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Olney Central College Professor David Denton has published a collection of his latest essays regarding the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
The 88-page publication primarily focuses on new witness information and previously classified documents related to the Kennedy assassination, which were released by the National Archives in 2017.
“The essays are my analysis of these things written over a three-year period,” Denton said. “The articles put a narrative and perspective to them.”
Nearly 57 years after the assassination, Denton says discrepancies remain between the official version of Kennedy’s death and the public’s perception of the events surrounding Nov. 22, 1963.
“One reason why it has stayed on the forefront is there are still a lot of unresolved issues,” Denton said. “Opinion polls suggest that 75 percent of Americans believe there was a conspiracy in Dallas, yet most academic institutions, the media and the government stubbornly cling to the lone nut gunman theory.
“I tried to put a historical bent to this,” Denton added. “There are enough facts in the case to point to something sinister going on in Dallas. My position is that Kennedy’s death is unresolved, not unsolved. There is enough evidence to create the probability that there was a conspiracy to kill the president and one man didn’t act alone.”
Published by Midnight Writer News, Denton’s “Essays on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy” is available for purchase at www.lulu.com and JFKHistorical.com.
Denton is already working on his next article. The essay involves new documents and information pointing to the idea that elements of the U.S. military may have been complicit in the assassination.
Denton has studied the Kennedy assassination for nearly three decades and has taught the course, Political Assassinations of the 1960s, since 2001. Over the years, he has interviewed several people associated with the case and has researched hundreds of documents related to both Kennedy and suspected assassin Lee Harvey Oswald.
In 2013, Denton helped organize a two-day event at OCC marking the 50th anniversary of Kennedy’s death. The conference brought together nationally-known academics, scholars and authors to lend their perspectives on the events leading up to and following the assassination.
Last year, Denton helped bring the nation’s foremost experts on the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. to OCC for a four-day conference.
