Original 1975 bio:

W. R. Morris has been investigating the John F. Kennedy murder for a decade. He has interviewed more than 1,000 persons in connection with Kennedy's death probe.

Morris has a contract with Mrs. Marguerite Oswald, Lee Harvey Oswald's mother, to write a book. He is presently working on a full length book regarding Oswald's role in the assassination of President Kennedy.

Morris is the author of "THE TWELFTH OF AUGUST", a biography of Buford Pusser, the real-life "WALKING TALL" movie hero.

He has been in contact for a long time with two former agents of the Central Intelligence Agency and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. One of the ex-agents, Harry Dean of California, has agreed to permit Morris to use his name. Both agents provided Morris with first-hand information about the plot to kill Kennedy.

Morris has traveled all over the United States gathering facts about the John Kennedy murder. He spent several weeks in New Orleans with former District Attorney Jim Garrison. It was Garrison who first announced that he had evidence which pointed to a consipracy in the killing of Kennedy.

Morris has had his life threatened various times. He has received several telephone calls advising him to stop "meddling" in the Kennedy case.

Only recently, a stranger walked into Morris' office near Loretto, Tennessee, and asked the secretary if the author was in. When the secretary said he was out of town, the man handed her a copy of a national publication which had a photograph of Morris in it, then walked out of the office. In black ink, a cross-hair of a rifle scope had been drawn across Morris' picture.

Later, Morris was threatened by Eugene Hale Brading, a man he has named publicly as being involved in the Kennedy assassination.

Morris and former agent Dean were flown to New York and interviewed by Tom Snyder of NBC'S "Tomorrow" Show. However, the program was so explosive that NBC officials were afraid to air it.

W. R. Morris was born in Reagan, Tennessee, a small community in Henderson County. He spent most of his adult years as a newspaper reporter.

He is an outdoors man, and when he is not writing, he enjoys hunting and fishing.

2000 Update: Morris has since passed away.