Jul
13
Dealey Plaza UK Warwickshire Seminar
The leadership of Dealey Plaza UK had decided to hold a special seminar for our 30th anniversary in a completely different location. This was after holding the yearly seminar for about 20 years in Canterbury, and decision was made to move on. The seminar in 2024 at the Abode Hotel in Canterbury was a very enjoyable and informative affair, but boy oh boy was this to be superseeded with the new gaff.
Ashorne Hill. Pic.: Scott Reid.
For this year’s 30th commemorative event something special needed to be done for us to present our recent JFK Assassination research and head honcho Neal Safaty pulled two options out of his hat of which Ashorne Hill in Leamington Spa was voted everyone’s favourite. Looking at the shot above it is more than evident why.
This year was marked as the 30th anniversary of DPUK so it had to be a special event. Especially after we had to cancel our 25th due to the Covid Lockdown. Neale did an amazing job and planned a three day seminar (June 27-29) instead of the usual two and it turned out to be a fantastic event from the beginning to the very end.
L to R: Andrew Iler, Peter Antill, Johnny Cairns, Malcolm Blunt, Bart Kamp, Scott Reid and Paul Bleau. Pic: Scott Reid.
We all gathered the day before on a sunny Thursday afternoon for drinks and a light bite. And this was how it was to be; the sunshine continued all over the weekend. It was meant to be a smart casual event, but the weather dictated shorts so…..
The AV facilities were excellent as we were able to stream. I suggest you go to the DPUK site for a listing of the whole program in case you are interested on who was presenting.
My favourite speakers were our Canadian delegates Andrew Iler and Paul Bleau. Very solid presentations, soon you will be able to see for yourself on YouTube.
I myself did two loose presentations; one on Oswald’s fingerprints and the next day I spoke about the current state of the Darnell & Wiegman films with the latest developments in mind.
Pic.: Scott Reid.
And of course a chat with Malcolm Blunt where the audience was also invited to ask questions.
Pic.: Scott Reid.
A thoroughly enjoyable weekend, my favourite DPUK event by and large and I cannot wait until 2026!
Videos, once sorted, will be posted at some point.
May
04
Quick Hits Episode #43
Time for another chat with Doug Campbell & Rob Clark of the Quick Hits podcast. I think it was my fifth time and as always great fun to attend to. Talked about a few bits that will appear in the forthcoming book, which I hope will see the light of day by the end of this month in e-book shape and a hard copy version to follow in June/July.
Click the pic below to take you to that episode. Hope you enjoy it as much as I did in partaking it.
May
05
Today I came across an article that I had read about when I read “Into The Nightmare” by Joe McBride. The article in question is called: The other Witnesses by George and Patricia Nash for the The New Leader in 1964 (pages 105 – 109). This article largely looks into the Tippit murder and points out other witnesses which were never properly interviewed nor brought forward. In this article at the end the second floor lunch room encounter is brought up as well and more importantly that Bill Shelley told them that Truly and Baker entered the T.S.B.D. five or six minutes after the shooting. This of course destroys the W.C. timings once again, which were set at 75-90 seconds and of course Oswald’ departure in 3 minutes after the deed.
I’d love to see George and Patricia Nash’s archives.
Nov
23
Updated March 29th 2019.
Tom Alyea is the WFAA cameraman who managed to get inside the T.S.B.D. and filmed the D.P.D. searching inside and while filming them also recorded other people of interest such as Kent Biffle. And who could forget the Truly and Baker get together on the first floor. I have added a nice video that has an interview of him in the background with a lot of unseen footage. Thanks to Malcolm Blunt for this.
If you want to read his take on what happened inside the T.S.B.D. and especially with the shell casings and the boxes then go HERE (Facts and photos from Connie Kritzberg’s Secrets from the Sixth Floor Window, pp. 39-46 and Alyea’s own addendums).
This Alyea interview provides more insight on the happenings inside the building as well, the rifle i/e and ends with Baker’s so called lunch room confrontation, and I do not agree with his assertion, be that as it may.
Malcolm Blunt was kind enough to send me some documentation from the A.R.R.B. which is quite a dispute regarding the film and its future use and residency. See for yourself. But most interesting is the letter from Alyea to Tom Samoluk of the A.R.R.B. in which he states that the W.C. testimony of Lt. Carl Day and Det. Studebaker, both of the D.P.D., is completely false. This is someone who believes in Oswald’s guilt, but was witness to certain things inside the book depository which were twisted around by the D.P.D.
I for one would love to see a HD version of the film in its most complete form, who knows maybe one day……
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- Jeremy Gun to Laura Naide June 27 1996
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- Jeremy Gunn to Tom Alyea July 3 1996-1
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- Jeremy Gunn to Tom Alyea July 3 1996-2
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- Jeremy Gunn to Tom Alyea July 8 1996-1
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- Jeremy Gunn to Tom Alyea July 8 1996-2
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- Tom Alyea to Jeremy Gun July 15 1996-1
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- Tom Alyea to Jeremy Gun July 15 1996-2
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- Tom Alyea to Jeremy Gun July 15 1996-3
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- Tom Alyea to Samoluk Aug 15 1997
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- Tom Alyea and 6th Fl Museum Aug 21 1997
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- Tom Alyea to Tilly 23 Jan 1998
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- Jeremy Gunn to Stephen Tilly Jan 27 1998
Feb
22
April 28-29 at Christchurch Uni in Canterbury DPUK will hold its annual seminar.
Preliminary program (STC)
Saturday 28th April
09.40m – 09.50am Introduction to the Seminar by Stuart Galloway
09.50am – 10.50am Harold “Skip” Rydberg by Barry Keane
10.50am – 11.10am Break: Coffee/Tea
11.10am – 12.10pm Interrogations of LHO-1 by Bart Kamp
12.10pm – 1.40pm LUNCH That means of to the pub 
1.40pm – 2.40pm Interrogations of LHO-2 by Bart Kamp
2.40pm – 3.50pm ZR/RIFLE, William Harvey, & QJ WIN by Larry Hancock
3.50pm – 4.10pm Break: Tea/Coffee
4.10pm – 5.10pm Q & A with Malcolm Blunt with B Kamp
5.10pm – 6.00pm Possible Film or extend Larry’s talk from
Dinner at the Abbotts Barton Hotel – 7.30pm for 8.00pm
Sunday 29th April
09.30am – 10.30am The DPUK Auction with Mike Dworetsky
10.30am – 12.00pm Evidence of Gunmen in DP.by David Percox
12.00pm – 12.30pm The Dallas Police by Ian Griggs
12.30pm – 1.40pm LUNCH ( Buffet in the Lecture Theatre)
1.40pm – 2.40 pm Q & A with John Newman and B.Kamp
2.40pm – 3.40pm Jim Di Eugenio JFK’s foreign policy and also the recent released files. The impact of Donald Trump and how they were ignored by the media.
3:40pm – 3.50pm Closure of the Seminar by Stuart Galloway.
More info on attendance and pricing at DPUK FB Event page.
Costs for members.
Two day seminar including tea and coffee on Saturday – £35
Dinner at Best Western (Abbots Barton) – £37 (we have our own room)
Buffet lunch in The Old Sessions House on Sunday – £7
Total = £79 (£42 without Dinner)
Attendance Saturday only – £20
Attendance Sunday only – £24 (includes Buffet).
Some of the talks will be videod and shown on YouTube/Vimeo.
