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In this Friday, Nov. 22, 1963 file photo, seen through the foreground convertible's windshield, President John F. Kennedy's hand reaches toward his head within seconds of being fatally shot as first lady Jacqueline Kennedy holds his forearm as the motorcade proceeds along Elm Street past the Texas School Book Depository in Dallas.

(James W. "Ike" Altgens, Associated Press)

CLEVELAND, Ohio - An all-day program focusing on the legal issues relating to the investigation of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and what may have occurred if Lee Harvey Oswald had gone on trial will be held Friday, Dec. 6 at Cleveland State University.

The panel of legal experts will include two staff members of the 1963 Warren Commission responsible for investigating the assassination.

Judge Burt W. Griffin was assistant counsel for the commission, and Howard Willens served as second in command of the commission’s staff. Willens is the author of an upcoming book on the Warren Commission, “History Will Prove Us Right,” and his discussion will feature never-before-released information from the book.

"JFK's Assassination and the Law: 50 Years Later" is sponsored by the Cleveland-Marshall Law Alumni Association. It will be 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Moot Court Room of Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, 1801 Euclid Avenue.

The event is open to the public and a $20 admission fee includes materials, continental breakfast, lunch and reception. Admission is free to CSU students.

Griffin's responsibility for the commission was investigating whether Jack Ruby was part of a conspiracy to assassinate President Kennedy or murder Lee Harvey Oswald.

Willens was on leave to the commission from the Criminal Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. Before joining the commission, Willens had been involved in assessing the legal issues facing the United States from the moment President Kennedy was killed.

Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court Judge Brendan Sheehan will moderate the panel, which also includes retired Cleveland Municipal Judge C. Ellen Connally, former assistant Cuyahoga County prosecutor Steven Dever, criminal defense attorney Jerome Emhoff, Cleveland Municipal Court magistrate William Vodrey, and CSU law professor Jonathan Witmer-Rich.

For more details or to register, call 216-687-2368 or visit law.csuohio.edu/alumnigiving/cle.

Kent State University students monitor presidential search: Kent State University journalism students continue to examine why the university is not releasing information on its presidential search.

Ohio case law has historically rejected the tactics Kent State has used in delaying the release of records related to the presidential search, according to a story in the Daily Kent Stater.

Kent State has kept private applications submitted by those who applied to succeed President Lester Lefton next summer, citing that the records are in the hands of a private contractor.

Kent State spokesman Eric Mansfield, said applications for Kent State’s next leader are in possession of private search firm, Storbeck/Pimentel & Associates in Media, Pa.

Kent State’s legal department has not denied the Daily Kent Stater’s request to see the applications, but said they are unavailable.

“We are pleased with (the) search firm we have,” Mansfield said in an interview Tuesday in the newspaper. “The search is moving forward, and when the search firm provides these documents to the university, we will make them available to the student media to fulfill the public records request.”