LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Doctor O'Neill's Views Shared By Teacher Editor: peared on Jan. 20, 1992, and the topic edge, he is always cheerful, hopeful, Last week, President Clinton got around to the assassination and his helpful and encouraging. opened his State of the Union address book. Mr. O'Neill said, "So from that I was one of his first patients, by praising former House Speaker Tip time on I always believed that there in Chatham, and have remained his O'Neill. It was a fine gesture, but the was a conspiracy and I always believed patient for 19 and a half years, about a president stopped too soon. It would that there was somebody else." quarter of my lifetime. have been appropriate if he revealed to Tip O'Neill is not alone. A re- Over this time he has consis- the nation what Mr. O'Neill had been cent CBS poll shows that 91 percent of tently kept me in (or returned me to) publicly saying for a long time now. the best of health, through sound ad- Americans do not believe the Warren Speaker O'Neill spoke fondly Commission Report. President Clinton vice, wise medication, and suggested ofhis friend PresidentJohn F. Kennedy. regimen. can force the United States Congress, Once upon a time, he even believed the which found a conspiracy in its own I expect there are many others Warren Commission finding that one investigation in 1976, to act upon a law who have also benefited from Dr. Mees, Ione assassin was the culprit in Dallas recently passed by both houses of Con- for "Lo, these many years." on Nov. 22, 1963. However, his belief gress (S 3006) mandating the release of George F. Bigelow about the events on that tragic day all files currently being kept secret from Chatham changed, and he went public with his the American people. Tip O'Neill would thoughts. be proud, as he called for full disclosure In his book, The Man of the before his death. setter House, Mr. O'Neill tells of how two William Cheslock else's gain. For this is a man that grants friends, Ken O'Donnell and Dave Pow- Chatham gain wherever he goes. ers, who were in Dallas with the presi- (Mr. Cheslock teaches a dent, told him that shots came from the course on the assassination, and has Dallas Jones front of the limousine. South Chatham been researching the events in Dallas On the syndicated television for the past 28 years.) talk show, Larry King Live, he ap- Correction: Examining DEIR Analysis A letter to the editor Editor: 3. Joshua Nickerson relates in in last week's paper Dr. Lee Weishar's dismissal of Days To Remember how CBI dug a was signed by my comments on the DEIR does not channel across the outer beach turning stand up to analysis. His comments do the north end into an island. Hattie and Ev. Hanlon point out the central problems of the 4. John B. Paine bought the of West Hartford, Conn. report. land north of the fish pier in 1912. The "Hattie our apologies" Ed. An examination of the avail- deed included beach and flats adjoin- able coastal charts and additional maps ing the bluff plus 'right and title to any for the period 1850 to 1914 support other land beach and flats beyond, if several conclusions concerning the any, to the sea." Paine sold his rights movement of South Beach and the har- ("if any") to the other land, by then bor inlet. known as Tern Island, as a bird sanctu- For the period.1850 to 1868: ary in 1926. 1. South Beach decreased in The DEIR is grounded on the width 50-70 percent the length of the argument that South Beach will break beach- up into islands which will migrate to 2. The majority of the western the west and weld onto the mainland. shoreline of the beach did not move The report predicts the destruction of indicating that the erosion moved east the north end of the beach exposing the to west. Little Beach area to the open ocean 3. The north end of the beach,- resulting in devastating erosion. became established as a northwest spit If the DEIR's analysis is cor- as it has done since 1987. rect, then the Aunt Lydia's Cove shore- 4. The area between the north line should have suffered heavy erosion day with commercials you may have end of the beach and Aunt Lydia's Cove as the north end of South Beach broke missed One will feature every movie filled with shoals covering an area 2700 up and North Beach moved south. The Tony Curtis was ever in. There will be feet e/w and 3700 feet n/s. historical charts indicate a different one that explains in detail how to build course of events. For the neriod 1868 to 1886: :-.F.**Re • . LETTE_Rsiro *Vi-.1440,4 4 )r Patient Questions '10. er s on most. Most people agree that Dr. Mees Editor continuing responsibility. has been a caring and good doctor to I read with interest William A test of Mr. Cheslock's fair- them. But his abusive behavior cannot Cheslock's peculiar letter of Feb. 3, in ness would be a review of the reading be condoned, no matter how "good" he which he suggested that while Presi- list he assigns his students. If it does has been with everyone else. I wonder if dent Clinton was praising Speaker not include such effective challenges to Mr. Ellis would be so supportive of Dr. O'Neill during his State of the Union the far-fetched as Gerald Posner's "Case Mees if the young lady who was abused address, he should have included specu- Closed" or Jacob Cohen's work in Com- were his daughter. I doubt he would lation about President Kennedy's as- mentary, there is cause to worry. To then consider the doctor's actions "a sassination. quote from Mr Cohen's essay: mistake." Mr. Cheslock is described as "For nearly thirty years, pla- When considering allegations one who has researched the assassina- toons of conspiracists have concertedly of abuse, the "medical fraternity" is tion for 28 years and is teaching a scavenged the record, floating their required to review just that — the al- course on this topic. If he is doing this appalling and thrilling might-have- legations. It is not obliged to question instruction in Chatham High School it beens, unfazed by the contradictions his other patients, his behavior as a is probable that he is wasting our tax and absurdities in their own wantonly single parent, his contributions to the dollars in a harmful exercise at a time selective accounts, often consciously, town. !fit has been determined that the when every penny is needed for signifi- cunningly deceitful. They have refused rules of that organization have been cant educational programs. In decades to let go of any shred of their earliest violated and the rights of the patient/ of dealing with persons who have col- suspicions, even when these have been client have been violated, the medical lected notoriety and dollars by promot- demolished by decisive scientific find- fraternity indeed has the right to take ing a variety of speculations regarding ings... Small wonder that 85 percent of the action it did. They are judge and the events in Dallas, archivists at the the American public thinks there was a jury, as are the review boards of the Kennedy Library have encountered only conspiracy of some sort." legal, psychological, and religious pro- rarely such a specialized course being Another cause for worry about fessions. The proper authorities have taught thoughtfully and fairly. Mr. Cheslock is his call for President fulfilled their obligation, and it is up to There are those who justify Clinton to force the United States Con- us to accept their decision, whether we teaching this subject by claiming it is a gress to act upon a law mandating the think the punishment was too severe or device to stimulate the use of original release of secret files. Force the Con- not severe enough. My hope is that Dr. source documents. Almost invariably gress to do what? Congress passed the Mees uses his "time out" to reflect on this is nonsense because the zealots law and it is being obeyed. his misdeeds. More importantly, I hope steer students toward highly specula- If Mr. Cheslock's letter is any that his former patient finds support in tive and even absurd papers rather indication of the quality of his misdi- this community to encourage her ongo- than studies leading to the sad, logical rected teaching, we and his students ing healing. She has mine. but less sensational conclusion that are in trouble. Margaret G. Burroughs there was no great conspiracy. To make Charles U. Daly Chatham matters worse, in many cases students Chatham are indoctrinated to have more faith in alleged plots than in the government (Charles Daly is director of the John that is, in the end, our own creation and F. Kennedy Library). 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