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Network debunks conspiracy theories with digital re-creation Using a computer-imaging process roughly akin to video games, ABC News has constructed a forensic tableau that it says proves Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in assassinating President John F. Kennedy. "What it does is prove unequivocally that Oswald was the only person in Dealey Plaza that day to fire," ABC anchor Peter Jennings said this week. The digital reconstruction, created for the upcoming Nov. 20 special Peter Jennings Reporting: The Kennedy Assassination – Beyond Conspiracy , was the result of a decade of work by author and animator Dale Myers. Using...

Seizing JFK memories before they're gone Historian speeds up attempt to log historic event as witnesses age 11/22/2002 By DAVID FLICK / The Dallas Morning News Stephen Fagin collects oral histories for The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza. He is in a race against time. By Friday, the 39th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Mr. Fagin hoped to have interviewed 30 people this year who were witnesses or who played roles in the drama of that November weekend in Dallas. "That's the most we've had in seven years," he said. "Next year, we want...

Oswald's mother helped reporter get close to big story He didn't know it, but history was calling him 11/21/2002 By MICHAEL E. YOUNG / The Dallas Morning News Bob Schieffer, brooding because he wasn't part of the biggest news story in the whole world, grabbed the ringing telephone on the Fort Worth Star-Telegram city desk. A woman asked if anyone could give her a ride to Dallas. "Lady, this is not a taxi, and besides, the president has been shot," the young police reporter told her none too diplomatically. "I know," she said. "They think my son is the...

Texas Theatre will undergo renovation Lee Harvey Oswald was captured at Oak Cliff landmark in 1963 04/28/2002 By KATHERINE MORALES / The Dallas Morning News The facade of the Texas Theatre looked unassuming with sun-bleached stars bearing its name hanging just above the front doors. But inside, stage lights illuminated the faded red seats for the first time in more than six years as about 100 people gathered to look at renovation plans for the historic theater. Organizers of the Saturday evening event said that the restoration of the building, on Jefferson Boulevard in Oak Cliff, carried with it...