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email this article Ward: I admit I killed JFK by Hilda Saturday, Mar 26, 2005 at 11:02 PM Ward Churchill spoke at the annual anarchist bookfair on March 26, 2005 in golden gate park, San Francisco. He has no relation to Frank Chiu in the picture, who had the 12 Galaxies bar in the Mission Dist named aft er him, and is a common halloween costume. There was a lot of noise to the side where many happy attendees were mingling, and there were areas with hippies, hip hop, punk, circus gypsies playing accordions and vio lins and doing tricks, plus people selling items - so this is audible i f you turn the sound up, and most audible at the end. A longer full spe ech given later will be in the first comment to this story. jpg, image/jpeg, 600x450 In this recording, a man from a Sierra foothills radio station interviewe d him for a show, and I was in the vicinity so I made a voice recording of this interview. Unfortunately, a 4 minute chunk of this mysteriously ended up garbled after the first two minutes when I accidentally pressed record later on when it was in my pocket. He covers Churchill's latest situation at the university, where he seems to say that he is not intere sted in a buyout agreement, and will not apologize for anything, and tha t he has solid support among academics and also many indians. At the end, I was able to ask a question I had been interested in regardi ng criticism of his footnote in an essay on another topic which appeared to back up his claim that the US gov't intentionally wished the Manda n tribe of North Dakota to catch and spread deadly smallpox. I interpret a piece by Diane Pearson as demonstrating this fact, citing p rimary sources such as memos and papers by Bureau of Indian affairs or D ept. of War heads which stated that the Mandan tribe were not to receive a smallpox vaccine which had been scheduled to be given to other east c oast tribes who they viewed as cooperative, such as the Creeks and Chero kees who were removed to Oklahoma a few years later. The Mandan were vie wed as an aggressive tribe which would not sign over their land for fur trapping and agriculture. So what I was asking, was why Churchill cited John Thornton who didn't wr ite about this aspect of history and instead talked about the general da tes of events and number of people present . Churchill is under investig ation by the university of Colorado for this footnote, and the media is spinning this by saying that the idea of smallpox blankets was an invent ion, and there have been stories getting the whole concept wrong - such as saying that Ward Churchill was referring to mexicans, and not mandans , and Ann Coulter claimed here that people only understood vaccines in t he 1900s and later, which is incorrect - people have been inoculating ag ainst smallpox since centuries which is why indians died in high numbers while the people in east coast cities were not dying in high numbers. I n a second column, Coulter was using slurs such as "injun" and said "hey kemosabe, time to pack up the teepee and hit the trail of tears". That's just a quick explanation of why this question was asked at the end .
add your comments Fair by description Saturday, Mar 26, 2005 at 11:43 PM wav files are taking an hour to upload. In contrast to mixed audienc es in Wisconsin, Colorado and Hawaii, and despite some threads on region al right-wing bulletin boards, there were only two brief heckles, and on e was a '9-11 was a whitehouse frameup' guy. Churchill covered the main themes of his latest book, and added some inte resting new material at points.
I thought it was quite interesting to hear Ward's perspective on things, and he said a number of things I hadn't been hearing in the papers. Appa rently the university hasn't been communicating with him regarding issue s, and instead has compiled a long list of complaints and gives them all equal weight without objective criteria, including some that might easi ly be dismissed.
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