Barbee Papers

[BettyO]

Definitely!

I went back a couple of times - It is wonderful to go through, and you're right, Laurie. At the last report - there was no funding to digitize; although the staff is wonderfully helpful. It's a virtual treasure trove of information. I'd love to see the manuscript published. Barbee was also very interested in Powell and I have correspondence from the files in which he stated that he wanted to publish a "sympathetic" (his own words) biography of Powell as one had never been done.... I also discovered that Colonel Julian Raymond, also a Powell sympathizer, was working on a "novel about Powell" and Barbee corresponded with him, asking how the novel was coming along. Never found anything regarding the novel. Raymond's manuscript about the history of McNair is at the War College Library. Unfortunately, Raymond died right before I got "into" the assassination. I believe John C. Brennan was friends with him, as "Jaybo" as we affectionately referred to Mr.Brennan, sent me a cassette tape recording of a talk Colonel Raymond made regarding the Arsenal prison. I still have that cassette recording and am in the process of turning a lot of Mr. Brennan's talks on cassette into MP3 -