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

[Peter Lemkin]

Question the timing.

I harbor immense respect for Joan. She is writing about the Texas "connection" to JFK's assassination at a time when LBJ-as-false-sponsor books and champions are proliferating.

And now Walt Brown, whose loyalties and agendas I consider to be suspect in the extreme, suddenly reverses direction and opens the Harrison Archive to Joan in support of her Texas project.

That Archive has been hidden away in Brown's custody for many years. The provenance of anything that now emerges from it, therefore, is suspect.

Suspect in the extreme.

Beware, Joan. Beware.

To all, I have been in email contact with Joan on this matter all day - quite a few exchanges. I don't want to post the exact contents without Joan's permission - she is a close friend and a researcher I have the utmost respect for! I think I can say that she indicated that it was about the same time I was 'refused' she was 'allowed' and the two of them do live nearby. Joan apparently had unlimited access. The value of which and what she makes of it all we will have to await her book for. It is finished and only awaits physical printing and distribution. There is more, but I must ask her permission first. I'm still confused and stunned by the whole affair Brown.

Dawn is correct that the main focus of the upcoming book is Mr. DeM., cut in true Mellen style will wander far and wide in connections.

Charles, I share still your troubled doubts about Walt.....despite what has happened.