This issue of Fair Play marks the beginning of our second year of publication. It is generally true that nobody except those directly involved in any creative project really care about anniversaries or milestones, so we don't want to make too big a deal out of this. But we'd like to note that it has been an interesting year. This mag was originally the product of two people, one of whom was compelled to withdraw after two issues. At first, it appeared that would be our death knell, but somehow we've managed to keep publishing, and even improve.
Fair Play would like to take a moment to thank all of you who have faithfully read the magazine, and in some cases taken the time to send us email with your comments. We would especially like to thank those who have sent material for publication. We mean it when we say we think of Fair Play as one big Op/Ed page, and renew our call to all of you to send us your thoughts on the JFK case--be it a detailed research paper, a letter to the editor, or something else. We have a place for just about everything.
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've been saying that for months now; eventually we will, rest assured, get off our collective rump-roasts and do it.
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 query first) to the following address:
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Fair Play was flattered to have been chosen a Cool Site of the Day on November 22, 1994. 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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