On the fortieth anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Hood College will convene a symposium of experts to discuss the facts and myths surrounding the murder of the country’s thirty-fifth president. The event will be held November 15, 2003, in Hood College’s Whitaker Campus Center.

The symposium features four nationally-recognized experts on the Kennedy assassination:

• David Wrone, professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, is the author of The Zapruder Film: Framing JFK’s Assassination, will discuss “The Kennedy Assassination Forty Years Later.”
• Gerald McKnight, professor emeritus at Hood College and director of the Weisberg Archive, the premier collection of some 250,000 documents about the Kennedy assassination housed in Hood College’s Beneficial-Hodson Library, will present “The Autopsy of President John F. Kennedy.”
• Jim Lesar is a Washington, D.C. attorney and an expert on the Freedom of Information Act, who will speak about “The Freedom of Information and Privacy Act and Research on the Kenney Assassination.
• Clay Ogilvie, the co-director of the Weisberg Archive who is digitizing the Archive’s collections, will discuss “The Weisberg Archive: A Resource for Scholars on the Kennedy Assassination.”

The program is free and open to the public. Pre-registration is strongly encouraged. Registration is available at our website. For more information, contact Professor Len Latkovski, via phone or email.