
It has been said that the American people are the only jury that Lee Harvey Oswald will ever have. It is our responsibility, then, to examine with utmost care and objectivity the evidence for and against him, and to reach an independent verdict.
Fair Play Issue #7, November-December, 1995
In This Fair Play...
- The COPA Conference The Coalition on Political Assassination's second national conference was in the nation's capital in October. Fair Play's John Kelin attended, and prepared this overview of the weekend, which includes highlights from Robert Tannenbaum's keynote address.
- COPA and the ARRB The ARRB held a public meeting in Washington the day after the COPA conference ended. That meeting, and related matters, are covered in this article by Joseph Backes.
- The COPA Conference: Panels and Presentations
- Historical Overview This collection of presentations focuses mostly on Ruth and Michael Paine, but also includes an essay on the assassination controversy's impact on American democracy, and a theory of the assassination by George Michael Evica.
- Medical Evidence The topics range from Bloodspatter Analysis to skull fragments and brain photographs.
- Lee Harvey Oswald Oswald and the ONI, Oswald and the CIA, Oswald and the Candy Box...will the real Lee Oswald please stand up?
- Investigative Leads Pointers for future investigation.
- Assassinations Records Review Board Three representatives of the ARRB, including its Chairman, spoke at the COPA Conference. Also, surprising information from the City of Dallas archives.
- Thirty Years After Warren Sure, it's hard to fathom. But Gerald Posner may have given readers of Case Closed the wrong impression here and there. (This article by Brad J. Parker was submitted to and accepted by COPA, but was also submitted independently to Fair Play.)
- A Peek Inside the Trauma Room This list, compiled by Brad Parker with the assisstance of Charles Crenshaw, M.D., is an attempt to account for everyone known to have been in Trauma Room One when JFK was on the table.
- Honoring the Past "First Generation" Warren Commission critics were paid tribute at the COPA Conference. Article by John Kelin.
- Sylvia Meagher This early critic of the Warren Commission is the namesake for a new COPA award. A brief profile of Sylvia Meagher (her last name rhymes with "star") by John Kelin.
- Who's Who and What's What What organizations are actively working toward resolving the JFK case? Where can you locate that hard-to-find assassination title? Fair Play presents a catalogue of the sources and resources we're aware of.
- Miscellaneous, Errata, Et Cetera This file contains a hodgepodge of stuff, including some info on events in Dallas, November 1995, and a review of a strange little book.
- JFK Bibliography A Fair Play listing of books relating to the Kennedy assassination.
- Updates From time to time, there is information we'd like to add, post-deadline, to Fair Play. Rather than wait until the next issue to publish it, we'll be uploading it to this file. There may not be anything there at all...but we invite all readers to check back now and then to take a look at the "Updates" file.
- Reader Feedback A sampling of reader reaction to Fair Play, which first came online November 22, 1994.
- Excuses Those of us responsible for Fair Play.
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