Subject: To Ms. Junkkarinen
Date: 14 Oct 1998 06:21:36 GMT
From: dsperprods@aol.com (Dsperprods)
Organization: AOL http://www.aol.com
Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy.jfk

Dear Ms. Junkkarinen:

We have never met, and I doubt we ever will. As I'm sure you
know by now, my husband and I are not part of the JFK scene,
although our book seems to keep a lot of people who are rather
busy, even after almost three years. For a book which has been
so soundly "debunked," it certainly seems to generate a lot of
hostility. (I am not saying you are part of the hostility;
however, we will get to that shortly). So how do I come to be
writing to you?  Because, frankly, my concern for your family
is indirectly behind a post my husband recently made to
alt.conspiracy.jfk.

You see, a couple of days ago someone who I'm told is your
friend made use of the last line of the the acknowledgments in
our book, which named my children. After parroting another
poster to the group, he quoted this acknowledgment,
deliberately putting my children's names on the news group. Of
course, the idea that Ray and I did not recognize where this
came from is absurd (do you and your friend really think we do
not know what is in our own book?) But deliberately seeking out
the names of our children, who have nothing to do with the
book, or your favorite news group, and appending them to a
ridiculous post was beyond any possible standard of propriety.
Let me share with you a portion of an e-mail we received today:

       To me, wherever anybody gets the source or words
       or makes it up or whatever, children in any
       mention are utterly off limits in the discussion,
       period. I knew right away where the
       Mephistophelean Bochan got the quote, but I still
       immediately went, Nono!

Exactly.

So now, let's get to the post from Deja News which profiles
your friend, Mr. Bochan. Let me make it clear to you that I
found this post myself last year. I do not keep up with this
news group, but occasionally we receive posts from various
correspondents which they think may be of interest to us. I
cannot remember what post prompted me to look at the profile of
your friend Mr. Bochan, but I did. I was nauseated by what I
found -- so nauseated and concerned that it was this man who
had been posting lies about our book and some of the people in
it for going on two years by that time, that my husband Ray
downloaded it *directly* from Deja News. I want to repeat that
for you, Ms. Junkkarinen. It was *downloaded directly from Deja
News.*  We then sent it to several other people familiar with
Mr. Bochan and his lies, on October 27, 1997. We can prove
this, Ms. Junkkarinen, when the appropriate time arrives. If
Mr. Bochan wishes to sue on grounds that we fabricated his
profile, we welcome his suit.

For a year, we did nothing with this download. Within a day or
two at most, the pornographic groups had been removed from Mr.
Bochan's profile. I have been told that Deja News policy
requires a letter from the poster to remove posts. (You and Mr.
McAdams can go on and on if you like, attempting to prove that
the profile is fake, etc.; however, my husband, I, Mr. Bochan,
and the others to whom we sent it contemporaneously know who is
telling the truth.)

Then, two things occurred in the last two weeks. First, I was
told that you and your family were spending time with Mr.
Bochan. I assumed that meant you have children. Secondly, Mr.
Bochan posted the names of my children. I, and one of my
children who occasionally surfs various internet news groups
considered this a not-so veiled attempt at intimidation, as
well as a new low in Mr. Bochan's sorry record. My child also
took note of the latest of Mr. Bochan's personal cracks about
me and her father.

It was at this time, last evening, when I agreed with my
husband that the time had come to reveal the truth about Mr.
Bochan's 1997 profile.

Another poster on this group gave Mr. Bochan an out, one which
we had already considered: that Mr. Bochan had actually made
negative posts about the subject matter of the groups he posted
to. Theoretically this may be the case; I don't happen to think
so -- though he can certainly refute this by producing the
angelic posts warning others in the groups of his disapproval.
(They would of course need to be authenticated.) The other,
admittedly farfetched possibility was that somehow someone had
been able to post false entries on Mr. Bochan's profile, and
that, understandably, he had become enraged, and had written to
Deja News demanding that his profile be corrected. That doesn't
appear to be the case either, however, since he hasn't provided
documentation of any such correspondence with Deja News.
Instead, I believe he has simply lied about it, as he has done
so many times in the past (posting, for example, that John
Elrod was a "convicted felon" and that John Elrod is a "thief,"
and implying that John Elrod was paid by someone for his story;
the lies are endless.

It concerns me as a mother, Ms. Junkkarinen, that you may have
young children who have spent time with Mr. Bochan. I hope you
give this some thought. You are obviously a loyal friend of
this man. Perhaps he fulfills some need for you. But I cannot
help but believe that your children should come before anything
else, just as mine do.

Finally, if I haven't yet made it clear, let me say that we
stand behind the fact that the profile of Steve Bochan posted
here by Ray was downloaded directly from Deja News in late
October 1997, as we stand by every statement in our book save
one: John Elrod was *not* drunk when he arrived at the Shelby
County Sheriff's Department on August 10, 1964. From later
documents we have learned that the FBI lied about that too, and
that Elrod was sober when he revealed one of the most important
pieces of evidence in the assassination of President Kennedy
almost 34 years ago.

I wish you well, Ms. Junkkarinen. With friends like Mr. Bochan
you need the good wishes of all of us.

Mary La Fontaine