Marshall and "Sessah"
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, Richard Bartholomew, "Fatback," Ed Sherry, and Jack White. Special thanks to Mike Blackwell for his time, effort, hardware, software, and technical expertise on Richard's "Rambler" piece, and to Chris Courtwright for sending us a copy of the Roy Cooper document --- one of the more significant documents to surface lately.
Thanks also to Deanie Richards of JFK Place. Deanie provides us with disk space for the Fair Play archive. Her site continues to grow and improve; 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.
Contributor Richard Bartholomew, in addition to being a fine writer and astute researcher, is also an excellent political cartoonist. You may have seen his artwork in various issues of JFK-Lancer's Assassination Chronicles, the Jan Stevens/Walt Brown JFK/Deep Politics Quarterly, or The Dealey Plaza Echo. One of his drawings also graces the Dealey Plaza UK tee-shirt. Check out Richard's web site, Drawing the Line, for many examples of his work, which deserves a much wider audience.
Incidentally, Richard urges someone out there to pick up the trail of the Rambler/George Wing question. "To my knowledge, no one has purposely followed the Rambler leads I've presented," he tells us. "I'm afraid that's because of some strange perception that it's my job." Research doesn't work that way.
Chris Courtwright, who found the Roy Cooper document reported in this issue ("Another Rambler Witness"), told Fair Play: "I spent a week at the Archives II in College Park recently working on a number of projects I am researching ... I also copied a number of other documents I stumbled across which --- although not my strong suits (i.e. Nash Rambler) --- I thought could be interesting." He posted them to various Internet groups for reaction. "It appears I hit the jackpot with the Cooper Nash Rambler statement."
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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 above photograph of the editor's wonderful son Marshall was taken in early May. He is shown here playing a variation on hide-and-seek, which he calls "Boo," with his babysitter (behind curtain).
Marshall has a baby sister (name not yet finalized) due in August --- that is, during the run of this Fair Play. Here she is in May:
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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