Not surprisingly, Jean Hill and her ever-expanding story of shooters on the grassy knoll was presented as well as discussions of Howard Brennan and the Newman family. Dr. Fulero again presented expert commentary and offered this analysis of Hill. Also featured on the program in a different segment was Dr. Gary Wells of the University of Iowa whose web site I managed to locate. Eyewitness testimony research includes studies of the accuracy of witness's first-hand reports of memory for objects, actions, time, distance, and people. Numerous general conclusions about the accuracy of eyewitness identifications can be derived from staged-crime experiments.
False identifications are surprisingly common in staged-crime experiments.
The subject of eyewitnesses and memory has roots in assassination literature as well. Often there is a naive belief that witnesses saw what they saw pure and simple. If skepticism is applied to eyewitness accounts, it is only to dissenting witnesses. Yet memory research has shown that memory is not a copy of an event but a reconstruction . People remember what they want.