Edgar F. Tatro is one of today’s preeminent experts on the Kennedy Assassination. Tatro holds a B.A. Degree in English, an M.A. in Urban Education and a Certificate of Advanced Graduate Studies in Educational Administration. He taught high school English for 38 years, specializing in science fiction, mystery and horror, satire and comedy, creative writing, media and propaganda, and the origin, history and poetry of rock music. He also taught college and adult education courses for 30 years, specializing in the JFK assassination, subliminal messages in advertising, the influence of rock music on drug abuse, backward messages in music, and plagiarism in music.
Mr. Tatro is the author of more than 30 mystery and horror short stories, literary essays and poems published in many magazines across the country, including many research articles pertaining to the JFK assassination conspiracy. His work has been acknowledged or footnoted in many JFK assassination books, including Reasonable Doubt by Henry Hurt, Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover by Anthony Summers, Destiny Betrayed by Jim DiEugenio, (Probe Magazine) by Jim DiEugenio and Lisa Pease, The Kennedy’s: Dynasty and Disaster by John H. Davis, Killing Kennedy by Harrison Livingstone, JFK; The Book of the Film by Oliver Stone and Zachary Sklar, Doug Weldon’s essay in Murder in Dealey Plaza, JFK and the Unspeakable by Jim Douglass, and David Ferrrie: Mafia Pilot by Judyth Vary Baker.
Ed is the original editor of Texas in the Morning, the memoirs of LBJ’s mistress, Madeleine Duncan Brown, and editor of the Bugliosi chapter in Biting the Elephant by Dr. Rodger Remington. He contributed research to Senator Sam Ervin’s Watergate investigative committee, the House Select Committee on Assassinations and the National Academy of Sciences (JFK acoustical analysis project). He attended Clay Shaw’s trial in New Orleans, in February 1969, and was given access to the court exhibits by Judge Edward Haggerty.
Ed also served as a minor consultant to Oliver Stone’s film, “JFK.” He testified before the Assassination Records Review Board in March 1995, in Boston, Mass. He was responsible, via the ARRB, for the release of the unidentified print found on a box in the alleged sniper’s nest in the Texas School Book Depository, and, via the LBJ Library, for the release of the rough drafts of the rough draft of NSAM #273, which he shared with L. Fletcher Prouty, who shared them with Oliver Stone for post-JFK research.
Mr. Tatro was a consultant to Nigel Turner’s “The Truth Shall Set You Free,” and “The Smoking Guns,” parts six and seven of The Men Who Killed Kennedy series. He was a primary recruiter and participant in Turner’s “The Guilty Men,” part nine of the same series.
PLEASE READ ED’S ARTICLE: WHERE HAVE ALL THE BULLETS GONE? by Edgar F. Tatro – Appendix XII of the Warren Report dealt with speculations
Mr. Tatro’s education, experiences and consulting work, and writing/editing/contributions work as a JFK Researcher
EDUCATION
- B.A. Degree in English from Boston University; Master’s Degree in Urban Education from Boston State College; Certificate of Advanced Graduate Studies in Educational Administration from Boston State College.
- Taught high school English in Quincy, Massachusetts for 38 years, specializing in science-fiction, mystery and horror; satire and comedy; creative writing; media and propaganda; and the origin, history and poetry of rock music.
- Taught college and adult education courses for thirty years specializing in the JFK assassination; subliminal messages in advertising; the influence of rock music on drug abuse; backward messages in music; and plagiarism in music.
EXPERIENCE & CONSULTING
- Attended Clay Shaw’s trial for one week in New Orleans, February, 1969, and given access to the court exhibits by Judge Edward Haggerty.
- Minor consultant to Oliver Stone’s film, “JFK”.
- Testified before the Assassination Records Review Board, March, 1995, in Boston, Massachusetts.
- Responsible, via the ARRB, of the release of the unidentified print found on a box in the alleged sniper’s nest in the Texas School Book Depository.
- Responsible, via the LBJ Library, of the release of the rough drafts of the rough draft of NSAM #273, which I shared with L. Fletcher Prouty who shared them with Oliver Stone for post “JFK” research.
- Consultant to Nigel Turner’s “The Truth Make Set You Free,” part VI of The Men Who Killed Kennedy series broadcast on The History Channel.
- Consultant to Nigel Turner’s “The Smoking Guns,” part VII of The Men Who Killed Kennedy series broadcast on The History Channel.
- Primary recruiter and participant in Nigel Turner’s “The Guilty Men,” Part IX of The Men Who Killed Kennedy series broadcast on The History Channel.
EDITING, WRITING, CONTRIBUTIONS
- Author of over thirty mystery and horror short stories, literary essays, and poems published in many magazines across the country.
- Author of many research articles pertaining to the JFK assassination conspiracy published in Jerry Rose’s “The Third Decade”, Penn Jones’s “The Continuing Inquiry”, and Ireland’s “The JFK Assassination Forum”.
- Acknowledged/footnoted in many JFK assassination books including Crossfire by Jim Marrs; Reasonable Doubt by Henry Hurt; Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover by Anthony Summers; Destiny Betrayed by Jim DiEugenio; The Assassinations (Probe Magazine) by Jim DiEugenio and Lisa Pease; Reclaiming Parkland by Jim DiEugenio; The Kennedys: Dynasty and Disaster by John H. Davis; Killing Kennedy by Harrison Livingstone; JFK: The Book of the Film by Oliver Stone and Zachary Sklar; LBJ: from Mastermind to The Colossus by Phil Nelson; David Ferrie by Judyth Vary Baker; Kennedy and Oswald by Judyth Vary Baker and Edward Schwartz; Doug Weldon’s essay Murder in Dealey Plaza edited by James Fetzer; Self Portrait of a Scoundrel by Chauncey Holt; Survivor’s Guilt by Vincent Palamara; and JFK and the Unspeakable by James Douglass.
- Original editor of Texas in the Morning, the memoirs of LBJ’s mistress, Madeleine Duncan Brown.
- Editor of the Bugliosi chapter in Biting the Elephant by Doctor Rodger Remington.
- Assistant editor of Letters to the Cyborg by Judyth Vary Baker. (short story collection published by Trine Day).
- Contributed the forward to the forthcoming book, Deep State in the Heart of Texas by Richard Bartholomew.
- Contributed the Preface to Remember the Liberty: Almost Sunk by Treason on the High Seas by Phil Nelson (published by Trine Day).
- Contributed to the forthcoming book, Who REALLY Killed Martin Luther King: the Case against Lyndon Baines Johnson and J. Edgar Hoover by Phil Nelson.
- Currently writing URGENCY TO KILL, the Complicity of Lyndon Baines Johnson, His Handlers and Cronies in the Conspiracy to Assassinate President John F. Kennedy.
- Contributed research to Senator Sam Ervin’s Watergate investigative committee, the House Select Committee on Assassinations and the National Academy of Sciences (JFK acoustical analysis project).
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