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    "ocrText": "-16-\nYou are welcome to bring your family if you like and if\nthat\nis\ndesireable to you. I have contacted the girl who did some\nresearch for us here and she continues her research and wishes you\nwell.\nThank you for bearing with this rather long account of\nall that I felt I should relay to you. I leave you with these words:\n'Terror is not newiweapon. Throughout history it has\nbeen used by those who could not prevail either by persuasion\nor by example. But inevitably they fail, either because men are\nnot afraid to die for a life worth living or because the terror-\nists themselves come to realize that free men cannot be fright-\nened by threats, and that aggression will meet its own response. \"\nJohn F. Kennedy\nInevitably they fail.\nRespectfully yours,\nSteve SPUR\n** P.S. 11/29 I have now viewed all the film from my last visit to\nDallas. I was unfortuneately not familiar enough with this new\ncamera to realize that for that early hour of the morning I would\nneed a special (fast) film to capture the car going by the storm drain.\nI have also found that due to a camera malfunction the stills\nof important viewpoints from the Dal-Tex Bldg., the Roof of the Records\nBldg. ; the TSBD loading dock; the street elevator on Houston St.; and\nfrom the storm drain did not come out satisfactorily. In the case of\nthe stills the film had torn inside the camera and the movie film was\njust too dark.\nI spoke tonite to Mary and she is making arrangements for met\nto return to Dallas a week from this coming Friday, on December 8th.\nI should stay there for the three days of the weekend. I will film\neverything that I lack from the last trip and I will try to meet again\nwith those two people. Baring unforseen interference I will plan every\nbit of photography very carefully so a.s not to draw attention and I will\nspread the shooting out over two days so that I can do a little both days.\nUnless I hear orders from you to the contraire I will assume that your\napprove but I will not divúlge my affiliation if I am caught (still a\nsimple .C.L.A. film student with strange interests. I enclose the\nreceipts from the last trip as you asked. I understand the financial\nsituation so I ask no reimbursement for this trip -- Mary has offered\nsome help and I have enough for the film.\nThe lawyer we talked about has some definite ideas about how to\nget some financial help for the film work I have been doing and I will\nclear any offers through you. I thinklalso that Intoni will have some\nideas along that line -- not for any project of a big film but just to\npay for the several hundred dollars of film that I have already done\nand will need to do of still photos and for sound.\nYour testimonial for Maggie's book cheered her considerably and\nshe\nis very grateful. She is writing you a letter and she will be leav-\ning next Monday.\nI hear that Mort did not get the bums off their duffs in N.Y. and\nis on his way back here. I hope we can give him some support here. SJ"
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