Dennis W. MacDonald is professor emeritus of sociology at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, NH. He received his PhD is sociology from the University of New Hampshire. He has studied, taught and written on social philosophy, human ecology, global sociology, and social problems. He was an undergraduate student in 1971 when he first met Harold Weisberg after having invited him to speak at a symposium on the Kennedy and King assassinations at the University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point. His interest in the Kennedy assassination continued in the form of several courses and a number of papers, among them, "Criminal Investigation?Dallas Style: Police Handling of Evidence in the JFK Assassination" and "The JFK Assassination and the Failure of Institutions: The Sociological Significance of a Major Historical Event."

Gerald A. Ginocchio is professor emeritus of sociology at Wofford College in Spartanburg, SC. He received his PhD in sociology from the University of New Hampshire. He has studied, taught, and written on sociological theory, criminology, race and ethnic relations, and social problems. Over his thirty-five-year teaching career, he has taught several special topics courses on the JFK assassination, given a number of interviews to local media, and presented public lectures on the assassination, including a talk on "The JFK Autopsy and Assassination Investigation" in 2019 at St. Francis Hospital in Greenville, SC. He is coauthor of "The JFK Assassination and the Failure of Institutions: The Sociological Significance of a Major Historical Event."