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About the Author
Richard E. Sprague is a pioneer in the field of electronic computers and
a leading American authority on Electronic Funds Transfer Systems
(EFTS). Receiving his BSEE degreee from Purdue University in 1942, his
computing career began when he was employed as an engineer for the
computer group at Northrup Aircraft. He co-founded the Computer
Research Corporation of Hawthorne, California in 1950, and by 1953,
serving as Vice President of Sales, the company had sold more computers
than any competitor. In 1960, he became the Director of Computer
Systems Consulting for Touche, Ross, Bailey, and Smart. He became a
partner in that company in 1963, and started its Advanced Business
Systems Department in 1964 where he stayed until 1968. In 1968 he
established Sprague Research and Consulting for Computer Information
Systems Consultation. He is currently also Consultant to the
President's Commission on EFTS and full time consultant to Battelle
Memorial Institute of Frankfurt, Germany.
In 1966, Mr. Sprague commenced an intensive program of research into the
photographic evidence associated with the assassination of John Kennedy.
He served a year as photographic expert advisor in the investigations
conducted by New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison and had amassed
and analyzed a majority of the known evidence on film by 1968 when he
co-founded the Committee to Investigate Assassinations. He served with
CTIA as an active researcher, board member and Secretary from 1968 to
1974.
Following numerous radio and television appearances and extensive
lecture tours of the United States and Canada (where slides and films
were used to demonstrate the basic evidence of conspiracy), he began, in
1974, working toward a Congressional investigation of all four major
political assassinations and the cover-ups and links among these
interrelated events. He was an advisor to Representative Henry B.
Gonzales (D-Texas) on House Resolution 203 which proposed the
appointment of a committee to investigate the circumstances surrounding
the deaths of JFK, RFK, Martin Luther King and the attempt upon the life
of Presidential Candidate George Wallace. He served as a consultant to
Richard A. Sprague and G. Robert Blakey, the first and second General
Counsels of the House Select Committee on Assassinations, and served
through the end of the Committee's existence.
He is author of "Electronic Business Systems" (Ronald Press) 1962,
"Information Utilities" (Prentice Hall) 1969, and a celebrated series of
articles which appeared in "Computers & Automation" Magazine beginning
in 1970. He is also co-author with Dick Russell of "In Search of the
Assassins" which is scheduled for publication by the Dial Press in 1977.
The materials presented in this book are drawn from an analysis of the
photographic evidence, personal knowledge and records of the Garrison
investigation, research files of the Committee to Investigate
Assassinations and Congressional Committees.
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