17-02-2011, 02:59 PM
(This post was last modified: 17-02-2011, 03:18 PM by Jim DiEugenio.)
I stand by what I said.
Ford is trying to overwhelm the point with verbiage.
If Probe made a mistake or got something wrong, we made an attempt to correct the record. And we printed corrections.
In this instance, I searched the literature for corroboration. I got it with Marrs. Marrs wrote that Ford said he discovered the Ruby/Nixon memo and that in the interview with him, Ford still thought it was genuine. (See pgs. 269-70)
I then called Jim and asked him if he was sure about what he wrote, because Ford was making all kinds of threatening pronouncements. Jim said he would check it and get back to me. He did and and said he had taken notes on the interview which he had dug out of his notebooks. I thanked him and said, if that was the case I would alert Mr. Ford that this was the back-up source and his problem was with Marrs.
Anyone can look in Marrs' book, which is one of the most popular in the literature and zoomed onto the bestseller lists at the time of Stone's film. It has gone through several reprintings since. And Jim has just prepared a much more detailed index for it. And in that index, which was done over two decades after the initial run, Ford's name is still there. So the evidence is that Ford never got in contact with Marrs, and Marrs never retracted what he wrote. This is 22 years after he initially wrote it and a decade and a half after Ford got in contact with me.
The Marrs book was in circulation well before that issue of Probe was. And it certainly was read by many, many, many more people than that issue of Probe was read by. Probably over a hundred thousand people read that book. But we are to believe that Ford knew about the very small circulation journal, but not the very large circulation book. Even if that was the case--and its kind of hard to believe, considering that Stone based his movie in part on that book-- it was not the case after I alerted him to the fact that Marrs predated us.
I am sure Jim will call me when Ford calls him. As of today, he hasn't. And people are still buying and reading that book.
Ford is trying to overwhelm the point with verbiage.
If Probe made a mistake or got something wrong, we made an attempt to correct the record. And we printed corrections.
In this instance, I searched the literature for corroboration. I got it with Marrs. Marrs wrote that Ford said he discovered the Ruby/Nixon memo and that in the interview with him, Ford still thought it was genuine. (See pgs. 269-70)
I then called Jim and asked him if he was sure about what he wrote, because Ford was making all kinds of threatening pronouncements. Jim said he would check it and get back to me. He did and and said he had taken notes on the interview which he had dug out of his notebooks. I thanked him and said, if that was the case I would alert Mr. Ford that this was the back-up source and his problem was with Marrs.
Anyone can look in Marrs' book, which is one of the most popular in the literature and zoomed onto the bestseller lists at the time of Stone's film. It has gone through several reprintings since. And Jim has just prepared a much more detailed index for it. And in that index, which was done over two decades after the initial run, Ford's name is still there. So the evidence is that Ford never got in contact with Marrs, and Marrs never retracted what he wrote. This is 22 years after he initially wrote it and a decade and a half after Ford got in contact with me.
The Marrs book was in circulation well before that issue of Probe was. And it certainly was read by many, many, many more people than that issue of Probe was read by. Probably over a hundred thousand people read that book. But we are to believe that Ford knew about the very small circulation journal, but not the very large circulation book. Even if that was the case--and its kind of hard to believe, considering that Stone based his movie in part on that book-- it was not the case after I alerted him to the fact that Marrs predated us.
I am sure Jim will call me when Ford calls him. As of today, he hasn't. And people are still buying and reading that book.