A PUBLIC APPEAL TO WALT BROWN: Release Jay Harrison's Archive

[Peter Lemkin]

For Peter Lemkin, who has asked me to put materials at risk by shipping them outside of the US to Prague, I suggest you seek therapy. Your requests have been answered, yet you have adopted, by choice or otherwise (illegal to be in the US?), the position of an expatriate, and then you had the collosal gall to write to me about a recent visit to the United States, but, Walt, please ship me the materials in Prague, even though I was just in the US. I'm sure that will open the door for the rest of the research community to view those materials.

Walt, the materials would not be at risk. They would be copies first of all, and I suggested a secure way - and in your first reply you agreed to send here. It is NO less secure than your storage space. It is not illegal for me to be in the USA. I have made clear elsewhere why I came here - and explained it IN DETAIL to YOU. Yes, I did go back for the first time in eight years and spent 4 nights in a hotel while getting my 1987, 350,000 miles Volvo going - every other day and night camping in a tent that leaked some and has no locks for 60 days vacation in the Rockies high in the mountains - not the best place to have it sent. And then I'd have had to take it back to my HOME and OFFICE in Europe [I have NO place in the USA now] Plus, my bags get COMPLETELY searched by TSA every time - I explained all this to you - so that would have been a 'great' way to move 'em! [plus the added convenience travelling with a very large dog and one or two more additional bags - to my three plus dog carrier the size of two - should they 'make it'] I asked you for, and was willing to pay for scans and thus a few DVDs. You insisted on and agreed to copies [which I agreed to reluctantly take], but only IF not sent out of the USA - I guess to deny me, not as a logical 'security' measure. I work with many all over the world on the JFK case, as you likely know, and was going to make whatever I found public and/or share significant documents with other interested and competant researchers. If I still lived in the USA I don't see how that would ensure others greater access. Your angry statement to me doesn't even reflect your last email - less so the one prior - much less so our other email exchanges and initial phone conversation. I don't get it. Nor the venom at me and the others. Don't know what more to say.