Michael L. Kurtz, Ph.D.

Michael L. Kurtz, Ph.D., a historian and dean of graduate studies at Southeastern Louisiana University, is the author of the 1993 book, Crime of the Century: The Kennedy Assassination from a Historian’s Perspective. He is also author of “The Assassination of John F. Kennedy: A Historical Perspective,” published in The Historian in 1982; and “Lee Harvey Oswald: A Reappraisal,” published in Louisiana History in 1980, among other articles. For the past 30 years, Professor Kurtz has taught a senior-level course on the assassination at SLU, in addition to his many lectures and panel appearances on the assassination at Tulane University, the University of New Orleans, and other institutions. A recent contributor to a public television series and companion book celebrating Louisiana history, he has also co-authored a biography of Louisiana Governor Earl Long. Professor Kurtz is currently researching and writing a new study of the assassination, Conflict and Consensus in the JFK Assassination Debates, due to be published next year by the University Press of Kansas.