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BTW, Larry posted much in support and praise of the MFF in two month old thread I quoted from, in my last post. I would have appreciated his disclosure that he was on file as
a director of the MFF..... but maybe he forgot, or assumed those who need to know of his affiliation, already know.

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Yeah...it's great....we know.... you told us!

https://www.maryferrell.org/pages/About_MFF.html
About the Mary Ferrell Foundation
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Testimonials .....
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"The full resources of the Mary Ferrell site are nothing less than indispensable. If you have an interest in Cold War-era history and want to work from facts, from original sources - then there is simply no comparable alternative. You will be far better served by this collection of real documents than by the morass of information (and misinformation) found on the Internet and even in many books. If you are serious, you need to be using this resource."

- Larry Hancock, author "Someone Would Have Talked" .........

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Robert Chapman

........Robert oversaw new research being offered, particularly regarding document releases by the ARRB in his tenure as
Editor of "Assassination Chronicles" published by JFK Lancer
and shared his finds liberally. He also spent years with writers
helping with their research, offering his knowledge and
encouraging their writing. Robert was a crucial negotiator
in the purchase of Mary Ferrell's collection by businessman
Ollie Curme and oversaw the creation of millions of pages of
JFK assassination documents now online as the Mary Ferrell
Foundation. In 1997, Robert was awarded the JFK Lancer
"New Frontier" Award, which is "In appreciation for your
contribution of new evidence and furthering the study of the
assassination of President John F. Kennedy."

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Rex Bradford - Posted 26 April 2007

Charles and anyone else who's interested:

Sorry, I haven't been on the forum much in the last couple of weeks, and so didn't notice that the Mary Ferrell Foundation has been discussed. Hopefully the following information will be of use here:

* The Mary Ferrell Foundation is a 501©3 non-profit foundation. As has been alluded to, Oliver Curme is President of the Foundation and has been a principal financial sponsor. The Foundation is also funded by private donations (you can donate over the website yourself, and I encourage it), individual memberships at $39.95 per year (affords the ability to conduct searches - NO documents are withheld from free browsing), campus-wide institutional memberships, and sales of republished books. Lona Therrien is the Executive Director, and I am responsible for the document and multimedia collections and the writing which appears in "starting points" and other areas of the site.

* Mary Ferrell's archives are in possession of the foundation. Some of her voluminous holdings, including her well-known "name database" and her chronologies, are online on the website. We have also scanned hundreds of her books and made them available for limited fair-use searching. The vast bulk of what she had was newspaper clippings and magazine issues - these are problematic for us to put online due to copyright issues. I am still going through some of the other materials for inclusion on the website, and expect to put up more from time to time.

* The Mary Ferrell Foundation is not meant to be Mary-centric to the exclusion of other resources. I am also Vice-President of the Assassination Archives and Research Center (AARC) - Jim Lesar is the President - and have over the past several months been giving priority to putting up collections of CIA records from the AARC. These are much more "current" (less redacted) than the much smaller set of such records in Mary's collection. Shortly we will begin processing and putting online the AARC's FBI collection, which I also view as a high-priority project. Thus given limited resources we have put the most important of Mary's materials online so far. Some of what remains will be put online over time. Some of it may never be, given copyright issues or simply not having enough value (she had literally thousands of books on peripheral topics such as Chinese Communism, Soviet history, and more).

* I met Mary on two or three occasions in Dallas, and do not care to weigh in on the "Mary as govt agent" theory, other than to note that the famous list which appeared in Regicide and other places is in fact the list of subscribers to the organization of retired intelligence officers, created by David Phillips. If I had been involved in the case back then, I might have subscribed as well, to see what Phillips et al were up to.

* I am happy to take suggestions as to what materials people find of interest and would like to see on the MFF website. Unfortunately many of the records remain "trapped in public" at the National Archives - it is expensive, time-consuming, and backbreaking to scan or photocopy records there. I know from having personally liberated about 15,000 pages from NARA. The HSCA Numbered Files, for instance, is an important 300,000 page collection which exists nowhere else.

I'm happy to discuss the Mary Ferrell Foundation further though I may decline to answer questions about individuals associated with the Foundation our of respect for their privacy, and knowing that such discussions will not in the end be useful to anyone. I personally think the MFF website speaks for itself, and again I'm happy to work to make it more useful still to the members of this forum.

For people who don't know me, I am also the creator of the History Matters website (www.history-matters.com), and operate the AARC's website as well (www.aarclibrary.org).

Thanks for your time.

Rex Bradford

Ok, Mr. Bradford, I get it. There is a man who has showered seven figures, according to IRS non-profit org filings, on at least one researcher and family, and six figures on another, and at one time in this new
century, it was reported that the MF physical archive was stored in two sealed containers on his Massachusetts property, and then Baylor U. was selected by some process to participate as custodian of some of the MF archive. Is there a petition process similar to FOIA to prod more transparency? For instance, was Lifton actually paid not to write?

I hope you can appreciate why I my enthusiasm for 2017JFK.org is.....tepid. As Jim Di touched on earlier, why do all the listed, affiliated sites seem so well and narrowly connected?