The
Kennedy Assassination -- Police Radio
Recordings
Drexel
University, Lecture by Charles Rader, IEEE Life
Fellow
Thursday, 1
November 2007, 4pm, Bassone Auditorium
Abstract:
Philadelphia: At the time of the assassination of
President Kennedy, in 1963, a microphone on a
police motorcycle in Dallas was transmitting
constantly for about five minutes, and the broadcast
was recorded. Many years later, a team of
acousticians were asked to study the recording to
determine if gunshots were recorded. They believed
that they identified four such gunshots, and
based on this analysis, the House Select
Committee on Assassinations concluded that there
were multiple shooters involved in the
assassination.
Mr. Rader
was part of a committee of experts who studied the
same recording and found that it could not
have recorded assassination gunshots. He will
talk about his experience on that panel.
Biography:
Charles
Rader received a bachelors degree in 1960 and a
masters degree in electrical engineering from
Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn in 1961, and
then worked forty four years at the MIT Lincoln
Laboratory in Lexington, Massachusetts, until
his retirement in 2005. He worked on speech
processing, radar and digital signal processing. He
did some of the earliest work on digital
filtering and on the fast Fourier transform.
He was co-author, with the late Bernard Gold, of the
first book about DSP, and has written several
other books on signal processing. At the end
of the 1960s, in a brief career detour, he was
responsible for system and component
reliability of two communications satellites. These
are now the longest operating electronic
systems in space and continue to function
perfectly.
Mr. Rader
was the past president of the Signal Processing
Society and a fellow of the IEEE. He and Dr.
Gold shared the first Jack S. Kilby award for
signal processing in 1988.
Haunted
Hotel at Camp Evans
Friday/Saturday, 12/13 October 2007
Friday/Saturday,
19/20 October 2007
Friday/Saturday, 26/27 October 2007
7pm
to 11pm $10.00 per person
Wall
Township, NJ: The InfoAge first Haunted
Hotel was enjoyed by all and was a great
success. So we have
summoned the ghosts back to a second
year. Fright Master Nels and
Fright Mistress Judy Warren are busy raising
the evil spirits of Camp Evans. They
are preparing a family friendly
Halloween experience inside the
haunted Marconi Hotel for kids and parents.
If you dare to visit, the hotel will
be open 7 to 11 p.m. on Friday and Saturday,
Oct. 12, 13, 19, 20, 26, and 27. The
$10 donation will be used to help InfoAge
continue preserving Camp Evans
historic district
and to support the Drama
Clubs at Wall, Shore Regional, Monmouth
Regional, and Mater Dei High Schools. For more
information and directions please visit the InfoAge web site.
"War
of the Worlds" David Sarnoff Library Fund Raiser
Saturday,
October 27, 2007
Afternoon
Matinee: 2:00 PM
Evening Performance: 7:30 PM.
Princeton:
And now, with Halloween drawing nigh,
it's time once again for the David
Sarnoff Library's
War of the Worlds
! Yes, the Big Broadcast of 2007
takes place on Saturday, October 27,
in a matinee at 2 p.m. and an evening
performance at 7:30 p.m. Staged
by the
Hunterdon Radio Theatre
's veteran
cast and broadcast over 16 antique
radios by the
New Jersey Antique Radio Club
, Orson
Welles and Howard Koch's adaptation of
H. G. Wells's story of the Martian attack on
Earth takes you back to a time before the
internet and television, when your
ears and mind filled in what you could not
see. Staged in
Sarnoff Corporation
's
Auditorium at 201 Washington Road in
Princeton, New Jersey, just a mile
from the Martians' 1938 landing site at
Grover's Mill, this annual fundraising
event is guaranteed to entertain, educate,
and enlighten you!
In addition, acclaimed thereminist Kip Rosser
will accompany electronic musicians Gregg
Waltzer and Howard Moscovitz of the
Martian Radio Orchestra for a half hour of
appropriate "mood music" before each show!
Click here to order tickets on-line
, call Hawkins + Company at 215-885-5355 for
reservations, or order in advance through this page (Word
Document) or this page
(PDF). Matinee tickets are $10 in advance,
$15 at the door; Evening tickets including
a dessert reception with the cast are $20
in advance for ages 13-64, $25 at the door; $10
in advance for children and senior
citizens, $15 at the door. Hundreds of
people of all ages flocked to last year's
shows; don't miss out!
If you are involved in IEEE organizational
unit activities, local historical organizations,
or other social/professional
organizations, you might consider having someone
give a lecture on an aspect of the history
of electrical technology or computer
science. Several of the staff of the IEEE
History Center are happy to talk on
historical topics with which they are familiar.
Another resource available to IEEE members is
the Distinguished Lecturers Program.
Administered by TAB, each Technical
Society maintains a listing of speakers on
various topics. You can learn more about
the Program by clicking here!
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conferences or organizational unit
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