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This is a White House email release covering February 1998 to August 2000. It is a set of Exchange mail records with attachments. One item is the President's February 19, 1998 remarks to a DNC dinner in West Orange, New Jersey, which includes a joke that young people think seeing a UFO is more likely than drawing Social Security. Other items are a joke 'Redneck Driver's License Application', an AP story about Chilca, Peru, where locals credit UFOs for the mud's powers, a Blair Witch Project article, and a Baltimore Sun article forwarded by the White House Situation Room about UFO FOIA requests to the NSA.
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37C3DAA2.FIN Page 1 of 5 Exchange Mail DATE-TIME 8/2/99 12:00:21 PM FROM CLASSIFICATION SUBJECT TO CARBON COPY TEXT BODY FM: AP/Knight Ridder http://classified/email/data_source/exchange/non-record/cd039/augl999/37c3daa2.html 1/5/2010 Sanborn, Daniel R. K. (Records) UNCLASSIFIED Let's go after work... [UNCLASSIFIED] Ahmed, Sarah (RECORDS) Salvetti, Lisa M. (RECORDS) K5988 ABC-BLAIRWITCH:DE entertainment AFilmmakers pull off a scary scam with 'The Blair Witch Projecf< By Terry Lawson Knight Ridder Newspapers (KRT) Asked to cite inspirations and influences, most young filmmakers will at least pretend to be haunted by Hitchcock or to have been bowled over by Bunuel. But Eduardo Sanchez admits "The Blair Witch Project," the original horror film he directed and wrote with Daniel Myrick, had its origin in a far less hallowed place. "Remember that television series 'In Search Of...'?" asks Sanchez. The show, a quasi-documentary that solemnly explored unexplained phenomenon such as UFO sightings and mythology such as the lost island of Atlantis, was still in syndication when Sanchez and Myrick were film students at the University of Central Florida. "We used to watch that show, and it would just creep us out," says Sanchez. "And the
Official release, from the nara collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 28 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.