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tlmrsday September 22, 1992
The Battalion
Page 3
Student attempts to piece
together JFK
By JULIE POLSTON
Feature Writer of THE BATTALION
Think back to the last time you worked
on a jigsaw puzzle. Did you randomly pick
up pieces and force them to fit together, or
did you work on the border first and slowly
solve the pieces inside?
For Angela Parker, a senior biomedical
science major from Plano, her research work
into the John F. Kennedy assassination is
very much like a giant jigsaw puzzle.
"It's like a puzzle, and we have the frame
work," she said. "The part we are trying to
get now is the pieces inside. We don't know
now many pieces there are or if they'll all
fit."
Parker said she has been interested in the
assassination for about three years and be
gan her early research in books and newspa
per articles.
Parker met Larry Howard, president and
director of the JFK Assassination Informa
tion Center at the West End Marketplace in
Dallas, when she went to watch the filming
of Oliver Stone's movie "JFK"in the spring
of 1991.
Parker said she started helping Howard
with his research at the center by doing cleri
cal work. Soon she was contacting people
who witnessed the assassination in order to
verify information and clarify discrepancies
from publications and other movies. She
said she deals with classified information
and has knowledge on topics that simply
cannot be found in books or articles.
The purpose of the center is twofold,
Parker said. First, it serves as an outlet for
information about the assassination and the
ories, as well as a place to view different
pieces of evidence and important documents
on display, she said.
Second, the center acts as an inlet for in
formation. Parker said Howard receives all
of his information from people contacting
the center, rather than from books.
"It's not going to be solved through
RICHARD S. JAMES/ The Battalion
Angela Parker has been investigating the John F. Kennedy assassination and collecting JFK
memorabilia for about three years.
books, or by bits and bits of files being slow
ly released to the public," Parker said. "It's
from people with information coming for
ward after 30 years."
Parker said she has a few ideas of her
own about the Kennedy assassination, based
on her years of research. She said she does
not think Lee Harvey Oswald fired any shots
that day, but was set up to be the patsy.
Parker said she does not place any credit in
the Warren Commission Report and she
thinks President Johnson and other officials
had a lot to gain from Kennedy's death.
Parker said she feels America was lied to
in the worst way 30 years ago over the death
of a president, and said she believes the
murder was pinned on one man — Oswald.
"It's just a shame how America was lied
to, and the way Americans are led around
by their noses and believe everything the
government tells them, just because we are
the 'Land of the Free,' she said. "Don't get
me wrong, this is a great country and I
wouldn't want to live anywhere else, but I
don't have to listen to everything the gov
ernment says."
Former Beatle's singing
falters on live album
By Timm Doolen
Special to the BATTALION
George Harrison
"Live in Japan"
Dark Horse Records
As if we haven't heard enough
Beatles' tunes resurrected in con
cert, George Harrison throws nine
more on the pile in his new release
"Live in Japan," with unspectacu
lar results.
With this album, the three liv
ing Beatles have all recycled their
songs from the '60s. But whereas
Ringo Starr's live release had a lot
of guest stars and personality and
Paul McCartney's "Tripping the
Live Fantastic^ was a polished
piece of work, Harrison s live at
tempt doesn't make the cut. The
classic songs and great music are
there, but the main attraction,
Harrison himself, lets us down.
Even though nine of the 19
songs are old Beatles tunes, the
music has apparently aged a lot
better than Harrison's voice.
On the whole first disc, which
includes timeless classics such as
"Old Brown Shoe," "What Is
Life," "Give Me Love (Give Me
Peace on Earth)" and "Piggies,"
Harrison's voice strains and cracks
to make it through the songs.
The music itself is wonderful,
which isn't surprising, seeing as it's
the exact same band that backed
Eric Clapton on his recent "Un
plugged" album. But even Clapton's
backing vocals and "Slowhand"
guitar can't save the album.
The second disc is an improve
ment, and Harrison's voice even
sounds better on "Cloud 9," "Here
Comes the Sun," "Cheer Down"
and others. But on "Roll Over
Beethoven" and "Isn't It a Pity" he
loses it again. The music headed
up by Clapton is great, but the
minute Harrison opens his mouth,
the songs go to hell. His soft and
delicate voice just isn't suited to
the rigors and pressures of con
stant touring.
There are a few gems on the al
bum, such as "Dark Horse," prob
ably the least popular song on the
album, and "Taxman," in which
Clapton's influence can be plainly
heard.
But other songs are maligned
by the backing female vocals, such
as "Something" and "While My
Guitar Gently Weeps." In be
tween the lines of verse in "Gui
tar," we hear a '50s kind of
"shoobee-do-wap-do-wa-do" that
totally destroys what the lyrics
and music are striving fW. Clap
ton, who played on the original
"White Album" version 26 years
ago, should've had the sense to
censor that modification, even if
Harrison didn't.
This is the first time since 1974
that Harrison has toured. Interest
ingly enough, he lost his voice in
the middle of that "Dark Horse"
tour and had to cancel some of his
shows because he couldn't sing.
Some things never change.
It's good to hear "All Those
Years Ago," "If I Needed Some
one," "I Want to Tell You," and
"My Sweet Lord" again, and he
even includes a few songs from
his successful "Cloud Nine" al
bum that revitalized his entire ca
reer in 1987. But I'd rather hear
studio remakes than these live
renderings.
Let's hope for another album
by the Traveling Wilburys soon -
a super-band he helped form. He
says he wants to tour with the
Wilburys, but maybe he'll opt for
a studio album, in which his voice
would probably sound much
sweer.
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