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From: Ktperehwon@aol.com [Karl Pflock]
Date: Thu, 22 May 1997 19:30:51 -0400 (EDT)
Fwd Date: Fri, 23 May 1997 01:19:52 -0400
Subject: Re: Kal Korff and Quotes out of Context

Concerning the parentheses "mysteriously" missing from around the word
"bachelor's" in the transcript of Bob Pratt's 12/8/79 interview with Jesse
Marcel, Sr., as published in my "Roswell in Perspective":

Bob Pratt told me he typed the transcript from his (his no longer extant)
audio tape of the interview a day or two after the event, while he was still
on the road.*  He included various parentheticals, using no consistent
system.  Some were questions to be asked latter as follow ups--as, e.g., "I
was promoted to Lt Col in Dec 1947. (when find out) after I got out of the
service," the question referring to when Marcel got out of the service.  Some
were questions asked and answered during the interview--as, e.g., "(flying
before--work?) private pilot," with Marcel's answer following.  Some
obviously were answers to a clarifying question asked during the interview
but left out by Pratt when typing his transcription, in the interests of
saving time, space, and work in that pre-laptop age.  One of these was the wor
d "bachelor's."

As I was cleaning up the text of Pratt's rough typescript, I dropped the
parentheses around "bachelor's" and replaced them with commas, as it was
crystal clear this was a word out of Marcel's mouth.  I had no intention of
confusing the issue, and I apologize for inadvertently fueling this small
red-herring roast.

In any case, earlier in the interview and quoting now exactly from Pratt's
original transcript (non-capitalization and all), Marcel says, speaking of
his working days before World War II, "no degree then.  got one later, 6 diff
schools...."

There can be no reasonable doubt Marcel claimed to have earned a college
degree, and when combined with his later claims (again quoting exactly from
Pratt's transcript)  that he had a "degree in nuclear physics" and "completed
work at GW Univ inWash.," there is all but no room for doubt he intended
Pratt to believe that degree was earned from The George Washington University
in Washington, D.C.

Just had a thought:  I wonder if (former) nuclear physicist Stan Friedman
ever talked nuclear physics with Marcel?

-- KARL PFLOCK


*Bob Pratt not only provided me with a copy of his original transcript, he
also spent a great deal of time describing to me the circumstances leading up
to and surrounding his interview with Marcel and hunting up his expense
records to confirm his recollections of the exact date of the interview.