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University of Dayton will Host Author's Talk onJFK Assassination
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The University rf Dayton UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON WILL HOST AUTHOR'S TALK ON JFK ASSASSINATION
News Release
DAYTON, Ohio, November 3, 1988--The author of a best-selling book about John F.
Kennedy's assassination calls the tragedy that occurred in Dallas nearly 25 years ago
"a public execution disguised as a quirk of fate."
David S. Lifton, author of "Best Evidence--Disguise and Deception in the Assassination
of John F. Kennedy," will speak about his theories surrounding a cover-up of Kennedy's
death at the University of Dayton on Wednesday, Nov. 16 at 7:30 p.m. His presentation,
which is free and open to the public, will be held in the multi-purpose room of the
Virginia w. Kettering Residence Hall on campus.
Ever since 1965, when Lifton concluded that "the Warren Report must be wrong," the New
York native has worked to uncover evidence he believes the Warren Commission either
suppressed or ignored. "One of the few absolutes in the world to which I subscribed was
the law of physics. It seemed inconceivable to me that if Kennedy was struck from behind
by a bullet traveling at approximately 2,000 feet per second, the film which recorded that
collision would show that his head moved backward, toward the source of the bullet," he
wrote in "Best Evidence." "Previously I could play with the idea of conspiracy as an
interesting hypothesis, nothing more; now I had tti confront it as a certainty.''
In his presentation at UD, Lifton will discuss his theory, bolstered by conflicting
descriptions of the wounds, that Kennedy's body was intercepted and surgically altered
between the time of the shooting in Dallas and the autopsy six hours later in Bethesda,
Md. His evidence will be part of the program "Nova: Who Shot President Kennedy," which
will air on WPTD-Channel 16 on Tuesday, Nov. 15 at 8 p.m. and Sunday, Nov. 20 at 10 a.m.
Lifton's UD presentation is co-sponsored by the History Department, the Student
Government Association and the Honors Program.
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