22-07-2013, 04:35 PM
Peter Lemkin Wrote:Tracy Riddle Wrote:Peter Lemkin Wrote:Quote:http://www.maebrussell.com/Transcriptions/787.html
How we need more people like Mae - and miss her. I believe she was most likely murdered, so taken from us 'early'. I remember listening to this broadcast at the time and the hair standing up on the back of my neck! It does now even on re-reading.
She was way ahead of her time and 'the pack'......Not every thing she claimed held up after further analysis, but her 'batting average' was as good or better than anyone else I know doing this kind of investigative research on the unspeakable.
Mae also thought that her daughter's death in a car crash was murder.
Yes, on some of her JFK shows, she would make little factual errors. But that's unavoidable when you're working from memory. I don't know if she even had a PC or Apple to help organize data. She was from the typewriter-and-file-cabinet school like all the early researchers.
I don't believe Mae ever owned a computer [and she was far from poor]....it was the time before computers except for some that played games or were used in university settings. If I remember correctly, I was told she did her radio shows with index cards with outline notes, only, and usually departed from them and spoke very extemporaneously from her memory - which was better than mine when I was younger; and much better than mine today, when I am not!
When I was in high school/college (1982-89), I had a couple of different model Radio Shack computers with a decent printer. What a pleasure it was to abandon the typewriter, and be able to save files. But Mae was probably comfortable using her old methods.