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1. Regarding your non-review of Norman Mailer's book, I have read his lengthy opus on Oswald. Of course, his style teaches every investigator into the JFK mystery how they should be writing. Beyond that, I can't think of much to recommend it. In the end, style over content should never win. I was truly surprised to discover such a lackluster result. The book has no index of any kind (!) and depends too much on existing materials and the dubious investigative value of Marina and Lee. I can say, however, that Oswald's Tale probably paints the most realistic portrait possible of Oswald as he was perceived by Marina. If such a portrait has importance, then Mailer's book is important. If Marina was totally out of touch with the "reality" of her husband, then the work is marginal at best. (Dick Russell pointed out that Mailer's Random House editor is also Posner's: and according to a quote in Publisher's Weekly, the man is absolutely rabid about theorists and Warren critics.)
2. If any of your readers share my opinion of Peter Dale Scott's Deep Politics and the Death of JFK--that it is an outstanding work that derserves "deep" study--they should write him at Berkeley and tell him so. He's been receiving strongly negative reactions from the book after a series of initially glowing reviews. I think he deserves better.
Keep up the good work.
Chuck Lakin
Thanks for writing. For those who haven't checked out YAHOO, it is a very useful source of WWW sites, worthy of a bookmark or any hotlist, located at the following URL:
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We cover all assassinations that affect the Presidency. So we start in 1835. We have both standard and special exhibits. We are currently running The Lincoln Exhibit and were a party in the lawsuit to exhume the Booth Body. In September 1995 we open both Robert Kennedy and "Guns of the Assassins". Jan 1996, Martin Luther King.
We have a book shop and will be opening our mail order business in August, 1995. If you have any questions, please contact me.
Tommy H. Bowden, President
peace!
Peter Iasillo
Jack Ziegler
I've an urgent reference question about a J. F. Kennedy anecdote: Allegedly in 1960 (?) JFK was asked by his electors in a town to be the founder of a university. He said that [he] would found it if the town built a library first (for the new university).
Has anybody heard this before? If it's true, what was the year and the town? And is there any written source about this story?
Thank you for your help and your time!
Laszlo Drotos
kondrot@gold.uni-miskolc.hu
reference librarian
Univ. Miskolc Central Library
Hungary
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