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 Milicent Cranor, James W. Douglass, Martin Shackelford, and Jerrold Smith. Thanks also to Vincent Salandria.
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.
Editor Kelin has added some personal stuff to this site.
This issue completes five years of Fair Play publication. Hooray. As we bang our heads against the glass of the millenium, we cannot honestly say we'll be doing this all that much longer. But we will try. And when we say "we," we mean "I."
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:
jkelin@rmi.netLet us know what you think of Fair Play!
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!
One of Marshall's favorite songs is Jonathan Richman's "I'm A Little Airplane." He appears to be acting it out in this photograph. Marshall and Dana are shown on the campus of the University of California-Santa Barbara, where we spent a week this past August, at the UCSB Alumni Association's Family Vacation Center.
The pumpkins Dana poses with here eventually became jack-o-lanterns. Dana named one of them "Freddy," and the other one "Amy." I don't know why.
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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