David Wrone

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David R. Wrone (born May 15, 1933 in Clinton, Illinois ) is a professor emeritus of history at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point (UWSP). His research interests were the history of the USA and the history of its natives, the "Great Books of Western Civilization" and the assassination attempt on John F. Kennedy .

Biographical data

David R. Wrone grew up on a farm in Illinois near Clinton. He lives in StevensPoint, Wisconsin and is married with a son and daughter.

From 1964 to 1997 he was Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. David Wrone serves on the board of directors of the Assassination Records Review Board (ARRB) archive of assassination research in Silver Spring, Maryland, which prepared the 50th anniversary of the assassination attempt on John F. Kennedy.

Assassination research

David Wrone spent forty years studying the John F. Kennedy assassination, giving lectures and lectures on the subject, attending conferences on the Kennedy assassination, and contributing to television programs and documentaries. His book publications include a historical and legal bibliography of the Kennedy assassination publications (as of 1980) and an in-depth study of the Zapruder film titled Reframing the JFK Assassination , in which he viewed from the perspective of Michael Kurtz, an American historian who also worked on the Kennedy assassination, "demonstrating the authenticity (of the film) in a convincing way".

David Wrone is one of the numerous critics of the book Case Closed by Gerald Posner , which deals with the Kennedy assassination and which is teeming with mere theories and speculations as well as a "massive number of factual errors".

David Wrone also committed himself to the assassination attempt on Martin Luther King , Jr. deals. He believes that the conviction of James Ray was a political decision, while an overwhelming amount of evidence supported his innocence.

Publications

  • Who's the Savage? Mistreatment of the Native North Americans , with Russell S. Nelson, Fawcett 1973, Krieger Pub. 1982.
  • The Freedom of Information Act and Political Assassination: The Legal Proceedings of Harold Weisberg v. General Services Administration , 1978.
  • Lincoln: Democracy's Touchstone , 1979.
  • The Assassination of John F. Kennedy: A Comprehensive Historical and Legal Bibliography, 1963-1979 , 1980.
  • Two Assassinations: Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy , Lincoln Fellowship of Wisconsin. Meeting (37th: 1980: Madison), Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress).
  • The HSCA, the Zapruder Film, and the Single-Bullet Theory , 1993.
  • The Zapruder Film: Reframing the JFK Assassination , University Press of Kansas, 2003.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael L. Kurtz, The JFK Assassination Debates. Lone Gunman versus Conspiracy , University Press of Kansas, 2006, p. 106.
  2. ↑ Journal of Southern History (Febr. 1995), quoted in: James H. Fetzer (ed. And author), Murder in Dealey Plaza , chapter "The Silence of the Historians" by Fetzer, Catfeet Press, Chicago, 2000, p. 375.

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personal data
SURNAME Wrone, David
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wrone, David R.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American university professor, professor of history
DATE OF BIRTH May 15, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Clinton, Illinois