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Shortly after this issue of Fair Play was uploaded on October 31, I heard from a researcher with whom I am in occasional contact. "When I read that article by Chris Courtwright," he told me, "it was almost like reading about myself!"
The article he referred to, "One That Fell Through the Cracks," in this issue, describes Courtwright's fruitless efforts to get the ARRB to obtain records from the FBI concerning a possible Oswald impersonation in Dallas in 1961. The researcher who contacted me had similar fruitless efforts in another area of study.
He was puzzled why this new Fair Play originally made no mention at all of Mac Wallace, who earlier this year was identified as a possible TSBD sixth floor gunman (see "JFK Breakthrough?", Fair Play #23, July-August 1998). "Do you realize," the researcher asked me, "that there is not one mention of Wallace in all of the ARRB's Final Report?" I replied, unconvincingly, that I did.
The researcher found it especially difficult to fathom this omission from the Report, because a group of researchers with whom he is associated filed, under the signature of Houston attorney Barr McClellan, a petition with the Board submitting fingerprint and other supporting evidence implicating Wallace in the assassination --- as the petition stated, "new evidence relevant to the federal records under review by this Board." The case, the researcher told me, remains part of an ongoing FBI investigation.
Consequently, on November 3 I spoke with Marjorie Poché of the FBI's Dallas office. When I explained why I called, her initial respone was, "Who's Mac Wallace?" But she said she'd check the status of the case and get back to me.
She didn't, though, so two days later I finally called her back. This time I left a message on her voice mail requesting she call me. I am not holding my breath; as this is uploaded several days later, the call has not been returned, and I don't expect it to be. Frankly, I assume that if I tell a Fed I publish a newsletter on the JFK case, I am automatically typed a conspiracy nut.
In any case, the Board was given a credible, potentially significant lead in this case, yet apparently did not act on it --- and did not even see fit to mention it in its Final Report. With this in mind, Fair Play invites anyone with an under- or unpublicized point of view on the Board and its work, for better or worse, to write and tell us about it. Replies will be compiled and published in a future (probably the next) issue.
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