On his 18th birthday Robert Groden was playing hooky from high school when a blockbuster news story hit NBC TV News: President John F. Kennedy had been shot from a hill along the parade route during a campaign stop in Dallas, Texas. 

In this episode of Beyond the Classroom, Robert Groden tells Bill the unlikely story of a New York teenager who, some 12 years after the events of November 22, 1963, revealed the definitive visual account of the assassination of President Kennedy on the Jeraldo Revera show.

Robert Groden has been researching the assassination of President John F.Kennedy since 1964 and is considered a leading critic of the Warren Commission. Robert has assembled the largest photographic and film evidence on the case. He has also investigated the medical evidence and personally interviewed most of the medical professionals present that day.

In 1975, Robert showed the Zapruder Film live on national television (Good Night America, ABC TV). As a result, he was invited to address the US House of Representatives to present the case for conspiracy via photographic and other evidence. He was then invited to show his evidence to the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington D.C.  Two days later, a resolution to reopen the investigation was introduced by Representative Thomas N. Downing of Virginia. This led to the creation of the House Select Committee to Investigate Assassinations. Robert was the staff photographic consultant for the life of the committee. He authored the dissenting opinion report for the HSCA photographic panel. He has consulted with other investigations since then. Mr. Groden has written 8 books on the assassination. He has consulted on numerous documentaries over the years. He worked with Oliver Stone on his landmark film, JFK. Robert continues to investigate the assassination as he feels that “although it may be too late for justice, it is never too late for the truth”.