Robert J. Groden

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Robert J. Groden (born November 22, 1945) is an American author and photographer, and a self-proclaimed and widely acknowledged expert on the assassination of former U.S. President John F. Kennedy. His books include JFK: The Case for Conspiracy, The Killing of a President: The Complete Photographic Record of the JFK Assassination, and The Search for Lee Harvey Oswald: A Comprehensive Photographic Record. He served as a photographic consultant to the Congressional investigation that concluded the assassination was "probably" a conspiracy.

Groden attended Forest Hills High School in Queens, New York but left in the 11th grade . He joined the Army in 1964 and first became interested in the JFK assassination (1963) that same year . A harsh critic of the Warren Commission, he was one of several photographic consultants to the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) and testified at the 1975 United States President's Commission on CIA activities within the United States, sometimes referred to (improperly) as the Rockefeller Commission.

By his own admission at the OJ Simpson civil trial, Groden is a high school dropout with no formal photography training of any kind. He is not certified by any professional photography organizations and, in fact, does not even know the names of such organizations. He has never taught any photography classes nor has he ever published anything with respect to photography. He was discharged from the Army for "inadaptibility to military life."

He was a consultant for Oliver Stone's 1991 film JFK.

As well as his own publications, Groden co-authored with Harrison E. Livingstone the book High Treason: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy & the Case for Conspiracy.

During the O.J. Simpson civil trial, Groden appeared as an expert witness and testified that a photograph of Simpson wearing Bruno Magli shoes at a 1993 football game was a fake. After thirty other photos by a different photographer of Simpson on the same day wearing the same clothes — including the shoes — surfaced, Groden maintained that the photograph was a forgery.^[1]

Groden sued Random House over a 1993 New York Times advertisement for Gerald Posner's book Case Closed where he was featured along with other conspiracy theorists and declared "guilty of misleading the American public." The U.S. District Court issued a summary judgment and dismissed the case. ^[2]

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