A.S.K. (Assassination Symposium on John F. Kennedy) ~ 1992
The first annual Assassination Symposium on John F. Kennedy (known as the A.S.K. or ASK conference) was held in Dallas in November 1991 . I began examining President Abraham Lincoln's assassination in the late 1950s. Then in the 1960s, I was impacted by JFK's death and read intensively about it. Much later in my career, as a university fulltime researcher, due to my projects on suicidal psychology in the mid-1980s through early 1990s, I began, concurrently to my university work, to research and write about the alleged "suicides" and mystery deaths of JFK assassination eyewitnesses. Mary Ferrell (October 26, 1926 - February 20, 2004) Being a friend and correspondent of Mary Elizabeth McHughes Ferrell , who first wrote to me because of my Fortean articles, I was invited to speak on one of the panels ("Strange & Convienient Deaths") at the second A.S.K. conference, and a later one. I met lots of individuals important to JFK assassination research at the