title: Judge for Yourself: A Treasury of Writing by John Judge
author: John Patrick Judge
description: John Judge was the co-founder of the Coalition on Political Assassinations (COPA) and the Museum of Hidden History (now the Hidden History History Center, HCC). A colleague of Penn Jones and Mae Brussell, John spent his life tirelessly working for the causes of peace and justice and truth. A secretary to Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney and an assistant to Congressman Dennis Kucinich, John also worked with veterans after the Vietnam war until his death and spoke to young people about the dangers awaiting them in the military. Judge grew up in Washington, D.C., in the shadow of the Pentagon, and spent his life trying to expose the real scope and character of the military-intelligence-industrial-complex.
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  CHAPTER 1
  
  
  It came by mail, regular postage, the old-fashioned way since the Judge was
  almost eighty and distrusted modern devices. Forget e-mail and even faxes. He
  didn't use an answering machine and had never been fond of the telephone. He
  pecked out his letters with both index fingers, one feeble key at a time,
  hunched over his old Underwood manual on a rolltop desk under the portrait of
  Nathan Bedford Forrest. The Judge's grandfather had fought with Forrest at
  Shiloh and throughout the Deep South, and to him no figure in history was more
  revered. For thirty-two years, the Judge had quietly refused to hold court on
  July 13, Forrest's birthday.
  
  
  It came with another letter, a magazine, and two invoices, and was routinely
  placed in the law school mailbox of Professor Ray Atlee. He recognized it
  immediately since such envelopes had been a part of his life for as long as he
  could remember. It was from his lather, a man he too called the Judge.
  
  
  Professor Atlee studied the envelope