FROM: Terry Lynch@aol.com; POB 241035; Montgomery, AL 36124-1035 
Phone: (334) 272-4217 voice  (334) 277-3582 fax via arrangement

DATE:  July 12, 1998 

TO:  Letter to the Editor      

SUBJECT:  Wallace Challenged To Make Proclamation

George C. Wallace Jr.'s letter "Wallace Critic Doesn't Know Him"
of July 30, 1996 contains a number of defamatory statements.
I have waited two years to offer this rebutal to see if former 
Governor Wallace would denounce segregation forever.  Since that 
hasn't been done I would like to point out demafatory remarks 
made by Wallace Jr. and challenge the former governor once more. 

First, it is obvious to anyone who regularly follows the letters
to the editor that Wallace Jr. was referring to my letter 
"Wallace's Claim Doesn't Persuade" published in the 
Advertiser July 13, 1996.  Wallace did not have to mention 
my name to identify me as the target of his attack.

Second, unlike Wallace who has held public office and whose 
father was a long time governor of Alabama, I am a private 
citizen.  Therefore my remarks about the former governor Wallace 
are not defamatory or "embraced by more untruth, personal 
animosity and lack of knowledge," then anything Wallace Jr. has 
ever read, unless the man is very illiterate with respect to what 
has been written with regard to governor Wallace and the civil 
rights movement.  Personally I don't believe that to be the case 
so I question Wallace Jr.'s remarks.

Third, I am a long time resident of Alabama and harbor no 
personal animosity toward former Gov. Wallace.  I know Gov. 
Wallace as well as any reasonably intelligent voter.  However I 
do strongly disagree with the man's politics, especially his 
"segregation forever" decree.

Also I have no personal vendetta with respect to Wallace or 
desire to "punish him personally."  I understand Gov. Wallace 
considers himself a Christian.  However until he signs a 
proclamation saying, "I forever renounce the doctrine of 
segregation forever and all institutions of church and state 
which teach, promote, foster and maintain social segregation of 
the races," I will continue to exercise my First Amendment rights 
and denounce segregation forever and the man who once made that 
hateful decree.

If former Gov. Wallace wants to set himself straight with Jesus 
and the Lord before he meets his maker he will sign such a 
proclamation and send it to the Advertiser and other news 
media for publication.  Otherwise his family and supporters have 
no justification whatsoever to make defamatory remarks concerning 
my position upon this matter.

Sincerely, Terry Lynch
Montgomery, AL