David Wrone

David R. Wrone (May 15, 1933 in Clinton, Illinois) is a retired Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point (UWSP) who taught reform history, the Great Books of Western Civilization, Indian history, and the JFK assassination.

Biography

David R. Wrone was born on a farm in rural central Illinois near Clinton, in the area once traveled by Abraham Lincoln in his law work, and as a wee young boy he met men and women who had known him. David R. Wrone lives in Stevens Point, Wisconsin. He is married and has a son and a daughter. He was Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point from 1964 to 1997.

Lecturing and Research

In the course of his academic life David R. Wrone taught, researched, published and gave many public lectures on the Indian tribes, served as expert witness in several lawsuits, hosted and directed traditional Indian art shows, especially their mistreatment by the American society. Mostly in retirement he taught on the three reservations of the State on their tribal histories.

In the JFK assassination area David R. Wrone has labored on it for 40 years, lecturing, teaching courses, numerous appearances on television and in documentaries, as well as participating in conferences, publishing a bibliography, and a documentary on a legal case "2052-73" in addition to the study of the history of the Zapruder Film: Reframing the JFK Assassination and "argues persuasively for its authenticity."^[1]

He is one of several critics of Gerald Posner's well-known JFK assassination book "Case Closed" which Wrone blames for "massive numbers of factual errors" as well as off-base speculation.^[2]

David R. Wrone is on a board of directors of the Assassination Archives Research Board, located in Silver Spring, Maryland, preparing for the 50th anniversary of JFK's murder by assassins unknown. He continues to research the subject.

David R. Wrone is also well versed on the Martin Luther King, Jr., assassination, having spoken, delivered papers, reviewed books, and participated in conferences on that subject. He holds that authorities in a political decision framed James Ray for the crime in the face of overwhelming, definitive evidence to his innocence.

Selected Books

• 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 Adminstiration, 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.

References

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), cited in: James H. Fetzer, Murder in Dealey Plaza, Chapter "The Silence of the Historians" by Fetzer, Catfeet Press, Chicago, 2000,p. 375.

External Links

• Spartacus Schoolnet: David Wrone

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