Fair Play is edited and published by John Kelin; all credit or blame for its content must be laid at his doorstep. Contributors to this issue include Joseph Backes, Martin Shackelford, and Fatback. Additional thanks to Mr. Shackelford for helping us obtain information from the October 18-20 COPA Conference.
Thanks also to Deanie Richards of JFK Place, who encourages input to her gopher site. Deanie provides us with disk space for our Fair Play archive. Her site continues to grow and improve --- and we say that not because our archive is there. It is a repository of some very excellent material and we encourage everyone to check it out; a link to it is on our Links page. We understand that JFK Place may soon make the leap to a full-fledged Web site.
As we said at this time last year: Hooray for us! With this issue we complete two years of electronic publication. We have no idea where this runaway train is headed.
Fair Play was founded in 1994 by John Kelin and Lalo J. Gastriani. We regard it as 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 query first) to the following address:
jkelin@rmii.comLet us know what you think of Fair Play! Click here for an E-Z email form.
Fair Play was flattered to have been rated among the top five percent of all sites on the Web. The rating came from an outfit called Point Survey, who describe themselves thusly: "Point is a free service which rates and reviews only the best sites on the World Wide Web. We provide surfers with a standard of excellence: a catalog of the most lively, useful, and fun sites on the Net."
Fair Play was also 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!
As summer turned to fall, Marshall Scott Kelin was obliged to submit to his very first haircut. We didn't really want to do it, but a parent can stand having his son mistaken for a daughter only so many times. The results are shown below.
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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