Man Sorry For Faked Wikipedia Post

The man responsible for writing a Wikipedia entry that linked John Seigenthaler, Sr. to the assassination of John F. Kennedy has come forward and apologized to the former presidential aide. Brian Chase, 38, has resigned from his job as operations manager at a Nashville delivery company over the flap and publicly apologized to Seigenthaler in the Sunday edition of the Tennessean newspaper.

Chase says he didn't know that Wikipedia was considered a serious research tool, and was playing a practical joke on a co-worker. "I knew from the news that Mr. Seigenthaler was looking for who did it, and I did it, so I needed to let him know in particular that it wasn't anyone out to get him, that it was done as a joke that went horribly, horribly wrong," Chase told the paper Sunday. Seigenthaler said he doesn't plan to press charges.