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 and Jerrold Smith. Considerable gratitude is also extended to Mr. Smith for the loan of a tape recorder and several blank tapes at a critical juncture. Thanks to Michael Nurko for providing a copy of videotape he shot on the grassy knoll during the 1997 remembrance ceremony, and to Debra Conway for an audiotape of Mary Ferrell's keynote speech.
Thanks also to Mike Blackwell for the photograph of the "Moment of Silence" on November 22, 1997. This photograph is Copyright © 1997 by Mike Blackwell. All other photographs Copyright © 1997 by John Kelin, except the photograph captioned "A rapt audience at a 1996 John Armstrong presentation," Copyright © 1996 by John Kelin, and the pictures of JFK's shirt and jacket, which are FBI photos.
Thanks to everyone who had kind words for Fair Play in Dallas last November. Sometimes I forget that people actually read this thing. Positive feedback is greatly appreciated.
My apologies to those researchers whose work, presented in Dallas, is not mentioned here. Preparing this issue was very time consuming, and a certain amount of attrition came into play.
A big thank you goes 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.
Editor Kelin has added some personal stuff to this site.
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!
The photo above was in the running for use on our xmas cards this year. Marshall (right) seemed to enjoy sitting with sister Dana for this photo, but his true feelings may be gleaned by looking at the picture 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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