The Assassination of JFK - Randy Owen's research into the assassination began at age eleven. In 1970, while researching a school project on JFK and PT 109, Owen began reading about the assassination and hasn't stopped since. His interest grew when he came across two different versions of Life Magazine from October 2, 1964. Essays earned him top marks in various history classes. His collection of JFK assassination material includes over 400 books and unpublished manuscripts (many autographed), over 500 hours of video (including live coverage of the assassination and rare home movie footage) and audio tape (including Dallas Police and Air Force One transmissions), over 3,000 newspaper and 1,000 magazine articles. He has talked with: -alleged assassin Lee Harvey Oswald's widow, Marina Oswald Porter, and her husband Ken, -assassination witnesses Charles Brehm, Jean Hill, Harold Norman, Beverly Oliver, Norman Similas, Jim Tague, Phil Willis and Rosemary Willis, -intelligence officers James Hosty and Farris Rookstool of the FBI, David Atlee Phillips of the CIA, Abraham Bolden and William Carter of the Secret Service, U.S. Army Major John Newman of the Pentagon, and Oleg Nechiporenko of the KGB (during a chance encounter on the grassy knoll), -medical witnesses and experts Dr. Robert McClelland, Dr. James Humes, Dr. Cyril Wecht, Dr. Earl Rose, and Aubrey Rike, -Dallas Police officers H.B. McLain (motorcade motorcyclist), M.N. McDonald (who arrested Oswald), Jim Leavelle (the detective handcuffed to Oswald when Jack Ruby shot him), Sheriff Jim Bowles, -Texas Theater employee Butch Burroughs, and LBJ mistress Madeline Brown, -investigators David Belin of the Warren and Rockefeller Commissions, and Gaeton Fonzi of the House Select Committee on Assassinations, -authors Walt Brown, John H. Davis, retired British detective Ian Griggs, Robert Groden, Larry Hancock, Ron Lewis, David Lifton, Norman Mailer, Jim Marrs, Jim Moore, Dick Russell, Gary Savage and Rusty Livington, J. Gary Shaw, Lamar Waldron and Craig Zirbel, -various researchers around the world including Gary Mack of the Sixth Floor Museum in Dallas, Jack White, and filmmaker Oliver Stone. In 1993, Owen turned down an offer to help write a book about Mafia boss Santos Trafficante. His research has drawn the attention of Random House and the family of alleged assassin Roscoe White. Owen has visited Dallas several times, including the 30th anniversary on November 22, 1993 when Dealey Plaza was officially declared a National Landmark. He has studied material in the National Archives and at the Assassination Archives and Research Center in Washington, D.C.