"I killed JFK.": The Story of Roscoe White

J. Gary Shaw and Brian Edwards recently published, Admitted Assassin: Roscoe White and the Murder of President Kennedy.

This podcast discusses the results of their research.

Brian Edwards has been researching the JFK assassination since 1969 and has interviewed many of the Dealey Plaza eyewitnesses; Dallas police and sheriff’s officers; Parkland doctors and medical personnel who were on duty at Bethesda Medical Center. He has given hundreds of presentations on the assassination and since 2001 was a regular presenter at the JFK Lancer Conference

Mr. Edwards has extensive Law Enforcement Experience with the Lawrence Kansas Police Department, as a field training officer, accident investigator, counter-assault team, and instructor in the police academy.

Edward’s research has been cited in numerous books, including Assassination Science (1998); Murder in Dealey Plaza (2000); The Zapruder Film (2003) and The Hoax of the Century (2004). He is co-author of Beyond the Fence Line: The Eyewitness Account of Ed Hoffman and the Murder of President John Kennedy.

In 2018, Mr. Edwards collaborated with and appeared in Oliver Stone’s 4-hour documentary JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass.

J. Gary Shaw is a first-generation assassination researcher and one of the leading experts on the case. Shaw began studying the case the day after it happened.

In high school, Shaw met Jack Ruby who asked Shaw’s group to join the artist’s guild in Dallas.

After Ruby shot Lee Oswald in the basement of police headquarters, Shaw began collecting every newspaper, magazine and book on the case.

Shaw met Penn Jones, Jr. After reading Penn’s Forgive My Grief, Shaw bought two complete sets of the 26 volumes of the Warren Commission report. Shaw maintained a close relationship with Jones.

Shaw began interviewing individuals directly connected to the case; Dallas Deputy Sheriff Roger Craig, Richard Carr, Gerry Hemming, Loran Hall and many others.

In 1976, Shaw and Larry Ray Harris (1952-1996) published Cover-Up: The Governmental Conspiracy to Conceal the Facts About the Public Execution of John Kennedy.

Shaw is a co-founder/director of the JFK Assassination Information Center in Dallas. Shaw was chair of the ASK Conferences in Dallas and acted as a consultant on Oliver Stone’s movie, JFK.

In 1992, Shaw co-wrote JFK: The Conspiracy of Silence with Dr. Charles Crenshaw. It was the number one seller on the New York Times list of paperbacks.