Author to air arguments for conspiracy in JFK assassination

PITTSBURGH -- Michael Kurtz said that he believes more than one gunman was involved in the assassination of President Kennedy and that the official investigation by the Warren Commission leaves out key details. He believes that the killing was part of a conspiracy and that two likely suspects are Cubans and organized crime.
His book, "Conflict and Consensus in the JFK Assassination Debates," comes after years of teaching an elective course on the assassination.
"When I started doing my research in the late '60s and early '70s, it was already evident that a lot of material was being covered up and that some material had already been destroyed," Kurtz said. "In the absence of complete documentation, you can't come up with a final answer."
Kurtz will participate in a Nov. 22 gathering of experts on the assassination at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh. The meeting is sponsored by Duquesne's law school and by the Cyril H. Wecht Institute of Forensic Science.
Kurtz, a University of Tennessee graduate student at the time of Kennedy's death, has spent much of his professional life researching the assassination.
He has delved into records of federal investigative agencies including the Warren Commission and the FBI, and interviewed key subjects, including Dr. Robert Shaw, a surgeon who operated on Texas Gov. John Connally, who was wounded in the shooting.