Michael L. Kurtz

Michael L. Kurtz (born August 26, 1941 in New Orleans, Louisiana) is a professor emeritus of history at Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond. He is known for his research into the assassination of John F. Kennedy, in which he has concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald did not act alone.[1]

Michael L. Kurtz
Born (1941-08-26) August 26, 1941
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Alma materUniversity of New Orleans

University of Tennessee

Tulane University
OccupationHistorian
Professor emeritus at Southeastern Louisiana University
Notable work
Assassination of John F. Kennedy
Political partyRepublican
Spouse(s)Isabella Stoddard Kurtz
ChildrenMichael David Kurtz
Linda Suzanne Kurtz

In 1995, Kurtz testified on the Kennedy assassination before the Assassination Records Review Board chaired by U.S. District Judge John R. Tunheim.[2]

Kurtz has published on other topics of American history, notably the career of Louisiana Governor Earl Kemp Long, co-authored with the late professor Morgan D. Peoples of Louisiana Tech University.[3]

Kurtz received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of New Orleans, a Master of Arts from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, and a Ph.D. from Tulane University in New Orleans.[4] He is married to the former Isabella Stoddard.[5] The couple has a son, Michael David Kurtz, an attorney,[6] and a daughter, Linda Suzanne Kurtz, a degree-holding registered nurse.[7]

Notes
  1. Kurtz, Michael L. (1993). Crime of the century: The Kennedy assassination from a historian's perspective. Knoxville, Tennessee: University of Tennessee Press. ISBN 0-87049-824-X.
  2. United States Assassination Records Review Board (June 28, 1995). "Review Board's final report". New Orleans, Louisiana. Retrieved December 12, 2011. |chapter= ignored (help)
  3. Kurtz, Michael L.; Peoples, Morgan Dewey (1992). Earl K. Long: The saga of Uncle Earl and Louisiana politics. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. ISBN 0-8071-1765-X.
  4. Southeastern Louisiana University (2010). General Catalogue 2010-2011 (PDF). p. 33. Retrieved 2011-12-12.
  5. Kurtz information on Intelius.com (accessed 2011-12-15).
  6. "Michael David Kurtz". AVVO Rating. 2011. Retrieved 2011-12-15.
  7. "Class of May 2011". LSUHSC. New Orleans. May 2011. Retrieved 2011-12-15.
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