Dealey Plaza - National Historic Landmark & The 6th Floor Museum

Hunt Conover
1997

Dear Mrs. Kennedy
  [The world shares its grief letters, November 1963]

Jay Mulvaney and
 Paul De Angelis
2010

Death in Dallas - The JFK Assassination

Dean King
ebook
2012

Death of JFK - Assassination and aftermath

The History Channel
VHS

Brilliant special from History Channel on the Death of the 35th President of the United States.
It is the Holy Grail of conspiracy theorists. More than 30 years after the fact, the assassination of John F. Kennedy remains a topic of intense debate. Did Oswald act alone? Was the Warren Commission pressured into releasing a false report? Is it possible that the CIA had Kennedy killed?
Join Mike Wallace for a point-by-point investigation of these and other questions surrounding the events of November 22, 1963. Extensive footage from the CBS archives plus clips from the world-famous Zapruder home movie bring the tragedy to life, while interviews with those who were there including reporters and government officials capture the chaos and grief of one of the most terrible moments in American history.

"In his long awaited magnum opus... Scott does not offer a "who done it". Instead, he uses the assassination as a point of entry for an extended tour through little known, long buried, and truly disturbing regions of American politics"
Jonathan Marshall, Tikkun

The material in this book, together with the evidence contained in the enhanced Zapruder film, tries to present evidence that President Kennedy was murdered by a federal agent by the name of William Greer, the driver of JFK Presidential Limousine in Dallas.

Why is What’s My Line? TV star and Pulitzer-Prize-nominated investigative reporter Dorothy Kilgallen one of the most feared journalists in history? Why has her threatened exposure of the truth about the JFK assassination triggered a cover-up by at least four government agencies and resulted in abuse of power at the highest levels?
Denial of Justice—written in the spirit of bestselling author Mark Shaw’s gripping true crime murder mystery, The Reporter Who Knew Too Much—tells the inside story of why Kilgallen was such a threat leading up to her unsolved murder in 1965. Shaw includes facts that have never before been published, including eyewitness accounts of the underbelly of Kilgallen’s private life, revealing statements by family members convinced she was murdered, and shocking new information about Jack Ruby’s part in the JFK assassination that only Kilgallen knew about, causing her to be marked for danger.
Peppered with additional evidence signaling the potential motives of Kilgallen’s arch enemies J. Edgar Hoover, mobster Carlos Marcello, Frank Sinatra, her husband Richard, and her last lover, Denial of Justice adds the final chapter to the story behind why the famous journalist was killed, with no investigation to follow despite a staged death scene.

Based on historian Lamar Waldron' startling book, this programme presents compelling evidence that the Mafia was behind the assassination of President John F.Kennedy. After almost half a century in the shadows an FBI informant has come forward to give an explosive, never before seen interview that gives details of the very man who ordered the hit. This man shared a prison cell with Carlos Marcello, the notorius New Orleans godfather, who confessed to him that he had orchestrated the president's murder.
"Did the Mob kill JFK?" backs this up as it tracks Marcello's links with both Lee Harvey Oswald and Oswald's assassin, Jack Ruby. It also draws on the testimony of historians, investigators and eyewitnesses, including an interview with former Secret Service agent Abraham Bolden, who claims an aborted attempt on the President's life in Chicago early in November was covered up. This simply is a must-watch for all those intrigued by the mistery that surrounds the assassination of John F.Kennedy.

Italian.

Italian version of the book: Double Cross".
On the cover "the first real evidence of Giancana's involvement in the assassination of John Kennedy and the "suicide" of Marilyn Monroe".
One of the most feared Chicago mobsters Sam Giancana clawed his way to the top of the Mafia hierarchy by starting as a hit man for Al Capone. He was known as one of the best vehicle escape artists, a tenacious business man, and a ruthless killer. He partied with major stars such as Frank Sinatra and Marilyn Monroe and did business with agents ranging from the CIA to the Vatican to the shah of Iran. When politician Joe Kennedy gave Giancana the chance to use mob muscle to get his son John elected, Giancana jumped at the task. But the Kennedy brothers double-crossed him, waging full-out war on organized crime throughout the United States. And Giancana went after them.

Written with suspense and conviction, we learn about how the CIA asked Giancana to assassinate Fidel Castro. The book includes Giancana's testimony about the truth of his involvement in the deaths of Monroe and others, among others. Chuck Giancana, Sam's brother, contributes a unique perspective of the mobs relationship with the Bay of Pigs and many other pivotal events of the 60's and beyond. Double Cross is an eye-opening account of the interworking of the government and the mob and how this relationship has impacted American history.

Italian version of the book: "Legend: the secret world of Lee Harvey Oswald".
A biography of Lee Harvey Oswald, the alleged assassin of President John F. Kemmedy. This book succeeds in finally breaking the legend created for Oswald. It begins by revealing an incredible series of contacts between rival intelligence officers concering the JFK assassination and culminates in a series of events that turn the CIA inside out. Investigative author Edward Jay Epstein managed to obtain Oswald's address book and interview more than 150 people who knew him.

One of the most feared Chicago mobsters Sam Giancana clawed his way to the top of the Mafia hierarchy by starting as a hit man for Al Capone. He was known as one of the best vehicle escape artists, a tenacious business man, and a ruthless killer. He partied with major stars such as Frank Sinatra and Marilyn Monroe and did business with agents ranging from the CIA to the Vatican to the shah of Iran. When politician Joe Kennedy gave Giancana the chance to use mob muscle to get his son John elected, Giancana jumped at the task. But the Kennedy brothers double-crossed him, waging full-out war on organized crime throughout the United States. And Giancana went after them.

Written with suspense and conviction, we learn about how the CIA asked Giancana to assassinate Fidel Castro. The book includes Giancana's testimony about the truth of his involvement in the deaths of Monroe and others, among others. Chuck Giancana, Sam's brother, contributes a unique perspective of the mobs relationship with the Bay of Pigs and many other pivotal events of the 60's and beyond. Double Cross is an eye-opening account of the interworking of the government and the mob and how this relationship has impacted American history.

On the cover : "How the unsolved murder of a doctor, a secret laboratory in New Orleans and cancer-causing monkey viruses are linked to Lee Harvey Oswald, the JFK assassination and emerging global epidemics".
On the backcover : "When New Orleans native Ed Haslam began his modest investigation into the curious life and shocking death of the brilliant Tulane medical professor Dr. Mary Sherman, he couldn't have imagined that this inquiry would connect some of the city's most prominent citizens to "lone nut" Lee Harvey Oswald, to the Mafia, and to forces high inside the U.S. Government - nor that these new discoveries would ultimately change our understanding of a fateful November day in Dallas. But they have!".

This is the most complete book on the subject ever written in Italian. For completeness of investigation and analysis, it is the Italian equivalent of Posner's "Case Closed", arriving at the same conclusion : Lee Harvey Oswald was the lone killer of JFK. A must-to-have book for all the Italians who want to know all of  JFK Assassination.

November 22nd,1963. The date alone brings to mind a thousand images and a rush of emotion even to people who were not alive at the time of John F.Kennedy's assassination.
As news director and anchor of KRLD-TV, Channel 4, then the CBS affiliate in Dallas, Eddie Barker stationed himself as the Trade Mart where Kennedy was to speak. Of course, the President never arrived. And so, Barker found himself ad-libbing on the air, knowing that something terrible has happened but not exactly sure of what is was. When a doctor acquintance from nearby Parkland Hosptal whispered the awful news in his ear, Eddie made what has been called "the greatest snap evaluation of a source in broadcasting history". Eddie Barker became the first reporter to announce to America that John F.Kennedy was dead.
Certainly Barker's reporting on the assassination and all the other events closely associated with it are at the heart of this book. But this is also a book by one of the true pioneers of local television news.
From the embryonic days of local TV news, swiping stories from the local newspapers and holding up wire-service photos on camera, to the days of true electronic news gathering, Eddie Barker was there. Barker is one of the handful of broadcast journalists who shaped what we take for granted today as local news. 

This is an indispensable one-volume reference source for students, researchers, and general readers investigating the circumstances surrounding President Kennedy's death.

In End of Days, James L. Swanson, the New York Times bestselling author of Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer, brings to life the minute-by-minute details of the JFK assassination—from the Kennedys' arrival in Texas through the shooting in Dealey Plaza and the shocking aftermath that continues to reverberate in our national consciousness fifty years later.
The assassination of John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963, has been the subject of enduring debate, speculation, and numerous conspiracy theories, but Swanson's absorbing and complete account follows the event hour-by-hour, from the moment Lee Harvey Oswald conceived of the crime three days before its execution, to his own murder two days later at a Dallas Police precinct at the hands of Jack Ruby, a two-bit nightclub owner.
Based on sweeping research never before collected so powerfully in a single volume, and illustrated with photographs, End of Days distills Kennedy's assassination into a pulse-pounding thriller that is sure to become the definitive popular account of this historic crime for years to come.

From Jim Marrs' Foreword :
"Sherry Fiester, a longtime student of forensic science, who separates scientific fact from informed speculation and uninformed theories, is now sharing her expertise. She undertakes to break out JFK assassination myths from demonstrable forensic fact, not an easy task considering the obfuscation and deceit long documented in the JFK case. Right off the bat, Fiester lays to rest the myth that the Dallas Police Department exercised all due diligence in following accepted protocols in the acquisition, handling and securing of assassination evidence. They did not."

Among the hundreds of people who waited in Dealy Plaza for the JFK motorcade to pass, only one person was able to identify Lee Harvey Oswald as the lone gunman firing from the Texas School Book Depository. Howard Brennan was seated directly in front of the building and was able to get a clear view of the assassin as he fired at the President's car.
Other than the Warren Commission, and a brief statement to CBS, he refused all other interviews. In 1983 his pastor, the Rev.Edward Cherryholmes convinced Mr Brennan that he should tell his story so that future generations will know the truth. Shortly before his death in December of 1983 from heart disease, he read the finished manuscript as told to Rev.Cherryholmes.
This copy of the book is signed by Rev.Edward Cherryholmes.

Rodger Remington ia ranked an emeritus professor of history at Aquinas since his retirement in 1997, following 34 years of faculty service. In this book he tries a deconstruction of the Single-Bullet Theory of the JFK Assassination.

From back cover:
"This volume assembles, for the first time, the historic work of Vincent J.Salandria.
One of the "first generation" critics of the Warren Commission, Salandria's article in the Novembre 2, 1964 'Philadelphia Legal Intelligencer' was the first published article to critically review the conclusions of the Warren Report.
It and subsequent articles demonstrated the fallacy of the Commission finding that a single, unassisted gunman shot and killed the thirty-fifth President of the United States, and advanced the notion that a "false mystery" has allowed the greatest crime of the twentieth century to remain officially unsolved."

The real story of Jim Garrison's investigation and Oliver Stone's film JFK.
This absorbing book tells, for the first time in its entirety, the story surrounding the ordeal of Clay Shaw, who was arrested and charged with conspiracy in the assassination of President John F.Kennedy.

Conspiracy book.
From back cover :"FATAL HOUR is the most powerful and convincing scenario to date of the Mafia's involvement in the assassination of President John F.Kennedy. The new evidence is more compelling. The personal connections are truly startling. And the possible motives suggest a vast network of power, hatred and violent retribution.
Previously published in hardcover as 'The Plot to Kill the President'." 

The Final Report of the Assassination Records Review Board is not a report of findings on the assassination of President Kennedy. Rather, it reports on the work of the ARRB to find and declassify "assassination records," and on the cooperation or lack thereof it received from government agencies.
The ARRB Final Report was issued on September 30, 1998, the day the ARRB went out of existence. It describes the nature of the problem of secrecy as seen by the Review Board, and the means by which the Board defined and implemented its work.
While the ARRB's mission was not to reinvestigate the assassination, it did interview many persons and also took sworn testimony when it deemed that the documentary record could be illuminated by doing so. The ARRB's depositions of witnesses to the autopsy contained much testimony which indicted the authenticity of the autopsy photographs and X-rays, and other ARRB work has altered the debate among researchers. This Report does not reflect some of the truly stunning revelations contained in those depositions and in other files declassified under the ARRB's review.

Conspiracy book.
A senior CIA agent breaks his silence about his participation in the CIA-Mafia plot to kill President Kennedy, implicating LBJ, Richard Nixon, Allen Dulles, and others.
Robert D. Morrow is the author of the controversial bestseller Betrayal. An alumnus of both PA Military College and Penn State, he holds several important patents in the electronics and electromechanical fields. He worked for the CIA as a contract employee from 1959 to 1964 in conjunction with the Cuban exile movement. He wrote his first book, Betrayal, about his experiences during this period.

Secret Service agent Clint Hill reveals the stories behind the iconic images of the five tragic days surrounding President John F. Kennedy’s assassination in this 60th anniversary edition of the New York Times bestseller.
On November 22, 1963, three shots were fired in Dallas, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, and the world stopped for four days. For an entire generation, it was the end of an age of innocence.
That evening, a photo ran on the front pages of newspapers across the world, showing a Secret Service agent jumping on the back of the presidential limousine in a desperate attempt to protect the President and Mrs. Kennedy. That agent was Clint Hill.
Now Hill commemorates the sixtieth anniversary of the tragedy with this stunning book containing more than 150 photos, each accompanied by his incomparable insider account of those terrible days. A story that has taken Hill half a century to tell, this is a “riveting, stunning narrative” (Herald & Review, Illinois) of personal and historical scope. Besides the unbearable grief of a nation and the monumental consequences of the event, the death of JFK was a personal blow to a man sworn to protect the first family, and who knew, from the moment the shots rang out in Dallas, that nothing would ever be the same.

Oliver Stone has written :
"An incredible story of Mr Lewis's very intimate relationship to Lee Harvey Oswald - a story I have come, through long acquaintance with Ron Lewis, to believe. And a story that will forever change your perception of who Lee Harvey Oswald really was. Chilling, human, almost an Elmore Leonard quality to their relationship"

The  John Kennedy assassination according to the findings of the Warren Commission. This documentary is a treasure of footage and timeline details both recounted through the steady venerable voice of Richard Basehart. An intimate portrait of a man and his grieving family as much as it is a moving image document of the assassination of the 35th President of the United States.
Nominated for Best Documentary Feature Academy Award in 1965.

Produced by David L.Wolper and Directed by Mel Stuart ("Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory"), this documentary explores the assassination of John F. Kennedy and its impact through a variety of sources -- from professional media coverage to amateur footage, as well as re-enactments of the crime. Events surrounding the assassination also are included in the documentary, such as the swearing in of Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson on Air Force One and Jack Ruby's shooting of the suspected assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, on live television.

Music by Elmer Bernstein and Narrated by Richard Basehart - The film first released on November 21, 1964.

The original coverage of the John F.Kennedy Assassination by the Staff of "The New York Times", still generally considered the most complete of its day. Almost miraculously, "Times" reporters, writers, and editors produced 250 columns or about 200,000 words, on and about the very first day. The other three days were no less exhaustive, and "The NY Times" covered the news, from the assassination to the transition of power to the funeral. This commemorative volume provides a poignant, firsthand account and a detailed chronology of the events that took place in Dallas and Washington from November 22 to November 25,1963.

"Four Days in November" is an extraordinary exciting, precise and definitive narrative of the assassination of President John F.Kennedy on November 22,1963, by Lee Harvey Oswald. It is drawn from "Reclaiming History : The Assassination of President John F.Kennedy", a monumental and historic account of the event and all the conspiracy theories it spawned, by Vincent Bugliosi, legendary prosecutor of Charles Manson and author of "Helter Skelter". For general readers, the carefully documented account presented in "Four Days" is utterly persuasive : Oswald did it and he acted alone.

A report to the public from an FBI agent involved in the official JFK investigation.
As a rookie FBI agent in November 1963, Don Adams was assigned to investigate a possible threat against the president, nine days before the assassination. An informant had alerted authoritiees to a meeting at a national right-wing convention, at which Joseph Milteer, a radical racist, had threatened the president. Later, in a recorded conversation, Milteer spoke of a plot to kill the president "from an office building ith a high-powered rifle".
After two decades of his own research and study, here is Don Adam's testimony.

Nellie Connally was in the car that morning with her husband, Texas Governor John Connally, Jacqueline Kennedy and President John F.Kennedy sate behind her in the backseat. In fact, Nellie was talking with the President when the first shot rang out.
Ten days after the assassination, Nellie wrote down notes so that her future grandchildren would know what happened to the Connalys on November 22,1963. Inspired by these notes and dedicated to sharing the truth of that horrible day, Nellie has gone back in time and fleshed out the thought and feelings she had recorded and clung to so privately.
This book is the extraordinary story of a woman who so often remained in the background but who in time of crisis came into her own...as a wife, a mother and a friend.

22.11.1963 : JFK Assassination

Book in Italian published in 1973 by the Istituto Geografico De Agostini, part of the Contemporary History Collection directed by Enzo Biagi.
There are 11 articles dedicated to as many sensational attacks against important people.
Among these are the assassination of John F. Kennedy (article by Livio Caputo) and Robert F. Kennedy (article by Gino Gullace).

Italian book.
Gathering testimonies, evidence, and surprising clues, Massimo Polidoro conducts a historical and scientific investigation into some of the most disturbing and sensational crime cases. He sheds new light on the great conspiracies of history and the bloody news of our time.
In the disturbing cases in this book, things are never as they seem, and the search for a solution is constantly hindered by twists, challenges, red herrings, and thrills. These are typical elements of crime novels, but these pages allow us
to enjoy an advantage: reality is almost always more enigmatic, frightening, and extreme than the most laborious of fictions.
From pages 164 to 260, the author comprehensively and exhaustively covers the mystery of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

Hearing on June 4,1997 before the Subcommittee on National Security, International Affairs and Criminal Justife of  "House of Representatives Bill 1553" to amend the President John F.Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 to extend the authorization of the Assassination Records Review Board until September 30,1998

The brother of Lee Harvey Oswald writes about : -Marguerite Oswald's extraordinary influence on her son's life, -the nightmare of November 22,1963 and the aftermath, -the questions left iunanswered by the Warren Commission Investigation, -the attempts by the FBI to frighten Marina Oswald, -the evidence that convinced him of his brother's guilt.

From inner cover:
"The Kennedy Assassination was the crime of the century. Nearly fifty years have passed since that tragic November day, yet a steady stream of conspiracy and theoretical books still abound.
"Head Shot" scientifically resolves one of the most enduring mysteries in US nation's history. Drawing on a fifteen-year career as an experimental physicist for the US Navy, Dr G.Paul Chambers has produced the first work on the subject to use the laws of physics and motion to :
- identify the real murder weapon
- prove the locations of the assassins
- demonstrate a conspiracy beyond any doubt."

Conspiracy book.
From back cover:
"The evidence is chilling. The photographic proof is graphic and disturbing. The facts can no longer be denied. HIGH TREASON challenges everything we have been told about the motives behind President Kennedy's murder. For there is now convincing evidence that, from the fateful day in Dallas through two decades of speculation, a massive conspiracy ordered JFK's demise and sabotaged the investigation that followed. It is a cover-up that continues to this day.
Robert J.Groden, coauthor of "JFK:The Case for Conspiracy",and Harrison Edward Livingston reveal the dark heart of a deadly conspiracy".

Conspiracy book.
From back cover:
"Was primary evidence used to support the lone gunman theory faked? Do these forgeries prove a massive conspiracy? If so, how was this done and who did it?
What part did manufactured evidence play in the cover-up? And what is the connection between tyhe Warren Commission's conclusions and other national tragedies of the 1960s and '70s?
In this second volume of his monumental study of President Kennedy's Assassination, Harrison Edward Livingstone takes his courageous investigation where no researcher has gone before. He answers these questions and others while offering astute analysis of the political and historical forces that mandated Kennedy's murder."

Richard Belzer and David Wayne are back to set the record straight after Dead Wrong; this time they’re going to uncover the truth about the many witness deaths tied to the JFK assassination. For decades, government pundits have dismissed these “coincidental” deaths, even regarding them as “myths” as “urban legends.”
Like most people, Richard and David were initially unsure about what to make of these ‘coincidences’. After all, events don’t “consult the odds” prior to happening; they simply happen. Then someone comes along later and figures out what the odds of it happening were. Some of the deaths seemed purely coincidental; heart attacks, hunting accidents. Others clearly seemed noteworthy; witnesses who did seem to know something and did seem to die mysteriously.
Hit List is a fair examination of the evidence of each case, leading to (necessarily) different conclusions. The findings were absolutely staggering; as some cases were clearly linked to a “clean-up operation” after the murder of President Kennedy, while others were the result of ‘other forces’. The impeccable research and writing of Richard Belzer and David Wayne show that if the government is trying to hide anything, they’re the duo who will uncover it.

In 1976, the House Select Committee on Assassinations undertook reinvestigations of the murders of John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr.
In 1979, a single Report and twelve volumes of appendices on each assassination were published by the Congress. In the JFK case, the HSCA found that there was a "probable conspiracy," though it was unable to determine the nature of that conspiracy or its other participants (besides Oswald). This finding was based in part on acoustics evidence from a tape purported to record the shots, but was also based on other evidence including an investigation of Ruby's underworld connections. The acoustics evidence was disputed by a panel of scientists, but that "debunking" has itself come under attack recently.

Volume I, the first of five volumes of hearings of the HSCA, consists of transcripts of the HSCA proceedings of September 6 through 8, 1978.
The opening day of hearings got underway with a statement by Representative Richardson Preyer, followed by the testimony of Mr. and Mrs. John Connally. The Governor of Texas in 1963, John Connally had been involved in preparations for the fated motorcade trip. He was also wounded in the shooting in Dealey Plaza.
The second day of testimony related to the medical evidence and analysis in the case. Much of this was presented by Dr. Michael Baden, head of the HSCA's nine-member Medical Panel. This day also saw the testimony of Capt. James J. Humes, the lead prosector at the autopsy of President Kennedy. Humes publicly retracted the autopsy report's placement of the fatal entry wound, which the Medical Panel determined was 4 inches away from the originally-noted spot. In 1992 for the Journal of the American Medical Association, and again in 1996 before the Assassinations Record Review Board, Humes retracted this retraction. The final medical witness on Sept. 7 was Dr. Cyril Wecht, the lone dissenter on the Medical Panel.
The third day, Sept. 8, continued the medical testimony and presented the findings of the Firearms Panel, concerned with the ballistics evidence. The final witness was Dr. Vincent Guinn, who performed Neutron Activation Analysis (NAA) on bullet fragments to determine whether they came from the same bullet.

Volume II of the HSCA hearings volumes consists of the proceedings of Sept. 11 through 15. 1978.
The transcripts of these days includes testimony about acoustics evidence, trajectory analyses, the testimony of accused assassin Lee Harvey Oswald's wife Marina, photographic analysis, and testimony concerning Yuri Nosenko, a Soviet defector.
The testimony of Sept. 11 was concerned with analysis of an audiotape purported to have captured the shooting in Dealey Plaza. It was recorded on a Dallas Police radio channel due to a stuck-open microphone on a police motorcycle. The acoustic analysis showed at least 4 shots, with one of these coming from the "Grassy Knoll." This conclusion was subsequently disputed by a panel appointed by the National Academy of Sciences, but that rebuttal itself has been called into question by a recent peer-review article by D.B. Thomas presented in Science and Justice in 2001.
The Sept. 12 proceedings began with the testimony of Calvin McCamy concerning the Zapruder film, and what a detailed analysis showed about when shots may have been fired. This was followed by a trajectory analysis presented by Thomas Canning.
The next day of proceedings, and part of the following, was taken by the testimony of Marina Oswald Porter, former wife of Lee Harvey Oswald. Following that was testimony by members of the Photographic Panel, who examined the famous "Oswald backyard photos" among other photographic evidence relevant to the assassination.
The photographic testimony continued into Sept. 15, followed by the testimony of John Hart. Mr Hart discussed the case of Yuri Nosenko, a Soviet officer who defected to the U.S. in early 1964. Nosenko's "bona fides" were a subject of great contention within the CIA, which imprisoned and interrogated Nosenko for a period of three years.

Volume III of the HSCA hearings volumes consists of the proceedings of Sept. 18 through 21, 1978. This included testimony from Cuban officials, the Secret Service, and former members of the Warren Commission.
Following narrative by the HSCA's Chief Counsel G. Robert Blakey, the first witness on Monday, Sept. 18 was Eusebio Azcue Lopez, former Cuban Consul in Mexico City. Azcue reiterated his belief that the person he dealt with in the fall of 1963 was not Lee Harvey Oswald. Azcue was followed by Alfredo Mirabal Diaz, who replaced Azcue as Consul and was also present during the "Oswald" visit.
The Sept. 19 proceedings began with Thomas Kelley, an inspector for the Secret Service, who conducted the Secret Service' investigation into the assassination. Mr. Kelley was followed by Secret Service Chief James Rowley. The following day, testimony was heard from two FBI agents involved in its investigation, James Malley and James Gayle.
Sept. 22's proceedings included the testimony of three Warren Commissioners and its General Counsel: Former President Gerald Ford, John Sherman Cooper, John J. McCloy, and J. Lee Rankin. They were followed by Nicholas Katzenbach, who was Assistant Attorney General at the time of the assassination and had written the famous "Katzenbach memo."

Volume IV contains the proceedings of Sept. 22, 25, and 26, 1978.
 The first day was taken up with the testimony of Richard Helms, former Director of the CIA. Mr. Helms was Deputy Director for Plans at the time of the JFK assassination, and was responsible for responding to requests from the Warren Commission.
The morning of Sept. 25 saw the return of handwriting expert Joseph McNally, photographic expert Sgt. Cecil Kirk, physical anthropologist Dr. Clyde Collins Snow, and photo enhancement expert Dr. Bob Hunt. The afternoon session included the interview of Louie Steven Witt, purported to be the "Umbrella Man" seen in the Zapruder film. Mr. Witt was followed by HSCA staffer Jacqueline Hess, who gave a presentation of the HSCA's analysis regarding the "mysterious deaths" issue.
The following day began with a narrative by Chief Counsel Blakey, and then continued with the testimony of Earl Ruby, brother of Jack Ruby. Mr. Ruby was followed by Capt. Jack Revill of the Dallas Police Department, who was part of the investigative team originally charged with determining how Jack Ruby had entered the police basement where he shot Oswald.

The last of the five Hearings volumes of the HSCA consists of the proceedings of Sept. 27 and 28, 1978, plus an additional day of hearings held on December 29, 1978.
The September testimony was concerned primarily with organized crime. The final day of hearings, held 3 months later, dealt with acoustics evidence.
Sept. 27 was taken up largely by the testimony of Ruby associate Lewis McWillie, who worked in gambling casinos in Havana and Las Vegas. McWillie was followed by Jose Aleman, a Cuban exile who was the son of a former Cuban minister of education.
The following day, Sept. 28, began with the testimony of organized crime boss Santos Trafficante, followed by a presentation by Ralph Salerno, the Committee's consultant on organized crime. After Salerno the Committee questioned Judge Burt Griffin, a former Warren Commission staffer who had been involved in the Ruby investigation.
Three months later, on Dec. 29, the Committee heard more testimony on the acoustics evidence which indicated a fourth grassy knoll shot. Witnesses included Professor Mark Weiss and Ernest Aschkenasy, Dallas Police Officer H. B. McLain, and Dr. James Barger. Closing remarks were made by Chief Counsel G. Robert Blakey and Chairman Louis Stokes.

Volume VI of the HSCA's Appendices is the report of the HSCA photographic panel.
The photographic panel examined a much wider variety of photographs and films than did the Warren Commission. It reported on the number and timing of shots via blur (jiggle) analysis of the Zapruder film, and conducted a trajectory analysis as well. It conducted authenticity studies on the Oswald "backyard" photos and the Kennedy autopsy photos, although documents which came to light in the late 1990s cast doubt on the panel's work related to the autopsy photos (see ARRB staff memos). The panel reviewed photos of the "grassy knoll" in order to determine if a gunman was visible in them, and it also examined particular photos to try to settle questions relating to the identity of persons in the photos.

Volume VII of the HSCA's Appendices contains the reports of the HSCA medical panel and its firearms panel.
The medical panel affirmed the Warren Commission's conclusions regarding the direction from which shots came (behind and above) and endorsed the single bullet theory, with one dissenting member. However, basic findings of the autopsy doctors were disputed by the medical panel, including the location of wounds in Kennedy's body. In the 1990s, formerly-secret medical testimony taken by HSCA staffers showed that many autopsy witnesses gave information which directly contradicted the autopsy doctors and the photographs, and the HSCA misrepresented their views in this report (apparently the medical panel members never saw these staff interviews).
The much shorter firearms panel report includes information on the Kennedy, Tippit, and Oswald shooting, and includes many photographic exhibits.