Did Col Corso deceive Senator Strom Thurmond?
In the original hardcover version of The Day After Roswell, a preface by Strom Thurmond appeared. Subsequently, the preface was withdrawn allegedly due to the Senator Thurmond not having been aware that it would appear in a book about UFOs and Roswell. A number of Corsos critics have seized upon this incident as evidence that Corso is unethical. For example Randle argued back in May 2001: Senator Thurmond was angry about the introduction because Corso had pulled the old bait and switch on him. Thurmond demanded the introduction be pulled because the book wasn’t the one Corso had said that he was going to write. What does that say about the integrity of the man?27 Similarly, Stanton Friedman wrote in 1997: Certainly there are some ethical questions about the use of an introduction by Senator Strom Thurmond, now in his 90s, written earlier for a memoirs book that had definitely been planned by Corso.28 Corsos critics have repeated this criticism that since Thurmond wasnt aware that Corso
