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STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
Department of Genetics
Professor Joshua Lederberg

Dece 31, L964
“@ar pr. abdsers:

“hank you for your leiter and attachments. I an
very soprecietive of help*in remaininse up to date on
such complex issues. I “ight even be the first to say
thet I om herdly an expert in this area -- but when I
find the effected public even less well-informed, there
is perhavs some merit in my attemptin« to draw sone
ettention th such issues. 6y concern 2bout reil safe-
ty per se is not neglizible; I hs5d also become interes-
ted in it as a prototype of cven more complex oroblems
of the allocation of responsibility for public ppotec-
tion.

whe Zonsressionel iecord for ec, 19 also just errived
end I was happy to have noted the anendnent in the
version of the bill passed by the Senate. It was not
however reported, as for an I noticed, in the :.¥ Tires
or sell st. cournel er Wash. Post. furthermore, may
I mention (off the recoré) thet ‘av! editor et the

Son *rancisco Chronicle thought my colunn of 12/70
wes 'rsther dukL.' end decided not to »rint ite

i mention these points because they do underly. the
problem of gettine effective legislation. I heve few

 

Sus cestions, beyond whot I have already documented es

iy Ovm interest. ’robably it would help if sove of
your peovle were to write for vehicles lilce waturday
-eview or tlie 7.2. VWimes MagaZine. tr get Naloh bader
aboard!

 

vo you have any comment on 'shsolute Liability'? co
you have any informetion or the erount of 3 d-party
injury from reil accidents » ond whet praportion of
this wes recoverable from cyrriers: I hope I did not
err in my interpretation of present legal doctrine.

Sincerely,
Lt. JosepH P. KENNEDY, JR. LABORATORIES FOR MOLECULAR See

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