Assassination -- Investigation

Scope and Contents

Correspondence, reports, memoranda, statements, interviews, news releases, photographs, and newspaper clippings concerning the Garrison investigation of the Kennedy assassination as covered by Richard Billings, reporter for Life Magazine, 1967-1968.

Note: Click on "External Documents" below for a link to the finding aid for the collection.

Scope and Contents Records of the Committee to Investigate Assassinations (CTIA), an unofficial, private organization founded in 1968 to investigate facts surrounding American political assassinations, most specifically those of John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, and Robert Kennedy. The papers, consisting of clippings, manuscripts, and sundry publications, relate to the Committee’s work in producing "American Political Assassinations: Bibliography of Works Published, 1963-1970".According to...

Content Description

Papers of R.B. Cutler, author of "Two Flight Paths: Evidence of Conspiracy" and "The Flight of CE 399", including diagrams, photographs and clippings concerning the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Also included is a sixth generation copy of the Zapruder assassination film.

Gift of R.B. Cutler, 1971.

Note: Click on "External Documents" below for a link to the finding aid for the collection.

Scope and Contents The Richard D. Mudd Papers contain the extensive research files of Richard D. Mudd, whose grandfather, Dr. Samuel A. Mudd, set the leg of Abraham Lincoln's assassin John Wilkes Booth as Booth attempted to escape the scene of the crime through southern Maryland. Samuel A. Mudd went to prison for setting Booth's leg, but Richard D. Mudd decades later contended that his grandfather was simply doing his duty as a medical doctor. Although he was released from prison by President Andrew Johnson,...

Content Description Papers of Richard E. Sprague, engineer and computer specialist, concerning his involvement with the National Committee to Investigate Assassinations (also the Committee to Investigate Assassinations, CTIA). Included in the papers are committee correspondence, minutes, agendas, memoranda and reports, as well as an extensive collection of clippings resulting from the committee's research into governmental and journalistic sources on the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King and...