McIntyre said that during legal challenges against the tapes handover Boston-based judge William Young, who read all the relevant interviews, described the project as a "bona fide academic exercise of considerable intellectual merit".
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You secure those tapes on a clear plastic sheet, which will preserve them and enable you to search through using a microscope".
The CPSU argued the tapes needed to be organised before they could be provided to the Bradman museum in Bowral, the Adelaide RSL and the State Library of South Australia.
The government has even had to intervene to distance itself from the tapes.
When Gerry Goffin first heard Bob Dylan, he was so affected that he binned all of his old tapes and acetates, considering everything he had ever written to be trite and worthless.
It was at the time the national curriculum was being introduced and I made school study and revision tapes.
Colin Breen, a retired RUC detective, said that once his successors in the PSNI were granted the right to seize those Boston College tapes allegedly relating to Adams' supposed role in the McConville murder, his historical project was over.
But with the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) having won a legal battle in the US to access some of the archive – 10 tapes, it is believed – relating to the murder of Jean McConville, the value of the archive project has been thrown into question.
