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This Clinton Library FOIA release (case 2006-0476-F) comes from the White House email records file labeled "WHO (Roswell)" and covers December 1996 to September 1997. It includes withdrawal sheets and public emails sent to the President. One email is Nicholas Greene's December 1996 essay arguing that extraterrestrials exist, which cites Roswell, astronaut sightings and Michigan reports. Other emails forward a transcript of a Milton William Cooper speech and a Claude DiDomenica essay about Roswell and Corso.
ARMS Email System HOSTS: SAM DONALDSON & GEORGE WILL GUESTS: WAYNE LAPIERRE, EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT,NRA SARAH BRADY, CHAIR, HANDGUN CONTROL INSTITUTE JAMES MCANDREWS, CAPTAIN, U.S. AIR FORCE RESERVE Page 2 of IS ANNOUNCER: From ABC News, "This Week, " with Cokie Roberts, Sam Donaldson, featuring David Brinkley and George will. MR. DONALDSON: This week, the Supreme Court strikes down part of the Brady gun law, ruling that states cannot be forced to conduct background checks of prospective gun buyers. REP. CHARLES SCHUMER (D-NY): (From videotape.) I.t is a victory for the mugger, it is a victory for the gun dealer and it'is a defeat for law-abiding citizens everywhere. \. JIM FOTIS (Law Enforcement Alliance): (From videotape.) This law was nothing than more than political posturing and meaningless rhetoric. It hasn't done a thing to help law enforcement. MR. DONALDSON: Is there a new battle brewing over gun control? We'll ask Sarah Brady, an outspoken advocate of handgun control; and Wayne LaPierre, executive vice president of the National Rifle Association. And this week, the Pe'ntagon tries to put· an end to 50 years of questions about whether a UFO really crashed near Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947. COL. JOHN HAYNES (U. S'. Air Force): Bodies observed in the New Mexico desert were probably test dummies that were carried aloft by U.S. Air Force high-altitude balloons for scientific research. MR. DONALDSON: But the true believers are not satisfied. CITIZEN: This is the third story the Air Force has come up within 50 years. Our story hasn't changed. MR. DONALDSON: In the Roswell incident" is it really case closed? We'll ask Captain Jim McAndrew, the author of the Air Force report, who spent three years researching the event at Roswell. And our roundtable. No flying saucers or ex~raterrestr'ials here with Bill Kristol, George Stephanopbulos and Linda Douglass. Welcome to' our program. Cokie is off. Her son Lee is ,getting married,' and 'we wish everyone the very best. Well, there is some other news today. Shortly we'll go live to Las Vegas for the latest on last night's incident in which Mike Tyson bit off a bit of Evander Holyfield's ear. But first, we're on the eve of the transfer of sovereignty to China of Hong Kong, ending 156 years of British rule. And Peter Jennings is there. Peter joins us live today from Hong Kong. . , Peter, exactly where are you standing? And how are things going for the transfer? PETER JENNINGS (ABC News): Well, they're going very And as you can see, we didn't come for this, Sam, but it is one of the great photo ops of all time. We're on the Hong Kong side of what is clearly the most celebrated harbor in the world, and that is the Hong Kong side as seen . from the other. And right down there in the lower left~hand corner of your frame is the center where 'the hand-over is ,actually going to take place. This harbor, this deep-water harbor which the'British have found so useful for their navy for more than a century has only a couple of British 'ships left in it, including tonight a rather small one. The royal yacht Britannia is her.e just at our feet, where Prince Charles is staying and which will take him,and the last governor of Hong Kong, Chris Patton, into the dark tomorrow night, a dewy-eyed occasion for a great number of people here. But it's much more important than that, as you know. MR. DONALDSON: Peter, we journalists are ,often accused of looking for trouble, so I'll ask the question: are there any demonstrations tomorrow? The turnover happens at midnight. And what do you make of the fact that China is sending in regular army troops shortly after the turnover? MR, JENNINGS: Sam, let me deal with the second part' first, less important what I make of it than what the Hong Kong peopl,e make of it. think people generally, Sam, have been much calmer about the People'S Liberation Army coming in here 4,000 strong. They know that it's part of the agreement, they know there are going to be fewer troops here than the British actually had at one point. They think the Chinese on the mainland have been a little insensitive by deciding to send in armored personnel carriers,' but quite frankly, the headlines about the Chinese army coming .in here are somewhat fervent at ' ARMS Email System Page 2 of 15 I
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