Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 17:13:44 -0500
From: "Michael Walsh" <mjw at press.jhu.edu>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] The Joys of PR, was Re: Air & Space trip report ...?
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

> "Mike B." <omni at omniphile.com> 1/12/2009 5:08 PM >>>
>Michael Walsh wrote:
>
>> I remember going an air show at Andrews - there was a Blackbird on
>> display.  Thing look like would get a speeding ticket while parked.
>
>Speed does have a 'look' to it, don't it? ;-)
>
>I remember Rich Kolker (past WSFAn and 10 time Chairman of August
>Party), telling me about his stint in the Air Force as a PR guy.  He =
was
>at some base in (I think) Alabama and they had an SR-71 operating out =
of
>there for a couple of weeks.  He was given strict orders to "neither
>confirm not deny that an SR-71 was operating from the base."  He said =
it
>was the most ridiculous order he ever got and told about getting a =
phone
>call from a local newspaper asking about the SR-71 that was shooting
>touch-and-go landings on the runway, and he had to answer, "I can
>neither confirm not deny..." <WWWWHHHHHHZZZZOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMM!!!!! of
>SR-71 going overhead> "...the rumor that there is an SR-71 operating
>from this base."

PR folks almost always have a hard time.  Consider Baghdad Bob ...

mjw