mission work that the Commissioners arc most familiar with, since we attended, the majority of them. I was wondering if, perhaps, we could ask Dr. Mace to just sum¬marize that part of his report and concentrate more on the diplomatic dispatches of the progress of the Commission’s report which are matters that we are not familiar with and, perhaps, our time would be—

Dr. MACE: Okay. I think that’s a very good idea, and I certainly accept that sugges¬tion.

Really, I think Pve stated just about all we need to state on the hearings themselves, simply because the hearings have functioned as a way in which members of the Com¬mission have been able to elicit first-hand information from individuals who lived through the famine. The information is then supplemented by what we’ve done in the Oral History Project

I think at this point it may be, in fact, most valuable to just move on to what we’ve done in terms of oral history, or would you rather go directly into the documentary re¬search?

Dr. WERES: Well, I think the oral history.
Dr. MACE: Okay.
Dr. WERES: On the subject of the hearings, I’d like to make a brief comment on my experience, and, perhaps, elicit other commissioners to comment. After we had the one in San Francisco, we got an unexpected amount of press coverage, and it ac¬tually got to the point that The Chronicle, which is a major regional newspaper, covered it, and then one of the major TV stations did a special report on the famine picking up on The Chronicle, and then another newspaper picked up, and at one point I was getting into tertiary coverage of the event.

And, I was extremely impressed by that. It seems that we reached the critical mass in terms of name recognition and issue recognition.
Dr. MACE: Yes. Well, I think this is one of the most important things we’ve been able to accomplish with the hearings.
Dr. WERES: Do other commissioners have—
Dr. MACE: I believe Mr. Fedorak has also brought with him some of the press coverage that was generated in the greater Detroit area. Ms. Volker was kind enough to send us some of the items that were generated from that.
Ms. VOLKER: Yes. If I may say so, we had coverage in five major—five papers in the Detroit area, including Free Press and The News, plus, Macomb Daily, The Daily Tribune; five newspapers responded. And, each one had a story about the hearing in the Warren area.
Dr. KUROPAS: I wish I could say the same thing about Chicago. We, unfortunate¬ly, did not have any press coverage that I’m familiar with, although, press releases were sent out by the Ukrainian-American Justice Committee, and I know that your staff sent out press releases as well, and no one came to the hearings.

And, the reason is hard to fathom, other than the possibility that there was no con¬gressman there. I think that would have been a draw.

We had said that Congressman Hertel would be there. When he didn’t show up be¬cause
of illness, a number of reporters, I understand, did call U.A.J.C. and said they wanted to meet with the Congressman afterwards, and whether they could come and talk with him. When he didn’t show, it seemed to squash any further interest