With this issue, Fair Play steps up coverage of the Assassinaton Records Review Board. We've been remiss in previous issues, in that there has been only the occasional passing reference to this federal panel. We mean to change that. We've been motivated in part by Joseph Backes, whose article in the May 1995 issue of The Fourth Decade is written with a passion and sense of urgency that is direct and inspiring.
As always, we would like to acknowledge those who have helped make this Web site what it is. Thanks to Deanie Richards of The JFK Place, who encourages input to her gopher site; researcher Lisa Pease, who maintains the ftp site accessible from FP; our friends at The Cat Machine, a World Wide Web literary magazine; David M. Stern, M.D., proprietor of the Deep Politics Bookstore; and Paul Franklin of The Alliance to Expose Government Corruption and Corporate Irresponsibility web site. Thanks also to John Whalen and Jonathan Vankin of 50 Greatetst Conspiracies of All Time. The Executive Action ftp site accessible from Fair Play's front page is maintained by Joe Riley. We expect to make back issues of Fair Play available from that site in the not-too-distant future.
We regard Fair Play as essentially one big Op-Ed page. All readers are encouraged to submit articles and letters for use in future issues. You may lambaste us, praise us, or send us Web links. We will run the most thought-provoking stuff we get.
As a rule, Fair Play is oriented toward research and journalism. But we'll run JFK-related fiction, poetry, or anything else of general interest. You may send articles via email (please send a querey first) to the following address:
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Fair Play was flattered to have been chosen a Cool Site of the Day last November 22. If you've not yet checked out this site, we suggest you do.
Editor Kelin has a tendency to adopt an editorial "we" when he writes this portion of Fair Play. The plural pronoun is just a convenient device; when he says we he usually means I. The editor has also been known to use the nom de plume, "Lionel Mirthmint." As if he were fooling anybody!
The page one photograph of the grassy knoll and the former Texas School Book Depository building was taken by the editor in October 1993. The line beneath it, about Oswald and the American public, comes from Sylvia Meagher's Accessories After the Fact.
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