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John F. Kennedy Assassination Archives Collection Published material and research papers, 1963-c.1988

Manuscript Collection, MC 13 Guide and Collection Inventory

Extent: 2.1 linear feet (5 manuscript boxes and 1 oversize box)

Background Note: John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963), the 34th president of the (elected in 1961), was assassinated while still in office, on November 22, 1963 in , Texas. Although was arrested for the assassination, he never went to trial because he was murdered by on November 24, 1963. Lingering doubts about his solo role in the assassination have led to 35 years worth of investigation by hundreds of individuals and the formation of numerous theories on who was responsible for the assassination of President Kennedy.

Scope and Contents: This collection was assembled by researchers in the course of their investigation into the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Lillian Castellano, a special investigator of the assassination of both John F. and Robert Kennedy, and a member of "The Kennedy Assassination Truth Committee," contributed the bulk of this collection. The collection contains analyses of the , photographs, negatives, and slides, a copy of the autopsy review report, and diagrams. Also included are copies of documents on Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Ruby, exhibit lists, slides of the assassination, tape transcriptions of interviews, and copies of transcripts from the Senate and House Select Committees. A large portion of this assembled collection is published material, some of which may now be difficult to locate. These include special whole issues of periodicals on the assassination, clippings, newsletters, pamphlets, photocopies of articles, and collector's copies.

The collection is divided into 2 series: "Collected research materials" and "published materials."

Acquisition: Donated to the Archives and Special Collections around 1988. Some clippings from Mel Yoken, 6/06.

Access: unrestricted, except published materials may be accessed in person only.

Copyright: on published material, is retained by the original publisher. Photocopying of published material allowed on site, in person, by the researcher only, under the guidelines of fair use; on original copies of publications, not on photocopies. Mail or phone inquiries for copies will not be accepted. Researchers should consult their own libraries for interlibrary loan.

Citation: John F. Kennedy Assassination Archives Collection, Archives and Special Collections, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, N. Dartmouth MA

Repository: University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, Claire T. Carney Library Archives and Special Collections, 285 Old Westport Road, N. Dartmouth, MA 02747. Telephone: 508-999-8686.

Processing Note: Processing by Julie Fernandes '99, July 1998. Finding aid by Julie Fernandes '99 and Judy Farrar, July 1998.

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Box and folder list

Series I: Collected research materials

Box # Folder # Description

Photographs:

1 1 Zapruder film: still photographs and negatives 2 " " Phil Willis' reenactment position 3 " " distances and angles; reenactment; through the rifle scope 4 Various views of Elm St. 5 Commission exhibit 875 6 Testimony concerning the finding of four bullets 7 JFK prior to assassination 8 Main St., Dallas 9 Main St. and Elm St., Dallas (includes microfiche) 10 JFK's sportcoat after shooting 11 Slides of the assassination

Photocopies:

12 Autopsy report (1968 panel review) 13 Passport application of Lee Harvey Oswald, 6/25/63 14 Commission exhibit 657: entrance wounds diagram 15 Exhibit list 9/7/78 16 Exhibit items (Jack Ruby's revolver, etc.) 17 Index of materials reviewed by HSCA handwriting experts 18 Index of exhibits concerning organized crime 19 CBS Radio, tape transcription, 11/23/63 (assassination coverage) 20 Information on Jack Ruby (Narration: Second Look) 21 United States Government, office memos, 10/5/59 and 11/6/59 (Charles W. Flynn to Jack Ruby) 5 126 Witness testimonies to the assassination 127 Zapruder film analysis by Lillian Castellano 131 Bullet theories and analyses

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Box # Folder # Description Photocopies of government reports:

1 22 Transcript of the executive session of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy, 1/22/64 23 Statement of Raymond J. Marcus, 7/20/67 24 Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress, "The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy: The Warrren Commission Report and the Subsequent Interest, by Donovan L. Gay 9/10/75 2 25 Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities, c. 1977 26 Transcript of Fidel Castro Ruz interview, 4/3/78 Press copies:

2 27 House Select Committee on Assassinations, 9/6/78: Trip to Dallas 28 House Select Committee on Assassinations, 9/8/78: Ballistics 29 House Select Committee on Assassinations, 9/11/78: Acoustics 30 House Select Committee on Assassinations, 9/12/78: Trajectory 31 House Select Committee on Assassinations, 9/13/78: Lee Harvey Oswald 32 House Select Committee on Assassinations, 9/14/78: Backyard photographs 33 House Select Committee on Assassinations, 9/15/78: Russia 34 House Select Committee on Assassinations, 9/18/78: Interview with Fidel Castro Ruz 35 House Select Committee on Assassinations, 9/22/78: CIA investigation 36 House Select Committee on Assassinations, 9/26/78: Conspiracy theories 37 House Select Committee on Assassinations, 9/28/78: Organized crime 38 FBI investigation of the Killing of Lee Harvey Oswald, c.1964 39 FBI interview: Allegations regarding acquaintanceship of Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Ruby, January-February, 1964

Series II: Published material (clippings, photocopies, special issues, collector's copies)

Box # Folder # Description 2 40 "The Presidency," Time, 11/29/63 41 "The Assassination Story" Newspaper clippings from The Dallas Morning News and The Dallas Times Herald, 1/1/64 42 "America's Long Vigil," TV Guide, 1/25/64 5 130 Statement from Lillian Castellano with epilogue, 12/15/64 2 43 "The Oswald Affair" Commentary, 3/1964 44 Transcript of Oswald's speech in Eyewitness Script, 1964 45 "The Bizarre and Intimate Life of an Assassin," Assassin, 1964 46 Inside the Ruby Trial (collector's edition), 1964 3 47 The Warren Report About President Kennedy's Assassination (collector's edition), c.1964 MC 13 p. 4

Box # Folder # Description 2 48 "The Warren Report," Liberation, 3/1965 49 "On Viewing the Zapruder Film and Slides and the Nix and Muchmore films of the Assassination of President Kennedy," by Thomas Stamm, 9/8/65 50 "What Ruby Did Not Tell," The Minority of One, 11/1965 51 "The Horn of Truth," by Thomas Stamm, c.1965 52 "Where Is Your Latern, Dwight MacDonald?" by Thomas Stamm, c.1965 53 "Some Unanswered Questions," , 6/13/66 54 "The Duality of the Warren Report," , 6/20/66 55 "The , The Truth and Arlen Specter," Philadelphia, 8/1966 56 "Could Oswald Drive?" The Minority of One, 9/1966 57 "Oswald and The State Department," The Minority of One, 10/1966

3 58 "Kennedy Assassination," The New Republic, 11/12/66 59 "The Warren Commission Report and its Critics," Frontier, 11/1966 60 "Inquest," True, 11/1966 61 "In the Shadow of Dallas," Ramparts, 11/1966 62 "The Hidden Evidence about President Kennedy," Saga, 11/1966 63 "The Warren Commission: The Critics and the Law," The Reporter, 12/15/66 64 "Flyboys of the CIA," Ramparts, 12/1966 65 "The Minutemen," Ramparts, 1/1967 66 "The Case for Three Assassins," Ramparts, 1/1967 67 " The Last Madness of Jack Ruby," The New Republic, 2/11/67 68 "The Kennedy Assassination," Post, 2/14/67 69 "The Death of a President," Look, 2/21/67 70 "Strange Death of JFK--Assassination Figures," Cosmopolitan, 2/1967 71 Interview with Mark Lane, Playboy, 2/1967 72 "A Letter from Jail" by Jack Ruby, Ramparts, 2/1967 73 "Three Tales of the CIA," Ramparts, 4/1967 74 "A Plot to Kill Kennedy? Rush to Judgement in New Orleans," James Phelan, 5/6/67 75 "Curbing America's Invisible Government: The CIA," Playboy, 5/1967 76 "You all know me! I'm Jack Ruby!" and "Second Primer of Assassination Theories," Esquire, 5/1967 77 "A Reporter at Large," , 6/10/67 78 "Who Really Killed JFK? Some New Answers," Ramparts, 6/1967 79 "The Inquest," Ramparts, 6/1967 80 "One Bullet Theory Exploded," Argosy, 7/1967 81 "Exclusive: Did Jack Ruby Kill the Wrong Man?" Argosy, 9/1967 82 "The Press vs. Garrison," Ramparts, 9/1967 83 Interview with Jim Garrison, Playboy, 10/1967 84 "The Crossfire that Killed President Kennedy," Post, 12/2/67 85 "Who Killed Kennedy?" True, 12/1967 86 "Another Kennedy Assassin?" True, 12/1967 87 "Rush to Judgment," Film Comment, Fall/Winter 1967 88 "The Garrison Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy," Ramparts, 1/1968

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Box # Folder # Description 4 89 "Secret Evidence on JFK Assassination," Post, 4/6/68 90 "New Exposé of the Kennedy Investigation," The Minority of One, July- August/1968 91 "The Kennedy Assassination: Slaughter of the Witnesses," Saga, 11/1968 92 "The Case of Secret Service Agent Abraham W. Bolden," Computers and Automation, 6/1971 93 "Jim Garrison, District Attorney, Orleans Parish vs. The Federal Government," Computers and Automation,, 8/1971 94 "The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Assassination of President Kennedy," Computers and Automation,, 9/1971 95 "The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy: A Model for Explanation," V.J. Salandria, 12/1971 96 "The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy," Computers and Automation,, 12/1971: 97 "The Promotion of Domestic Discord," Computers and Automation,, 1/1972

4 98 "Assassination," Fusion, 1/1974 99 "The Strange Death of Clay Shaw," The Midlothian Mirror, 9/12/74 100 "There was a Bizarre Plot to Slay JFK!" National Examiner, 11/4/74 101 "JFK Assassination," Medical World News, 6/2/75 102 "Blockbuster Investigation: Oswald Was Gov't Agent" and "New Evidence Crossfire Killed Kennedy in Dallas," The National Tattler, 6/8/75 103 "The Warren Commission in its Own Words," The New Republic, 9/27/75 104 "Exclusive Argosy Interview: Charles Colson," Argosy, 3/1976 105 "Who Killed a President," Psychology Today, 10/1976 106 "JFK Exclusive: Oswald was U.S. Agent" Argosy, 10/1976 107-119 The Continuing Inquiry (newsletter), 13 issues, 1976-1978 120 "Oswald: Why the JFK Truth Will Never Be Known, "Argosy, 2/1977 121 "The Bizarre Deaths Following JFK's Murder!" Argosy, 3/1977 122 "The Man Who Said He was Part of the JFK Assassination," Seven Days, 5/9/77 123 "At Last! Argosy Discloses the JFK Evidence that Nobody Wanted to Reveal!" Argosy, 8/1977 124 "JFK Dilemma: What the Rockefeller Commission Didn't Do," Argosy, 10/1977 125 "The Framing of Lee Harvey Oswald," Argosy, 1977 5 128 "…But You Can't Fool All The People…" n.d. 129 "A Philadelphia Lawyer Reexplores the Connally Wounding" n.d. 6 Assorted newsclippings post-assassination, on various topics, collected by Prof. Mel Yoken

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Special Memorial Issues

Box # Folder # Description 6 132 Life, 11/29/1963: President John. F. Kennedy, 1917-1963 133 Life, 1963: "John F. Kennedy Memorial Edition" 134 Life, 2/21/1964: "Lee Oswald..." 135 Life, 7/10/1964: "Oswald's Full Russian Diary" 136 Life, 11/24/1967: "Why Kennedy Went to Texas" 137 Life, 1968: "The Kennedys" 138 Life, 11/1983: "Four Days that Stopped America" 139 Look, 12/3/1963: "The President and His Son: An Exclusive Picture Story" 140 Look, 1963: "Kennedy and His Family in Pictures" 141 Look, 11/17/1964: "The JFK Memorial Issue" 142 Look, 1/24/1967: "The Death of a President" 143 Look, 2/7/1967: "The Day JFK Died" 144 Look, 2/21/1967: "Flight from Dallas" 145 Look, 3/7/1967: "The Dramatic Conclusion of the Death of a President" 146 Look, 4/4/1967: " Writes the True Story of the Stormy Clash Involving the Kennedys and His Book" 147 Post (The Saturday Evening Post), 12/14/1963: "In Memoriam, A Senseless Tragedy"