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alt.assassination.jfk has been in existence since December 1997, and
has recently averaged over 100 posts per day. 

alt.assassination.jfk is a moderated newsgroup.

Group submission address:  jmcadams@shell.core.com
Moderator contact address: jmcadams@shell.core.com
        
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alt.assassination.jfk           JFK Assassination Discussion. (Moderated)


History

Alt.assassination.jfk is the successor to alt.conspiracy.jfk.moderated,
which was highly successful for a year and a half, and then succumbed to
disagreement among the moderators. The "noise level" was extremely low,
due to the fact that this was a moderated group, and the chronic flames
that afflict alt.conspiracy.jfk didn't make it to
alt.conspiracy.jfk.moderated.  Alt.assassination.jfk continues this
tradition.


The Moderators

Peter Fokes has worn many hats during his 49 years, including
business journalist, communications media specialist, freelance writer and
stock trader. He attended Carleton University in Ottawa and the University
of Toronto School of Graduate Studies before joining a Canadian media firm
in the early 1970s.

He brings a Canadian perspective to the JFK assassination debate, and
currently lives in Toronto, Ontario. He maintains a website directory of
Toronto links at http://www.toronto.hm, and is a volunteer editor with The
Open Directory Project at http://www.dmoz.org.

Since watching Oswald gunned down in the Dallas Police Department
basement,  he has had an ongoing fascination with the controversies
surrounding the assassination of JFK. He has a conspiracy orientation but
believes the truth has remained a mystery for so long because there were
"few" in the know but many helping to shut the door to a proper
investigation.

Dr. Chad Zimmerman completed prerequisite undergraduate studies in
Pre-medicine at Iowa State University. He graduated from Northwestern
College of Chiropractic in 1999. He is a practicing doctor of chiropractic
in Sioux City, IA.

Chad began his interest in the Kennedy assassination in the early 90's
during the Oliver Stone 'revival'. Initially, Chad believed in Stone's
slant on the assassination and was a conspiracy believer. However, in the
late 1990's, he began to research a little further into the medical and
ballistics evidence. Having been taught the conspiracy slant, and after
reading book from the 'lone nut' side, he realized the the only true
answers would have to arrive via experimentation.

Beginning in about 2002, he obtained a Mannlicher-Carcano, identical to
Lee Oswald's, and began to perform field research into ballistics. In
addition, with a medical background and the availability of medical
diagnostics, he began more in depth research into the medical evidence.
While once a vintage conspiracy theorist, he now believes that the medical
and ballistic evidence does not contradict a lone assassin theory. His
work is an ongoing effort that he hopes will help solve some of the
remaining questions into the assassination of President Kennedy. He has
helped both the 'lone nutters' and the conspiracy theorists with field
research in ballistics and continues to try to find time to conduct new
experiments with regards to the medical and ballistic issues.

Chad was born in 1974 and provides a new generation of insight and
interest into the death of President Kennedy. With no personal memory of
the events, he takes a more 'hands on' approach to investigating the
assassination.


John McAdams is Associate Professor of Political Science at Marquette
University in Milwaukee.  Among the courses he teaches at Marquette
is one on the assassination.  He runs The Kennedy Assassination Home
Page (http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/home.htm).  McAdams believes that
Oswald alone was responsible for killing Kennedy. 

McAdams' web page has recently attracted over 3,000 visitors per day.  His
page offers a direct link to the group. 



CHARTER AND MODERATION POLICY


This group will be for the purpose of providing an area for serious
discussion and research of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. 
The group will be moderated to prevent the noise and chronic personal
attacks which have plagued alt.conspiracy.jfk and made it nearly useless
as a vehicle for intelligent research. Questions surrounding JFK's death
have made this one of the most talked-about and controversial issues of
our generation. This will be the one usenet group which deals seriously
with this important topic. 


The co-moderators will implement the following policy:

1. The group should always be co-moderated by at least two people
representing opposite sides of the conspiracy question.  In the event of
conflict among moderators, the majority of moderators shall prevail on any
issue -- including firing a moderator and/or changing the charter.  Should
there be an even number of moderators, and a "tie vote," and the conflict
prove intractable, the group will be dissolved. 

2. However, all moderators must agree to reject a post to the group. 

3. No posts will ever be rejected on the basis of a poster's opinion on
the case. 

4. Moderators have no responsibility whatsoever for the factual accuracy
of what is posted.  Readers of the group will have to decide for
themselves that is "accurate" and "inaccurate." 

5. Posters may not levy personal attacks against other posters.  Ideas may
be vigorously discussed, but attacks on ideas should be phrased to make it
clear that the poster is not being attacked.  Any post whose predominant
subject or theme is another poster rather than the assassination is likely
to be rejected.  (Positive, supportive, or solicitous messages, however,
may be accepted at the moderators' discretion.) 

6. Any suggestions or requests for illegal activities will be disallowed. 

7. Posts that are offensive on the basis of gratuitous vulgarity, racism,
or sexism or other offensive forms of expression will be disallowed. No
substantive argument about the assassination will ever be deemed
"offensive," but the means of expressing it might. 

8. Messages which are off topic or devoid of case-related information will
be disallowed.

9. SPAM's will be disallowed. 

10.  Although aliases are generally allowed on the newsgroup, the
moderators may reject posts impersonating an identifiable person when
the impersonation risks misleading readers about the person.

11. It may often seem appropriate to post binaries to the group: 
images of photographic evidence or waveform audio of sound recordings, for
example.  Moderators will cross-post all such submissions to 
alt.binaries.pictures or some other appropriate binaries group.  Posters
are urged to avoid excessively large binary posts.  Particularly, they
should post only moderate sized graphic images, use JPEG compression
effectively, and use RealMedia or similar compression for audio and video
clips.


