Let's make a list of JFK "people of interest" that are still alive?

[Peter Lemkin]

My idea is to list the folks that might be available as sources of first hand information. Whether or not they would willingly cooperate is of course another question entirely. It seems valuable to me to "take inventory" (to use a gross de-personalization) of who might still be around to pose questions to. Family members of those who have passed certainly have their own memories, which are valuable in their own right to researchers, but not specifically what I am looking for here.

For instance, "All of DPD" doesn't really help pinpoint specific persons. The most key individuals, Curry, Fritz, then Decker (DSO), and Craig (DSO), aren't with us any more.

On the 'first hand' I think you 1] miss the point and 2] have had the 'point' missed by the cover up. For example, a direct relative of Plumlee worked in the DPD, starting shortly after the events of Dallas, but his position put him in a direct position to know what records of which cases and DPD members were missing. I know, because I discussed this some with them - and some were quite 'telling' and significant. Other members not well known in the DPD at the time are still alive and likely know much more than you assume the Big Hitters only knew. Just one example.

I was just looking at a fairly comprehensive list of all eyewitnesses during the day [incomplete, I'm SURE]...most were never called by the WC nor HSCA - and those NOT called would likely be the more important - but any still alive from those called would also be. But, again, the 'first hand' to me is only logical when there isn't/wasn't a cover-up - and there was/is an immense one. Family members know about how their family members were ignored, what they told, or how they were threatened/pressured/thwarted and or silenced, etc.

..add all living SS members
all living hospital and autopsy staff
all incidental casket[s] transport staff
Dan Rather
..the list is huge...

here is a very partial list...just of some of those on the street or in TSBD...leaving out SO many other important groups.....then you need to find out who's still alive and IMHO find out who their close kith and kin who know and are alive are....