Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
Date: Thursday, 27 Aug 1992 01:12:08 CDT
From: <U54778@uicvm.uic.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy.jfk
Subject:    JFK SOURCES

I was going to email this list to Sjoerd but thought that it
would be better to post it so all can benefit from it.  This list
is not complete by any measure.  I have many more entries and
there are plenty more I expect to find as I trudge on in this
interest.

All sources listed below are named without any endorsement from
myself except where specifically mentioned.

BOOKS  <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

*    THE LAST HURRAH BOOKSHOP
     937 Memorial Avenue
     Williamsport, PA   17701
     Propietor:  Andy and Linda
     Books on assassinations and political subjects

     Comment: You cannot find better people than Andy and Linda.
     They are up on any of the new books coming out.  They scour
     the countryside for used books and put out a quarterly
     listing which gets gobbled up pretty fast.  Their prices are
     reasonable and they stock many paperbacks which they sell
     for under 4 bucks.  You couldn't get better prices at the
     huge yearly book sales held in the summer.

*    President's Box
     P.O. Box 1255
     Washington, DC  20013
     Books on Washington politics, many on the assassinations.
     I am told that they have a lot of expensive collector's
     items.

*    Cloak & Dagger Books
     9 Eastman Avenue
     Bedford, NH  03102
     Spy, CIA, Guerrilla Warfare, etc.

*    Tom Davis Books
     P.O. Box 1107
     Aptos, CA  96001
     Assassinations, spy, etc

*    M&A Book Dealer
     P.O. Box 2422
     Waco, TX  76703
     JFK related materials

*    David Park Books
     555 Pierce St.
     Albany,  CA   94706

*    Prevailing Winds Research
     P.O. Box 23511
     Santa Barbara, CA   93121
     Books, Tapes, Videos, etc.
     If you like Mark Lane and John Judge or L. Fletcher Prouty,
     these people publish everything and more on the views and
     actions surrounding these people (and many others).

*    Harold Weisberg
     7627 Old Receiver Road
     Frederick, MD  21702
     Weisberg publishes privately his Whitewash series of books
     which consist of:
          WhiteWash One & Oswald in New Orleans
               photocopies only                   $27 each
          WhiteWash II  & WW IV                   $7.25 each
          WW III/Photographic WW                  $9.95 each
          PostMortem  & Frameup                   $12.50 each
     I have most of these books and plan to complete the set
     soon.  Weisberg was a pillar of the critic's community and
     only age has made him guiet in the last few years (he is in
     his 70's).  He was a professional Congressional investigator
     for many years before the JFK assassination.  His efforts,
     along with his attorneys, have made FOIA history, swaying
     Congressional voting actions.  His books are jam packed with
     nuggets and motherloads he has forced the government to make
     public but you will pick up an anger that imbues all his
     writings.  He is an old lion, growling with snakes venom at
     Hoover and the FBI, and justifiably so in my opinion.  His
     meticulous analysis of the secret WC transcripts and other
     documents is worth the price of the books alone.  On the
     phone he is quite a mellow and helpful person and he insists
     that he was in the second wave of critics.  It is true that
     there was a first wave of writers who took up criticism
     early but I contend that Weisberg, Lane, Meagher, and (I
     cross myself against evil) Epstein were the wave that
     mattered.  Without them, the first wave would have sank into
     the quicksand of moving news focus.  They were the first
     writers who penetrated deeply into the public awareness.

DATABASE<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

*    PUBLIC IMFORMATION RESEARCH
     P.O. Box 5199
     Arlington, VA   22205
     These people put out two databases which are indespensible
     to anyone doing serious research into these subjects.  I
     have both and can attest to this.  It is quite enlightening
     to look up a new name you have come across and see how much
     information is already in the printed media on him/her.

     NAMEBASE. An index to published references of individuals,
               etc. connected with JFK, covert operations, CIA,
               Cuban intelligence, etc.  This DB doesn't have the
               entries that point into the WC books but have vast
               connections to everything else.

     AARC INDEX.  A partial holdings guide to AARC (their FBI
               index).  Included are indices into all of the
               books comprising the WC report and hearings and
               the HSCA volumes.  This rivals and at times
               surpasses Meagher's book index into the same
               sources.

     I believe that each of these DBs are under a $100.

*    CIABASE
     P.O. Box 5022
     Herndon, VA  22070
     This is new.  I don't know how much overlap this one has
     with NAMEBASE.  When I can get the cash, I will probably
     purchase this myself.  The brochure says that McGehee was
     the one who compiled this material.

RESEARCH FACILITIES AND NEWSLETTERS<<<<<<<<<<

*    AARC
     ASSASSINATION ARCHIVES AND RESEARCH CENTER
     918 F Street  NW  #509
     Washington, DC  20004
     Dues $25/yr.
     JFK,RFK,MLK,CUBA,CIA OPS,ETC.
     I can't say this any more firmly that this:  This resource
     should not be allowed to fall away.  They've been in
     financial dowldrums for a while.  They are the main
     repository for all the published and unpublished documents
     and other media for a decade now.  Because of limited funds
     it takes a long time to get something from them, but THEY
     HAVE IT ALL.  Want a FOIA released FBI report that is not in
     any library, they have it.  I urge you to support it.

*    THE THIRD DECADE
     State University College
     Fredonia, NY   14063
     Attn: Prof. Jerry Rose
     A year ago, someone turned me on to this newsletter.  I
     subscribed and picked out a couple of back issues that
     looked like they might be informative.  I found the articles
     so full of up-to-date fascinating data that I ordered the
     whole of the back issues and have not regretted it.  I have
     talked to Rose many times on the phone and he is going to
     extend his editorship into the fourth decade.  I have seen
     some of the other newsletters and I'm not running them down
     but this is the caddilac of them all (Hoch's Echos of
     Conspiracy comes up close but he is just not interested in
     putting this out anymore).  Mostly original research, it
     includes accounts of current happenings also.

*    AIC
     Assassination Information Center
     603 Munger
     Box 40
     Dallas, TX  75202
     I haven't tapped into this resource yet but I've heard alot
     about them.  They sell books, artifacts, videos, posters and
     put out numerous newsletters.

MAPS<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

*    Craig Ciccione
     1970 Washington
     Birmingham, MI   48009
     At the Chicago JFK Symposium, I picked up his Dealey Plaza
     map for $25.  I don't know what his current asking price is
     but I was pleased with the purchase.  It is quite up-to-
     date with much more information in it than the Sprague maps
     from C & A.  Size is 3 X 4 I think.  I used this to confirm
     Josiah Thompson's 8 degrees of lateral angle to the head
     shot.
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ALAN ROGERS