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 Ian Griggs, William Kelly, Joan Mellen, Vincent J. Salandria, Dr. E. Martin Schotz, and Christopher Sharrett.
Thanks, as always, go 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.
With this issue we formally begin republishing a series of articles by Vincent J. Salandria. Mr. Salandria was kind enough to send us a stack of his old articles recently, with permission to re-publish them. We feel very priviliged to make them available on the Internet.
Ideally, we would run them chronologically, but we are going to stray somewhat from that ideal. The three earliest of these articles were republished several years ago in Dr. E. Martin Schotz' excellent History Will Not Absolve Us (Kurtz, Ulmer, & DeLucia Book Publishers, 1996). And Fair Play republished two others (FP #16, May-June 1997). And so we begin with "The Design of the Warren Report: to Fall to Pieces" in this issue, which first appeared in 1977, and to our knowledge has not appeared anywhere since. After this we will begin running the articles chronologically. You should download them all, and make everyone you know read them.
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!
As usual, this space is reserved for pictures of the editor's kids. Marshall is shown here goofing around with a shingle, found in the yard after a windy night. He turned four in April. Sometimes, so that I may eat lunch in relative peace, I give him my stapler and scrap paper, which amuses him for minutes at a time. A magnet helps in the cleanup. Little sister Dana is as sharp as a tack; she is shown here experimenting with the word "no."
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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