JOHN KEEL NOT AN AUTHORITY ON ANYTHING

Here’s the second part of John’s proposal for an unrealized book to be called Stendek.

We have here a proposal for a book that was to be called Stendek. Judging from the references in it, John wrote it sometime around 1973. The title comes from a famous incident in which an airplane disappeared, as John explains later in the text. He also used the title for a column in The Woodstock Times in 1973.

There are fifteen pages; I’ll post it in three parts.

Here is the next day’s coverage of the Silver Bridge disaster, from The Athens Messenger of December 19, 1967.

John apparently sold the article “Carnarvon’s Curse” to Man’s Conquest. I can find no record of it online. However, he included a tear sheet of part of it in his pitch for a proposed book, Strange Exits. Here, then, is the beginning of a fugitive piece about the curse of King Tut’s tomb.

I’ll continue to post the local coverage of the Silver Bridge disaster, but I might as well break it up with other material for the sake of variety.