20-02-2012, 10:25 PM
Hi, Edwin,
I attended the ASK Conferences initiated by Mary Ferrell, Gary Shaw, and another member of that group whose name escapes me - Larry Harris? - in November 1991-1994. The purpose was to get government documents about the assassination opened to the public. ASK, and Oliver Stone's movie, JFK, led to the passage of the act signed into law by President H.W. Bush and the formation of the Assassinations Records Review Board(ARRB) by President Bill Clinton.
These yearly meetings in Dallas included many Dallasites, such as Beverly Oliver who spoke at each one I attended beginning in 1991, 1993, 1994, and then when the Lancer and COPA meetings replaced the ASK Conferences, ASK having accomplished its mission with the establishment of the ARRB. I recall that she did speak of this before her book was written and published. It seems to me that the Roscoe White story came about as the result of Jack White's work on the backyard photo of "Oswald' with rifle and literature in his hands, and this came about at least 2 or 3 years after 1991. The Ricky White story erupted much later after that as I recall. If anyone has a better memory of the time sequence,
please correct me.
ASK, by the way, stood for Assassination Symposium on Kennedy.
Adele
I attended the ASK Conferences initiated by Mary Ferrell, Gary Shaw, and another member of that group whose name escapes me - Larry Harris? - in November 1991-1994. The purpose was to get government documents about the assassination opened to the public. ASK, and Oliver Stone's movie, JFK, led to the passage of the act signed into law by President H.W. Bush and the formation of the Assassinations Records Review Board(ARRB) by President Bill Clinton.
These yearly meetings in Dallas included many Dallasites, such as Beverly Oliver who spoke at each one I attended beginning in 1991, 1993, 1994, and then when the Lancer and COPA meetings replaced the ASK Conferences, ASK having accomplished its mission with the establishment of the ARRB. I recall that she did speak of this before her book was written and published. It seems to me that the Roscoe White story came about as the result of Jack White's work on the backyard photo of "Oswald' with rifle and literature in his hands, and this came about at least 2 or 3 years after 1991. The Ricky White story erupted much later after that as I recall. If anyone has a better memory of the time sequence,
please correct me.
ASK, by the way, stood for Assassination Symposium on Kennedy.
Adele