What's The Frequency, Dan?

	The Summer 1995 issue of Paranoia includes an article 
excerpted from Monte Evans' not-currently-available book The Rather Narrative 
that takes a good look at the newsman's involvement with the JFK assassination
cover-up. In addition to the well-known lore of Rather's mis-reporting the JFK's 
backward head snap on the Zapruder film, the excerpt includes three revealing
pieces of research: David Lifton's discovering that the CIA's National Photo 
Interpretation Center possibly had the Z-film on 11/22/63 (which might explain 
the film's mysterious splices); David Belin's assertion that Rather took the film 
from Zapruder that night; and the editing of Rather's biography, The Camera 
Never Blinks, to remove reference to the reporter's round-trip to Uvalde, 
Texas on the day of the assassination to  interview former Vice President John 
Nance Gardner just prior to the assassination. This last fact is significant in that 
the 600 mile-long trip from Uvalde to Dallas, and the lack of commercial air traffic 
between the cities, necessitated the use of a private (agency owned?) jet. The
article includes many similar tidbits and comes highly recommended.

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