first edition
2004 · Portland, OR
by Kennedy, John R.
Portland, OR: John R. Kennedy, 2004. First edition. 48 pp. Stapled yellow wraps. Good+ with sticker shadow over handwritten price on front wrap, a little bleed from dampstain to a few pages, faint vertical crease to rear wrap. A contemporary 'zine about a Portland-area Muslim man, Brandon Mayfield, who was wrongfully charged by the FBI and held for two weeks over the Madrid, Spain train bombings of 2004 that killed 193 people and injured over 2,000. Mayfield's fingerprints were in federal databases due to his military service, and the FBI falsely declared they matched prints found in the bombing "100%." Mayfield's conversion to Islam as well as legal (truncated)