Fair Play is edited and published by John Kelin; all responsibility for deciding its content must be laid at his doorstep. Contributors to this issue include Joseph Backes, Chris Courtwright, Ron Hepler, Bill MacDowall, and William Weston. Special thanks to Christopher Sharrett, Ph.D., for making Richard E. Sprague's "The Assignment of Dr. G. Robert Blakey" available to us.
Editor Kelin recently added some personal stuff to this site.
Thanks also to Deanie Richards of JFK Place. Deanie provides us with disk space for the Fair Play archive. JFK Place is an ever-improving repository for some very excellent material, and we encourage everyone to check it out.
Comments on the tragic and untimely death of Princess Diana are outside the purpose of this zine. However, in addition to extending condolences to those closest to the late Princess, and to our friends in the UK, we would like to note that --- if initial press reports are to be believed --- this tragedy was entirely unnecessary and apparently the fault of sickeningly overzealous paparazzi, who as a group have never shown any regard for decency or respect for privacy. It is especially sickening that this event will, in all likelihood, become mere fodder for these sensation-mongers. Perhaps they might learn a lesson from this. We aren't holding our breath. Perhaps they can be taught a lesson by the boycott of their product.
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!
Above is Dana Simone Kelin at about five days of age. She was born on August 19 at 10:46pm MST. Dana weighed in at seven pounds three ounces, and measured 19 inches long.
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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