James Carothers Garrison was the District Attorney of Orleans Parish,Louisiana,from 1962 to 1973 and later a state appellate court judge. A member of the Democratic Party,he is best known for his investigations into the assassination of John F. Kennedy and the prosecution of New Orleans businessman Clay Shaw to that effect in 1969,which ended in Shaw's acquittal. He wrote three published books,one of which became a prime source for Oliver Stone's film JFK in 1991,in which Garrison was portrayed by Kevin Costner,while Garrison himself made a cameo appearance as Earl Warren.
On November 22,1963,John F. Kennedy,the 35th president of the United States,was assassinated while riding in a presidential motorcade through Dealey Plaza in Dallas,Texas. Kennedy was in the vehicle with his wife Jacqueline,Texas Governor John Connally,and Connally's wife Nellie,when he was fatally shot from the nearby Texas School Book Depository by Lee Harvey Oswald,a former U.S. Marine. The motorcade rushed to Parkland Memorial Hospital,where Kennedy was pronounced dead about 30 minutes after the shooting;Connally was also wounded in the attack but recovered. Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson was hastily sworn in as president two hours and eight minutes later aboard Air Force One at Dallas Love Field.
Dora Lizette Irizarry is a senior United States District Court Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York.
Robert J. Groden is an American author who has written extensively about conspiracy theories regarding the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy. His books include The Killing of a President:The Complete Photographic Record of the JFK Assassination,the Conspiracy,and the Cover-up;The Search for Lee Harvey Oswald:A Comprehensive Photographic Record;and JFK:The Case for Conspiracy. Groden is a photo-optics technician who served as a photographic consultant for the House Select Committee on Assassinations.
Jeffrey Robert Howard is an American lawyer who serves as a senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.
The President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992,or the JFK Records Act,is a public law passed by the United States Congress,effective October 26,1992. It directed the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) to establish a collection of records to be known as the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection. It stated that the collection shall consist of copies of all U.S. government records relating to the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy,and that they are to be housed in the NARA Archives II building in College Park,Maryland. The collection also included any materials created or made available for use by,obtained by,or otherwise came into the possession of any state or local law enforcement office that provided support or assistance or performed work in connection with a federal inquiry into the assassination.
Steptoe LLP is an international law firm headquartered in Washington,D.C. It maintains offices in New York City,Los Angeles,Chicago,Houston,San Francisco,London,Brussels,Beijing,and Hong Kong.
Richard Warren Roberts is an inactive senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.
John Fontaine Keenan is a senior United States district judge for the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Eric John Magnuson is an American lawyer in private practice. He was the Chief Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court from 2008 to 2010.
Bernice Bouie Donald is an American lawyer and former federal judge. She served as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit from 2011 to 2023. She previously served as a United States district judge for the United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee from 1995 to 2011.
Joseph Peter Stadtmueller is an American lawyer and a United States district judge for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin since 1987. He was chief judge of the Eastern District of Wisconsin from 1995 to 2002.
Hubert Louis Will was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
Wilhelmina Marie Wright is an inactive senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota. She is the only jurist in Minnesota's history to be state district court judge,appellate court judge and state supreme court justice. She was formerly an associate justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court,a judge of the Minnesota Court of Appeals,and a judge of the Minnesota District Court,Second Judicial District.
George Efthyron Joannides was a Central Intelligence Agency officer who in 1963 was the chief of the Psychological Warfare branch of the agency's JMWAVE station in Miami,and in 1978 was the agency's liaison to the United States House Select Committee on Assassinations.
Jeffrey Marc Bryan is an American lawyer from Minnesota who has served as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota since 2023. He previously served as a judge of the Minnesota Court of Appeals from 2019 to 2023.
