03-04-2010, 06:06 PM
David, Your flippancy does not become you. Why haven't you stated your position on HARVEY & LEE? And why haven't you sent me a copy of the cassette of your recording of the conversation with Judyth? If you don't want to post an article from The Dallas Observer, so be it. But why not contribute to a better understanding of your position? It is not as though these matters were of no historical significance. I think you should reconsider. Jim
[quote name='David Lifton' post='188625' date='Apr 3 2010, 11:52 AM']
Judyth,
Regarding my filmed interview with Rachel some 20 years ago:
You are sliming it up again, and your statements are completely inaccurate. Since you basically engage in fiction writing, this probably does not bother you--but it does bother me. FYI: Rachel was not paid "a few dollars", and no one took advantage of her. Rachel was paid thousands of dollars, and made the choice herself that a filmed interview we had previously done (the year before) be utilized by HARDCOPY, in producing a brief program that would be just as positive as the one we had done the year before about her mother. In that case, four segments were produced, and Marina was quite satisfied with them. Her husband was portrayed as innocent, based on my research on the medical evidence (i.e., on the Bethesda autopsy being a fraud, based on BEST EVIDENCE) and the interview permitted us to air some very powerful footage of Marina stating that Lee "adored" Kennedy. I had significant control over the program content, sitting in the control room with the Executive Producer of HARDCOPY, who admired my work, and was sympathetic to my view of Oswald as innocent.
So now we hoped for an equally positive --and very brief--program about Rachel, the daughter of someone falsely accused. The opportunity to do this was a real "mitzvah," as they say in the Hebrew tradition, and I was proud of it. Further, and returning to the subject of money: those payments to Rachel, which I personally paid (along with additional money paid by Paramount TV) were of considerable assistance to Rachel in going to graduate school in nursing. (Moreover: I was personally thanked by Kenneth Porter for providing those sums of money).
Subsequently, I was amazed and upset at the poor judgment shown by the HARDCOPY segment editor who was placed in charge, when the top level person with whom I had been dealing, had to suddenly leave town on another matter. The new "segment producer" created what we both thought was a rather tasteless show. It was eight minutes in length, and we were all upset with it--I, as well as the family. Nonetheless, Kenneth Porter told me that the money Rachel received permitted her to start her graduate studies a year earlier than would otherwise have been the case. Another offshoot was the fact that a major European media outfit flew her to Europe for a trip of about a week. And, perhaps most important of all, is what Marina told me after I first interviewed Rachel, reviewed Lee's life with her, casting him in a very positive light. After those days spent with Rachel, the phone rang, and it was Marina--telling me of how the interview had changed things a bit. Said Marina to me, in her thickly accented Russian: "Thankyou for giving me my daughter back."
Now those are the facts, Judyth--and you too, Jim Fetzer--and I don't care what the Mayor of Houston (or anyone else) said years ago. I have the canceled checks to prove the thousands given to Rachel, and I will always remember Marina's positive response to my own actions.
In other words, I had a genuine relationship with Marina, and the family--not the fantasy you have constructed.
So step into the gutter, if you must, and stir the pot--but those are the facts.
Further: your statements about "computer technology" are also false. Once the TV show was transmitted by satellite, I had no control whether some producer in a foreign land did a "frame grab" of some picture, and sold it to a tabloid. Nor did I have any control over the captions that people unknown to me, and located halfway around the world, write to go with such photos.
As everyone knows, the media is a jungle, and when Rachel said yes, and the financial arrangements were made--and, like her birth father, she was one very smart lady to bank the money and use if for college--we all crossed our fingers, and hoped for the best. But "the best" is not what we got, and I will always regret that.
So--both of your--take your speculations and false information and peddle them elsewhere.
DSL
PS: And oh yes, give the ex-Mayor of Houston my regards. Perhaps you can meet her in Cancun, "at a fine hotel," to exchange further information.[/quote]
[quote name='David Lifton' post='188625' date='Apr 3 2010, 11:52 AM']
Judyth,
Regarding my filmed interview with Rachel some 20 years ago:
You are sliming it up again, and your statements are completely inaccurate. Since you basically engage in fiction writing, this probably does not bother you--but it does bother me. FYI: Rachel was not paid "a few dollars", and no one took advantage of her. Rachel was paid thousands of dollars, and made the choice herself that a filmed interview we had previously done (the year before) be utilized by HARDCOPY, in producing a brief program that would be just as positive as the one we had done the year before about her mother. In that case, four segments were produced, and Marina was quite satisfied with them. Her husband was portrayed as innocent, based on my research on the medical evidence (i.e., on the Bethesda autopsy being a fraud, based on BEST EVIDENCE) and the interview permitted us to air some very powerful footage of Marina stating that Lee "adored" Kennedy. I had significant control over the program content, sitting in the control room with the Executive Producer of HARDCOPY, who admired my work, and was sympathetic to my view of Oswald as innocent.
So now we hoped for an equally positive --and very brief--program about Rachel, the daughter of someone falsely accused. The opportunity to do this was a real "mitzvah," as they say in the Hebrew tradition, and I was proud of it. Further, and returning to the subject of money: those payments to Rachel, which I personally paid (along with additional money paid by Paramount TV) were of considerable assistance to Rachel in going to graduate school in nursing. (Moreover: I was personally thanked by Kenneth Porter for providing those sums of money).
Subsequently, I was amazed and upset at the poor judgment shown by the HARDCOPY segment editor who was placed in charge, when the top level person with whom I had been dealing, had to suddenly leave town on another matter. The new "segment producer" created what we both thought was a rather tasteless show. It was eight minutes in length, and we were all upset with it--I, as well as the family. Nonetheless, Kenneth Porter told me that the money Rachel received permitted her to start her graduate studies a year earlier than would otherwise have been the case. Another offshoot was the fact that a major European media outfit flew her to Europe for a trip of about a week. And, perhaps most important of all, is what Marina told me after I first interviewed Rachel, reviewed Lee's life with her, casting him in a very positive light. After those days spent with Rachel, the phone rang, and it was Marina--telling me of how the interview had changed things a bit. Said Marina to me, in her thickly accented Russian: "Thankyou for giving me my daughter back."
Now those are the facts, Judyth--and you too, Jim Fetzer--and I don't care what the Mayor of Houston (or anyone else) said years ago. I have the canceled checks to prove the thousands given to Rachel, and I will always remember Marina's positive response to my own actions.
In other words, I had a genuine relationship with Marina, and the family--not the fantasy you have constructed.
So step into the gutter, if you must, and stir the pot--but those are the facts.
Further: your statements about "computer technology" are also false. Once the TV show was transmitted by satellite, I had no control whether some producer in a foreign land did a "frame grab" of some picture, and sold it to a tabloid. Nor did I have any control over the captions that people unknown to me, and located halfway around the world, write to go with such photos.
As everyone knows, the media is a jungle, and when Rachel said yes, and the financial arrangements were made--and, like her birth father, she was one very smart lady to bank the money and use if for college--we all crossed our fingers, and hoped for the best. But "the best" is not what we got, and I will always regret that.
So--both of your--take your speculations and false information and peddle them elsewhere.
DSL
PS: And oh yes, give the ex-Mayor of Houston my regards. Perhaps you can meet her in Cancun, "at a fine hotel," to exchange further information.[/quote]