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Summary

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This is a shrunken version of an advertisement from the Nov 22 1963 Dallas Morning News newspaper. It accuses Kennedy of ignoring the constitution and implies that he is Communist. The ad was placed by Bernard Weissman and paid for by several people, dubbed the 'American Fact-Finding Committee' as detailed in the Warren Commission Hearings Vol XXIII ( see http://www.history-matters.com/archive/jfk/wc/wcvols/wh23/html/WH_Vol23_0360a.htm )

This version is taken from a scan at Donald Wilkes page at the UGA law school, accessed on 2009 9 27, titled "JFK BLOWN AWAY–HOORAY!". However there are other scans of it available online.

The scan has been shrunken to avoid violating copyright law and to attempt to comply with Fair Use (although some might argue that the historical significance would allow a full resolution scan, this particular thumbnail is an attempt to have 'fool proof fair use')

Wikipedia currently has no category or guidelines for old newspaper advertisements, for thumbnails or shrunken versions of such material, etc, so I am putting it under 'historical significance' anyway.

Technically Wiesmann et al. probably own the copyright to the original.

1. Proportion of copyright work

-The file has been shrunken so the text is largely unreadable. See 2.

2. Resolution reduced

-Yes. The text is mostly unreadable.

3. Purpose

-To illustrate a JFK conspiracy theory that surrounds the advertisement

4. Free content replacement

-This makes no sense in this context. The original work is an advertisement in a newspaper. Any 'free version' of it would have to completely change the text and be a summary, parody, paraphrase, imitation, or other work which makes no sense in this context.

5. Other

- It is of an historical nature, related to the JFK murder / assassination.

- When you talk about the American Fact Finding Committee, its a bit silly to not talk about their advertisement, since they were according to the FBI interviews with those who funded the ad, a fake committee that existed only in name, and only for the purpose of producing this one advertisement to protest JFKs visit to Dallas.

- The significance is that many assassination researchers and conspiracy theorists discuss this advertisement.

Licensing

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conflict of interest notification

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the uploader is a distant relative of one of the funders of the ad, Bum Bright -- Decora (talk) 17:47, 27 September 2009 (UTC)

File history

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Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current18:53, 27 September 2020Thumbnail for version as of 18:53, 27 September 2020250 × 383 (80 KB)User-duck (talk | contribs)Straighten and crop to black border
07:32, 19 July 2017No thumbnail254 × 390 (31 KB)DatBot (talk | contribs)Reduce size of non-free image (BOT - disable)
14:37, 27 September 2009No thumbnail368 × 566 (62 KB)VanishedUser sdu9aya9fasdsopa (talk | contribs)ok that should do it shrunken for real this time

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