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Very encouraging response in toto, Lawrence! First I have heard about the RFK Family trust, and now I wonder what Bobby scooped up.

Roger, you've made real progress, it seems to me! it's wonderful that you have a statement from NARA to the effect that it has the power to collect outstanding JFKA records. The NARA response does frame this power as being over an "agency." Which I take to mean "another U.S. government entity." Expanding on the history of just how the Zapruder film came to be at NARA might be in order. Yes, NARA knows the ARRB bought it for a bazillion dollars from a private party. You might as well save time and make sure they know you know. (If it were me writing it, I would try to get around saying "original" Zapruder film. "The best available Zapruder film?" Maybe just say "the Zapruder film?") You mention who's got the Darnell film, but not that Comcast also has the Wiegman film. There is an extra "was" in the third paragraph from last. Again, great work and thank you!

Is that where I read Elon Musk's father was in Dallas on 11.22.63?

The epitome of frankness.

Vince Palamara has documented that at least some active White House Detail Secret Service claimed revulsion by what they saw as Kennedy's immoral, persistent and reckless personal behavior. Making him in their eyes vulnerable to being blackmailed, and a real national security risk. That's before you even get to him cutting deals with Commies.

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Books can go in and out of print, without affecting copyright, is my take. There is as you say a sunset provision on copyright.

I think that, in print or no, the copyright holder would have to be ok with it.

Gee whiz, to this lay person, if NARA stated in the Federal Register that it continues to supplement the records, and is successor in function to the ARRB, then, as a practical matter, it can't be functional without having the power. And Congress surely didn't intend that!

My introduction to the history of CIA interest in LSD came in the form of Acid Dreams, a social history of psychedelia by Lee and Shlain in 1998. Ron, the Grateful Dead released "Truckin'" in 1970, a bit later on than the period which inspired Wolfe to write The Kool-Aid Acid Test. Knowledgeable folks said Wolfe's book would have been better if Wolfe had himself "drunk the kool-aid." For a song that clearly was influenced by the Dead's tenure as the Acid Test house band, you want to listen to "The Other One," the meaty center of the song suite called "That's It For The Other One."

True that. My only minor point, for which I used too few words, as usual, was that, as others suggested, the company might have had a policy that the door is locked at lunch time, due to being short staffed, there's a safe in the office, etc. An "office manager" on duty might have had instruction, permission to lock the door during that time. Of course, this supposition is undercut somewhat if the other publishing companies *didn't* lock their doors at lunch.

That's right. I worked in retail. Door managers live for the moment they can permissibly lock the door.

Hear, hear.

I missed the June Current Affairs article. I'm embarrassed, how much I needed that. Cartoon drawing of Wellstone needs work. Anniversary of his death just past. His death hit me like a ton of bricks. Paul was for me like my pet Senator. Since my own in North Carolina are worse than useless. His death still seems so convenient and improbable. Worse than Hale Boggs. Two pilots, twin-engine King Air crashes, but planes land safely there earlier and later in the day. How were FBI on the scene so quickly? How come there was such a large fire? Shouldn't the fuel tanks have been near empty?

Allies! Allies in office!! Congressman Cohen, I'm considering a move to Memphis.

OMG, I have to quote Nigel, again, from This Is Spinal Tap:

Thank you, Joseph, for the McGovern links. I think I've read all the MM corrective material you've published at Kennedys and King, James, and I appreciate it. But what's better? Pretend this thing doesn't exist? Or deal with it? How did that fella put it? Silence confers assent?

Published in the print edition of the October 10, 2022, issue, with the headline “Spooked.” Now that's pithy.

I reckon we should all be brushing up on our nuclear brinkmanship.

The Cuban Missile Crisis: Even more fraught than you thought. Not yet four at the time, I was oblivious. I remember that, years later, my mom alluded to what it was like. She said it seemed to her and those she knew that WWIII was right around the corner. Bend down, put your head between your legs, and kiss your ass goodbye.

Sandy, I used Firefox, on a Mac. It wasn’t a pop-up window. Those messages displayed immediately after I hit the donate button.

I estimated what we need from everyone likely to donate, in order to reach 1.5 large. Then I divided that number in half and donated using Sandy's GoFundMe link. What sort of methodology is that? I am hoping to find in the coming days that I underestimated how many would donate. And, I have a little more money coming next month. I can give more later. As I made the donation I encountered the following message: First of all, shouldn't it say, "You're supporting the JFK Assassination Debate at the Education Forum." Perhaps the second statement, "Your donation will benefit Sanford Larsen," is appropriate and unavoidable. But it seems to me that it could be off-putting. If the language could be tweaked or elaborated on, that might be good. I'm tremendously grateful, Gordon, and Sandy, for all your efforts in support of the forum.

Thanks for the pic! House looks more middle-class than I was expecting. Have there been JFKA conferences in Brookline? I'd be more likely to attend a conference there, than in Dallas. Dallas strikes me as irredeemable. Douglas Caddy notwithstanding. Something tells me, though, that the Kennedy clan prefers researchers gather elsewhere. I hope your surgery goes well, Allen.

Great news. Thank you, Sandy.

Like Jean Paul said, been busy doing other things. But I do have Destiny Betrayed in my Very Long Line Of Books I Haven't Read. I arranged them in terms of how tall they are. I'm reading the tallest books first. That puts yours, James, right in the middle. But as penance, I read pp. 204-07. Shenanigans galore. Mystery address sticker with bogus address on package with no fingerprints "found" in Irving two weeks after the murder. I'm trying to sum up how hinky this was in one sentence, and I can't.