From: b645zaw@utarlg.uta.edu (Stephen Tice)
Subject: Re: Berlet vs. Dallas Morning News  
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Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 16:11:00 GMT

NLG Civil Liberties Committee <cberlet@igc.apc.org> writes...
> 

>Re: Stockdale & Rockford
> 
>According to Hoover Institute and Rockford Institute, here's the scoop.
>Stockdale became a senior research fellow at Hoover in 1981, following
>his employment at the Citadel. For a period in the late 1980's, including
>1989, he was on the Board of Directors of the Rockford Institute (based
>in Rockford Illinois). The Hoover position is the full time position, the
>Rockford directorship was in the nature of outside related activity and
>was at the same time as the Hoover job. No conflict here, folks, but while
>Stockdale did <remain> at Hoover after leaving Rockford's directorship, it
>was misleading to say that Stockdale went to Hoover after leaving Rockford.
>     Cite for Stockdale in print:
>        Rockford Institute, Annual Report 1989, p. 23.
>-Chip Berlet

So Chip you've corrected your original posting twice now, and I
reckon that means you're really interested in the truth, which
is laudable.

I called to talk to Admiral Stockdale about the matter, and spoke
with his wife (briefly) since he wasn't there at the time.

Sybil said Jim was on the board of directors at Rockford, but left
several years ago because Rockford has a very =Pro-Life= agenda. So
I can guess Rockford represents fundamentalism.

She was also clearly shocked when I asked about Racism. From her
reaction and comments, "...if you knew Jim...," it is clear to
me that he's not a racist. I've yet to look up his works on ethics
though, to see if he approaches the matter directly. 

In your prior posting, you requested criticism be directed to
you personally, since you're available on the net. May I suggest
then, that you could do us the courtesy of making a phone call
when opportune, to give addtional substance to your investigations. 
Jim Stockdale can be contacted through Stanford, for now.

Your interest in "citizen journalism" is exactly what we need to
replace the "paid" media -- especially when done with objectivity.


-- Stephen Tice  [ see book refs below re: JBS ]

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 Author:         Stockdale, James B.

 Title:          In love and war : the story of a family's ordeal and sacrifice
                   during the Vietnam years / Jim & Sybil Stockdale.           
 Edition:        1st ed.                                                       

 Published:      New York : Harper & Row, c1984.                               
 Description:    viii, 472 p., <32> p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.               

 Subjects:       Stockdale, James B.                                           
                 Stockdale, Sybil.                                             
                 United States. Navy--Aviation--Biography.                     
                 Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975--Prisoners and prisons,        
                   Vietnamese.                                                 
                 Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975--Personal narratives, American.
                 Prisoners of war--Vietnam--Biography.                         
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 Title:          Literature in the education of the military professional /
                   edited by Donald Ahern, Robert Shenk, illustrations by Nancy
                   Keeton ; <foreword by James Bond Stockdale>.                

 Published:      <Colorado Springs?>, CO : Dept. of English, U.S. Air Force    
                   Academy 1984.                                               
 Description:    x, 107 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.                                     

 Subjects:       Military education--United States                             
                 Education, Humanistic--United States                          

 Other authors:  Ahern, Donald, 1940-                                          
                 Shenk, Robert, 1943-                                          
                 United States Air Force Academy. Dept. of English.            

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 Title:          The Ethics of citizenship / James B. Stockdale ... <et al.> ;
                   with an introduction by Andrew R. Cecil.                    

 Published:      Dallas : University of Texas at Dallas, 1981, c1980.          
 Description:    167 p. ; 24 cm.                                               

 Subjects:       Political ethics.                                             
                 Social ethics.                                                
                 Business ethics.                                              
                 United States--Moral conditions.                              

 Other authors:  Stockdale, James B.                                           

 Series:         Andrew R. Cecil lectures on moral values in a free society

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