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] is a former ] of Rush Delivery. He is well known of the ], in which he made a fake article about ]. It contained the following text:


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John Seigenthaler Sr. was the assistant to Attorney General ] in the early 1960s. For a short time, he was thought to have been directly involved in the Kennedy assassinations of both ], and his brother, Bobby. Nothing was ever proven.
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John Seigenthaler moved to the ] in 1972, and returned to the ] in 1984.
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He started one of the country's largest public relations firms shortly thereafter.
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On 9 December 2005, Brian Chase admitted that he had posted the false biography because he believed Misplaced Pages to be "some sort of joke website". After confessing, Chase was fired from Rush Delivery. He presented a letter of apology to Seigenthaler, who successfully interceded with Rush Delivery to reinstate Chase. Seigenthaler confirmed that he would not file a lawsuit in relation to the incident. He said that he was concerned that "every biography on ] is going to be hit by this stuff—think what they'd do to ] and ], to mention two. My fear is that we're going to get government regulation of the Internet as a result."
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