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Thanks for the links! That refreshes my memory a bit. The first link seems to imply Kerry first contacted Alston in 1996. Did they have any known contact before that? My real question is whether the Alston story goes back to the time of Tiede’s article in 1972 or whether it first appears much more recently in Kerry’s promotional material.

[Fedora]

The first link seems to imply Kerry first contacted Alston in 1996.

Or rather I should say, that the first public mention of Kerry's contact with Alston seems to be from 1996. On closer reading I see it does allege that Alston was invited to Kerry's wedding in 1970, though I'm curious whether that was ever mentioned publicly before 1996. I have some articles on Kerry's wedding but they don't include a guest list that I recall.

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My real question is whether the Alston story goes back to the time of Tiede’s article in 1972 or whether it first appears much more recently in Kerry’s promotional material.

That I don't know.