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Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 10:10:08 -0700
From: Mike Perry <>
Subject: Re: Publication of *Prospect*
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Dr. Jerry Lemler wrote (for the June 12 Cryonet):

>I ran into Mike Perry earlier today, who
>corrected me regarding the exact publishing date of Prospect. According to
>Dr. Perry...Ettinger's
>book was actually released a full week before I had claimed. [June 12]

>My error
>notwithstanding, my remarks calling for the unification of cryonicists still
>are valid.    JBL

Yes.

As to the actual publication date, I quote from Ev Cooper's *Life Extension 
Society Newsletter* Aug. 1964 (this was the only "cryonics" publication 
then being printed, about a year before the term "cryonics" was invented):

"BIG NEWS OF THE SUMMER:
      Bob Ettinger's book *The Prospects of Immortalilty* [sic] was 
released by Doubleday June 5th, coinciding with a short serialization in 
*Cosmopolitan*, and a thoughtful article by Fred Pohl in *Playboy*. ... 
Congratulations are more than in order. It is a great event ... toward the 
defeat of death."

The confusion of dates could possibly have resulted from the fact that 
James Bedford was frozen on the 12th (of January, 1967), another landmark 
in the history of cryonics.

Mike Perry

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