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, Richard Bartholomew, Russell Kent, Jerrold Smith, and Vince Palamara. Thanks to Christopher Sharrett for sending a copy of the Harold Feldman article, and providing an Introduction.
When Fair Play began in 1994, there was a conscious decision to focus exclusively on the JFK case. With this issue, we are altering that policy. While the Kennedy assassination will remain the primary concern, we are open to the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr., Robert Kennedy, Malcolm X, and other deaths of suspicious circumstances, such as that of Karen Silkwood.
Thanks as always 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!
Little Marshall, seen on the left, turned three in April. His party --- more than a dozen two and three year olds together! --- was a chaotic but smashing good time; we rented one of those enormous inflatable netting-enclosed "Astro Jump" things and the kids all jumped themselves ragged. Darling Dana turned eight months old a few weeks later. She's just beginning to crawl, has two teeth as of this writing (both front lower) and one of the coolest laughs I have ever heard in one so young. But, I am biased.
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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