[142]FORENSIC EXPERT BRINGS TALES OF WAR DEAD RECOVERY MISSIONS TO MTSU

FORENSIC EXPERT BRINGS TALES OF WAR DEAD RECOVERY MISSIONS TO MTSU
Free Oct. 15 Lecture Reveals Work in Beirut, Aboard USS Stark and at Pentagon

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Oct. 6, 2008
EDITORIAL CONTACT: Dr. Hugh Berryman, 615-494-7713

(MURFREESBORO)— MTSU’s Forensic Institute for Research and Education and the Distinguished Lectures Committee are bringing Dr. Thomas Holland to the university to speak on his work with various recovery missions in some of the most dangerous and remote regions of the world.
Holland will give his presentation, “The Recovery of U.S. War Dead,” on Wednesday, Oct. 15, at 7 p.m. in the State Farm Room of the Business and Aerospace Building. The address is part of the William Bass Lectureship Series.
Holland is the scientific director of the Joint POW-MIA Accounting Command-Central Identification Lab as well as a published fiction writer.
His work with the JPAC-CIL has been a focus for various news media and television programs because of the organization’s efforts in identifying remains of victims killed in the 1983 Marine barracks bombing in Beirut, Lebanon; sailors who died in a 1987 missile attack on the USS Stark in the Persian Gulf; and the people on board and on the ground when a Boeing 757 struck the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001.
The event is free and open to the public. For more information, please contact 615-494-7713 or visit www.mtsu.edu/fire/lectureships.shtml.

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IN BRIEF: MTSU’s Forensic Institute for Research and Education and the Distinguished Lectures Committee are bringing Dr. Thomas Holland to the university to speak on his work with various recovery missions in some of the most dangerous and remote regions of the world. Holland will give his presentation, “The Recovery of U.S. War Dead,” on Wednesday, Oct. 15, at 7 p.m. in the State Farm Room of the Business and Aerospace Building. The event is free and open to the public. For more information, please contact 615-494-7713 or visit www.mtsu.edu/fire/lectureships.shtml.

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