Life
Sprague graduated from Purdue University in 1942 and after World War II was employed as an engineer at Northrup Aircraft. Sprague worked as an advisor to Henry Gonzalez on House Resolution 203 which proposed the appointment of a committee to investigate the circumstances surrounding the deaths of John Kennedy, Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King. He later served as a consultant to the first and second General Counsels of the House Select Committee on Assassinations. Sprague began investigating the Kennedys' assassination on his own in 1966 upon Zapruder film.
Sprague served a year as photographic expert advisor in the investigations conducted by New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison. As First Assistant District Attorney in Philadelphia Sprague run up a record of 69 homicide convictions out of 70 prosecutions. In 1968 he co-founded the Committee to Investigate Assassinations. Sprague later worked as a full time consultant to Battelle Memorial Institute of Frankfurt.
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