John Geraghty

Randy Benson is the next to be broadcast at 2.30pm EST. Bill, I'll ask the next suitable speaker, Randy and Russ Baker might not be in a position to answer. Abraham Bolden has been added to the lineup today.

John, or someone, I am having trouble today finding the stream. Could someone tell me what to do? Last night I saw John Judge and Jim Douglas. Now Cyril Wecht is going to speak and I can't get it. HELP! Kathy C Kathy, http://www.politicalassassinations.com

If you want the audio file from Jim Douglass' wonderful talk from Dallas yesterday, you can hear it here, http://www.esnips.com/doc/b566f563-c0a3-4e...9fded5/VN320006

Cyril Wecht is just about to speak now for those interested.

We have Jim Douglass available for questions RIGHT NOW. If you have one, please post here.

Jim Douglass will be speaking at 7pm EST, that's 1 hour and 45 minutes from now. Audio and video appears to be working perfectly. If anyone has questions for Jim at the end of the presentation, please post them in the chat window underneath the stream on the COPA homepage http://www.politicalassassinations.com All the best

We have been testing extensively this year. We have two camcorders connected to laptops tried and tested, so no problems there. I've done tests with the rest of the speakers too, so I think we re permanently over our gremlins. I'll be going to the Adolphus and the Lawrence early Thursday to make sure all is well. As long as those speaking from home click 'record' when they also click 'broadcast' they should be available for viewing after the lvie stream.

Hello all, Below I have listed the speaker schedule for this weekends COPA conference in Dallas. The speakers to be broadcast live over the internet as they happen are as follows, Jim Douglass, Cyril Wecht, Ronnie Dugger, Doug Valentine and T Carter. Biographies of all speakers are available underneath the schedule. These will be viewable at the times detailed on the schedule at the COPA site, http://www.politicalassassinations.com Each speaker will have time for questions at the end of their talks. There will be a chat window beside the stream for viewers to ask questions. I hope to post updates during the conference on this thread, as well as a few videos and photographs. I will be in Dallas earlier than most of the participants, so I will be wandering around the plaza for a long time. If there are any angles of the plaza that someone would like to see photographed, I would be happy to take them on Wednesday and Thursday and post them on the forum that night. Any suggestions for areas to photograph and video would be interesting. South knoll, triple bypass etc. As I'm arriving early I might see if I can get somewhere on the upper floors of buildings overlooking the plaza. As well as the COPA conference broadcasts, it justed dawned on me that there is a 24 hour a day camera looking out over Dealey Plaza from which you can see the minutes silence, albeit without sound. http://www.earthcam.com/jfk/ All the best, John COPA 2009 Schedule: Friday, November 20 Early Bird Lunch, 12:00 pm Founder’s Grill, off lobby, Hotel Lawrence Dinner, 5:30 pm, Rodeo Bar & Grill, Adolphus Hotel, 1321 Commerce Street COPA keynote speaker, Jim Douglass, author of JFK and the Unspeakable 7:00 pm, Mezzanine level, Adolphus Hotel Movies, 10:00 pm, Second floor Rear, Hotel Lawrence, Houston & Jackson Sts Resource room open on 2nd floor rear Friday to Sunday, books and DVDs, authors Saturday, November 21 Speakers 9:00 am – 5:00 pm, Second floor Rear, Hotel Lawrence 9:00 am – Ronnie Dugger, former editor of The Texas Observer (remote) 9:30 am – Lisa Pease, co-author of The Assassinations and editor of Probe 10:00 am – Jim DiEugenio, author of Destiny Betrayed and editor of Probe 10:30 am – Pat Speer, producer of "The Mysterious Death of Number 35" 11:00 am - Dr. Cyril Wecht, M.D., J.D., former president American Academy of Forensic Sciences. Author of Grave Secrets. (remote) 12:00 pm – Lunch 2:00 pm – Russ Baker, author of Family of Secrets 2:30 pm – Randy Benson, award-winning filmmaker, showing excerpts from The Searchers 3:00 pm – ?? 3:30 pm – Doug Valentine, author, The Phoenix Program and The Strength of the Pack (remote) 4:00 pm – Ed Haslam, author of Dr. Mary’s Monkey and Mary, Ferrie and the Money Virus 4:30 pm – John Armstrong, author of Harvey & Lee 5:00 pm – Dinner 7:00 pm – COPA Keynote: Walt Brown, author of Master Analytic Chronology: The Death of President Kennedy Movies 10:00 pm, Second floor Rear Hotel Lawrence, Houston & Jackson Sts. Sunday, November 22 46th anniversary Speakers and discussions 9:00 am – 12:00 pm, Hotel Lawrence Second floor Rear 9:00 am – T Carter, author an upcoming book Jerry Ray: A Memoir of Injustice (remote) 9:30 am – Robert Groden, author of The Search for Lee Harvey Oswald and Absolute Proof 10:00 am – Ben Rogers, curator of the Penn Jones collection at Baylor University's Poague Library 10:30 am – Chris Pike, researcher into Penn Jones, Jr. and Operation Northwoods 11:00 am – John Judge, COPA plans for the coming year, brainstorming 11:45 am – Conference ends, move to Grassy Knoll 12:30 pm - Moment of Silence Commemorating the Assassination of President Kennedy Grassy Knoll, Dealey Plaza, speakers following 2:00 pm - Carpool to Baylor University Poague Library, Penn Jones, Jr. Collection *NOTE: All times are Central Standard Time COPA Biographies, 2009 John Armstrong is an independent researcher and author of Harvey & Lee and co-author of Dead Witnesses. His main work outlines the evidence that there were two people using the name of Lee Harvey Oswald who are both linked to the Kennedy assassination. See http://www.free-press-release.com/news/200...1068503919.html Russ Baker is an investigative journalist and founder of the nonprofit reporting web site whowhatwhy.com. His heavily sourced and footnoted 2009 book, "Family of Secrets: the Bush Dynasty, America's Invisible Government, and the Hidden History of the Last Fifty Years," has several chapters with copious new material on the JFK assassination, focusing on the story behind George H.W. Bush's claim not to remember where he was Nov. 22, 1963. Gore Vidal calls it "one of the most important books of the past ten years." The book website is www.familyofsecrets.com Randy Benson is a graduate of Wake Forest University and the North Carolina School of the Arts’ School of Filmmaking, and is an adjunct professor of film and video at Duke University’s Center for Documentary Studies. His films have garnered numerous awards, most notably the Oscar™ for Best Student Documentary at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Academy Awards™. Benson was invited to the Eastman Kodak "Emerging Filmmaker Showcase" at the Cannes International Film Festival where he was awarded an Excellence in Filmmaking Award. He was also selected as one of fifteen directors worldwide to the First Appearance Program for New Directors at the International Documentary Film Festival - Amsterdam. His work has been featured on the Bravo Network, the Independent Film Channel (Split Screen), WTTW-Chicago, UNC-TV (NC Visions), Canal Plus - France, Telewizja Polska S.A.- Poland and MTV-2. Production is wrapping on Benson's most recent documentary, The Searchers, a film profiling the assassination of John F. Kennedy. See http://www.rbensonfilm.com/Welcome.html Walt Brown is the author of Master Analytic Chronology: The Death of President . Kennedy. This Chronology reports data from a handful of historical events prior, even, to the birth of John Kennedy. It was 2½ years in the making -- 5,800 pages -- 50,000 paragraphs -- 2.2 million words. Brown has a Ph.D. in history from the University of Notre Dame, and teaches history at Ramapo College in New Jersey. Brown, a former special agent of the Justice Department, is a longtime researcher of the Warren Commission and the assassination of John F. Kennedy. He is also the editor of JFK/Deep Politics and the author of several books on the subject including: The People V. Lee Harvey Oswald (1992), Treachery in Dallas (1995), Referenced Index Guide to the Warren Commission (1995), JFK Assassination Quizbook (1995) and the The Warren Omission (1996). Brown's most ambitious previous project was The Global Index to the JFK Assassination, a CD-ROM of 2400 pages, which indexed not just the WC, but also the HSCA, and 100+ of the best-known JFK books. There are 17,185 names and over 4 million references, and it is cross-referenced by 175 categories. See http://www.manuscriptservice.com/DPQ/ T Carter has played a key role in keeping COPA alive, and is an accomplished historian, researcher and archivist with expertise in the areas of political assassinations, social justice and Native American history. She holds a Master’s Degree in American History from George Mason University and a bachelor’s degree from Minnesota State University, Mankato. She assisted John Armstrong in his research on Harvey and Lee and helped Lyndon Barsten research Truth at Last on Dr. King’s murder. She also worked closely with Judge Joe Brown and Dr. William Pepper, the lawyer for James Earl Ray and the King family. She is also the author an upcoming book Jerry Ray: A Memoir of Injustice (TrineDay Books) James DiEugenio is an independent researcher and author of Destiny Betrayed, a defense of Jim Garrison’s investigation into JFK’s murder. He was an editor of the research publication Probe, and co-author of The Assassinations, compiling some of the best of Probe's research, including a section on the Malcolm X assassination. Co-founder and chairman of the Citizens for Truth About the Kennedy Assassination (CTKA) Jim DiEugenio provided additional narrative content for the DVD release of Oliver Stone's film JFK. Recently, he has written a critique of Vincent Bugliosi’s Reclaiming History and worked to oppose the upcoming HBO special with Tom Hanks based on the book. See more at http://www.ctka.net/home.html Jim Douglass is an author, his most recent work, JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why it Matters, was published in April 2008 by Orbis Books. From 1963 to 1965 Jim Douglass served as a theological adviser, on questions of nuclear war and conscientious objection, to Catholic bishops at the Second Vatican Council in Rome. He then taught theology at Bellarmine College, Louisville, Kentucky (1965), the University of Hawaii (1968-69, 71-72), and in the Program for the Study and Practice of Nonviolence at the University of Notre Dame (1969-70). In 1977 Jim and Shelley Douglass helped found Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action alongside the Trident submarine base near Seattle, Washington. Jim Douglass served a year and a half in jail for acts of civil disobedience at the Trident base. The Douglasses and Ground Zero developed an extended community in 250 towns and cities vigiling by the railroad tracks of Trident nuclear weapons shipments. In September 1989 the Douglasses moved to Birmingham, Alabama. From Birmingham Jim Douglass has taken part in a series of peacemaking journeys to the Middle East, including peace walks through Israel, the West Bank, and Jordan and five visits to Iraq. In 1993 the Douglasses founded Mary’s House, a Catholic Worker house of hospitality in Birmingham for homeless families. Jim Douglass has also written four books on the theology of nonviolence: The Nonviolent Cross (Macmillan: 1968), Resistance and Contemplation (Doubleday: 1972), Lightning East to West (Crossroads: 1983), and The Nonviolent Coming of God (Orbis: 1991). All four books have been republished by Wipf and Stock Publishers, Eugene, Oregon. Ronnie Dugger, founding editor of The Texas Observer and co-founder of the Alliance for Democracy, has written biographies of Lyndon Johnson, The Politician and On Ronald Reagan, as well as other books, and hundreds of articles for Harper's Magazine, The Nation, The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, The Progressive and other periodicals. He is currently working on an article on the JFK assassination. See his work at http://www.thealliancefordemocracy.org/ Robert Groden is the author of JFK:The Case for Conspiracy, High Treason, The Killing of a President, The Search for Lee Harvey Oswald, JFK:Absolute Proof, and parts of Government By Gunplay. He has researched the photographic and medical evidence in the JFK assassination for 46 years. Groden released the Zapruder and many other films and the vast majority of the photographic evidence to the public through the years, including the color autopsy photographs. See http://www.jfkmurder.com/ Ed Haslam last spoke to COPA in 1994 (or was is 1995) shortly before the publication of his first book MARY, FERRIE & THE MONKEY VIRUS. In 2007 he expanded that investigation into a new book entitled DR. MARY'S MONKEY. Ed is from New Orleans and lived there during the JFK assassination and the Garrison Investigation. He is a graduate of Tulane University and later moved to Detroit where he spent most of his professional career managing advertising campaigns for some of the largest corporations in America, such as Chrysler Motors and Rockwell International. Today he lives in Florida. See http://trineday.com/paypal_store/product_pages/Dr_Mary.html John Judge is an independent researcher, lecturer and author of Judge for Yourself. He was the co-founder of both the Committee for an Open Archives and the Coalition on Political Assassinations. He has studied all the major political assassinations of the last century and helped to draft both the JFK Assassination Records Act and the Martin Luther King, Jr. Records Act currently in Congress. Judge also co-founded 9/11 Research Project, the McGehee Intelligence Library, and is working to create a Museum of Hidden History in Washington, DC. See www.politicalassassinations.com and www.judgeforyourself.us Lisa Pease is a writer who has been researching the assassinations of the 1960s and Cold War history for over 17 years. She was the co-editor of Probe magazine for several years, and her articles appear in the book, The Assassinations: JFK, MLK, RFK, and Malcolm X (2003: Feral House), which she also co-edited with Jim DiEugenio. Lisa has been featured on the Discovery Channel and has been seen or heard in a number of documentaries and radio shows. She is a regular contributor to the Consortium News site run by former AP/Newsweek/Bloomberg journalist Robert Parry, the journalist who broke the original Iran-Contra stories. She maintains the Real History Archives site at www.realhistoryarchives.com. Also see Probe articles at www.webcom.com/ctka and her Real History blog at http://realhistoryarchives.blogspot.com/ Chris Pike has contributed materials to the JFK Materials Collection at Baylor University’s Poague Library. He is an independent researcher into early critic Penn Jones, Jr. and Operation Northwoods. Ben Rogers, curator of the Penn Jones collection, is Director of the W. R. Poage Legislative Library. He has been archivist at Baylor University for twenty years. The papers of Penn Jones, Jr. form the foundation for a growing collection of JFK materials including papers from Jack White, Gary Shaw and others. The archive provides a depository for personal JFK papers in a private institution. The collection contains over 800 newsletters and hundreds of magazines and newspapers. In addition to the Jones papers, all of the JFK correspondence of Jack White has been added in the last two years. Visit the web site for the collection: www.baylor.edu/lib/poage/jfk/ Pat Speer, whose background had been in the record industry, had the unusual distinction of being one of the few people ever to research the Kennedy assassination medical evidence full-time, from 2003 to 2006. This devotion, which entailed studying every bit of testimony regarding the evidence, and hundreds of articles on gunshot wounds and X-rays, led to a unique perspective on the medical aspects of the assassination. Mr. Speer continues to investigate the case, and make new discoveries, some of which will be revealed for the first time in his presentation at COPA. His perspective is explained in part in his online video series and DVD, The Mysterious Death of Number 35, as well as his ever-expanding online book at www.patspeer.com Doug Valentine is the author of five books. His new book, The Strength of the Pack, is an expose of the DEA. His previous book, The Strength of the Wolf (about the Federal Bureau of Narcotics), devotes a chapter to the possible drug trafficking aspects of the JFK assassination. In his second book, The Phoenix Program, Valentine revealed that members of a US Army military intelligence group may have taken photographs of the assassination of Dr Martin Luther King Jr. Valentine worked as an investigator for Dr William Pepper and testified in Memphis in 1999 at the King v Jowers trial. See http://www.douglasvalentine.com/ Dr. Cyril Wecht, M.D., J.D. is a nationally renowned forensic pathologist, attorney and medical-legal consultant. Dr. Wecht received his medical degree from the University of Pittsburgh, and his law degree from the University of Maryland, and is also a Fellow of the College of American Pathologists and the American Society of Clinical Pathologists. He has served as President of the American College of Legal Medicine, the American Academy of Forensic Sciences.The author of more than 500 professional publications, Dr. Wecht is also an editorial board member of more than 20 national and international medical-legal and forensic scientific publications. He has performed approximately 14,000 autopsies and has supervised, reviewed or has been consulted on approximately 30,000 additional postmortem examinations. Dr. Wecht has frequently appeared on several nationally syndicated programs discussing various medicolegal and forensic scientific issues, including medical malpractice, drug abuse, the assassinations of both President John F. Kennedy and Senator Robert F. Kennedy, the death of Elvis Presley, the O.J. Simpson case, and the JonBenet Ramsey cases. His expertise has also been utilized in high profile cases involving Mary Jo Kopechne, Sunny von Bulow, Jean Harris, Dr. Jeffrey McDonald, the Waco Branch Davidian fire, and Vincent Foster. A comprehensive study of these cases are discussed from the perspective of Dr. Wecht's own professional involvement in his books, Cause of Death, Grave Secrets, and Who Killed JonBenet Ramsey? He also directs the The Cyril H. Wecht Institute of Forensic Science and Law at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, PA. See http://www.cyrilwecht.com/institute.php

Kathy, I just want to echo what John said. Positive outlook, enjoy life. All my best, John

As I said, we have three COPA speakers to be broadcast, though this may increase. The education forum's online seminars were purely text based, but we expand upon this. If some forum participants who intend on contributing and also have a webcam we could, theoretically, have ed forum broadcasts separate to COPA. That's one option. We could leave it as it is and have text seminars on the ed forum and the broadcasts from COPA. The broadcast will be done through ustream.tv. This means that they can be recorded while they are being broadcast and will remain online. We could then put them on youtube. As I said in another thread on the main assassination forum I have begun making a promotional video for the COPA conference. We could do the same for the education forum online seminars. The broadcast is a very simple process. If someone has a webcam it takes less than 5 minutes to get on air, so long as they have been given the login details for the ustream account. I did a run through process with Doug Valentine yesterday and it was very quick. If we were to do ed forum broadcasts as well from members we would need someone to do the timekeeping and make sure that there is a smooth changeover between speakers. Last year Cyril Wecht spoke via webcast. I set up a private chat with Ben Wecht, who was assisting Cyril. I then sent questions to Cyril from people in Dallas and from people online. I would tell them when to log in and when to log out, making way for the next speaker. Let's have a discussion on where we want to go with this.

I should first point out, for the sake of balance, that Lancer are also holding their conference over the same weekend and that they, traditionally, have closer ties to Lancer than COPA, but there is a good amount of crossover. I've been trying to use the net to publicise the conference as best I can. Firstly, I started running facebook adverts targeting students in Universities in Dallas and Austin encouraging them to attend the conference. This is surprisingly cheap. I've spent less than a dollar and the advert has appeard on 7,000 facebook pages so far. This process is, however, limited as nobody has actually clicked on the advert to see its full content. I made a promotional video for COPA's last Los Angeles conference. That was seen 1500 times. I have made another one for Dallas this year, but I'm having trouble with my editing software. It should be ready in the next few days. I have started compiling a list of blogs that have recently carried stories on the Kennedy assassination. I intend to contact them with information such as the promo video and the news that we will be broadcasting some of our content. The blogs should be able to embed the live stream in one of their posts. The other online medium we can use is forums such as this one. If anyone is a member of other forums in which they think there may be interest in the Kennedy assassination, please post up details. I encourage people to join the discussion on the thread that John has linked to with regard to online seminars.

I thought that I might float the idea that we relaunch the education forum seminar that coincides with the conferences on the JFK assassination in Dallas. I believe the last time we did this was 2007 and it proved quite successful. A number of people offer to write an original paper on a subject of their choice relating to the assassination, then a timetable is set up. Each contributor posts their article at a certain time over the weekend of the 20th-22nd. If we're lucky some people attending the COPA and Lacer conferences might be able to give us updates on developments there. COPA will broadcast some of their speakers live over the internet. So far I believe those speakers to be Cyril Wecht, Doug Valentine and possibly Jim Douglass live from Dallas. Others might be included in this. We could set up a thread about each of these speakers and hold discussions on the talk as it happens. Would others be interested in reestablishing this online conference? I would be prepared to write a piece. All the best, John

If you have registered with veoh.com you can watch the package there online. Executive action is available on youtube as well.

Also, part 1 of the debate is online now, http://blackopradio.com/archives2009.html

Bill Kelly usually loves to do transcripts (well, maybe he doesn't love it!).

Jim DiEugenio will be debating John McAdams tomorrow evening at 6pm (EST) on Black Op Radio. If I were to hold a debate I would want either Jim or Walt Brown arguing for the critics. It promises to be a very interesting affair.

I came across this video on youtube of a possible shooter in the Nix film. I gather that this documentary is reasonably old. Does anyone know how accurate the work of this French technician is?

Some comments from the maker of the video in reponse to youtube users 1 of 4 Partial and misleading information doesnt help your cause. Your definition describing the rifle as second hand, misleads people into thinking it was a poor rifle. All military rifles are second hand. When you say he could have purchased a new rifle but would have had to give his name? That is more misleading nonsense, there were not mandatory rifle registration laws then. 2 of 4 When you say his scope was misaligned it is also intentionally misleading. It gives the reader an impression that his scope was not functional. The rifle tests were conducted by FBI firearms expert Robert Frazier. He tested the rifle and found that at 100 yards, it fired 2.5 to 5 inches too high, and 2 to 5 inches too far to the right. Ironically, this slight misalignment actually benefited Oswald. 3 of 4 With a 160 grain 6.5 Carcano round, on a target 88 yards away, traveling at 11 MPH, the vertical lead would have been just less than 4 inches, and the horizontal would have been approximately 2 inches. Please dont mislead with blanket statements like, misaligned scope. 4 of 4 And finally, about my rifle being accurate, my rifle was made at the same plant as LHOs, and it was manufactured the same year. LHOs rifle was roughly 20 years old when he shot JFK, mine is now 60+ year past the date it was manufactured and shoots very well, but somehow you wish to mislead people that my rifle is accurate, while LHOs was not. Weak. Im my other video posted here on youtube, I fire seven rounds from this same rifle at a 24 inch by 24 inch wooden target posted at roughly seventy yards. I was able to get off seven shots, all hits, in 6.8 seconds. And yes, it would have been easy (for anyone familiar with this type of rifle, Oswald was familiar with one) to accurately get the shots off as Oswald did. 7 of 8 Craig never saw the rifle, he certainly never observed a 7.65 Mauser, and his own statements support that. He alleges that he clearly saw 7.65 Mauser on the top of the receiver. Thats interesting, because the top of all the 7.65 Mausers is covered by the scope mount, he never would have been able to have seen the 7.65 stamp as he alleged. 8 of 8 And lastly, the recovery of the rifle was filmed by Tom Alyea of WFAA-TV, and his footage shows the rifle to be a Mannlicher-Carcano. Please Google "firearms factoids bogus buff ballistics." For a more in depth look at that claim. This site also provides information how the Carcano could easily be mistaken for a Mauser. What do you all make of this video and the creators comments? The video has 1940 views, so it is not very popular by youtube standards.

I'm interested in compiling a list between us of people who have expressed the opinion that JFK's murder was as a result of a conspiracy or was, at least, suspicious. By notables I mean public figures like journalists, authors, politicians and those close to the Kennedys. I suppose they can be put into two categories, those who openly opine on the subject, and those who have expressed themselves through actions. By the latter I would mean Jackie Kennedy's behaviour in ordering an investigation into the murder would suggest that she believed in a conspiracy. In the memoir 'Palimpsest', Gore Vidal lambastes Gerald Posner and lauds the work of Waldron and Hartman, believing Kennedy to have been murdered by Marcello, Trafficante and another mobster whose name escapes me. Can anyone add other examples? I will update this first post to reflect the names that we come up with to make browsing the thread easier.

This video of the Church Committee was uploaded to youtube today. In it a CIA official confirms that the CIA has journalists on the payroll. Does anyone know who is being interviewed? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzUsvUkvvQM

I just contacted Mack Royal on facebook. Thanks Nathaniel. Thanks kathleen

I'm looking for as much stock footage from the assassination and JFK's time in office online as I can get. I've pretty much found all of the best material available on youtube. Many thanks to Gil Jesus, David Von Pein and several unknown others for the volume of material they have up there. Would anyone be able to suggest websites where I might be able to get some stock footage from the missile crisis, bay of pigs, Vietnam war, JCS? I already have quite a lot of footage, but I'm trying to get as much new material as possible. Most of that online has already been used in previous documentaries. Although I will be using a huge amount of original material I would still like some new stuff. Photographic archives would also be welcome. I have saved a large amount of photographs from this forum and I'm sure there is much more to cover. Many thanks, John

I'm looking for peoples input on a few things for the documentry. Would you be able to summarise what events, motives and people surrounding the assassination that you feel to be most pertinent. Who are the most important witnesses, excluding those in Dealey Plaza. I know this is difficult to do, but generally, what motives and themes do you feel should be covered? I'm simply looking for suggestions like -Abraham Bolden and the Chicago plot -JFK and Vietnam -Richard Case Nagell etc Many thanks, John

I will be on black op radio tonight for anyone who wants to hear a bit more about the project. It will be available via podcast also. http://www.blackopradio.com

Dawn Meredith tells me that Oliver Stone gave Bill Maher a copy on air last night and told him to read it. That must be the reason for the huge jump in sales. It seems that Stone still has very much a keen interest in the assassination.