Evica - WWUH

[Peter Lemkin]

John and Ed,

The tapes are securely held.

And yes, they should be digitized. The problem is: by whom?

To be blunt, I can't think of an existing JFK archive to which I'd entrust them.

They definitely need to be 1] preserved (tape decays after about 20-50 years) and 2] made available to those who'd like to hear them. Digitizing them could be done on a home computer with the right software. It would take the time of all the recordings played one at a time on a good tape player plugged into a good computer with the correct equipment and software - but not expensive; just time consuming. I imagine that he says the date on each one and that could be used as the label - plus a main topic[s]. As to [2], that is a bit trickier, but once you have them digitized, they can be stored in many places and spread easily, so no one can 'sit' on them to make them never see the light of day [out of sloth or malice]. Does anyplace have his papers? The internet archive or the Pacifica archives might be interested [or know who would be] - even though they were not the originators nor was this ever on the internet. Is there an audio equivalent to youtube for political [expecially deep political] things? There should be. Internet Archive has speeches of many people on progressive things and are well respected and used. Again, you and others would always have copies that couldn't decay. Good luck. I'd love to have them and see them sold on DVD's [at cost]. Maybe someone would like to do this with all the speeches of all the better JFK researchers. Video is great, but many speeches and all radio programs of the early years are without video....but just as important.
Alternatively, a website could be built at minimal cost, like the Mae Brussel site which has her audio tapes for sale [you could have GMEs tapes for free play over internet, and for sale at cost, etc.] You'd just need someone to build the site and maintain it. I think it is do-able.