Marshall
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, Ian Griggs, Brad Parker, Robert Petit-Clerc, Martin Shackelford, John Shingler, and Jan Stevens. Additional thanks to Brad Parker for the use of his camera, and for sending us color photographs. Additional thanks, too, to Robert Petit-Clerc for the color photo of Dealey Plaza used on the November In Dallas page.
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.
The essay "The Gun that Didn't Smoke," by Richard Bartholomew and Walter Graf, was originally scheduled to run in this issue of Fair Play. But two things happened: we got swamped by coverage of the JFK-Lancer conference, and the piece itself underwent some revisions by its authors. By mutual agreement we have postponed its appearance here, but do expect to run it in the near future. It is a worthy piece and we advise you to stay tuned, as the saying goes.
There are also articles by Angus E. Crane, Brad Parker, and Martin Shackelford that were bumped from this issue, due to all of the Lancer stuff. Even editor Kelin had an item bumped, but we've been bumping that piece for the last five issues!
Briefly setting aside the first-person plural I'm usually disguised in, I'd like to acknowledge in some small way all of those who had kind words for me at the recent JFK-Lancer conference in Dallas. I was truly astonished and pleased by the generally positive and unsolicited feedback I got on Fair Play over the course of three or so days. Some of that feedback came following a peculiar and troubling incident and was precisely what I needed to hear at that time. Thanks to all who took a moment to say hello and to compliment this web site. I work pretty hard on it, especially after a conference, so all kind words are greatly appreciated.
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:
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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!
Marshall Scott Kelin, 21 months old as of January 1997, is shown here in his xmas getup, featured on our xmas cards this year. While his most oft-used word remains No, he has added many others to his vocabulary; he continues to be a source of delight.
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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