Robert Groden

Robert Groden has been researching the assassination of President John F. Kennedy since 1964 and has been considered a leading critic of the Warren Report since 1969. To the vast majority of Americans, Robert Groden is the assassination investigation. In 1975, the issue of the assassination was a dead one. Nobody cared. That is, until Robert Groden came forward on national television and revealed the proof of the conspiracy which had been suppressed by governmental and corporate mandate for nearly a dozen years. Mr. Groden has been universally accepted as the world's leading authority on the photographic evidence in the Kennedy murder since 1973. He has been a leading expert in the medical evidence since 1979. He has always had the highest credibility. In 1990, Mr. Groden was chosen by Oliver Stone as Technical Consultant for his movie, "JFK". In 1975, Robert Groden was the first person ever to show the Zapruder film of the assassination publicly on national television (Goodnight America, ABC-TV, March 6, 1975). As a result of that showing, Mr. Groden was invited to Washington, D.C., to address the U.S. House of Representatives via the Virginia Congressional Delegation, present the case for conspiracy, and show photographic and other evidence of the conspiracy in the murder of President Kennedy. Two days after the Congressional showing, Representative Thomas N. Downing of Virginia introduced a resolution to reopen the investigation into the death of the President. This led to the creation of the House of Representatives Select Committee to Investigate Assassinations and Mr. Groden was appointed Staff Photographic Consultant to the Committee. During the fledgling stages of the move to re-open the assassination investigation, Mr. Groden worked closely with leading members of Congress to help gain support for the passage of the House Resolutions and Bills involved. Although it took two years, the move was successful. Mr. Groden was called to testify before the House Assassinations Committee. He was the first witness called after Texas Governor John Connally on the first day of the televised public hearings. He also testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee (the Church Committee), the Rockefeller Commission, and the Assassination Records Review Board. Robert Groden was Staff Photographic consultant to the House Assassinations Committee from 1976 to 1979 (the entire life of the Committee). He authored the dissenting opinion report for the H.S.C.A. photographic panel. He is a consultant to the United States House of Representatives for more than eighteen years. Written works: Robert Groden has been the author and/or co-author of five books on the subject of the assassination of President Kennedy. His fifth book, The Search for Lee Harvey Oswald, (Penguin Studio Books, 1995), is a complete photographic overview of the life of the man who was accused of committing the assassination of President Kennedy. This volume contains more than 600 photographs relating to the life of one of the most controversial individuals in history. It places Lee Oswald in a new light and raises many questions as to his background and intelligence connections. Mr. Groden's fourth book on the assassination, The Killing of a President, (Viking Studio Books, 1993), was the first photographic study ever presented on the assassination. It contains well over 600 photographs and documents relating to the case. The first printing (73,000 copies) completely sold out before it's release prompting a second printing prior to shipping of the first. Advance orders for the third printing exceeded 40,000 copies. It has been called the most important book ever printed on the subject of the assassination. Mr. Groden's third book, High Treason: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy, What Really Happened, (Conservatory Press, 1989, Hard Bound and Berkeley Publishing, 1990, mass market paperback); - was a national best seller with nearly a million copies sold. - reached #2 on the N.Y. Times best seller list twice. (December 2, 1990 and again in December of 1991). - was in the N.Y. Times top ten for 11 weeks. - to date has sold through twenty-three printings. - was #1 regionally for months in 1989, 1990 and 1991 in many markets - started the current wave of national interest in the assassination. His second work, JFK: The Case for Conspiracy, (Manor Books, 1976), with F. Peter Model, sold more than 240,000 copies, and was the first book to raise many of the major current issues. Mr. Groden wrote parts of the anthology Government By Gunplay (Signet Books/New American Library), in 1976, which was his first published work. Mr. Groden also wrote the dissenting view report for the photographic panel of the U.S. House of Representatives Select Committee on Assassinations in 1979. He has also written more than 20 articles for: The L.A. Free Press Special Editions, Argosy Magazine, Rolling Stone, Gallery, Hustler, Conflict and other magazines and newspapers. In 1984, Mr. Groden was the Associate Publisher of The Rebel, a monthly investigative magazine and was Editor of The L.A. Free Press Special Editions. Mr. Groden and his work have been written about in: People Magazine; Rolling Stone; Life; Newsweek; Time; Playboy; The Saturday Evening Post; Argosy; The Village Voice; Gallery; U.S. News and World Report; Video Maker; The Rebel; Details; Paris Match; Arena; Philadelphia Magazine; The New York Times; The London Sunday Times; The Boston Globe; The New York Post; The Baltimore Sun; The Dallas Morning News; and hundreds of other magazines and newspapers, worldwide. Television & Radio: Mr. Groden has appeared on well over 1000 television and radio shows from 1975 through the present, including: The Men Who Killed Kennedy (Central Ind. Television.) (England); Goodnight America with Geraldo Rivera; The Tomorrow Show with Tom Snyder; In Search Of ...with Leonard Nimoy; “Geraldo”, (twice); The Today Show; Larry King Live; Crossfire; Midday Live; Panorama; Investigative Reports; Both Sides Now, with Mort Sahl and Hugh Downs, (twice); The Morning Show with Regis Philbin, (twice); The Oprah Winfrey Show; Reasonable Doubt; The Morton Downey Show; Perspective (9 times); The Ron Reagan Show; Inside Edition (9 times); The Michael Jackson Show, (twice); Evening Magazine; The Michael Reagan Show, (twice); Ring My Bell (England); The Alan Colmes Show, (9 times); Inside Report; The Diane Raymond Show, (8 times); Midnight (Canada); The American Assassins, Part 1 (CBS-TV); A.M. Philadelphia (4 times); The Tom Snyder Show; JFK: An Unsolved Murder (KRON-TV); The Montel Williams Show, (twice); and hundreds of others. Mr. Groden is (or was) on the Board of Directors of: -The JFK Assassination Information Center, Dallas, Texas. -The Citizen's Commission of Inquiry, Washington, D.C. -The Committee for an Open Archives, Washington, DC. -The Citizen's Grand Jury, Tampa, Florida. He is (or was) on the Board of Advisors of: -The Coalition on Political Assassinations, Washington, D.C. -The Assassination Archives and Research Center, Wash., D.C. -The JFK Resource Group, Dallas, Texas. -The Dallas Historical Foundation's JFK Sixth Floor Exhibit. He also is (or was) a member of: -The Assassination Information Bureau, Boston, Mass. -The Committee To Investigate Assassinations, Washington, D.C. Mr. Groden has lectured extensively in colleges and to other groups internationally since 1973 on the subject of the Kennedy assassination. He has given his audio-visual presentation to audiences as large as 3,500. He has been invited as a guest speaker at every major conference and symposium ever held on the subject of the assassination. Since 1973, Mr. Groden has been a Professional Technical Consultant on the photographic and other evidence relating to the assassination of President Kennedy. He was asked to teach a course on the assassination at The New School For Social Research in New York City in 1976. In 1975, Mr. Groden produced a video documentary on the assassination for Western New England College. Mr. Groden has been consultant to twenty-one television documentaries and docu-dramas on the assassination in America, England, Canada and Germany between 1976 and the present, including; The Men Who Killed Kennedy (Central Independent Television, England JFK: An Unsolved Murder, KRON/NBC-TV, USA, Reasonable Doubt, USA, Kennedy (BBC, England), Beyond JFK: The Question of Conspiracy, The JFK Assassination: The Jim Garrison Tapes, and many others. Mr. Groden was also technical consultant on four major motion pictures. Oliver Stone's epic film, JFK, (1991) Ruby, (1992) Executive Action, (1973); and Forrest Gump, (1994). At the present time, Mr. Groden is writing his sixth book dealing with the assassination, JFK: Absolute Proof. The first book to expose the conspiracy and the cover-up from the inside, and will tell the story of the thirty-two year investigation of the murder. Mr. Groden will tell the story of his observations from inside official governmental investigations. It will be the result of his work with the investigation and how the Assassinations Committee performed a second cover-up, who was involved and how the government suppressed vital evidence of conspiracy. Mr. Groden produced, directed and scripted the landmark video documentary, JFK: The Case for Conspiracy. This unique 1 hour and 53 minute video feature is the first ever documentary to bring together all of the available films of the assassination and it's aftermath and presents the most comprehensive proof of the cover-up a complete overview of the medical evidence including dozens of exclusive interviews with the medical witnesses from Parkland Hospital in Dallas, Bethesda Naval Hospital in Maryland and Dealey Plaza in Dallas. It also presents Mr. Groden's world famous optical enhancements of the Zapruder and other films and the color autopsy photographs for the first time. This is the first documentary to truly deal with the medical evidence. In 1995, he also produced a second documentary, The Assassination Films, which is the ultimate researchers video containing all of the films relating to the assassination, including all of his optically enhanced versions of the films. The one hour video is the visual record of the assassination. His third video documentary, The Killing of a President, which is a highlight tape of the previous two, was released in August of 1997. He is now working on a fourth documentary, The Search for Lee Harvey Oswald, a biographical program about Lee Oswald and Jack Ruby, based on his book of the same name. He is also planning a fifth documentary, The JFK Doctors Speak Out. The program will consist of exclusive interviews with the Parkland Hospital doctors who tried to save President Kennedy’s life. Mr. Groden conducted these interviews with the doctors in the late 1970s and early 1980s. More than 70% of them are now dead. Mr. Groden was the Technical Consultant to the JFK Limousine Motorcade Tour of Dallas in 1996. In October of 1996, Mr. Groden received the Sylvia Meagher Memorial Lifetime Achievement Award for his three decades of work on the Kennedy assassination investigation. The Sylvia Meagher Award is the highest honor given within this field of assassination research. Mr. Groden is the youngest person ever to be given this award. Also in 1996, Mr. Groden was the photographic expert in the O.J. Simpson civil trial and testified for four days.