The IP Tape

[Neon John <johngd@bellsouth.net>]

To head off the flood of requests about how to contact Illinois
Power regarding their "60 Minutes" tape (geez, guys, I just used
directory assistance when I went looking!), here is the info from my
files:

Illinois Power Company
500 S. 27th St
Box 511
Decatur, IL 62525

Craig E. Nesbit, Director - External Communications.

Here is the contents of the cover letter:

April 6, 1993 

John DeArmond, Publisher 
Performance Engineering Magazine 
1555 Whitlock Road Marietta, GA 30066 

Dear Mr. DeArmond: 

Thank you for your interest to our rebuttal.

 Enclosed is your requested copy of Illinois Power Company's reply
to a segment of the CBS 1160 Minutes" program broadcast on November
25, 1979. This copy includes a complete reshowing of the "60
Minutes" segment which is protected by CBS copyright. The Illinois
Power Company reply portion is also subject to copyright protection.
This is being made available to you in response to your request and
subject to the following restrictions: 

 1. 	No commercial use shall be made of this presentation.   This
means that no fee shall be charged, nor shall any other form of
consideration be received, for any showing. 

 2. 	Each showing will be complete in its original form; shall not
be excerpted, edited, altered or modified in any fashion. 

 3.	No copies shall be made without the prior written permission of
Illinois Power Company. 

 4. 	This presentation shall remain in the custody and under the
control of your organization and its possession shall be restricted
to your employees and authorized agents. 

 5. 	Use of this presentation constitutes your agreement to abide by
the provisions contained in this letter. 

 I have also included copies of documents, correspondence, etc.  to
give you a better understanding of the rebuttal.

 Thank you for your interest in our program.

 If you have any questions, give me a call at (217) (sorry, not
gonna do that to 'em.  You have to look it up yourselves! :-)

 Very truly yours,

 <sig>

 Craig E. Nesbit
 Director - External Communications

 Enclosures

--

I talked to Mr Nesbit after receiving this package.  Their concern
is that this tape would be misused by the media.  I assured him that
it would not be and gained permission to show this tape at my talk
to emergency managers.

Perhaps before a bunch of us swamp this small office with requests,
someone (NOT ME) could volunteer to collect the names of interested
parties and gain permission from IP to copy the material and
distribute it to the parties.

IP started this tape distribution program because not one of the
major networks would sell them ad space to air this rebuttal to the
60 minutes show.  The airing of the program a few months after the
accident at TMI was calculated to play on the hysteria during Sweeps
weeks. This violation of the public trust on the part of 60 minutes
was much worse than the "Dateline" exploding pickup truck segment,
yet, because the alternative media and the Internet did not exist
(or was not as pervasive as today), the story remained untold.

Before anyone asks, "Performance Engineering" was one of my less
successful (read: crash'n'burn) ventures.  It is no more.

John

-- 
John De Armond
johngdSPAMNOT@bellsouth.net
http://neonjohn.4mg.com
Neon John's Custom Neon
Cleveland, TN
"Bendin' Glass 'n Passin' Gas"
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