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(photo of Don Adams)

    "Who -really- was responsible for the Kennedy assassination?"

"FAIRLAWN,OH -- For 34 years Don Adams has lived with a haunting suspicion
that grows more puzzling as the years go by and as pieces of the puzzle
surface.

That suspicion will be the focus of an April 17 Fairlawn Fraternal Order
of Police Associates' program where Adams will relate his story in the
presentation "Was Oswald the Assassin?"

Years of research through hundreds of documents and from correspondence
with researchers all over the world has brought Adams to the point where
the fine line between doubt and certainty about the assassination of 
President John F. Kennedy is muddled. That certainty, according to Adams,
is that Oswald was not the assassin of Kennedy that November day in Dallas.

"There are just too many unanswered questions," said Adams, who has spent
most of his adult life in law enforcement -- 20 years as an FBI agent, 10
years in corporate security and three years at the helm of Fairlawn's 
police department.

"I feel I have an obligation to tell the story I know. Something should be
done to tell the American public what the truth is."

Adams interest is far from mere curiosity. As an FBI agent based in Atlanta
in 1963, Adams was instrumental in an investigation that he can now link to
Kennedy's assassination.

"Two weeks prior to the assassination, I got a call to investigate a plot
against the president," said Adams, who was assigned to develop a background
on a Joseph A. Milteer, a right-wing radical involved in the plot. Adams
turned the report over to the Atlanta office and the Secret Service.

"Then, on the 22nd, Kennedy was killed," said Adams, "and my first reaction
was, we messed up."

But Oswald was named the lone assassin; Milteer's name never came up. Adams
assumed the matter was closed.

Six months later, after a transfer to Dallas, Adams went to the Texas Book
Depository building, the site from which Oswald supposedly fired the shots
that killed the president.

What Adams discovered while standing on the sixth floor of that building
became the basis for the first of his suspicions.

"There was no way that Oswald could have shot the president from that 
location with three rounds in seven seconds," contends the man trained
in firearms. "No way."

But suspicion remained just that, particularly after the published findings
of the Warren Commission named Oswald the lone assassin.

Twenty-eight years later, in 1992, a friend sent Adams "High Treason,"
a book about the Kennedy assassination and, once more, Milteer surfaced.

Not only was there an excerpt about the FBI being "tipped off" by a state-
ment made by Milteer, stating "We're going to kill the president, and take
him out from a high building with a high-powered rifle," but there was a
photo of Milteer standing on a street corner in Dallas minutes before the
assassination.

"Milteer was the primary suspect," said Adams, "but why didn't we know
about it?"

The infamous Abraham Zapruder videotape, the Oliver Stone movie JFK, 1,600
researchers and more questions than answers has led Adams to begin speaking
up on the 1963 assassination.

This will be his 26th speaking engagement, and the facts Adams has to 
divulge are as chilling for their accuracy as they are for their under-
lying assumption-- that there has been a massive cover-up concerning the
Kennedy assassination.

"When you take everything and put it together, it's unbelievable," said
Adams, who can list people, places and things that tie together to support
the conspiracy theory.

This presentation is a way of combining a fascinating subject with something
near and dear to Adams' heart -- the Fairlawn FOPA.

"We're trying to increase the interest in the FOPA and increase membership,
said Adams, who is serving as president. "The FOPA supports the police
department by providing equipment when needed -- like bulletproof vests,
face protective masks and shields, and pepper gas -- things for the depart-
ment the city cannot provide."

Adams is hoping the lure of his speech will draw community members willing
to get involved in the FOPA and do what they can to help the police depart-
ment of Fairlawn.

"We want to get as big a turn-out as possible," said Adams.

"Was Oswald the Assassin?" is scheduled to take place April 17 at 7pm at 
the Fairlawn-Kiwanis Community Center, 3486 S. Smith Raod.

Due to limited seating, reservations for the event should be made as soon
as possible."

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