember, Wheaton was the guy who stated that Car Jenkins and Rafael Quintero were both involved with the Assassination of JFK along with a team of CIA gunmen.
We also have two other well known researchers who will present to us over the wires, namely Jeff Meek and Jim DeBrosse. Jeff will be talking to us in the form of a Q & A session with Bart Kamp, about the many interviews that he has undertaken with important Assassination witnesses, particularly in Dallas. Jim, who is a retired assistant professor of journalism, will be talking to us about the Media and the JFK Assassination. Jim has written a book entitled “See no Evil” which analyzes the built-in biases of the U.S. corporate media, exposes its complicity in the whitewashing, and advocates for the broadest possible investigation into the key players who may have been responsible for the Crime of the Twentieth Century, including the CIA, Organized Crime, and Israel.
My very special thanks go to Bart Kamp for all that he has done in helping to organise the event this year. His input has been tremendously helpful. Bart will be talking to us about his latest research and the development of the brand new website that he is producing for us.
Malcolm Blunt is a long standing member of our Group and a truly dedicated researcher. He is the leading expert on the content of the JFK Assassination files held at the National Archives in Washington and has spent many hundreds of hours researching the case both in Washington and other centres of learning. Malcolm is also an expert on the CIA and how it functioned in the Kennedy era. Malcolm will be taking part in a Q & A session with Bart on all aspects of his early research years.
Many of us were lucky enough to hear Jason Wilcox’s presentation in April 2017 on Predictive Programming in the Assassination of President Kennedy. Well, Jason has kindly agreed to give a short follow-up talk on the subject which I know will be extremely interesting indeed.
Paul Brown has given us some truly outstanding talks over the last few years both here at Canterbury and at other seminars including London and York. The title of Paul’s talk this weekend is “D-Day in Dallas via Mexico City”and is a continuation in his series of talks on the Fingerprints of Intelligence.
Thanks go to Mike Dworetsky who has again agreed to act as our auctioneer thereby helping to raise funds for the Group, and to his wife Isobel for the superb work that she undertakes every year here at Canterbury in obtaining such a lovely buffet for us on the Sunday lunchtime. Thanks go to all those who have kindly donated items for auction and to all of you who support DPUK.
Finally, my thanks go to Canterbury Christ Church University for once again allowing us to use the superb facilities that The Old Sessions House lecture theatre affords us. In particular I would like to mention Alessandro Paolieri, the Conference & Events Team Leader here at the University, who has again gone out of his way to help make this weekend a success. Stuart Galloway - DPUK Secretary
CONTRIBUTOR PROFILES
MIKE DWORETSKY Mike was an astronomer at University College, London and was also Director of the University of London Observatory. He grew up in California and was awarded his doctorate at UCLA, followed by two years of researching at Mount Wilson and Palomar Observatories before moving to England. He has been a student of the case since first attending a lecture by Mark Lane at UCLA in 1966. His first research was a photographic investigation, conducted with other students, to determine whether or not the shadows in the famous backyard photographs could be genuine. His interest was rekindled by reading Anthony Summer’s Conspiracy in 1980 and discovering discrepancies in the acoustic evidence as presented to the HSCA. This led him into correspondence with the late Harold Weisberg. He is especially interested in the forensic aspects of the case. A founder member of DPUK in 1996, Mike has written articles for The Echo and has been a presenter at Canterbury in past years. His prowess as our auctioneer is now well established. He recently presented a very interesting paper on the timing of the Gunshots at our Seminar in York last year.
JASON WILCOX Jason first became interested in the Kennedy Assassination in 2006, shortly after reading alternative accounts of the 9/11 terror events. At about the same time, he read the article in the "Times" magazine about DPUK, and promptly joined the group. He worked for a number of years at a literary agency, and subsequently has written and directed film dramas, several of which have been screened at small-scale festivals in the UK. Jason, until quite recently, lived in one of the flats in the converted Board School on Durward Street which would have been a dominant landmark in 1888. The area was then known as Bucks Row and is famous as being the spot where the first official victim of Jack the Ripper, Mary “Polly” Nichols, was found murdered in the early hours of 31st August 1888. Our “sister” group is “TheWhitechapel Society” and many of their members, some of whom are here today, would know the area well!
BART KAMP Bart Kamp was caught with ‘the virus’ in the late 70’s seeing a BBC documentary when about to become a teenager. He has been studying the case since the release of JFK The Movie, and started to read the books of Jim Garrison and Jim Marrs shortly after the release of the film. His first search string in the Excite search engine in 1995 was “Fletcher Prouty”, and he became an avid reader of the JFK Assassination on the internet, a few years after that he went on hiatus for more than ten years after which he started to read many more books concerning the investigation and became an avid collector of any type of media covering his main interest which steers towards inside and around the TSBD and Oswald’s timeline of Nov 22nd-Nov 24th. Bart will be talking to us this weekend about Lee Oswald’s interrogations: who was there, who said what, who was with Oswald, the line-ups, the lawyers and presenting many pictures and movies taken during those three days in his 2 x 1 hour interactive presentation. Bart will also be hosting a Q&A with Dr. John Newman and also with Professor Malcolm Blunt.
LARRY HANCOCK Larry is a graduate of the University of New Mexico with a BA in Education and majors in Anthropology, Sociology and Education. Following service in the United States Air Force, he worked in the telecommunications and computer communications fields for some 35 years - with Continental Telecom., Hayes Microcomputer and Zoom Technologies. During his career he held the positions of Technical Trainer, Technical and Engineering Training Manager, Marketing Manager and Marketing Director. He became involved with Kennedy assassination research in the early 1990’s, and has focused on intelligence and national security aspects of the conspiracy. He has published a variety of document collections and analysis on CD with JFK Lancer, contributed articles and essays to Lancer, DPUK, and the Mary Ferrell Foundation. His first book, with Connie Kritzberg (former Dallas reporter) was “November Patriots”, a “docufiction” piece on the Kennedy Assassination. His second book, “Someone Would Have Talked”, a factual study of the Kennedy conspiracy and cover-up is now in its third (2010) edition. Larry has also done research on the RFK assassination, publishing a lengthy series of essays, Incomplete Justice, on the Mary Ferrell website and with Stuart Wexler spent some five years researching the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.; the two wrote a book which documents a four year effort to kill Dr. King, entitled “Awful Grace of God”. The book was published in 2012 but has been recently updated. It is now entitled “Killing King”. Other books written by Larry include “Nexus: The CIA and Political Assassination” (published in 2011) , “Shadow Warfare: The History of America’s Undeclared Wars” (published in 2014) and his latest book entitled “Unidentified – The National Intelligence Problem of UFOs”. Larry was also one of the authors who contributed to the DPUK book published in 2013, “JFK: Echoes from Elm Street”. In 2016 he published a book entitled “Surprise Attack: From Pearl Harbour to 9/11” – covering 60 years of terrorist threats against the USA
MALCOLM BLUNT Malcolm is known in the assassination research community for his encyclopaedic knowledge of the JFK records held at the National Archives II in College Park, MD. He was the 1998 recipient of JFK Lancer’s New Frontier Award in appreciation for his contribution of new evidence in furthering the study of the assassination of President Kennedy. He also received the Pioneer Award in 2016 and the Legacy Award in 2001. The Mary Ferrell Foundation interviewed him at the Washington-based AARC conference in November 2005. He has been a member of DPUK for many years and has attended many of these seminars. He has been guided by the idea that it's not necessarily what's in NARA that's interesting - but what's missing. Malcolm is a BACS accredited counsellor who has recently retired after 32 years working in psychiatric rehabilitation. His interest in the JFK assassination commenced following a stop in Dallas on a U.S coach tour in 1987. In 1993 he attended his first conference and thereafter spent time researching at the Dallas Municipal Archives and later on at the National Archives; his focus right now is trying to get an understanding of historical CIA systems, organisation, and working methods.
MICHELE METTA Fruit of more than a decade of scrupulous research, Metta’s investigation into the assassination of John Kennedy is based on new exclusive documents. His work is so valuable that he received public praise from the acclaimed director Oliver Stone, from Nico Perrone, Italian best seller writer, and from Jim DeBrosse, author of See No Evil, a very significant and interesting volume on the assassination, and multi-awarded reporter and columnist. So much so that DeBrosse decided to write the foreword for the book in which Metta condensed his extraordinary discovery – CMC: The Italian Undercover CIA and Mossad Station and the Assassination of JFK. The content of this volume is exclusive and brand new. No other book can disclose what this one can about the assassination. This is because Metta owns what no one else has ever been able to acquire: the company papers of Centro Mondiale Commerciale, which employed Clay Shaw, a businessman who, in 1967, as a result of collected evidence, became the chief suspect in the main judicial inquest into the death of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, overseen by Jim Garrison, then New Orleans DA. Papers that show you each and all of the other extremely important names alongside that of Clay Shaw in the company. And they are not only names that have never ever emerged till now, but they also give you the clearest and most innovative picture of the death of John Kennedy ever made: a conspiracy fueled by an international masonic pact against JFK, and involving the CIA, Mossad, and Italian Intelligence. Metta is a historian and a journalist for the Italian newspaper l’AntiDiplomatico, where he has distinguished himself for being author of a large number of scoops and for a series of interviews about the assassination of RFK. Because of the importance of his findings, Metta’s work was the subject of a symposium in Bari, Italy, at the prestigious Aldo Moro University. Finally, Metta is author of a documentary based on his book.
JIM DEBROSSE Jim DeBrosse is a veteran journalist, author and retired assistant professor of journalism at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. His book, “See No Evil: The JFK Assassination and the U.S. Media” began as his doctoral dissertation at Ohio University, which was approved in 2014. He was inspired to do the research by a former colleague at the Dayton Daily News who told him, “Somebody has to look into why the media pissed all over Oliver Stone’s JFK.” He resides in the Clifton area of Cincinnati, Ohio. He co-founded a news website devoted to workplace fairness and equal opportunity.
PAUL BROWN Paul has been interested in the assassination since his youth when he was introduced to the subject during the 30th anniversary. He has a degree in politics from The Open University and works in local government. As a member of DPUK since 2008 he has given presentations at Canterbury on various issues including the deaths of witnesses, the Dal-Tex building and the audio/visual evidence. He believes there was a conspiracy that most likely involved the same people linked to the CIA/Mafia plots against Fidel Castro. Paul will be talking to us this weekend about “Fingerprints of Intelligence” continuing on from the presentations that he has given at various venues over the last few years
JEFF MEEK Author Jeffrey L. Meek grew up in Illinois, attended Western Illinois University on a baseball scholarship and spendt 30 years as an educator, coach and athletic director. His passions are bass fishing and the telling and writing of people’s stories. His first book, published in 2011, titled, “They Answered the Call: World War II Veterans Share Their Stories,” consists of 75 World War II veteran stories, many told for the first time. Meek got interested in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy back in March 1975, when he decided to watch the late-night television show “Goodnight America,” hosted by Geraldo Rivera. On the program, the Abraham Zapruder film of the murder was shown for the first time to a national TV audience. This led Meek to read books and obtain government documents to verify what he was learning from watching and listening to programs at that time. Within months, Jeff corresponded, and soon met with, legendary JFK assassination researcher Mary Ferrell in Dallas, where Mary shared stacks of more government records with him. The following year Jim retuned to Dallas, met with Mary Ferrell and conducted several interviews with members of the Dallas Police Department, including Chief Jessie Curry. He put together a manuscript in 1977 which Mary typed for him. Forty-two years later the manuscript is now here in print. It presents the Warren Commission findings and also inconsistencies Meek learned. Reviewing these pages makes one wonder, was it really a lone gunman? Meek is currently the managing editor of the Hot Springs Village Voice newspaper where he occasionally still writes about the crime of the century. This includes the Voice’s Nov. 2018, supplemental magazine, “Remembering 11.22.63.”
PHIL HOPLEY Phil has had an interest in JFK's assassination since 1968 and, like most students and researchers of the case, has read a lot on the subject. About 15 years ago, while seeking documents about the Fair Play for Cuba Committee, it became apparent there wasn't a lot of readily available reading matter on the group so Phil started digging for more information and has acquired a lot of original source material on the FPCC. He is now researching and writing a heavily researched book on the Committee as well as writing a biography on one of its founders. Phil has approximately 33 years experience in the insurance industry and is a qualified Intelligence Analyst.
Published by “Who, What, Why”
Partial List of Withheld JFK Assassination Documents (there are many more)
Obtained in a Freedom of Information Act Request
1. Lee Harvey Oswald’s CIA “201 File.” 201 files contain personality assessments
2. Records on David Morales, David Atlee Phillips, E. Howard Hunt, William King Harvey and others considered by top researchers prime suspects for participation in the planning and implementation of Kennedy’s murder.
3. Documents on New Orleans oddball David Ferrie, District Attorney Jim Garrison, Jackie Kennedy, members of the Warren Commission staff, Jack Ruby, various anti-Castro Cubans and much much more.
4. Tax returns of Michael Paine, who with his wife Ruth provided housing and more for the Oswalds — Ruth also got Lee a job in the Texas School Book Depository — from which he purportedly shot Kennedy; Michael worked for the defense contractor Bell Helicopter.
The re-review of these documents was undertaken in accordance with the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992, which states: “Each assassination record shall be publicly disclosed in full, and available in the Collection no later than the date that is 25 years after the date of enactment of this Act, unless the President certifies, as required by this Act, that continued postponement is made necessary” by specific identifiable harm. (National Archives) Some Personal Thoughts regarding Our President – Ian Griggs
Photo: S.Galloway Photo: S.Galloway
To me Ian is Dealey Plaza UK. He was a founder member of the Group way back in January 1996 when the Inaugural Meeting was held in his home town of Waltham Abbey, Essex. He had previously been a member of the Dallas ’63 Group. His efforts in guiding DPUK through its teething period in the late 90’s were significant indeed. He is an historian, an author, and a dedicated researcher into all aspects of the Assassination. His knowledge of the Dallas Police Department, the officers, their duties, and how they operated back in the 1960’s is outstanding. Ian has written several books on the Assassination, including “No Case to Answer” and “Kennedy Assassinated – Oswald Murdered”. He has presented papers at conferences all over the USA and has appeared on TV and radio shows. He has also been a regular contributor to our Canterbury Seminars.
Despite ill-health, Ian has continued to work on his latest book, provisionally entitled “Signal 19: Elm and Houston”, and hopes to get it published in the very near future. By the way Dallas Police Signal Code 19 means “there has been a shooting”. The codes start at No.2 and go right up to 67 each having a specific meaning. I used to enjoy testing Ian on these when we spoke on the phone but I never caught him out! His knowledge of Jack Ruby, Kathy Kay (the English born stripper at the Carousel Club), the arrest and subsequent interrogation of Lee Harvey Oswald, and the alleged assassination weapon, is also truly remarkable.
I first met Ian on 4th January 2004 when I attended the AGM of the Group that year. I remember being greatly impressed with the extent of knowledge that members had concerning the Assassination. I was signed up and had my ,membership card by the end of that meeting! My first Canterbury Seminar was to follow in the April of that year and a trip to Dallas became a must in 2005. Needless to say, Ian was a great help in making that trip such an interesting and informative event for me. Quite unforgettable!
I became much closer to Ian when I became secretary in 2007, while he was still heavily involved with the production of the Dealey Plaza Echo and other activities within the Group. We would phone each other at least once a month and chat about the case, pass on the latest gossip, and generally air our views on current affairs and personal interests. I remember talking to him on many occasions about the German Occupation of the Channel Islands about which I thought I knew quite a bit but his knowledge was far superior to mine.
The one task that I set myself over the years and failed completely, was to get Ian to drink a pint of Real Ale – he never would, preferring to sup that stuff they call “Amber Nectar”. Having said that though, he does have a collection of beer bottles where every letter of the alphabet is represented as the first letter in the name of the beer. It has been wonderful and rewarding to have known Ian and to me he will always be one of life’s true gentlemen. Stuart Galloway
Dealey Plaza UK - 17th Canterbury Seminar Saturday 27th April 2019 To be held in The Old Sessions House Lecture Theatre Canterbury Christ Church University
09.45m – 10.00am Introduction to the Seminar Stuart Galloway
10.00am – 11.00am The Fair Play for Cuba Committee - an Overview (Part 1) Phil Hopley
Oswald’s Membership
11.00am – 11.20am Break: Coffee/Tea
11.20am – 12.10pm The Fair Play for Cuba Committee- an Overview (Part 2) Phil Hopley
12.10pm – 1.40pm LUNCH (Own Arrangements)
1.45pm - 2.45pm The Media & the JFK Assassination Jim DeBrosse 8.45amEST – 9.45amEST
Dan Rather Mary Meyer
2.40pm – 3.40pm Gene Wheaton Larry Hancock 8.40amCDT – 9.40amCDT
Gene Wheaton Carl Elmer Jenkins Rafael (Chi Chi) Quintero
3.40pm – 4.00pm Break: Tea/Coffee
4.10pm – 4.40pm Predictive Programming in the Assassination of President Kennedy: Part 2 Jason Wilcox
4.40pm – 5.40pm Q & A with Jeff Meek - The Dallas interviews Bart Kamp/Jeff Meek 10.40amCDT – 11.40amCDT by telephone link
Jessie Curry Mary Ferrell
Dealey Plaza UK - 17th Canterbury Seminar Sunday 28th April 2019
To be held in The Old Sessions House Lecture Theatre Canterbury Christ Church University
09.30am – 10.30am The DPUK Auction Mike Dworetsky
10.30am – 11.15am D-Day in Dallas via Mexico City Paul Brown
Was David Atlee Phillips Maurice Bishop? Silvia Odio
11.15am - 12.15pm Bart’s Latest Research & the New Website Bart Kamp
12.15pm – 1.15pm LUNCH ( Buffet in the Lecture Theatre)
1.15pm – 2.15pm The Early Research Years – Q & A Bart Kamp/Malcolm Blunt
2.15pm – 3.40pm Permindex & Centro Mondiale Commerciale Michele Metta
Mossad Jim Garrison Allen Dulles
3:40pm – 3.50pm Closure of the Seminar - Stuart Galloway