Malcom Ollie Couch, Jr. (born 12 July 1938, Dallas, Texas

Dallas, Texas

Dallas is the third-largest city in Texas and the ninth-largest in the United States. The Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex is the largest metropolitan area in the South and fourth-largest metropolitan area in the United States...

, USA) was the founder and president of the Tyndale Theological Seminary

Tyndale Theological Seminary

Tyndale Theological Seminary is an unaccredited private Christian seminary with its campus in Fort Worth, Texas. Tyndale's 2007-2008 Academic Catalog states: "Tyndale Theological Seminary and Biblical Institute is not accredited, and has no plans to pursue any type of accreditation for several...

. He is also an author of many books, and has written 40 documentaries on Bible

Bible

The Bible refers to any one of the collections of the primary religious texts of Judaism and Christianity. There is no common version of the Bible, as the individual books , their contents and their order vary among denominations...

 prophecies and biblical issues.

Couch is part of the Pre-Trib Study Research Group that was founded by Tim LaHaye

Tim LaHaye

Timothy F. LaHaye is an American evangelical Christian minister, author, and speaker. He is best known for the Left Behind series of apocalyptic fiction, which he co-wrote with Jerry B. Jenkins. He has written over 50 books, both fiction and non-fiction.-Early life:LaHaye was born in Detroit,...

 and Thomas Ice

Thomas Ice

Dr Thomas Ice is the executive director of the Pre-Trib Research Center on the campus of Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia. The research center was founded in 1994 by Tim LaHaye and Ice to research, teach, proclaim, and defend pre-tribulationism...

. He is also
a member of Tyndale Seminary's Conservative Theological Society.

Couch is an alumnus and vice president of the unaccredited Scofield Graduate School and Seminary located in Modesto, California

Modesto, California

Modesto is a city in, and is the county seat of, Stanislaus County, California. With a population of approximately 201,165 at the 2010 census, Modesto ranks as the 18th largest city in the state of California....

.

John F. Kennedy reporting

As a young man, Couch worked in television news. While at the Dallas Theological Seminary, Couch filmed stories for WFAA-TV

WFAA-TV

WFAA, channel 8, is an ABC-affiliated television station serving the Dallas–Fort Worth Metroplex, one of the top ten media markets in North America. The station is the flagship of Belo Corporation and the largest ABC affiliate not owned and operated by the network...

 in Dallas. It was there he was assigned to cover President Kennedy's fateful 1963 visit

Assassination of John F. Kennedy

John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the thirty-fifth President of the United States, was assassinated at 12:30 p.m. Central Standard Time on Friday, November 22, 1963, in Dealey Plaza, Dallas, Texas...

. Couch was in a media car that was part of the presidential motorcade. He and other reporters heard three shots fired as they proceeded along Houston Street toward the Texas School Book Depository

Texas School Book Depository

The Texas School Book Depository is the former name of a seven-floor building facing Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas . Located on the northwest corner of Elm and North Houston Streets, at the western end of downtown Dallas, its address is 411 Elm Street. The building is notable for its connection to...

. They looked up in time to see the barrel of a rifle being drawn back into a window in the Depository.

Education

• B.A., John Brown University
  John Brown University
  The main campus in Northwest Arkansas has been the site of the university since it was founded in 1919. JBU has 2,183 students as of the 2011-2012 school year, 1,279 of which are traditional undergraduates. Of these, 878 live on campus. The Graduate School has 468 students...
  
  
• M.A., Wheaton College
  Wheaton College (Illinois)
  Wheaton College is a private, evangelical Protestant liberal arts college in Wheaton, Illinois, a suburb west of Chicago in the United States...
  
   Graduate School
• Th.M., Dallas Theological Seminary
  Dallas Theological Seminary
  Dallas Theological Seminary is an evangelical theological seminary located in Dallas, Texas. It is known for popularizing the theological system known as Dispensationalism...
  
  
• Th.D., Louisiana Baptist University
  Louisiana Baptist University
  Louisiana Baptist University is an accredited theologically conservative Christian university, founded in 1973, located at 6301 Westport Avenue in Shreveport, Louisiana....
  
    (unaccredited)
• D.D., North Tennessee Bible Institute (unaccredited)
• D.R.S., Scofield Graduate School & Theological Seminary (unaccredited) (current Vice President)http://ananswer.org/school/faculty.html
• Ph.D., Arkansas Biblical Graduate School (unaccredited)

Books

• The Gospel Of Luke: Christ, The Son Of Man. AMG Publishers ISBN 0-89957-822-5 (2006)
• Theology: The God Of The Bible Kregel Publications (2005) ISBN 0-8254-2361-9
• Inspiration and Ininerrancy: God Has Spoken AMG Publishers ISBN 0-89957-360-6 (2003)
• Blessed Hope: The Autobiography of John Walvoord, (co-author John F. Walvoord) AMG Publishers ISBN 0-89957-361-4 (2001)
• The Hope of Christ's Return: Premillennial Commentary on 1 and 2 Thessalonians AMG Publishers ISBN 0-89957-362-2 (2001)
• An Introduction to Classical Hemeneutics: A Guide to the History and Practice of Biblical Interpretation, (co-author Russell Penney) Kregel Publications ISBN 0-8254-2367-8 (2000)
• So That's How We Got the Bible, with Bob Friedman Tyndale House Publishers ISBN 0-8423-6090-5 (1973)