Jack Gordon

Expert on the assasination of Robert F. Kennedy

John H. "Jack" Gordon was born and raised in Albany NY. He graduated from Hamilton College in upstate New York with a degree in American History.

Gordon came to Indiana University in 1972 and by 1978 had completed his Masters and doctoral studies in education, with a minor in American History. During his graduate school years, he began to research political assassinations in the United States, particularly the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr.

Between 1979 and 1983, Dr. Gordon taught three different classes on political assassinations at Western New England College and Holyoke Community College. During that period he created a chronological film record of President Kennedy's assassination with enhancements and photo optics provided by Robert Gordon.

In the summer of 1983, he was a consultant to NBC and British Central TV for the mini-series Kennedy starring Martin Sheen. During that same year, Dr. Gordon worked with ABC's 20/20 on a proposed program that would raise the issues surrounding new evidence of a second gun in the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy. After three months of research and full support from the producers of 20/20, an ABC Vice President turned down the project for political reasons. The same team from 20/20 later resigned from ABC after the network refused to air a scheduled show on John & Robert Kennedy's relationship to Marilyn Monroe.

In the spring of 1986, Dr. Gordon was appointed by Los Angeles Mayor Thomas Bradley to a 12-person special committee that was charged with the responsibility to select a repository for the Los Angeles police records on the assassination of Robert Kennedy. In the fall of that year, the committee recommended that the records be permanently housed within the California State Archives in Sacramento, and that a four-person advisory committee be appointed to the State of California by Mayor Bradley. Dr. Gordon was then appointed to the advisory committee that issued its recommendations to the State. The files on Robert Kennedy's assassination were finally released to the public for the first time in almost twenty years on April 19, 1988. Later that year, Dr. Gordon consulted with PBS' NOVA science series on a one-hour program related to the assassination of President Kennedy.

Dr. Gordon is currently a Trust Officer with Society Bank in Indiana. He and his wife Renee are the parents of three sons.