Casey J. Quinlan was born and raised in Kansas City and has been a high school teacher for over 32 years in Kansas. Casey served in the United States Army with the 9th Infantry as a medical corpsman during the Vietnam War. Mr. Quinlan earned a Bachelor of Science in Education and a Master’s degree in American History from Emporia State University in Emporia, Kansas. He is the Director of Project JFK/CSI Dallas, a student-oriented historical experience for high school and college students.
Casey has been the featured speaker at many colleges throughout the Midwest, including the Alf Landon Lecture Series at Kansas State University; the William Allen White School of Journalism at the University of Kansas; and the Johnson County Community College in Overland Park, Kansas.
Mr. Quinlan served as a guest historian for the A&E Network and the History Channel for Oliver Stone’s movie, JFK. In 1995, Casey was named the Outstanding Educator of the Year by JFK Lancer. From 1997, Mr. Quinlan has served as an adjunct instructor at Friends University in Wichita, Kansas; Ottawa University in Overland Park, Kansas and Washburn University’s Criminal Justice Department in Topeka, Kansas. Today, Mr. Quinlan teaches American History at Basehor-Linwood High School in Bonner Springs, Kansas. He is the co-author of Beyond the Fenceline: The Ed Hoffman Story.
