George, Most of the anthropologists employed on such missions during WW II
were under the OSS. One of my former anthropology professors served with the
OSS during the occupation of Japan. John Dendy

> -----Original Message-----
> From: George Myers [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Thursday, September 09, 1999 1:40 AM
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> Subject:      City Hall Park Cover Up
>
> Sorry to bring this up again.
>
> I also erred with the Governor, Governor Sloughter, not Slaughter, the
> Governor who mistakenly hung Jacob Leisler, of "Leisler's Rebellion."
> Jacob
> Leisler was also instrumental in the purchase of New Rochelle ("17 miles
> from
> New York City" the commemorative stone states on the Boston Post Road
> there)
> for the French Huguenots, which also played an early role in the what I
> think, transfer of political "not-yet-prisoners" to New Amsterdam through
> a
> "French" church in the west of England. I have not been able to follow
> this
> up very far but it is very interesting.
>
> Sorry, I don't type very well, need a refresher in "Syntax" with the MIT
> guys
> and "Semantics" with S. I.  Hayakawa and some "Tathagatha" with DT Suzuki,
> although I think NYU had the record for reducing English syntax down to 23
> rules, with some exceptions of course, gee I hope so. Don't mean they'd
> all
> make sense now would it?
>
> Here's an interesting historical archaeology question. Years ago I studied
> anthropology with the editor of the "Journal of Trans-Cultural Psychiatry"
> Marvin K. Opler. He related that he spent time as an anthropologist with
> those Japanese-Americans kept in the internment camps out West. (With some
> apparently on Ellis Island, in NY Harbor.) Where would one a) find the
> records of the anthropologist(s); b) find government information related
> to
> their fieldwork, and c) place the information into the public record so
> that
> it might at least be preserved and not unknowingly destroyed or concealed
> in
> the sub-basement of Washington, DC? The reason I ask is that my cousins
> health was saved by the house-call the now deceased Dr. Yamaguchi, once of
> Ronkonkoma, NY.  I feel to carry on both Marvin and his brother Morris'
> work
> (in India) we must help heal the wounds of time and come to appreciate
> each
> other, especially in light of the huge loan made to Turkey by Japan to
> build
> a subway across the Dardanelles linking East and West, before the current
> crisis there.
>
> Dr. Marvin Opler's son is a Family, MD, in the Bronx, my cousin a
> gastroenterologist, DO in North Carolina.
>
> One use of the City Hall Park was for soapbox speeches and apparently
> working
> in it has gotten to me.