Recent interview subject Vincent Feldman supplied the following bit of information as an addendum to his interview:

"I forgot to mention that after Legitimate Reason broke up Grant Plunket and I played in a reggae/ska band called Just Us.  We made a studio demo which I have no record of.  We didn't play out much except at a few parties and most memorably a big punk rock block party in 1988 on Rodman Street around 12th street."

Upon completion of the interview, I was left with a follow-up question that I felt needed to be addressed for clarification. I wrote to Vincent:

You mentioned in the interview that your father applied for conscientious objector status during World World II. Considering Hitler and the Nazis were aggressively engaged in exterminating European Jewry and your father was himself a Jew, what was his reasoning for declaring himself a conscientious objector?

Here is Vincent's reply, which I post without comment:

"My father was a pacifist and politically very astute.  If WWII was about saving the Jews then that war was entirely lost, never even engaged really.  He was well aware of plenty antisemitism from within the US.  My father lived in Baltimore for a while in the 1960s and he recalled to me that the beaches in Maryland had signs posted barring Blacks, Jews and dogs.  The Jews who joined the US Army or worked in the Roosevelt Admin. were sourly disappointed in the war effort in regard to saving Jews."

Vincent adds this note, which is illustrated by the two pages of book scans he sent along to me and which I have posted here:

"The best example of my dad's political insights occurred within a day of JFK's ambush murder.  I am attaching two pages from Praise From a Future Generation by John Kelin.  He predicted Oswald would be shortly eliminated and a Jew would be used in the plot."

Please note: I (Joseph) present these materials as submitted to me by my interview subject. These are not my personal views.