                            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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