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The subject of back issues has been increasingly important to us, but the facts of the matter are we have limited disk space at Fair Play. That makes it difficult to keep back issues online. As a partial solution to this, we begin, with this issue, to make available articles that have already appeared in this magazine. In the coming months, look for repeats of an interview with Gaeton Fonzi; the article "In Defense of Roger Craig;" and the quasi-fictional collage stories by Lionel Mirthmint, including "Cops and Witnesses."
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Thank you. We've been quite surprised at how supportive everyone has been. We have yet to record our first flame.
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No, he did not. Oswald announced his renouncemnet of his citizenship of the United States on a Staturday. He was told that he had to come on a usual business day ( Monday ), in order to fill out ' nessesary forms'. But when the following Monday arrived, Oswald did not go back to the American Embassy, thus never renouncing his citizenship.
Michael Ferrari
Age 13
PLEASE NOTE: I am a part of the new generation of Americans who wish to know the truth.
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Thank you for the flattering remarks. Right off the top of our heads, we can think of three people--Penn Jones, Jr., Jim Garrison, and Oliver Stone--who dedicated their works to "the youth of tomorrow." You are of that group, and we are heartened that you are interested in continuing the quest for truth.
Addendum: Fair Play wrote back to Michael asking permission to run his email. He agreed, but added:
I am glad that you agree with the note I sent. But, please, give credit to Jim Marrs, author of Crossfire, in which I found this fact.
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We are constantly striving to improve both Fair Play, and the JFK Bibliography presented here in each issue. There are, of course, hundreds of books relating to this case--by one estimate there are more than six hundred. There is no way we can read them all. However, the Manchester book is on our list, and we hope to add it eventually.
Our bibliography has been updated since the last issue of Fair Play, thanks in part to some shameless cribbing from David R. Wrone's "The Assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy: An Annotated Bibliography." Look for further updates in the next issue of FP.
We were taken to task once before for leaving Mortal Error off of our list. Still haven't read that one, either. We're trying to get a short review of it from one of our readers for inclusion in our bibliography. Consider this a formal invitation: if you note a book missing from the JFK Bibliography that you feel should be there, feel free to write a capsule (one paragraph) review and send it along, using the email form included on this page. Be sure to note the author and year of publication. We cannot promise to include it, of course, but all submissions will be seriously considered.
Regarding Manchester's book: we haven't read it, but did read portions of The Manchester Affair, by John Corry (though it is not in the bibliography). Here is an interesting excerpt, from Chapter Two:
From "The Manchester Affair:"
In time, some four hundred cubic feet of documents that the Warren Commission had sifted as it weighed the death of President Kennedy were deposited [in the National Archives]. Manchester read nearly all of them. He worked those days on the fourth floor of the Archives Building. Evelyn Lincoln, who had been John Kennedy's private secretary, toiled in the room next to his, sorting out the Kennedy papers...
Because Manchester is a diligent researcher, he read the [Warren] report and the [26] supporting volumes of testimony not once but several times...The testimony is a mélange of contradictions; eye-witnesses differed in their recollections and it led the earliest critics of the Warren Report to some startling conclusions. Manchester faced the problem early in his research; it was an enervating job...
Later, Manchester watched the film of John Kennedy's death that was taken by Abraham Zapruder, the Dallas dressmaker who was standing in Dealey Plaza when the President's motorcade passed by. Manchester does not know how often he saw it, perhaps seventy-five, perhaps one hundred times. There is the President sitting upright, waving, then slumping. A fine spray of blood and pieces of skull are thrown into the air in one quick upheaval. It is wrenching to see this once; it is horrifying to see it as many times as Manchester did.
...There were more ominous things, too. In the fall, [Jacqueline] Kennedy received a letter from a woman who had been interviewed by Manchester. She thought he had acted oddly. Once, she wrote, he had stepped to a window and peered at a clump of bushes outside. She said Manchester had insisted the bushes were trembling, that there were men hiding there. "I've been followed," he said, "ever since I began this book."
On November 9, 1965, when a power failure blacked out most of the Northeast, Manchester called Arthur Schlesinger and told him that it was a sign, that it was just the way it had been in Saigon before the fall of Dien Bien Phu. He had been there, Manchester said, and he knew.
Thirteen days later, on November 22, two years to the day after the assassination, Manchester sat alone and wrote that "Lee Oswald was killed in the presence of more than 70 uniformed police officers."..."This is Camus," he said later. "This is the theater of the absurd. I sat and stared at it. This was just before I went into the hospital."
For weeks Manchester had been tired, had felt incredible exhaustion. He had reached the part in his manuscript that dealt with Oswald, and to write it he had forced himself to re-create in his mind the events of Dallas, to be both observer and participant. This was no abstract history. It was a painful communion. Manchester's nerves were bad. The passages about Oswald were defeating him. He would sit and stare at the manuscript, toying with a pen, unable to do anything. He is a man long accustomed to erratic hours. Now he would get a long night's sleep and awake exhausted, still unable to write.
Schlesinger had told friends that he feared Manchester was teetering on the edge of a breakdown. He was, but rumors about it outstripped the reality. In Washington there was a story that he had lapsed into catatonic schizophrenia. A friend called and urged him to at least put in an appearance in the capital and dispel the rumor. Manchester said it was not necessary.
On November 26 he entered a hospital in Portland, Connecticut. For twelve days he lay in bed, unable to work, not wanting to work. On the thirteenth day he rose and insinuated himself into a doctor's vacant office. He had his files and a typewriter brought to him. He stayed there for eight weeks, and when he left his manuscript was nearly complete.
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Take a look at alt.conspiracy.jfk and see what these bandits/thugs are up to. They are even "posting FAQs" in a blatant attempt to deceive the public. A certain "Lokkian of the Church of Posner/Denial" is the main self-exposed/admitted crook/wacko behind this ridiculous trickery. Along with his accomplices "Stagerian," "Rathbonian", and "Macadamianut of ISPR/x-Comdisco," this wienerramus tries to fool unsuspecting net.readers into thinking that his "FAQs/BS/Craps" represent accepted opinion about the JFK assassination. No matter how many times this self-confessed/evident fraud is exposed, Lokkian" and his cronies never stop denying the Warrenian government's wanton annihilation of 2.5 million facts.
Sincerely,
Serdar Oswald
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