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John Keel’s 1960s Archive: Silver Bridge Coverage, UFO Correspondence, and Unresolved Origins
A collection re-examines late-1960s material surrounding the Silver Bridge disaster, The Athens Messenger’s coverage and Mary Hyre’s memorial columns about victims such as Paul and Lillian Wedge, preserves correspondence including a January 1967 note to Col. George P. Freeman of Project Blue Book, and gathers UFO-era material from a group called VOK, while acknowledging that sightings were often haunted by hoaxes and misinformation, the Stendek thread reveals an unrealized 1973 book proposal and clarifies that the Rudolph Fentz episode originated in Jack Finney’s 1951 Collier’s piece—not the NYPD—before the title surfaced in a Woodstock Times column, with additional fragments related to Carnarvon’s Curse and ongoing notes tying back to Silver Bridge coverage, collectively illustrating engagement with mysterious phenomena, archival journalism, and speculative literary projects, while preserving uncertainties about sources and origins.
