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

[Peter Lemkin]

Let me get something straight right now in reference to Captain Edward G Seiwell of the Fourth Army Dallas Texas. Jay Harrison was the only researcher who talked with Seiwell after I gave him his location when I found him living in Dallas with his daughter. After, I had located him after many years of searching, I went and talked to him (Seiwell) and asked him if it was OK for Jay to interview him.

I also asked him if any other researchers had contacted him in the past years. His answer was; NO. I asked him if Jim Marrs had contacted him. His answer NO ... and Peter I ask if you had contacted him... again NO. I asked if Larry Hancock had contacted him again, NO. AND TOO, I asked if anyone from Oliver Stone had contacted him... again NO. Now I had told all these people about him and where he could be found. NADA. Now in my view there was no follow up from anybody after I gave them the information to confirm various matters concerning activities of the 4th Army Dallas, Love Field. To me that research was not done or followed up on...If there was any type of follow up or research it was very limited ... it was flat lazy sloopy follow up work at best. Or it could have been that nobody believed me, including you and Jim...The only one who did believe me and did detail follow up work was JAY HARRISON..

Jay Harrison was the only researcher who took the time and did the leg work to track him down from my information and interviewed him on tape. I was there and I have a copy of that tape. This was many years after I had told Jim Marrs and You too, Peter where Seiwell was and how to get in touch with him... You and Jim and even Oliver Stone and Joe West DID NOT EVEN TRY to talk to him. As well as Larry Hancock. Now that Seiwell is dead (91 years old) You people come out of the wood work and claim things that are not true. You feel that some owe you their hard earned work.

The whole matter of Jays work and that of Seiwells's is a damn good example of twisting the facts that makes me so damn touche about the qualifications of so called researchers. After the man is DEAD then you want his material Seiwell's as well as JAY's.. And some of you feel it is owed to you for the sake of history. BS I lived it... Jay researched it.. It was and is for this very reason that I told Walt "Not to give any of Jays material concerning Me to ANYONE without my consent"...

Jay got a lot of background on my family and what my father did in the War years for Uncle Sam and the OSS, at Love Field. Jay was damn good at what he did. So again I say I want nothing more to do with the investigations into JFK. And too, I do not want anymore of my personal life passed around for others to twist and fit into their wild theories about how things really went down in Dallas... I tried to point researchers to the location of many facts which could be established but most could not get past their egos and pet theories to really go and look. The Seiwell case is a perfect example. If what I had to say did not jive with others preconcieved ideas and speculations, then I was the one who was Wrong. And too, I was called a liar and a fabricator with a wild story by some of these so called "EXPERTS".

Now, you can sent this reply to Walt. So get off his case and that of mine... Capt Edward G Seiwell is dead and gone... you missed out and nothing you can say or do will change that. You Peter and others have screwed the record up for the last time, in my view. By the way where is the 'Wilson" material promised many years ago? Where is all the secret stuff that you and you alone uncovered? "....but can't tell at this time..to hush hush". All of you from this quarter Look at yourselves. Patheic.

Thanks for that friendly little ditty. Tosh you know how poor I've been [and even why], and that I'm in Europe. That is why I didn't try to contact Seiwell. Besides, I already knew that Jay has interviewed him. I did send word to others in TX to try to pull files, but I have no control over what others do. Much effort has gone into Tom's materials and continues. I don't want to discuss it here. But you can't have it both ways - asking things be made available/done and trying to stop them being made available - even if it is 'because' of family background materials [which I doubt - but even if true not IMO sufficient]. I'm very sorry Larry or Jim didn't try to contact Seiwell. They were a hell of a lot closer and both had the funds to do so - I guess they just didn't have the time or for some reason the interest - although I think Seiwell would have been very interesting for many reasons - your story only being one. Anyway, some of the information exists in two places - One is Walt's storage [apparently] and the other you know (and you told me) the whereabouts of. Are you going to help us and try to make either one available [or not thwart that], or just whine about the researchers - making up 'reasons' why things can't or shouldn't be seen? What researcher is going to go around publicizing what your father may have done in the OSS - and if he did it, so he did it - whatever it was. Are we out to find the true history of our intertwined past, or only the 'convenient' parts? Convenient for whom? I want the whole truth now matter who is inconvenienced, thank you. The inconvenient TRUTH, if it needs be. Remember how many times you warned me how much trouble/pain/problems I was likely getting into working with you on a book? Well, take your own admonitions, buck-up, and help out - not ridicule and play monday-morning quarterback. Please. There is enough blame to go around to all - including you, me, each of us - but I'd rather concentrate on the positive and move ahead on whatever fronts can be. There are still many and I'm sure Jay did good work on Seiwell and his connections. Funny how you don't seem to mind Walt not yet making that available. How are we to read that? And, how'z about the 'other' material on Seiwell? He who is without 'sin', cast the first stone, friend. And kindly stop seeing us as some 'bloc', we are individuals with our own lives, interests, financial or other life problems, priorities, constraints and strengths - not to mention physical locations and beliefs as to what is most likely to bring results. You've never explained to me what you know about our Project collapsing and any part you might have played in that - knowingly or not. And I've not made a big deal about it - nor your blaming me for what Tom wouldn't do and honor, etc. We have little control over others, accept through friendships and repaying favors, exchange et al. I'll leave it at that. There is much more that could be said. So, no throwing stones this way, please.