Joan Mellen Lecture from 2007; Still Apt

[Peter Lemkin]

Her talk at COPA was one of the best. She is brilliant and very stream of consciousness but fact-filled. Erick and I really enjoyed it.
She got to speak longer as the feed for Peter Dale Scott was having problems. So they had to turn it off.

Dawn

Good to hear Dawn. I hope there will be a link to her talk from COPA coming soon. She is definitely one of the best out there in a world of mediocrity or distraction.

I'm a friend of Joan's and in contact with her. I find her work excellent and KNOW how hard she works on it, travelling for interviews and long-distance phone calls on a limited budget, while holding-down full-time creative writing courses at a major university. She is really a dynamo and a productive. I have her permission to post a few other of her past talks and will as soon as I locate them. I have only one major area of disagreement with her on 'things' - that being that she doesn't really agree that JFK was significantly moving away from his Cold War stances - and even less so for Bobby. I don't think this is so; but despite this minor blind spot, she's a great researcher who has come up with some unique new information and puzzle piece fitting; and I know she has more up her sleeve to come.