One interesting tidbit that I learned from a student doing a high school 
term paper on the Kennedy assassination is that for off center 
controversial views on the topic can be better tracked in places like 
Google Groups and in the indexes to weblogs where people share alternative 
and radical ideas and interpretations much more than in standard media and 
publications.



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On Sat, 15 Nov 2008, Teresa Love wrote:

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> I've been asked to present to a Criminal Justice class on dark tourism, particularly as is relates to Kennedy's assassination. Our library does not have the Journal of International Heritage Studies pre-2000. I'm hoping one of you can send me an electronic copy of Foley and Lennon's "JFK and dark tourism: A fascination with assassination" as published in:  International Journal of Heritage Studies, Volume 2, Issue 4 Winter 1996 , pages 198 - 211
> Also, if you have other pertinent citations, I would love to receive them!
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> Thank you so much - in advance - for your assistance!  -
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> Radford University
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> Subject: [DARK-TOURISM] Border Crossing Simulation in Mexico
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> Dear colleagues and list members,
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> The article below from Time should interest some. It might generate some
> interesting thoughts on the rise of spectacle and the blurring between the
> imaginary and the real in dark tourism...
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> Apologies if a similar article has been posted before.
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> http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,1858151,00.html
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> Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2008
> In Mexico, a Theme Park for Border Crossers
> By Ioan Grillo / Parque Alberto
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> Men in border-patrol caps tackle a young Mexican to the ground amid jagged
> rocks and cacti. "You need papers to come to this country. This is not a
> game!" shouts one agent as he yanks the m
> an's arms behind his back, almost
> tearing them from his shoulders. It looks like a scene on the U.S. border
> that would get human rights groups yelling. But actually, it is a game, and
> it takes place in the mountains of central Mexico. All of the participants
> are Mexicans, many of whom have paid to be part of the re-enactment of the
> arrest, part of a border-crossing experience for Saturday-night revelers.
> (See pictures of the fence between the U.S. and Mexico.)
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> The so-called night hike in the highlands of Hidalgo state is a curious
> testimony to Mexico's identity as an emigrant nation, in which enormous
> numbers of young men and women continue to risk their lives sneaking into
> "El Norte" for a perceived better life. Every weekend, dozens of
> participants pay about $20 apiece to scramble up hills, slide down ravines
> and run through tunnels pursued by siren-blaring pickup trucks and pumped-up
> border-patrol agents shouting in accented English.
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> To many outsiders, this seems an odd way to enjoy a night out. But the
> participants and organizers all say it is both a great deal of fun and an
> important way to raise consciousness about the migrant experience. "It was
> fantastic. It totally exceeded my expectations," says medical saleswoman
> Araceli Hernandez, nursing a bite from a giant ant and brushing off dust
> after the five-hour slog. "But it makes me feel sad thinking about what the
> real migrants go through."
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> The hike was started four years ago by a group of Hnahnu Indians on their
> ancestral lands. Some of the
> poorest people in Mexico, the Hnahnu first
> began crossing into the U.S. in the late 1980s, and within a decade most of
> their young had left their ramshackle villages in search of dollars. While
> the fruits of the exodus transformed the Hnahnu's home landscape, allowing
> migrants to build walled mansions and paved roads, it also divided the
> community, separating families by thousands of miles and an ever more
> fortified border. The Hnahnu of the Parque Alberto community then began an
> eco-tourism project as a local jobs program so more of their people could
> stay home. The border-crossing simulation soon became their most famous
> attraction.
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> "We wanted to have a type of tourism that really raised people's
> understanding," says founder Alfonso Martinez, who dresses in a ski mask and
> goes by the name Poncho. "So we decided to turn the painful experience all
> of us here have gone through into a kind of game that teaches something to
> our fellow Mexicans." Poncho and other ski-masked comrades play polleros, or
> chicken herders — the human smugglers who guide wannabe migrants over the
> deserts and rivers into the U.S. Having made the real journey dozens of
> times to work as a gardener in Nevada, Poncho is well versed in mimicking
> the polleros' tactics closely. He moves swiftly over the side of the
> mountain, commanding participants with authority and ordering them to hold
> tight in the brambles for long periods and then suddenly sprint for miles.
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> In hot pursuit are the migra, or border-patrol agents, played by other
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> Hnahnu. Most migrants have been nabbed at least once and know well what it
> feels like to get a pair of handcuffs slapped on after days of exhausting
> travel. The actors play their nemeses with energy and zest, tearing across
> fields to get the migrants and insulting them in a colorful language: "Don't
> you speak Spanish. You are not in Mexico now, my friend. Tell me who the
> boss is."
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> The participants are mostly middle-class professionals and students from
> Mexico City and other urban areas. While many have friends or family who
> have crossed illegally into the U.S., they all say they will not do it
> themselves: the simulated border-crossing is adventure enough for them. At
> one point the group walks through a nest of giant ants that bite people's
> legs. One girl starts screaming after injuring herself on the trip and has
> to be supported by friends as she hops along. The group slides down a steep
> ravine, a particularly hard task in the middle of the night, and many come
> through with cuts and bruises. But by the time the group arrives at the base
> camp and sings a lively rendition of the Mexican national anthem, no one
> complains that it was too hard.
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> Poncho hopes the experience will be life-changing for the participants. With
> the night-hike tours, he envisions himself as a revolutionary fighting for a
> better world. In a final pep talk, he drills the group about their class
> differences and how they can overcome them. "What do you call our ethnic
> group?" he asks in a booming voice. "You call us In
> dians, and say we are
> lazy and ignorant. Don't worry, I'm used to it. This experience is about
> showing we are human beings."
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> Tony Johnston
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> Ph.D Student
> Department of Geography
> NUI Galway
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